The following is our monthly summary about our Cayambis composers and artists and their recent activities.
Last month we reported on Juan López-Maya’s lecture on Masonic musical traditions in Latin America during the 18th and 19th centuries. As it turns out, his talk has been rescheduled, and will now be presented today in the hall of the Music Archive of the National Library of Chile in Santiago at 7pm.
Today and tomorrow, Luis Pérez Valero will be participating in CASE18, which is a conference on audio and sound that is being held in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Today he is dictating a conference on the music industry and musical production and tomorrow he, Rubén Riera and Meining Cheung will be joined in a performance organized around sonorous passages in music.
Gerardo Dirié’s new work, War Within, for two narrators, chorus, organ, piano, French horn and alto saxophone, and with texts by Major General (ret.) John Cantwell, Dante Alighieri and Jalal ad-Din Rumi, is scheduled to be premiered on April 25 by the Brisbane Concert Choir at St. Andrew’s Uniting Church in Brisbane, Australia.
On April 28, Sadiel Cuentas will be starting to teach a class on the classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries in the Goethe Institute in Lima, Peru.
Federico Núñez will be performing two new works for guitar at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first is Seis estudios para guitarra, libro II, by Argentine composer Fernando Maglia, and the second (which will be a world premiere), is English composer Alastair Greig’s work, Soledad.
As part of the 20th Festival of Latin American music, on May 16 in the Fedora Alemán Hall of the Center for Social Action for Music in Caracas, Venezuela, clarinetist Gorgias Sánchez and Sergei Pylenkov, piano, will be premiering Cuatro Piezas en clave Morse, by Luis Ernesto Gómez.
Finally, please enjoy this recently recorded performance by Mexico’s Chilakil Brass.
