September 22, 2016
Our composers have been engaged in a number of interesting activities this month.
Here in the United States, Kent Holliday just completed his Six Original Folk Melodies for viola and violoncello. He says that they are for beginning to intermediate level players and are intended more as teaching pieces than for performance.
We are very pleased to announce that earlier this month Venezuelan composer Luis Ernesto Gómez was designated as the coordinator of the graduate program in music at the Simon Bolivar University.
Garden Labyrinth at the Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela
Gerardo Dirié wrote to us from Australia, where he is the head of the composition department at the Queensland Conservatorium, with a kangaroo-sized pouch full of performance news. Here’s a few highlights:
- On September 10, his violin duo, Horizonte abierto, was performed in Quito, Ecuador by Tadashi Maeda and Antonina Calahorrano. This same piece was also performed in Calgary, Alberta, by Annette-Barbara Vogel and Mikela Witjes on September 17.
- Gerardo also informed us that his mixed sextet, Estancia, is going to be premiered next week in Córdoba, Argentina.
- And lastly, his Bordoneo, Pifilca y Zapateado, for clarinet, cello and piano, is going to be performed next month at the three western universities in the United States by the touring group, Trio Montecino.
Today, a work for orchestra of guitars and string bass titled,
Blue, by Federico Núñez is being premiered in Buenos Aires in the music department of that country’s National University for the Arts. Fun fact: the author of this column is there right now! Meanwhile, Federico has also been organizing the Fourth International Guitar Festival and Competition which will be taking place next week in that same city.
On September 28, Samuel Robles’s Tres preludios a una cabanga for solo violin is going to be performed by Diomedes Díaz on the campus of the University of Panama.
On October 13 and 30 René Silva’s work for soprano, guitar ensemble and string bass, Cantata por las ánimas del Baker, is being performed in two locations in Santiago, Chile. And on October 21 his Al (des)amor… Tres Romanzas, for voice and piano is going to be premiered in New York City by Phillip Cheah and Trudy Chan.
Finally, Alba Fernanda Triana wrote to inform us that her work is going to be featured from mid October through mid January as a solo exhibition at the Beta Gallery in Bogotá, Colombia; and that her work is going to be on display at the ArtBo International Art Fair, also in Bogotá, from October 27 to October 30.
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