This September Spanish flutist Roberto Alvarez and Ucranian pianist Kseniia Vokhmianina recorded my Sonata for flute and piano at the Esplanade on the Bay in Singapore. I can’t wait to hear the final release on the CD!
Random Access Music (RAM) will present Masks for clarinet, cello and piano on February 11 and 14, 2020. Other works in the programs will include compositions by Dalit Warshaw, Jennifer Higdon, Aleksandra Vrebalov and RAM composers, Seth Boustead and Gilbert Galindo.
Feb 11, Tuesday
Location: Plaxall Gallery, LIC
Performers: Laura Goldberg, violin – Thomas Piercy, clarinet – Kate Dillingham, cello – Marija Ilic, piano – Pablo Lavandera, piano
Feb. 14, Friday
Location: Tenri Cultural Institute, Manhattan
Performers: Laura Goldberg, violin – Thomas Piercy, clarinet – Kate Dillingham, cello – Marija Ilic, piano Pablo Lavandera, piano
143rd ANNIVERSARY CONCERT – SALA DE LA MÚSICA DEL MUSEU PAU CASALS
Roger Morelló, cello will perform Homenatge a Pau Casals for solo cello on December 28, 2019, at 19:30 at the 143rd anniversary of Catalan cellist Pau Casals. The concert will include also works by Gaspar Cassado, Max Bruch, Enrique Granados and others.
Ion Project Ensemble will premiere a newly commissioned work, Masks for clarinet, cello & piano, on October 19, 2019, in Pittsburgh, PA. Two more con certs will take place on February 22 in Cincinnati, OH, and February 24, 2020, in Birmingham, AL. This concert will also include Trios by Beethoven, Brahms and Jonathan Kolm.
Naxos release of Catalan Wind Music, Vol. 2, includes Symphony #1 for Symphonic Wind Ensemble, recorded by the Barcelona Symphonic Ensemble (Banda Municipal de Barcelona) conducted by Salvador Brotons. This new album from the Barcelona Symphony Band is a compilation of the first world recordings of works by Catalan composers (Montsalvatge, Amargos, Fábregas and Bertrán). “Elisenda Fábregas’ dramatic and emotional First Symphony contrasts majestic grandeur with the expressiveness of Catalan song.” (Naxos Direct).
Kompas Trio performed Voces de mi tierra for flute, cello and piano at Blackerby Recital Hall in Austin, TX, on August 17, 2019. This concert, Soundscapes, was their Debut Concert as a trio. Their program also included works by Piazzola and Julio Alberto Hernandez. Kompas Trio is a newly formed chamber music group composed of female artists originally from the Dominican Republic. Laura Canelo Cohen, flute; Ilia De la Rosa, cello; Ninoska Thrall, piano.
Catalan cellist, Roger Morello Ròs, performed Homenatge a Pau Casals for cello solo at the famed Gaudi building Casa Mila (La Pedrera) in Barcelona on March 17, 2019. Roger Morello Ròs was an artist in residence for the 2018-19 season at La Pedrera.
Imitació del Foc (Imitation of Fire) for tenor and piano was performed this past spring on February 15, 2019: St. Stephen’s Concert Series in Wilmington, DE; February 24, 2019: Furman University in NC; Feb 26: Newberry College in SC; and Feb 28: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC. This work is being championed by Jess Muñoz, tenor, and pianist Oksana Glouchko, commissioners of this work with generous support from a University of Delaware General University Research Grant. Imitacio del foc was recorded in August 2018 with producer/engineer Andreas Meyer and will be part of an album featuring 24 Art Songs by Catalan Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Imitació del Foc (Imitation of Fire) for tenor & piano received its premiered on March 12, 2018, at the University of Delaware in a program dedicated to Catalonian and Latin American women composers. After the premiere, additional concerts were presented in the 2018 Spring along other music by Catalonian composers, including Toldra and Mompou. Some of the concerts took place at Gore Recital Hall Roselle Center for the Arts, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, Central Michigan University, Michigan State University, Indiana University -South Bend, Taylor University, and Market Street Music Concert Series.
Imitació del Foc is based on poetry by Mallorquin poet Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel (1913-1938). It includes four poems: I. Inici de campana (Quadern de sonets); II.Escolto la secreta… (from Imitacio del Foc, ‘Arbre de Flames’); III. Pluja brodada (Imitacio del foc, ‘Fira encesa’); and IV. Ardent himne (Imitacio del foc, ‘Arbre de Flames’).
Pianist Becky Billock performed Mirage in her Pacific Northwest tour in the US and also in Iceland and Norway. Dates/locations: March 8, Portland, OR; March 9, Salem, OR; March 10, Olympia, WA; March 11, Sequim; March 12, Sidney, B.C; March 14 Abbotsford, BC; March 16, Seattle, WA; March 16 Bellingham; April 22, Riverside, CA; and April 28 Pittsburgh, PA. More details and links on these concerts.
She recently recorded Mirage for piano and is included in the album titled ‘Mother Earth‘ which includes works inspired by nature by composers Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Henry Cowell, Edvard Grieg, Karen Tanaka, Bonnie McLarty, Elisenda Fabregas, Patrick Burke, Germaine Tailleferre, Robert Schultz, Katherine Hoover, Gwyneth Walker, and Kaja Bjørntvedt. More program details.
Resident musicians from Portland’s 240 Strings joined by resident musicians from New Haven’s Music Haven and flutist Nicole Rabata performed Portraits II for flute, violin, cello and piano on March 1, 2019, at Mechanics’ Hall, in Maine.
Portraits II was performed again on March 2 by the same performers including pianist Anastasia Antonacos at Corthell Concert Hall, Gorham Campus in the University of Southern Maine (USM) Concert Series.
