The following is our monthly summary about our Cayambis composers and artists and their recent activities.
Last month, on April 3 and 4, Nilo Velarde’s work, El Ayla, was performed as part of pair of concerts in Lima, Peru, on the occasion of Peruvian composer Enrique Iturriaga’s 100th birthday (see photo below). On these same concerts, soprano Erika Camacho and pianist Leonardo Barreto performed Velarde’s lied, Los Balcones.
Also last month, Jannet Alvarado’sDanzas y Géneros Musicales de Salón en Cuenca, 1870-1930, was published in Cuenca, Ecuador. The book represents more than a decade of investigation, research and interviews of composers and performers.
Luis Ernesto Gómez writes to let us know that he recently finished Cantos hiperactivos for cello and piano, which is dedicated to cellist Horacio Contreras, who is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago.
On May 16, the Tatuí Conservatory Band in Brazil, under the baton of Dario Sotelo, performed Alexandre Travassos’sOpus Lascivus for sax quartet and wind ensemble. And on May 27, his Rapsódia Sefaradi is slated to be performed by the Guri Youth Band, under the direction of Marcelo Silvério.
Today, clarinetist Marcelo González will be performing Federico Núñez’sBlur Thoughts for basset horn in the Morón Conservatory, which is located in the province of Buenos Aires.
On June 3, the National Children’s Choir of Peru and the National Folklore Troupe will be premiering a new work, Cuatro cantos andinos, by Sadiel Cuentas. The work is part of the Tinkuy Project, which is to rescue the repertoire of traditional Peruvian songs the lyrics of which are in an indigenous language.
On June 14, Johanny Navarro’s new opera, Frenesí, will be premiered in Puerto Rico.
Finally, please enjoy this video of the Violet Ensemble premiering Retratos de Azuero by Samuel Robles. This work was composed through our commissioning program, in which we connect American performers with Latin American composers.
