Last year, Toomai String Quintet had an unforgettable performance at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where we partnered with Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections, Sospiro Winds, and teaching artist Daniel Levy for a day of musical activities with the incarcerated men.  This last Friday, November 11th, 2011, we returned to Sing Sing with soprano Camille Zamora to [...]

On October 20th, we gave our first of seven performances as the ensemble-in-residence at Bronx’s Jacobi Medical Center (through Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections program).  We had an amazing experience collaborating with soprano Camille Zamora and the hospital staff.  This particular visit was part of a series of events for Domestic Violence Awareness month.  We performed [...]

The 2010-2011 concert season is coming to an end, and while it has been an excellent year, we are hard at work planning activities for next season! This summer, individual members of Toomai will be attending various summer programs, such as the Marlboro, Lucerne, and Orford music festivals. In the fall of 2011, we will [...]

Last week, we completed our mini-residency at the Bronx’s Horizon Juvenile Center in collaboration with Found Sound Nation and Carnegie Hall.  Toomai made multiple visits to the detention center, where we worked with twelve young residents.  We demonstrated our instruments and helped the participants record and sample excerpts from Toomai’s repertoire.  They also composed their [...]

Toomai is pleased to announce our new website, thanks to Peter Wise of Square Candy Design!  Please browse the new site for audio files, photos, and more! We have always enjoyed playing community engagement programs — for the last three years, we have performed numerous concerts at schools, hospitals, and homeless shelters.  This month, we [...]

Toomai is excited to announce our new violinist, Pala Garcia!  After two years of living in Munich as an academy fellow with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Pala’s back in New York and we feel extremely lucky to play with her. This coming weekend, we are traveling throughout the northeast for a wide variety of performances: [...]

The Toomai String Quintet will make its second appearance in Jersey City as part of the fabulous Con Vivo Chamber Music Series.  We will be presenting a concert featuring a quintet by the 19th Century French composer Georges Onslow, a new work by Richard Carrick, and arrangements of Erik Satie’s Gnossiennes by our good friend [...]

  We are excited to perform at the wonderful Brooklyn venue, Issue Project Room.  We hope to see you there!  Here are the details: Location:  323 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Time:  March 17th, 8:00 PM $15 Program: Jessica Pavone:  Selections from Songs of Synastry and Solitude Adrian Willaert:  Vecchie Letrose (arr. Benjamin Grow) Huang Ruo: [...]

  Hi Everyone! Toomai has had an adventurous month of December! We had a great time performing in Montego Bay, Jamaica! It was lots of fun playing new repertoire in such a beautiful setting. This past week Toomai had a wonderful Professional Development meeting with our friends at Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections program. It is [...]