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8.25.08

We've received word from Performance Today that an excerpt from a live concert of ours will again be featured on their public radio syndicated program. Check your local program listing to hear our performance on Monday, September 1st. The note follows.

Hello Sotto Voce Tuba Quartet,

Just a quick note to let you know that on Monday, September 1st, Performance Today will broadcast the Sotto Voce Tuba Quartet’s performance of John Stevens’s Benediction from Bethlehem Lutheran Church on March 18th 2007.

American Public Media's Performance Today is broadcast on 245 public radio stations across the country and is heard by about 1.1 million people each week. Each station individually decides what time to air the program. To find out where and when Performance Today is broadcast in your area, please visit performancetoday.org.

You may also visit publicradiofan.com, an independent website that can point the way to on-line listening. Many radio stations stream their signal on the internet, so it may be possible for you to tune in to a radio station across the country and hear Performance Today by visiting that station's website at the time they air it. Next Monday’s show will be available on our website for seven days. We also archive many interviews, Studio MMW performances, Piano Puzzlers, and other features on our website.

Thanks!
Jeff Bina

8.1.08

I am pleased to announce that the Sotto Voce Chamber Music Symposium has morphed into the Miraphone Academy to be held June 25-28, 2009 at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro School of Music. I have added some kind comments by participants in the 2008 symposium to our '08 symposium webpage. -Mark

7.21.08

I just added links from the Canada tour page to newspaper articles written about Sotto Voce's visit to the Frederickton Tuba Fest in Canada and our appearances on Performance Today. I also revised the presskit. -Mark

7.15.08

Sotto Voce is proud to announce that they are now Miraphone performing artists. We are excited to be associated with the fine horns that Marcus Theinert's company is producing.

Also audio samples added for our album pages, Consequences, Viva Voce! and Refractions as well as a free web exclusive track, Facade You Furnish by Nat McIntosh. More samples will be online soon!

7.9.08

Phew! It seems we've resolved the DNS issues and the site should be more stable now. Thanks to everyone for visiting our new site. Please feel free to let us know what you think of it. Watch for samples and freebies coming online soon!

7.2.08

New site launch. Design by our new second euphonium, Mark Carlson. Please check out the new shop, symposium page, and tour pages. Let us know what you think!

6.20.08

Immediately before the broadcast we received word from Performance Today that an excerpt from a live concert of ours would be aired on their public radio syndicated program. Check your local program listing to hear our performance on Wednesday, June 25th. The note follows.

Hello Sotto Voce members,

Just a quick note to let you know that on Friday June 20th, Performance Today will broadcast your performance of Leroy Anderson's Bugler's Holiday from the Bethlehem Concert Series on March 18th, 2007. Also, the following week, we plan to air from that same concert, John Stevens's Benediction on Wednesday, June 25th.

American Public Media's Performance Today is broadcast on 245 public radio stations across the country and is heard by about 1.1 million people each week. Each station individually decides what time to air the program. To find out where and when Performance Today is broadcast in your area, please visit performancetoday.org.

Thanks!
Jeff

6.3.08

Sotto Voce has been asked to perform several times at the 2008 International Tuba Euphonium Conference at the Cincinnati Conservatory. We will perform on the Lifetime Achievement Award program celebrating the life and career of our mentor, the tubist, teacher and composer, John Stevens. We will be performing his landmark work Moondance as a quartet and his Adagio as part of a larger ensemble. On the same program we will salute the lifetime achievement of composer Jan Koetsier by performing the final movement from his quartet work Wolkenschatten.

Before the Friday night evening concert we will be performing a new fanfare by composer Tony Plog. We are also currently working with Mr. Plog on a new large scale quartet commission. We have really enjoying preparing this new fanfare and are excited to share it with the community.

a casual photo of the sotto voce quartet