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A new CD has just been released on the Signum label. The CD features the first recording of Joseph Swensen’s orchestration of Brahms’ Trio Op8 (original version from 1853), entitled ‘Sinfonia in B’. Joseph Swensen conducts the Malmö Opera Orchestra in this recording, which also features him playing the violin in some other arrrangements of music by Clara and Robert Schumann, and Brahms. Please visit www.signumrecords.com to find out more.

Joseph Swensen is the Founder and Director of a new international arts institution headquartered in Townshend, Vermont (USA) called Unity Hills Arts Centers International. U-HAC International is a totally new kind of arts organisation devoted to providing the arts to underserved and economically depressed rural communities worldwide. At its home base, a 15 room, circa 1776 farmhouse built upon 5 acres of lush rolling hills and rushing streams, U-HAC is a meeting, learning, collaborating and living space for artists of all kinds. The U-HAC home base also serves as a center for artistic activities to the communities of southern Vermont and northern Massachusetts. www.u-hac.com