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Following the Momenta Quartet’s concert in Philadelphia, there will be a performance, here in the UK, of my String Quartet No. 1, ‘Montes’. Fittingly, it will be part of an evening celebrating the life and the work of the Bolivian painter Fernando Montes to be held at Bolívar Hall, London. […]
String Quartet No 1 ‘Montes’12 July 2008 at 1930Momenta String Quartet¡Vamos! FestivalKing’s HallNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon Tyne String Quartet No 1 ‘Montes’11 July 2008Momenta String Quartet¡Vamos! FestivalNorthern StageNewcastle upon Tyne
Fecha a confirmar (date tbc)Una música escondidaOrquesta de Cámara Concierto SurElizabeth Schwimmer, pianoIvette Gómez, directoraTeatro Tomás TerryCienfuegosCuba
Miranda Cuckson (violin), Stephanie Griffin (viola), me (composer), Joanne Lin (cello), Annaliesa Place (violin). In the first image, said with Mrs Marcela Montes, widow of the painter Fernando Montes.It happened last 28 November in Rock Hall Auditorium at Temple University. The performers were the Momenta Quartet, a group for whom […]
The guitarrist Christoph Jäggin. In the other image, me, the composer Harri Suilamo and Christopher Jäggin. ¡Oh guitarra!, the piece that took an eternity to complete and nearly put me off the guitar for life, received its first performance at the heroic hands of Christoph Jäggin, last weekend, Sunday 11 […]
Two driving forces of this event: Luz Bolivia Sánchez and María Angélica Kirigin As a guest of Bolivia’s National Conservatoire I was in La Paz from 5 to 12 October. My visit was part of an Encounter of Bolivian Musicians called by the Conservatoire to mark its first centenary. Other […]
String Quartet No. 1 ‘Montes’Jane Gordon, Adrian Charlesworth, violinsSara Jones, violaJennifer Morsches, cello17 January 2008 at 1930Bolívar HallLondon This performance is part of a celebration of the life and work of Fernando Montes, coinciding with the first anniversary of his death.
Munirando Duo DictoWednesday 5 December 2007Keele University, England MunirandoDuo DictoSunday 9 December 2007Royal Ghent Conservatoire, Belgium
October will see the centenary of Conservatorio Nacional de Música, one of the most venerable musical institutions of Bolivia. For this great occasion a small team of visionaries has put together an Encounter of Bolivian Musicians, bringing together an array of musical personalities connected with the Conservatorio, which means, give […]
After the best part of another day toiling fruitlessly, finally towards the evening I found a way out of the deadlock in ‘Music and Land’. It doesn’t yet feel like a breakthrough, but the relief to see the music flowing again is no bad feeling. Fluffy the Bouvier showed a […]