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MACLA Artist Residency

MACLA EVENTS

Thursday, October 18, 2007
MACLA Fundraiser and Residency Preview. Details coming soon.

Wednesday, 7:30pm October 24, 2007
San Jose State University
1 Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95112
School of Music & Dance Concert Hall
FREE

Thursday, 8:00pm October 25, 2007
MACLA
510 S. First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Castellano Playhouse
$5-$10

Friday 7:30pm October 26, 2007
Montalvo Arts Center
15400 Montalvo Road
Saratoga, CA 95071
Claire Loftus Carriage House Theatre
$10

Week of October 22 - 26, 2007

Escuch|a|rte: Music as Art

Artist Residency

One of the highlights of our season is a series of concerts as part of a residency sponsored by Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA). During our weeklong residency we will collaborate with award-winning Mexican composer Jose Luis Hurtado. We will premier new works written by Mr. Hurtado for our ensemble and will explore the new sound of Mexican art music.

Multiple concerts throughout the week will feature world premieres by Hurtado along with music by the highly respected Mexican composers Christian Baldini and Mario Lavista. During open rehearsals, workshops, and performances, artists and audience members will have a unique opportunity to explore various stages of the creative process.

	MACLA is an energizing contemporary arts space where Latino artist create and showcase new work in the visual, literary, and performance arts to help define, interpret, and transform society.
	Mexican composer Jose Luis Hurtado embodies the tradition of Latin American music. His music sounds Mexican not by decision but by nature. His is a natural sound that goes beyond the obvious use of ancient Mexican instruments or characteristic folk rhythms. Instead, his music is solidly grounded in his background and culture. In other words, it is not on the surface of the music but at its deepest level that his compositions are Mexican. "They are part of myself, they are the cause of what I am: A Mexican enormously proud of his raza."
	Born in Mexico City in 1943, Mario Lavista began piano studies as a child and enrolled at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in 1963 under the guidance of Carlos Chavez, Hector Quintanar and Rodolfo Halffter. He studied at the Schola Cantorum in Paris (1967-1969), where he also attended courses given by Henri Pousseur, Nadia Boulanger, Christoph Caskel and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Upon his return to Mexico he founded Quanta, a collective improvisation group. In 1972, he worked at the electronic music studio of radio and television in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked on interdisciplinary projects, such as Jaula (1976), and in the creation of multiple scores for films produced by Nicolas Echevarria. Around 1980, he explored extended techniques of traditional instruments in collaboration with performers Marielena Arizpe (flutist), Bertram Turetzky (bassist), Leonora Saavedra (oboist) and El Cuarteto Latinoamericano (strings), in the compositions Triptico, Dusk, Marsias and Reflejos de la noche, respectively. In 1982, he founded Pauta, one of the most important music journals in Latin America, and has served as its chief editor ever since. As a writer, he has produced many essays, most of which are collected in Textos en torno a la musica.
	Christian Baldini (Argentina) has received numerous awards as a composer and a conductor in international competitions including the Seoul International Competition for Composers (South Korea, 2005), the Tribune of Argentinean Music (UNESCO, 2005) and the Sao Paulo State Orchestra International Conducting Competition (OSESP, Brazil, 2006). His music has been performed in festivals and venues throughout Europe, South America, North America and Asia by orchestras and ensembles such as the SouthBank Sinfonia (London), Chronophonie Ensemble (Freiburg), the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble (Vienna) and the National Polyphonic Choir of Argentina. His tango for piano four-hands Forest Ella, performed by Argentine pianists Estela Telerman and Guillermo Carro will be released on CD in September 2007. Recently selected as the first Assistant Conductor of the Britten-Pears Orchestra in England, he has collaborated with conductors such as Alexander Polyanichko, Kurt Masur and Andrea Pestalozza. He has worked with ensembles and orchestras in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, England, Germany, Italy and the US. In August 2007 he will begin his appointment as Music Director of the Symphony Orchestra of the State University of New York at Buffalo.