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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Pianist Ana Cervantes will close the 19th edition of the Raritan River Festival, USA on Saturday 31 May at 7:30PM in the Clinton Presbyterian Church in Clinton, NJ.
Joining her will be Mexican poet Lirio Garduño and New Jersey poet David Herrstrom, for a recital of music of Rumor de Páramo / Murmurs from the Wasteland. Rumor de Páramo is the international commissioning project, homage to landmark Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) in which Cervantes asked composers — from México, Spain, the USA, Great Britain and Brazil— for a solo piano piece inspired in Rulfo’s work. The result, over 3 years and 2 CDs, says Cervantes, is “a splendid body of 23 new works for the piano.” On the 31st, Garduño and Herrstrom will join the eloquent spoken word with the music it inspired, reading excerpts from Rulfo’s writing.
The concert will include my contribution to the project, Murmuring in Comala, as well as works by Federico Ibarra (México, 1946); Anne LeBaron (EUA, 1953); Arturo Márquez (México, 1950); Ramón Montes de Oca (México, 1953-2006); and Horacio Uribe (México, 1970).
Set fire to have light performed by members of the Griffin Ensemble in Liepāja, Latvia, May 31
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The string quartet members of the Griffin Ensemble will perform my Set fire to have light at the Jazepa Cathedral in Liepāja, Latvia, on May 31 at 4PM as part of a program that will also include works by Haydn and Brahms. The quartet members, all musicians in the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, are Baiba Lasmane and Ginta Alžāne, Violins; Tatjana Borovika, Viola; and Dina Puķite, cello.
Moon of the Floating World performed by Cantala Women’s Choir at Lawrence University, May 30
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
The Cantala Women’s Choir of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music will perform my The Moon of the Floating World, an a cappella setting for women’s voices in eight parts of a haiku by Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693). Conducted by Phillip A. Swan, the choir will perform in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin on May 30 at 8PM.
Concerto for Chamber Orchestra to be Premiered by Westchester Chamber Orchestra on May 3 in New Rochelle, New York
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
My Concerto for Chamber Orchestra will be given its World Premiere performance by the Westchester Chamber Orchestra, Barry Charles Hoffman, founder and Artistic Director, on Saturday, May 3 at 8 PM. The Premiere will be given at Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium in the Murphy Science Building, corner of Summit and North Avenues, on the campus of Iona College in New Rochelle, New York.
The concert will also include the “Composers of the Future” showcase of children’s compositions from WCO’s collaboration with New Rochelle’s Songcatchers after-school program. In addition, the Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major, op. 21. This concert series is sponsored in part by the Iona College Council on the Arts through the generosity of JoAnn and Joseph M. Murphy and the Baron Lambert Fund.
Tickets for the May 3 concert are $35 for general admission, $30 for seniors (65+) and $15 for students. For more information or tickets, call (914) 654-4WCO (4926), or e-mail info@westchesterchamberorchestra.org
The Westchester Chamber Orchestra is a fully professional orchestra, quickly becoming known in and outside of Westchester County for its first rate and inspiring performances, world class soloists, innovative programming and its World Premieres of meaningful new works it has commissioned. Now beginning its seventh season at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, the WCO was founded in 1984 by its Artistic Director, Barry Charles Hoffman. For many years the WCO gave its concerts at various sites throughout Westchester County and in 1994 began its association with Iona College.
The Lorelei Ensemble performs El Paso de la Siguiriya in Brookline and Wenham, Massachusetts on May 3 & 4
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
The women’s chamber choir, The Lorelei Ensemble, directed by Beth Willer, will give the U.S. premiere of my El Paso de la Seguiriya, a flamenco-inflected setting of the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, as part of a program of music of the Spanish Renaissance and new works on Spanish and English texts, at Brookline Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 3rd at 4PM. The program includes Selections from Guerrero’s Canciones y Villanescas Espirituales, Victoria’s Duo Seraphim, and the premieres of Daniel Schlosberg’s El Sueno and
Haralabos Stafylakis’s Ubi Sunt. They will repeat the program at First Church in Wenham, Massachusetts on May 4th at 3PM.
Putni performs El Paso de la Seguiriya in Riga and Piņķi, April 27 & May 3
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
The women’s vocal ensemble Putni will perform my El Paso de la Seguiriya, a flamenco-inflected setting of the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, on Sunday, April 27 at 4PM at The Museum of Decorative Arts & Design, located at 10/20 Skārņu iela in Riga, and again at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Piņķi on May 3 at 6PM, as part of their program “Spanish Hour”.
From the Faraway Nearby at the Historic Waltham Abbey Church in Essex, April 26
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
The London-based Ivory Duo (Natalie Tsaldarakis and Panayotis Archontides) will perform my From the Faraway Nearby, a suite of six pieces inspired by paintings by the American painter Georgia O’Keeffe, at 12:30 on Saturday, April 26, at the Historic Waltham Abbey Church in Essex, just 16 miles north of London.
Uģis Krišjānis performs Vernacular Dances in Rīga, Latvia on March 27
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Pianist Uģis Krišjānis reprises his recent performance of my Vernacular Dances at Rīgas Latviešu biedrības nama Zelta zālē (Riga’s Society House, Golden Hall) on March 27 at 8PM.
Uģis Krišjānis is joined by musicians Jānis Rinkulis (cello), Kristaps Pētersons (electric guitar), Dzintars Vīksna (drums) on this concert called “NEPIERADINĀTS” (UNTAMED), including works by Gundega Šmite, Volfgangs Dārziņš, Gundaris Pone, Imants Zemzaris, Līga Celma, Uģis Krišjānis and Kristaps Pētersons. Tickets cost 2 Ls/1 Ls (Seniors, students).
From the Faraway Nearby at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s New Music Festival, March 13
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
The Piano Duo Gastesi-Bezerra will perform four movements from my suite of pieces for piano four-hands From the Faraway Nearby, inspired by paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe on March 13 at 7:30 PM at the New Music Festival at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s Vera Lea Rinker School of Music in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The duo will also perform music by Terry Winter Owens, Dennis Kam, Marlene Woodward-Cooper, Spanish-Basque composer Ramon Lazkano and Italian composer Danielle Corsi.
Vernacular Dances included on the XVI International Piano Stars Festival in Liepāja, Latvia on March 12
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Pianist Uģis Krišjānis will give the Latvian premiere of my Vernacular Dances on March 12 at the Liepāja Symphony Concert Hall (Graudu iela) at 7PM as part of the eight day XVI International Piano Stars Festival. The festival brings classical and jazz pianists this year from Brazil, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Latvia, Spain and Russia to perform concerti, chamber music and solo concerts. The solo concert of Uģis Krišjānis will also include works by Gundega Šmite, Volfgangs Dārziņš and Gundaris Pone.