May 4th, 3:00pm, CFA Keller Hall
Antonio Rosales, bass clairnet
Juan José García, double bass
José Luis Hurtado, piano
World Premiers by UNM Composition Students
Mathew Arrellin
Christian Newman
Danielle Savage
Matthew Stanley
and other works by
Hans Werner Henze
Jacob ter Veldhuis
José Luis Hurtado
An active champion of new music, Antonio Rosales has done the Mexican premiere of the most important pieces of the clarinet modern repertory such as Lachenman’s “Dal niente”, Dusapin’s “Itou”, Xenakis’ “Échange” and Kagel’s “Schattenkläng” among others. Antonio Rosales holds degrees from the “Escuela Superior de Música” in Mexico where he studied with Luis Humberto Ramos and from the Conserfatorium Van Amsterdam in the Netherlands where he studied under Harry Sparnaay and Erik van Deuren. Antonio Rosales is member and Artistic Directo fo QUARTZ and UMBRATONO ensembles as well as member of LIMINAR ensemble, ANEMOS CLARINET QUARTET and TRO d’ORIZZONTE. All these chamber ensembles have Contemporary Music as its Central Repertoire.
Multidisciplinary bass player and educator Juan J. García studied at the Moore’s school of music under Dennis Whitaker and obtained his masters at ASU under Catalin Rotaru. He is currently bassist of the Yucatán Symphony, principal bassist in Liminar and CEPROMUSIC, two of the most prestigious modern music ensembles in Mexico. García has collaborated with some of the most important creative composers/thinkers of our era including Pauline Oliveros, Copper-Moor, Keith Rowe, Joelle Leandre, and Steffano Scodanibbio, among others. García has performed in world class contemporary music festivals in Mexico, the US and in the UK. García is a resident artist at the prestigious Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contempranea from the FONCA – INBA in Mexico City.
José-Luis Hurtado’s music has been performed worldwide by ensembles and soloists such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, JACK Quartet, ICE, Talea Ensemble, Quatuor Molinari, Tony Arnold, Garth Knox, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Arditti Quartet among many others. He has been the recipient of the Kompositionspreis der Stadt Wolkersdorf (Austria), the Harvard University Green Prize for Excellence in Composition (USA), the Rodolfo Halffter Ibero-American Composition Prize (Mexico), the Julián Carrillo Composition Prize (Mexico), and the Prix International de Composition du Quartuor Molinari (Canada). Hurtado is highly active as a pianist and new music advocate. He is the pianist of Nueva Música Dúo (Contemporary Vn & Pno duo), founding member of áltaVox (Latin-American composers collaborative in the U.S), and former director of The Harvard Group for New Music. Hurtado holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he studied under Mario Davidovsky, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann.
Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene Acoustemology
Bruno Latour argues that even if poisoned, the anthropocene is a deep gift to human research, inciting new approaches to environmental responsibility. Taking up Latour’s challenge through acoustemology, the study of sound as a way of knowing, this talk engages histories of hearing heat that affectively entangle cicadas and humans in Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Greece.
Music from the Americas presents Ensemble Vertebrae
Music from the Americas presents “New Music from Mexico,” featuring world premieres by Juan José Bárcenas, David Hernández-Ramos, José-Luis Hurtado, Victor Ibarra and Rodrigo Valdez-Hermoso. Works will be performed by the Ensemble Vertebrae featuring Oliva Abreu, flute, Ana Paolina Hasslacher, piano and Camille Emaille, percussion.
The Enchantment Brass releases first album!
The Enchantment Brass, the brass ensemble-in-residence at the University of New Mexico, has released their debut recording, A Brass Menagerie: The Music of John Cheetham, on all digital formats.