| Tara Helen O’Connor,
flute Robert Ingliss, oboe Calvin Wiersma, violin |
Susannah Chapman, cello William Anderson, guitar/mandolin/banjo Oren Fader, guitar, electric guitar |
| Paul Griffiths, in the New York Times,
describes Cygnus as an “enterprising and supple group--featuring
guitars, strings and woodwinds in pairs”, an instrumentation
that has its precedent in the Elizabethan “broken consort”.
Cygnus is a group of six versatile chamber musicians, all of whom
are among the most highly respected practitioners of their instruments.
A sampling of the extensive repertoire that has been written for Cygnus
may be heard on its recent CRi disc entitled Broken Consort. Cygnus presents a series of three concerts every year at various halls in New York City, and has toured extensively in the U.S., Europe , and Latin America. In 2001 Cygnus became Ensemble in Residence at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, under composer David Olan, and in 2002, Cygnus took on another residency at Sarah Lawrence College under its music department chairman Chester Biscardi. |