Vento Chiaro on WGBH
Vento Chiaro was featured in a live broadcast on Boston's WGBH with Cathy Fuller as the host. The program included Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide, J.S. Bach's Italian Concerto, and David Maslanka's Quintet No. 3. To hear the program, click here.

Collaboration with Michael Gandolfi
On May 11, 2008, Vento Chiaro will be giving the premiere of a new work by Michael Gandolfi as part of a Benefit concert for Amnesty International USA. The performance will take place at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA. For more details, see below or click here.

07/08 MIT Residency
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology may seem, at first glance, to be an odd place to be resident as musicians. But an active and experimental musical atmosphere is thriving at this high-tech environment, evident by an impressive roster of esteemed faculty members and a large number of active ensembles (including a Balinese gamelan and a Senegalese drumming troupe.) Vento Chiaro will become a part of this atmosphere during the 07/08 season in an artist-residency that will culminate on Oct. 18 with the premiere performance of Robert Dick’s “Startling Stories”. This new piece was written for Vento Chiaro as part of a commissioning project with Meet the Composer, and is aptly inspired by the composer’s fascination with science fiction. For more detrails, click here.

A new wind quintet by Robert Dick
The opening concert of this season will feature “Startling Stories”, a new work written for Vento Chiaro through a joint venture with a commissioning consortium of three ensembles and Meet the Composer. Innovative flutist and composer Robert Dick has created this new work for wind quintet with each movement based on a classic work of science fiction, a passion of the composer's, particularly given its unbridled imagination coupled with logical structure. For more information about Robert Dick and Meet the Composer, click here.

Amnesty International Benefit Concert
On May 11, 2008, Vento Chiaro will be presenting a concert to benefit Amnesty International. All proceeds will go towards supporting the work of Amnesty International USA, an organization that brings public awareness to grave abuses of human rights, with a focus on gaining the release of prisoners of conscience, opposing torture and the death penalty, and working in defense of refugees and on behalf of people seeking political asylum. For more information on how you can be a part of this benefit effort, please visit www.amnestyusa.org.

Tanglewood 2007
Vento Chiaro's sixth summer residency at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute will feature a performance of Carl Nielsen's Woodwind Quintet. The concert program will also include music by the Scottish composer James MacMillan and the Grammy winning composer and jazz musician, Paquito D'Rivera. For more detrails, click here.

Introducing Lucas Oliver Castelo Barnum
Ellen gave birth to a beautiful baby boy at 9:54 A.M. on New Year's Eve, 2006. This auspicious event marks the first entry of a Vento Chiaro musician into parenthood (not counting cats). For those of you who wish to catch a glimpse of Lucas, he will be summering in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts this July. Your best chances of spotting him will be on the main grounds of Tanglewood, or on the BUTI campus, most likely nestled in the arms of his mom, or learning new "googly" faces from his dad.