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Speakers: José Luis Hurtado, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of New Mexico; Antonio Rosales, Professor of Bass Clarinet, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Juan José García, Professor, Anáhuac University and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Moderated by: Anne C. Shreffler, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, Harvard University
This lecture-demonstration will feature the work of Low Frequency Trio, a unique combination of bass clarinet, double bass, and piano Mexican ensemble that specializes in the performance of New Music. The trio will present their most recent project Nuevas Músicas Latinoamericanas, featuring works by female composers from different countries of Latin America. With this project, Low Frequency Trio seeks to recognize these valuable voices, strong artists, and unique visionaries whose work will undoubtedly enrich the musical discourse of our contemporaneity. This event will be part of the course Music Since 1945: Contested Boundaries, Alternate Visions, taught by professor Shreffler.
José Luis Hurtado, Composer and pianist. His music has been performed across continents by performers such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, International Contemporary Ensemble,Talea Ensemble, Garth Knox, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Arditti Quartet among many others. His works have won competitions in Austria, Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. Hurtado holds a PhD from Harvard University where he studied under Davidovsky, Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, Ferneyhough and Lachenmann.
Antonio Rosales has performed in the European and American Continents, and has done the Mexican premieres of works by Lachenmann, Dusapin, Xenakis and Kagel among others. Has performed as a soloist with the Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes, the Camerata de Coahuila, and the Ensamble Tempus Fugit. He is a member and artistic director of the Umbratono and Quartz Ensembles. He did his graduate studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam under the guidance of Harry Sparnaay. He is currently professor of Bass Clarinet at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Juan José García is a member of the Ensemble CEPROMUSIC, the most renowned new music Camerata of Mexico. Disciple of Pauline Oliveros, he also studied with DennisWhittaker at the University of Houston and with Catalin Rotaru at Arizona State University. An avid music improviser, he has collaborated with figures and groups such as Radu Malfatti, John Butcher, the Scottish dance theatre, Cooper- Moore,Tatsuya Nikatani,Tetuzi Akiyamak, Chris Cogburn, and Tarek Atoui.
Anne C. Shreffler’s research interests include the musical avant-garde after 1945 in Europe and America, with special emphasis on the political and ideological associations of new music. Other research interests include historiography, composers in emigration, performance theory, and contemporary opera. Shreffler received a BMus in flute performance in 1979 from New England Conservatory, a Master’s in music theory from the same institution, and PhD in musicology from Harvard; this was immediately followed by an Assistant Professorship at the University of Chicago. From 1994 until 2003 she was a professor at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut of the University of Basel in Switzerland. She has taught at Harvard since the fall of 2003. Shreffler serves on advisory and editorial boards of a number of musicological journals and institutions in the U.S., Germany, and Switzerland, including the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and the journal Archiv für Musikwissenschaft. She has been elected Vice President of the American Musicological Society and will serve 2014–16. She has also served on several committees of the American Musicological Society including the AMS Council, the AMS-50 Fellowship Committee, and the Program Committee. In 2007–08 she was the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Music Department
LOCATION:Harvard Music Department (Room 6) 3 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20230413T190000Z DTEND:20230413T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR