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TMCP Episode 28: Guatemala Contemporanea

TMCP Episode 28: Guatemala Contemporanea

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 In this episode, I interview composers Josh Rodriguez and Xavier Beteta about their new project, a composition festival in Guatemala called Guatemala Contempornea. Both are professors of composition in the United States but are originally from South America. Josh is from Argentina and Xavier is from Guatemala. They have joined together to create this festival now entering its 2nd year. They will give us all the details as well as share some of their thoughts on the definition of success, what musical and non-musical skills are important for composers to have and where they find their inspiration. Topics in this episode include: Bringing together composers and performers in a place that does not have a unified "classical" musicMaking an investment in an area that does not have a strong composition programPartnering with other musicians, ensembles and festivals in another countrythe national instrument of Guatemala (the marimba)Ensuring that musicians are familiar with their own heritage that already exists in the classical music worldthe definition of success as a composerwhat is "inspiration" and what is not Josh Rodriguez Known for his energetic rhythms, rich harmonic language, and striking colors, Colombian-American composer Josh Rodriguez continues to gain recognition as an emerging composer and collaborator on a national and international scale. Born in Argentina and raised in Guatemla, Mexico, and the United States, Rodriguez's musical imagination has been formed by this bilingual multicultral heritage. Rodriguez collaborates regularly with theatre and film directors and has received notable concert commissions in a wide range of musical genres: works include Dos Palabras (winner of the inagural Springfield Chamber Chorus Competition 2022), When Stone Becomes Forest (winner of The American Rpize - Professional Band Division 2022), Partita Picosa (a 5-movement piece for solo piano), Contra Spem Spero (violin chamber concerto) and That Crazed Girl Improvising (piano trio), all which were finalists for the American Prize (TIKAL, for concer band, received Honorable Mention, 2021.) He's written numerous choral works, music for jazz trio and big band, original scores for Courtyard Shakespeare Festival's productions of Hamlet (2019), Much Ado About Nothing (2022), Richard III (2022), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2019), and CBU Theatre's productions of Love's Labour's Lost (2020) and She Stopps to Conquer (2021). In addition to concert and theatre music, Rodriguez has scored numerous independent film projects, several of which have appeared in international film festivals and received special awards. His most recent film score is for an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest by Rebel Run Studios. Rodriguez is composer-in-residence of the Corona Symphony Orchestra, and currently serves as Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Elmhurst University. He regularly contributes to various arts & culture blogs and is on the leadership team of Deus-Ex-Musica, an ecumenical and interfaith initiative that brings musicians, clergy, and non-musicians together for concerts and conversations abotu the intersection of faith and new music. Rodriguez earned his MM at the Cleveland Institute of Music and, upon winning the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, moved west to study a doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research at UCLA culminated with his dissertation on Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera. https://www.joshrodriguezmusic.com/ Xavier Beteta Guatemalan-American composer Xavier Beteta studied piano at the National Conservatory with Consuelo Mdimilla. At age 18, he was awarded the first prize at the Augusto Ardenois National Piano Competition and third-prize at the Rafael Alvarex Ovalle Composition Competition in Guatemala. He continued his piano studied in the United States with Argentinean pianist Sylvia Kersenbaum and with Ukranian pianist Sergei Polusmiak. He also attended masterclasses with pianists Missimiliano Damerinin and Daniel Rivera in Italy. Xavier has performed in different venues in the United States, Europe, and Latin America and has been a soloist with the Guatemalan National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Augusto Arednois, and the Camellia Symphony in Sacramento. As a composer, Xavier did most of his early studies privately with Guatamalan composer Rodrigo Asturias. He also studied privately with Donald Harris, a student of Max Deutsch and visited Richard Hoffmann, a student of Schoenberg. In 2013 he won the Silver Medal at the fourth International Antonin Dvorak Composition Competition in Prague. Xavier studied music theory at the University of Cincinnati where his thesis advised by Steven Cahn was ranked no.4 in the National Best-Seller Dissertation List. He later obtained his PhD in composition at the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Roger Reynolds, Chinary Ung, and PHilippe ...
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