Vinny Golia Large Ensemble

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the New Music Circle

What: The New Music Circle (NMC), the oldest running presenter of post- modern art music in the world, begins its 50th season with the  internationally acclaimed jazz talent, Vinny Golia. Golia is a composer who fuses the rich heritage of jazz, contemporary classical  and world music into his own unique compositions. As a composer,  performer, and bandleader, Golia has showcased work around the globe.The New Music Circle has assembled a group of top local and national  talent for the concert including Webster faculty and St. Louis  Symphony musicians. Golia’s style of composition, strongly based in  the Jazz tradition, blends heavily notated contemporary chamber music with improvisation, and incorporates various extended instrumental  techniques, 20th-century idioms, as well as world music concepts. His  music demands a talented and exceptional group of dedicated  musicians, adept at both reading and improvising, and at home in a  wide variety of styles. For more information please visit  www.newmusiccircle.org, or www.ninewinds.com/Artists/golia.html

When: Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Community Music School of Webster University Concert Hall 534 Garden Ave.

Cost: $15, $7 senior adults and students

A multi-woodwind performer, Golia’s recordings have been consistently  picked by critics and readers of music journals for their yearly "ten  best" lists. In 1998 he ranked first in the Cadence Magazine Writers & Readers Poll and has continually placed in the Downbeat Critic's Poll for Baritone Saxophone. Jazziz Magazine named Golia as one of  the 100 people who have influenced the course of jazz in our Century.  As a composer, performer, and bandleader, Golia has showcased work  around the globe. His compositions fuse the rich heritage of Jazz,  contemporary classical and world music into innovative and unique  pieces. Golia has won numerous awards as a composer, including grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, The Lila Wallace  Commissioning Program, and Meet the Composer. He currently teaches at California Institute of the Arts.