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Quintessenz – Leipziger Querflötenensemble is a flute quintet from Leipzig, Germany. Its members are five musicians of the “Gewandhausorchester Leipzig”, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, and the “Staatskapelle Halle”. The group play music from every musical epoch and nearly every style. == History == „Quintessenz – Leipziger Querflötenensemble“, was founded in 1996. The British a cappella-band „King’s Singers“, and the „Bamboozles“, a flute quintet of five students of Trevor Wye, served as examples. The idea of an ensemble that consisted of musicians who played the same instruments in different voices excited the five flutists from Leipzig. At first “Quintessenz” met in private to play Jazz. As they all are trained as classical and not as jazz flutists they soon developed a characteristic sound. From the beginning everything they played had their classical education as basis. Out of lack of literature for flute quintets “Quintessenz” began to arrange their own musical pieces. For that they did not only use music for quintets of different kinds but also adapted symphonic pieces, piano literature, or completely different music. Thus they began to compile their own programmes. In 1999 “Quintessenz” recorded their first CD, followed by three more. 2006 “Quintessenz” were invited by Trevor Wye to the flute festival of the British Flute Society in Manchester. Since then they performed at various international festivals, inter alia in New York City in August 2009, hosted by the National Flute Association of the United States. A few years ago “Quintessenz” started to focus on the support of young flutists. In cooperation with the regional music council (“Landesmusikrat”) and the “Jeunesses Musicales Germany” they hosted several workshops for flute chamber-music. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quintessenz – Leipziger Querflötenensemble」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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