Get to Know...Paul Salerni This weekend, I had the pleasure of listening to a delightful CD of Paul Salerni’s chamber music entitled “Touched.” His works are charming and the performances (by the groups who commissioned the works) are lovely. If you're a NFA member, I recommend you take advantage of the Naxos subscription and check it out! His newest work featuring the flute, U-Turn for woodwind quintet, was premiered March 6, 2016 by the East Winds wind quintet at Lehigh University where he is a Professor of Music. Salerni teaches theory and composition, and conducts the Lehigh University Very Modern Ensemble (LUVME). Paul was a finalist in 2014 for Bad Pets for Baritone, alto flute, and guitar. Q&A with Paul…. Do you have any upcoming events that you would like our friends and followers to know about? A performance of two movements of my woodwind quintet entitled "U-Turn" will be given by the East Winds quintet at the International Flute Convention on August 13 in San Diego. (Saturday at 2:30) What pieces do you have with prominent flute parts and where can we find recordings: I would suggest the following pieces that appear on my Albany CD entitled "Touched." 1) Turns, flute, guitar, and string quartet (you can hear a movement of this piece on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_vEc1RPaew 2) Two Partita, flute and guitar (you can hear a movement of this piece on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmU-p_jL964 3) Bad Pets, baritone, alto flute and guitar. Bad Pets is one of my most popular pieces and there is an alternative version for mezzo soprano, alto flute, and guitar. If you'd like to see a charming performance of this piece please visit the following video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NK5WmycKAEY Where can performance materials for your pieces be obtained? Contact me directly at [email protected]. More About Paul…. Paul Salerni’s music “pulses with life, witty musical ideas and instrumental color” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), and has been described by the New York Times as “impressive” and “playful.” His one-act opera Tony Caruso’s Final Broadcast won the National Opera Association’s Chamber Opera competition in 2007, and a definitive recording of the opera was released on Naxos in 2010. His second one-act, The Life and Love of Joe Coogan, an adaptation of a Dick Van Dyke TV Show episode, had its premiere in September 2010. Both one-acts are published by Theodore Presser. Salerni’s latest large-scale project was a ballet (FABLES) commissioned and premiered by RIOULT New York. Other recent commissions include Philadelphia Brass, Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, Cape Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, and SATORI. ACD of Salerni’s chamber music (“Touched) was released by Albany Records in January 2015. Salerni is the NEH Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Music at Lehigh University. He received his Ph.D. in composition from Harvard University, where he studied with Earl Kim. Salerni has performed and lectured about Kim’s music in Korea, at the Kennedy Center, the 92nd St. Y, and the Aspen Music Festival. A dedicated educator, Salerni was the recipient of the Stabler Award, Lehigh University’s most valued acknowledgement of excellence in teaching. He served for seven years on the Board of Directors of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, including two years as its Chair. For more about Paul, visit his website www.paulsalerni.com Salerni’s Other Works for Flute Chamber Works Toddler Riffs Instrumentation: flute, violin, cello Commission: Animè Year: 1990 Duration: 20 minutes Turns Instrumentation: flute, guitar, and string quartet Commission: SATORI Year: 2006 Duration: 13 minutes Two Partita Instrumentation: flute and guitar Commission: Two-Part Invention Year: 2008 Duration: 10 minutes U-Turn Instrumentation: wind quintet Year: 2016 Witches and Rappings Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, violin & piano Commission: SATORI Year: 2010 Duration: 10 minutes Song Cycles Bad Pets (song cycle on poems by Doty, Frost, and Gioia) Instrumentation: for baritone, alto flute, and guitar (also version for soprano, alto flute, and guitar) Commission: Two-Part Invention Year: 2007 Duration: 10 minutes Family Letters (song cycle on a poem by Dana Gioia) Instrumentation: mezzo, flute, clarinet in A, violin, and violoncello Commission: the family of Eileen Wavrek Wescoe Year: 2015 Duration: 10 minutes Sad Stories (song cycle on poems found in the New Yorker) Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano, alto flute, mallet percussion, violin, cello Year: 1991 Duration: 13 minutes Speaking of Love (song cycle on poems by Dana Gioia) Instrumentation: soprano, viola, piano/mallet percussion (also version for soprano, flute, and guitar) Year:1993 Duration: 10 minutes
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Get to Know....Alex Nante Argentinian composer Alex Nante was a finalist in the 2015 FNMC Composition Contest for his delightful work for solo flute, Garuda. FNMC members have performed this piece at the Kentucky Flute Fair and Great Plains Regional CMS Conference. Alex recently sent us his bio and answered a few questions to help our members get to know him better. Q&A with Alex..... Who is/are your favorite “new music” composer/s and why? I don't have one favorite composer, I love Wolfgang Rihm's music, Michael Finnissy's and of course, Stefano Gervasoni's music, which is now my teacher. These three composers are totally different, and have found a personal, authentic musical voice. Describe your musical background and current activities. I'm an Argentinian composer living in Paris, continuing my studies in the Conservatoire de Paris. I write chamber, orchestral and solo music that is played in France and abroad. at the moment I'm co-directing the ensemble "Écoute" of the Cité Universitaire de Paris. Do you have any upcoming events that you would like our friends and followers to know about? If you'd like to see my upcoming events, please take a look at my website : www.alexnante.com More About Alex.....
Alex Nante (1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina) holds a bachelor’s degree in Musical arts, oriented in composition, from the National University of Arts of Argentina (UNA), where he studied composition with Santiago Santero and orchestral conducting with Luis Gorelik. He also studied guitar with Antoliano Rojas, piano with Mónica Opansky and composition with Marcelo Delgado and Luis Mucillo. Since 2014 he lives in Paris. He obtained a Master’s degree in Musicology in Université Paris 8 of Saint Denis, where he took composition lessons with José Manuel López López. He also obtained a “prix de perfectionnement” in Reims Conservatoire where he studied with Daniel D’Adamo. Currently, he continues his studies in composition with Stefano Gervasoni in the Conservatoire National de Paris. He participated in composition workshops, such as the “Writing for Vocal Ensemble” of the Britten Pears Programme, with Michael Finnissy and Exaudi and “Noirlac Academy” with Quatuor Diotima. His compositions have been awarded with several prizes, particularly in three orchestral composition competitions: “Daegu Contemporary Music Orchestra” in South Korea, for his piece “Fulgor” (2010), “Guillermo Graetzer” (SADAIC) in Argentina, for “Tres Sueños Lúcidos” (2013) and “Île de Créations” in France, for “La pérégrination vers l’Ouest“ (2015). His works were interpreted by Víctor Torres, Enrico di Felice “ Accroche Note”, “Parma Ensemble”, “Ensemble Itinéraire”, “Excelsis Percussion”, “Compañía Oblicua”, “Ensemble SpazioMusica”, “Exaudi”, “Flame Ensemble”, “Orchestre National d’Île de France”, “Daegu Contemporary Music Orchestra”, among others. His interest in contemporary music has lead him to co-found in 2010 with Gonzalo Argüello and Juan Miceli the orchestra OANM (Orquesta amigos de la nueva música) which premiered many pieces from argentinian composers. In 2014 he co-founded with Fernando Palomeque and Gabriela Czerednikow the contemporary music ensemble “Écoute”, composed by musicians from the Cité Universitaire of Paris. Alex Nante received the scholarship “Gisela Timmermann” from the Mozarteum Argentino and the Ibermúsicas grant for composers. Did you enjoy Garuda? Alex has many other works for flute Canto da perda Instrumentation : soprano, flute, soprano/alto saxophone, violin, viola, accordion, harp, piano Duration : 8' Year :2015 Himnos Instrumentation : Flute/alto flute, percussion, organ, three narrators Duration : 30’ Year : 2015 Quattro Melodie Instrumentation : flute, piano Duration : 12’ Year : 2015 Tempi Arcani Instrumentation : flute, vibraphone, piano Duration : 8’ Year : 2014 Excepto el amor intenso… Instrumentation : flute, viola, harp Duration : 7’ Year : 2013 Trueno : Intelecto perfecto Instrumentation : actress, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussion (glockenspiel, tom-tom, gran-cassa, tam-tam), harp, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, violin, viola, cello, double bass Duration : 14’ Year : 2013 Kosmeo Instrumentation : flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello Duration : 4’ 30’’ Year : 2012 Hermes Instrumentation : flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba, double bass Duration : 9’ Year : 2012 Aleph Instrumentation : flute, soprano saxophone, clarinet, cello, piano Duration : 4’ Year : 2012 De anhelos y sombras Instrumentation : flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello Duration : 10’ Year : 2012 Garuda Instrumentation : flute Duration : 5’ Year : 2014 Three mysteries Instrumentation : Flute Duration : 3’30’’ Year : 2010 We've added some great new content to our webpage to better showcase the work our organization and its members are doing in support of new music for the flute. Check out our new multimedia page which features video interviews with FNMC winning composers and performances by FNMC members of our first commissioned work, Confluence by Zhou Long, as well as finalist works. We're also working on a slideshow of photos from FNMC performances. FNMC members who would like to submit recordings or pictures for inclusion may do so via email.
We've also started a Composer Spotlight Series which will feature composers whose works were finalists in our composition contests. Our first spotlight will feature Alex Nante, finalist in the 2015 FNMC Composition Contest for his work for solo flute Garuda. |
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