The Purpose
People get together to do things like play video games and watch T.V. all the time, so why can't we do that with chamber music? This is a place where musician's can gather to find other musician's to play chamber music with. The purpose behind Rendezvous Around 2:00? is to be a tool for someone who is new to a city to be able to form a chamber group with other people who are looking to do the same thing. This is also place to rekindle friendships with people you might already know in the city who are looking to form a chamber group of sorts.
People get together to do things like play video games and watch T.V. all the time, so why can't we do that with chamber music? This is a place where musician's can gather to find other musician's to play chamber music with. The purpose behind Rendezvous Around 2:00? is to be a tool for someone who is new to a city to be able to form a chamber group with other people who are looking to do the same thing. This is also place to rekindle friendships with people you might already know in the city who are looking to form a chamber group of sorts.
The Man Behind The Curtain, Tim Gocklin
Ever since his first woodwind quintet experience at the Summer Youth Music School(SYMS) in Durham, NH in 2004 Tim has been passionate about chamber music. His love of chamber music led him to found the Akropolis Reed Quintet in 2009. This cutting edge reed ensemble performs a vibrant, innovative, and living repertoire and has already won five national chamber music prizes including a Fischoff Silver Medal and Grand Prize at both the Plowman and MTNA competitions in 2011. The ensemble’s debut album “High Speed Reed,” released last January, showcases original works for reed quintet. Their second album, “Unraveled,” will be released in March 2014. Tim maintains an active performing and outreach career with Akropolis throughout the year. The quintet will be traveling to Juneau, Alaska in May 2014 to take part in the Juneau Jazz and Classics festival giving performances and presentations to the community.
Outside of Akropolis, Tim performs chamber music in a wide variety of settings. Over the past year he has made appearances on the stages of Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall performing Paul Hindemith’s Die Serenaden and most recently his Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No.2 on the Yale in New York series. He has also participated in the Sarasota and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, and will be participating in the Chamber Music Northwest Protege project in July 2014. As a fellow of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival this past summer, Tim had the privilege of working with Carol Wincenc and William Purvis in a performance of Charles Gounod’s Petite Symphonie and Emile Bernard’s Divertissement. In addition, Tim spent the summer of 2012 as a member of the Interlochen Ensemble, a quintet-in-residence at the Interlochen Arts Camp performing around the state of Michigan.
In 2012, Tim received his Bachelors degree summa cum laude from the University of Michigan where he spent four fulfilling years studying with Dr. Nancy Ambrose King whose recording of the Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto inspired him while learning the piece in 8th grade. Currently, he is at Yale University pursuing his Master of Music degree with Stephen Taylor. When not playing the oboe or whittling away at his reeds, Tim can be found relaxing in a coffee shop with a journal and pencil on one side and a hot, robust cup of coffee of the other.
Ever since his first woodwind quintet experience at the Summer Youth Music School(SYMS) in Durham, NH in 2004 Tim has been passionate about chamber music. His love of chamber music led him to found the Akropolis Reed Quintet in 2009. This cutting edge reed ensemble performs a vibrant, innovative, and living repertoire and has already won five national chamber music prizes including a Fischoff Silver Medal and Grand Prize at both the Plowman and MTNA competitions in 2011. The ensemble’s debut album “High Speed Reed,” released last January, showcases original works for reed quintet. Their second album, “Unraveled,” will be released in March 2014. Tim maintains an active performing and outreach career with Akropolis throughout the year. The quintet will be traveling to Juneau, Alaska in May 2014 to take part in the Juneau Jazz and Classics festival giving performances and presentations to the community.
Outside of Akropolis, Tim performs chamber music in a wide variety of settings. Over the past year he has made appearances on the stages of Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall performing Paul Hindemith’s Die Serenaden and most recently his Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No.2 on the Yale in New York series. He has also participated in the Sarasota and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, and will be participating in the Chamber Music Northwest Protege project in July 2014. As a fellow of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival this past summer, Tim had the privilege of working with Carol Wincenc and William Purvis in a performance of Charles Gounod’s Petite Symphonie and Emile Bernard’s Divertissement. In addition, Tim spent the summer of 2012 as a member of the Interlochen Ensemble, a quintet-in-residence at the Interlochen Arts Camp performing around the state of Michigan.
In 2012, Tim received his Bachelors degree summa cum laude from the University of Michigan where he spent four fulfilling years studying with Dr. Nancy Ambrose King whose recording of the Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto inspired him while learning the piece in 8th grade. Currently, he is at Yale University pursuing his Master of Music degree with Stephen Taylor. When not playing the oboe or whittling away at his reeds, Tim can be found relaxing in a coffee shop with a journal and pencil on one side and a hot, robust cup of coffee of the other.