May 2018
16 May 2018Tres canciones sobre poemas de RachelJubilate Chamber ChoirMihaela Cesa Goje, conductorThe Reformed Church on Ulița LupilorSigismund Toduța International FestivalCluj-Napoca
Agustín Fernández
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Proyecto orquestal Laredo 2017
Dos semanas en Cochabamba (To my anglophone readers: the following is an outline in Spanish of the project I undertook in my native city, Cochabamba, in August 2017. Invited by Instituto Laredo, I spent two weeks discussing curricular ideas and preparing a concert of the Symphony Orchestra of Instituto Laredo. […]
More on Notes from Underground
Who better to write – or talk – about this piece than the man of letters who produced the words, Sean O’Brien. Apropos of the – then – impending repeat performance at the Newcastle Poetry Festival 2017, O’Brien gave an interview on the subject. As to me, I probably said […]
November 2017
19 November 2017 at 3pmString Quartet No. 2, ‘Sin tiempo’Momenta QuartetPhiladelphia Chamber Music SocietyAmerican Philosophical SocietyPhiladelphia
October 2017
2 October at 7pmString Quartet No. 2, ‘Sin tiempo’Momenta QuartetAmericas SocietyNew York City
Río Bravo, update
Since the première at Lincoln Center, Río Bravo has undergone a significant revision. The aim, as ever, is to make the piece as effective as possible for the widest possible range of performers. This claim may seem questionable given the pervading technical difficulty in most of my work. But the […]
Río Bravo
Río Bravo is a piece for large chamber ensemble, of eleven minutes’ duration. It was commissioned by Joel Sachs for his New Juilliard Ensemble. The size and makeup of the ensemble are similar to those in Notes from Underground, the work I wrote in 2015 to poems by Sean O’Brien. […]
January 2017
24 January 2017 Souvenir de TeoponteSheng Yao Wu, double bassNathaniel LaNasa, piano Peter Jay TheaterLincoln CenterNew YorkFocus FestivalTickets and information
After the Gathering at Alwinton Church
In the bewitching setting of Alwinton Church, near Alwinton in the Upper Coquet Valley, Norhumberland, there is a concert series that has been making ripples for several years now, Alwinton Church Summer Concerts. It is curated by one of the doyens of British contemporary music, the composer John Casken and, […]
May 2016
19 May 2016 Notes from UndergroundChristian Hodrea, baritoneTransylvania Philharmonic Choir – Cornel Groza, directorAntonin Ciolan OrchestraVlad Agachi, conductorPhilharmonic HallSigismund Toduta International FestivalCluj-Napoca, Romania 7 May 2016at 1930 After the Gathering (première)Kathryn Tickell and The SideAlwinton Church Summer ConcertsAlwinton, Northumberland Tickets here