Album Notes

Nan Jing-Quartets & Quintets is the first album of instrumental chamber music by Boston based artist Chris Florio.The album contains 15 original pieces performed by some of the finest players in Boston including members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Pops and faculty members of Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory.

The pieces were mostly written on Chris's travels in 1999 and 2000 to China, Korea and the Pacific Northwest. Although the music is written out on paper, most of the players are fluent in the languages of Classical, Jazz, Rock and the traditional music of many cultures and the pieces feature grat solos by Mimi Rabson and Johannes Ammon on violins, Peter Cokkinias on clarinet and Hiro Honshuko on Flute.

Chris Florio is an award winning composer who graduated from Berklee College of music and studied conducting at NEC. He is currently an artist in Residence at Emerson College of Communications and has taught at Northestern University, University of Massachusetts, Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard, United Digital Artists and the Interactive Factory. His Compositions have been performed by the New Jersey Symphony and the Trenton Symphony Orchestra. He is the Director of JumpCut Orchestra a 14 piece electric ensemble and does solo performances on "Digital Guitar" that include a live visual mixes triggered by the guitar.

Although Chris has been writing and performing instrumental acoustic music for many years this is his first instrumental release.All of his previous albums are Rock and Pop flavored, including "A Few Songs" an eclectic mix of pop tunes, "JumpCut Live" from a series of Boston shows in 1996, and "Deep Trees-Something that Floats", with Swedish guitarist and composer Chris Brenne.You can hear these releases as well as new music by Chris Florio at www.chrisflorio.com and at www.mp3.com/chrisflorio.