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2019-04-18 00:14:00
Puentes Caribeños: Symposium of Art Music from across the Caribbean
[…] Force was performed on 22 March, 2019 and accompanied by the projection of artwork from prominent Bahamian artist, Lilian Blades. The premiere of the complete work took place at Puentes Caribenos, with Dr. Adam Walters on horn and conch shell joining C Force in the opening welcome concert for the Symposium. Other performances of particular note included Sept Pièces Créoles, composed by Alain Pierre Pradel of Guadeloupe, performed by renowned Puerto Rican pianist Harry Aponte, and Songs of the Islands by Trinidadian composer and keynote speaker Dominique Le Gendre, sung by vocal students at CMPR. The Symposium was capped by an outdoor evening concert by Flambo Combo, a student ensemble from Bertha C. Boschulte Middle School in St. Thomas. Flambo Combo specializes in quelbe, the local traditional music from the Virgin Islands. The concert ended in a jam session, with several of the participating musicians and composers joining Flambo […]
2018-02-20 19:31:38
16 year old cellist Constantin Philipp Heise has been awarded 1st prize in the string division of the 2018 Agustin Aponte International Music Competition – in Tenerife, Spain. 2nd and 3rd prizes were awarded to violinists Yixiu Lin and Ioana Elisabeta Olteanu. Constantin will receive €1000. Di Su from China was awarded 1st prize in this […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2013-06-01 15:30:03
New Album: Nicky Aponte’s “Anthology of Violin Music”
Puerto Rican musician and composer Nicky Aponte, who is known as the pioneer of the use of the violin in jazz, rock, and Nueva Trova, will launch a new album—Antología de música para violines [Anthology of Violin Music]—on Sunday, June 2, 2013, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Santurce, Puerto Rico. According to Diálogo Digital, the album Antología de música para violines will feature a concertmaster violinist of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and a group of violin students. The album contains 12 concert movements from works composed between 1984 and 2008, in various combinations, such as duets, quartets, and chorus of violins. These compositions were recorded in their entirety by Aponte, who also is a violinist composer, guitarist, pianist and cellist. The artist says, “I present this work, these compositions, with the hope that better violinists than me may consider them and include them in their repertoires. This […]
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