Jorge Oviedo wrote to inform us that his work, Volcanic Suite, was recently awarded the “Sixto María Durán” prize in Ecuador for the best classical composition. (This work is in preparation and will be added to our catalog by mid February).
Jorge also told us that his concertino for percussion, Cuniburo, was premiered on December 7, and that tomorrow his piano concerto is slated to be premiered by Alex Alarcón and the Symphonic Orchestra of Cuenca, Ecuador.
Meanwhile, Luis Pérez Valero, who is currently teaching at the University of the Arts in Guayaquil, was selected by that institution to collaborate in a nation-wide project to develop a pedagogical application in which electronic composition plays an important role.
Juan López-Maya’s article, “Ópera y masonería, El cántico fúnebre de José María Velásquez,” was just published in the REHMLAC+ magazine.
One of our Brazilian composers, Fernando Oliveira, recently finished a new piece titled, Desolação, for bass clarinet, piano and violin. He says that this is the first in a series of shorter and simpler pieces that he will be working on over the course of the next few months.
In our last issue we reported on Demian Galindo, who recently finished his master’s degree in arts with a specialization in composition in Guadalajara. We got a few more details about all of this the other day, such as the title of his compositional project, Hikuri neixa: obsesión personal sonora, which is for flute, clarinet in A, bass clarinet, three ocarinas, amplified and specially tuned acoustic guitar, electric bass guitar, mobile phone and strings.
A compact disk of three of Kent Holliday’s works for piano, including his Toccata Diabólica, was just released by the American Music Series PnoVA 21002. The pianist is the famed British artist Martin Jones, who has also extensively recorded for the Nimbus label.
Flutist Julie Koidin, whose is a member of the Ondas Ensemble, is headed to Natal, Brazil to record her first album with Choro de Lá pra Cá and to play some concerts locally.
Finally, this Saturday Federico Núñez will be performing works by Carlos Guastavino for solo guitar as well as several others for guitar and voice with Horacio Berdini, at the Casa del Fernández Blanco in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
