Rossini: Quartet No. 4 in B-flat major for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (arr. Friedrich Berr from String Sonata No. 4)
Gioachino Rossini: Quartet No. 4 in B-flat major for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (arr. Friedrich Berr from String Sonata No. 4) (1804, arr. 1828-29)
Allegro vivace
Andante
Rondo Allegretto
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on Saturday, July 20, 2024.
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Demarre McGill
Hugo Valverde
Flutist Demarre McGill has gained international recognition as a soloist, recitalist, chamber, and orchestral musician. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, he has appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Grant Park, San Diego, Chicago, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. Now principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, he previously served as principal flute of the Dallas Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He has also served as acting principal flute of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. McGill is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program and has participated in the Santa Fe, Marlboro, Seattle, and Stellenbosch chamber music festivals, among others.
Horn player Hugo Valverde enjoys a prolific career in the United States and abroad as an orchestral player and soloist, currently holding the Second Horn position at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City. Other commitments as an orchestral musician include performances with the National Symphony Orchestra of his native Costa Rica, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, and the New York City Ballet Orchestra, as well as major festivals. He is a faculty member at the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Precollege Division at Manhattan School of Music. Valverde studied at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas, Lynn University Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton, Florida, and the National Music Institute in San José, Costa Rica. His main teachers are Daniel León, Luis Murillo, Gregory Miller, and William VerMeulen.