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Celebrating its 39th season in 2007, Capitol Chamber Artists has established a national and international
reputation for musical excellence through live performance and recording. In March of 1989 Capitol Chamber
Artists made its New York City debut to critical acclaim at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall.
"...Chamber debut at Carnegie grand." CCA received one of the first National Endowment for the Arts
consortium commissioning grants to commission composers Andrew Imbrie and George Walker to write works
for the ensemble. Capitol Chamber Artists' compact disc recording of works written for the group was
released in 1991 on Centaur Records and is distributed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada
and Australia. Fanfare Magazine's review of the compact disc states, "dramatically convincing....well
coordinated....proportion of worthwhile items is uncommonly high." In 1995 Albany Records released a
new compact disc of Capitol Chamber Artists performing Pulitzer Prize composer, George Walker's
POEM for soprano and chamber ensemble. CCA has received a New York State Council on the Arts Challenge
Grant to record the 12 Haydn (Salomon chamber transcription) LONDON SYMPHONIES in a four compact
disc recording on Centaur Records.
Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Vermont Arts Council, CCA performs over 100
concerts each year in New York and Central Vermont. Capitol Chamber Artists is on the roster of the
New York Foundation for the Arts Artists in Residence Program. CCA was in residence for two summers
at the JAZZ TO CLASSICS FESTIVAL in Fairbanks, Alaska. CCA has been heard on National Public Radio
PERFORMANCE TODAY. As a winner of the 2002 Society for Historically Informed Performance concert
competition, Capitol Chamber Artists performed on the SoHIP summer series at Weston, Ma.,
Topsfield, Ma. and Emmanuel Church in Boston, Massachusetts.
Capitol Chamber Artists' performers are among the finest. These artists of international stature have
performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony and Opera Orchestras, Rochester
Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphony of the Air, American Ballet Theater, New York City Opera
and Metropolitan Opera.
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