Concierto: Daniel Asia [ESTADOS UNIDOS]

Rex Woods

Desde haber presentado su primer recital de solista hace más de 50 años, el pianista Rex Woods ha tocado como solista, acompañante y músico de cámara a lo largo de los Estados Unidos, y en Canadá, México, Francia, China y Australia. Sus más recientes presentaciones incluyen recitales durante la convención nacional de la Asociación Nacional de la Flauta, recitales en la Universidad de Utah, conciertos locales con el Quinteto de Alientos de la Universidad de Arizona, varios recitales catedráticos, y como solista con la Orquesta Sinfónica de Arizona, al igual que recitales con miembros de su familia en Utah y Arizona.

El Maestro Woods recibió su educación musical en la Universidad Brigham Young (BYU), la Universidad de Arizona (UA), Universidad del Sur de California (USC), y en el Conservatorio Americano en Fontainebleau. Recibió el Premio en Memoria de Otto Guth otorgado por el Centro para la Excelencia en Entrenamiento Vocal de la Ópera de San Francisco, y recibió el Premier Prix de Fontainebleau en música de cámara. Posee un Doctorado en Derecho de la Universidad Estatal de Arizona (ASU). El catedrático Woods ha formado parte del profesorado de la Universidad de Texas en Austin y el Centro de Arte Interlochen. Desde 1988 ha sido profesor en la Universidad de Arizona, incluyendo 14 años como administrador en la Facultad de Música.

Daniel Asia, b. Seattle, WA 1953, has been an eclectic and unique composer from the start. He has enjoyed the usual grants from Meet the Composer, a UK Fulbright award, Guggeneheim Fellowship, MacDowell and Tanglewood fellowships, ASCAP and BMI prizes, Copland Fund grants, and numerous others. He was recently honored with a Music Academy Award for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. From 1991-1994 he was Composer- in Residence of the Phoenix Symphony.

Asia’s five symphonies have received wide acclaim from live performance and their international recordings. The Fifth Symphony was recently finished for the Tucson and Jerusalem symphony orchestras in celebration of Israel’s 60th anniversary.

His various orchestral works have been performed by the Cincinnati Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Chattanooga Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others.

In the chamber music arena, Mr. Asia has written for, and been championed by, the Dorian Wind Quintet, American Brass Quintet, Meadowmount Trio, Cypress Quartet, Andre-Michel Schub (piano), Carter Brey (cello), Alex Klein (oboe), Benjamin Verdery (guitar), John Shirley-Quirk and Sara Watkins (baritone and oboe), Jonathan Shames (piano), violinists Curtis Macomber, Gregory Fulkerson, Mark Rush and Zina Schiff, and Robert Dick (flute). Under a Barlow Endowment grant, he recently finished a new work for The Czech Nonet, the longest continuously performing chamber ensemble on the planet, founded in 1924.

His Tin Angel Opera will be performed by the Florentine Opera, Milwaukee, WI in 2016.

The recorded works of Daniel Asia may be heard on the labels of Summit, New World, Attacca, Albany, Babel, and Mushkatweek. For further information, visit the Daniel Asia website at www.danielasia.net.


PROGRAMA

Like Smoke Towards Heaven - (Asia/Haaheim)
(from Sacred and Profane)

Scherzo Sonata (1987)
1. Adagio I
2. Scherzo I
3. Allegretto
4. Scherzo II
5. Adagietto
6. Scherzo III
7. Adagio II

Rex Woods, piano

The Mad Hatters (2000) - (Asia/Haaheim)
(from Sacred and Profane- Mercury)