April 18, 2019
Here is our monthly summary about Cayambis composers and artists and their recent activities.
Daniel Cueto was accepted as a doctoral composition student at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music starting this fall semester, and will be moving with his family to Bloomington in August. Cueto received a full scholarship plus a position as an Assistant Instructor at the school.
Chilean guitarist Diego Castro Magas (a champion of contemporary music for this instrument) has released a new CD titled, Knokler, that includes six pieces for unaccompanied guitar, of which one is by Nicolás Kliwadenko. Click here to get your own copy of this CD.
Luis Pérez Valero wrote to let us know that this semester at the Universidad de las Artes in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in his class on Latin American music his students will be analyzing the works of Luis Ernesto Gómez, Antonio Gervasoni and Andrés Levell.
On March 1, the Escola Superior Wind Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal, performed Alexandre Travassos’s A Captura do Saci-Pererê (under preparation). The ensemble was conducted by Dario Sotelo. Travassos’s newest work, Take Me into the Garden, will be premiered on April 24 and 27 by the São Paulo Municipal Youth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Érica Hindrikson in that city’s municipal theater.
Alchimia, Antonio Gervasoni’s cantata for seven female voices and ensemble, premiered on April 1 at the 9th edition of the Festival Josep Soler, in the Sala Llevant of the Biblioteca de Catalunya, in Barcelona, Spain. The work was performed by a group of local musicians led by Peruvian conductor Paloma Bascones, who commissioned the work in 2013. The composer was present at the concert, which ended with a standing ovation from the audience and the repetition of one of the movements as a encore. Alchimia is a work in five movements, each of which is inspired by one of the elements of antiquity: air, fire, water, earth and the quintessence. The texts were compiled by the composer by joining together fragments from several sources, such as the Orphic Hymns, Navajo songs and Plato’s Timaeus, among several others. Each fragment is sung in its original language and the piece includes fragments in 15 different languages: Spanish, English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Sumerian, Ancient Egyptian, Sanskrit, Náhuatl, Hawaiian, Navajo, Cherokee, Japanese, Chinese and Quechua.
© Biblioteca de Catalunya – Oriol Miralles
At California’s Glendale Community College on May 1, their end-of-the-year concert will feature special guest artists LINÜ, along with that college’s guitar ensembles. The program will consist of music by Philip Glass, Andy McKee, Jan Bartlema, Patrick Roux, and a new guitar orchestra arrangement of La Cumparsita by Federico Núñez.
Finally, on Wednesday, May 15, Juan López-Maya will be participating in the seminar “Documentos musicales y sonoros” (Musical and Sonorous Documents) with a lecture entitled, “Los cuadernos de música de la logia Unanimidad, una radiografía de la vida social en una ciudad venezolana del siglo XIX.” This event will take place in the America Hall of the Chilean National Library in Santiago from mid morning until late in the afternoon.
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