EL OMBLIGO DE LA LUNA
(THE NAVEL OF THE MOON)
WORKS BY PAREDES, ESTRADA, ADÁN and TENNEY
June 7, 2023 | 7pm and 8:30pm | LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90036
Víctor Adán - Mappings of 'Tepoz II-VI' (2008-2009)
PROMO CODE FOR FREE TICKETS: Artmusic6723
PROGRAM:
James TENNEY - HAVING NEVER WRITTEN A NOTE FOR PERCUSSION (1971)
in memoriam Kaija Saariaho
Víctor ADÁN - TEPOZCHIQUILICHTLI IV (2008-2009)
for electronic playback
Julio ESTRADA - CANTO NACIENTE (for brass octet) (1975-1978)
for spatialized brass octet
Víctor ADÁN - TEPOZCHIQUILICHTLI III (2008-2009)
for electronic playback
Hilda PAREDES - DEMENTE CUERDA (2005)
for harp and chamber ensemble
ECHOI, performers
Cristina MONTES MATEO, harp
Jonathan HEPFER, artistic director
James TENNEY - HAVING NEVER WRITTEN A NOTE FOR PERCUSSION (1971)
in memoriam Kaija Saariaho
Víctor ADÁN - TEPOZCHIQUILICHTLI IV (2008-2009)
for electronic playback
Julio ESTRADA - CANTO NACIENTE (for brass octet) (1975-1978)
for spatialized brass octet
Víctor ADÁN - TEPOZCHIQUILICHTLI III (2008-2009)
for electronic playback
Hilda PAREDES - DEMENTE CUERDA (2005)
for harp and chamber ensemble
ECHOI, performers
Cristina MONTES MATEO, harp
Jonathan HEPFER, artistic director
Monday Evening Concerts is thrilled to return to LACMA for a special presentation of works from the Mexican avant-garde. MEC's ensemble in residence ECHOI will present rarely-heard works by three innovative masters, Hilda Paredes, Julio Estrada, and Victor Adán.
Founded in 1939, Monday Evening Concerts is the world's longest-running series devoted to contemporary music. Originally envisioned as a forum for displaced European émigrés and virtuoso Hollywood studio musicians, the internationally acclaimed MEC continues to present demanding, uncompromising, and groundbreaking music.
LACMA's eclectic and cutting-edge Art & Music series, winner of the ASCAP & Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, presents world-renowned performers and composers celebrating the museum's exhibitions and permanent collection.
Founded in 1939, Monday Evening Concerts is the world's longest-running series devoted to contemporary music. Originally envisioned as a forum for displaced European émigrés and virtuoso Hollywood studio musicians, the internationally acclaimed MEC continues to present demanding, uncompromising, and groundbreaking music.
LACMA's eclectic and cutting-edge Art & Music series, winner of the ASCAP & Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, presents world-renowned performers and composers celebrating the museum's exhibitions and permanent collection.
There will be two performances taking place at 7 pm and then again at 8:30 pm.
This project is co-produced by Monday Evening Concerts and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
in conjunction with LACMA’s Modern Art Collection.
VÍCTOR ADÁN
I was born and raised in the “navel of the moon”. I have been interested in music and computer programming since childhood. My first musical experiments took place during the late 1980s, when my parents acquired two surprising machines for our home: an upright piano and a personal computer. Both machines fascinated me, and I spent many hours pressing the keys of these two wondrous devices. Each taught me a different language, the one music notation, the other BASIC. Both machines served me well as musical instruments. The one gave me sound by pressing its keys, the other by typing lines of code with the BEEP and PLAY commands.
Then I went to music school, where I was quickly taught what “music” really was, and where I soon forgot all about my silly experiments. After a few disappointing first years in college, I discovered the uncompromising music of composer Julio Estrada and, in 1997, I joined his deschooling Music Creation Lab at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Upon completing my undergraduate studies, I shifted focus to the quantitative side of my musical interests. In 2005 I earned an MS in media technology and digital communications from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 2010 a DMA from Columbia University.
(Text by Víctor Adán)
Then I went to music school, where I was quickly taught what “music” really was, and where I soon forgot all about my silly experiments. After a few disappointing first years in college, I discovered the uncompromising music of composer Julio Estrada and, in 1997, I joined his deschooling Music Creation Lab at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Upon completing my undergraduate studies, I shifted focus to the quantitative side of my musical interests. In 2005 I earned an MS in media technology and digital communications from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 2010 a DMA from Columbia University.
(Text by Víctor Adán)
JULIO ESTRADA
Born in México City, México. Julio Estrada studied composition with Julián Orbón in Mexico (1953-65), Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen in Paris (1965-69), Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany (1968) and with György Ligeti (1972). He completed his PhD in Musicology at Strasbourg University (1990-94).
Estrada has served a a researcher in music at the UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas and help design the Música, Sistema Interactivo de Investigación y Composición. He was recognized as a National Researcher by the Mexican Education Ministry (1984) and was the first music scholar to be honored as a member of the Science Academy of México. He has written over one hundred articles based on his research and held the editor position of La Música de México.
Many of his compositions are based on his discontinuum-continuum theory which integrates elements of macro timbre. His theories are mathematically and acoustically based which emphasize musical elements of sound, time and form. His compositions offer new notation for composers to freely transcribe for instrumental or vocal music through personal criteria. He is the recipient of the French award Ordre des Arts et de Lettres (1981, 1986), the Premio Universidad Nacional en Creación Artística (2000) and the Medalla Bellas Artes (2016).
Estrada has served a a researcher in music at the UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas and help design the Música, Sistema Interactivo de Investigación y Composición. He was recognized as a National Researcher by the Mexican Education Ministry (1984) and was the first music scholar to be honored as a member of the Science Academy of México. He has written over one hundred articles based on his research and held the editor position of La Música de México.
Many of his compositions are based on his discontinuum-continuum theory which integrates elements of macro timbre. His theories are mathematically and acoustically based which emphasize musical elements of sound, time and form. His compositions offer new notation for composers to freely transcribe for instrumental or vocal music through personal criteria. He is the recipient of the French award Ordre des Arts et de Lettres (1981, 1986), the Premio Universidad Nacional en Creación Artística (2000) and the Medalla Bellas Artes (2016).
HILDA PAREDES
Paredes was born in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico, where she studied the piano and flute. At the age of 21, she went to London for college where she continued her studies and performances as a flutist. She regularly performed, and did arrangements for popular and classical music with several ensembles. During these times she was beginning to complete her own compositions.
As a student she attended master classes at Dartington Summer School, studied with Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Rodney Bennett. After graduating at the Guildhall School of Music, she obtained her Master of Arts at City University in London and completed her PhD at Manchester University.
Her collaboration with choreographers led her to receive the Music for Dance Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1988.
Not long after her collaboration with the Garden Venture Opera Project in Dartington, she completed her first chamber opera "The Seventh Seed", released by Mode Records.
Paredes continues to be involved in the musical life of her native country, teaching at the National University in Mexico City, as radio producer of new music, as well as collaborating with the Orchestra of Baja California arranging traditional Spanish and Mexican songs.
She has been recipient of important awards, such as the Arts Council of Great Britain fellowship for composers; the Rockefeller, Fund for Culture Mexico/USA and more recently the J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship in the USA.
Paredes continues to live in London, is a freelance composer, has taught composition and lectured at Manchester University, the University of San Diego California, as well as in Mexico, Spain, at Centre Acanthes in France and was the 2007 Darius Milhaud Visiting Professor at Mills College in the US.
Her second completed chamber opera "El Palacio Imaginado", commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte, English National Opera and the Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, premiered with much acclaim in both sides of the Atlantic.
Hilda Paredes has been commissioned by soloists, ensembles and orchestras around the world. Her music has been performed by internationally renowned ensembles such as Lontano, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Neue Vocalsolisten, Ensemble Signal, Ensemble Sospeso, and Arditti Quartet It has been widely performed at important international festivals, such as Huddersfield in the UK; Berlin Philharmonic and Eclat in Germany; Festival D'Automne, Cité de la Musique, Musica and Octobre en Normandie, in France; Wien Modern, in Austria; Akiyoshidai Music Festival, in Japan; Archipel, in Geneva; De Ijsbreker Chamber Music Festival, in Amsterdam; Warsaw Autumn, in Poland; Ultima, in Oslo; Melbourne Festival, in Australia; Festival of Arts and Ideas and June in Buffalo in the USA, Ars Musica in Bruxelles; Festival de Alicante, in Spain; Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico, amongst others.
A music theatre work Harriet based on the life of the Afro-American freedom fighter Harriet Tubman premiered in 2018 in Amsterdam and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
As a student she attended master classes at Dartington Summer School, studied with Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Rodney Bennett. After graduating at the Guildhall School of Music, she obtained her Master of Arts at City University in London and completed her PhD at Manchester University.
Her collaboration with choreographers led her to receive the Music for Dance Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1988.
Not long after her collaboration with the Garden Venture Opera Project in Dartington, she completed her first chamber opera "The Seventh Seed", released by Mode Records.
Paredes continues to be involved in the musical life of her native country, teaching at the National University in Mexico City, as radio producer of new music, as well as collaborating with the Orchestra of Baja California arranging traditional Spanish and Mexican songs.
She has been recipient of important awards, such as the Arts Council of Great Britain fellowship for composers; the Rockefeller, Fund for Culture Mexico/USA and more recently the J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship in the USA.
Paredes continues to live in London, is a freelance composer, has taught composition and lectured at Manchester University, the University of San Diego California, as well as in Mexico, Spain, at Centre Acanthes in France and was the 2007 Darius Milhaud Visiting Professor at Mills College in the US.
Her second completed chamber opera "El Palacio Imaginado", commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte, English National Opera and the Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, premiered with much acclaim in both sides of the Atlantic.
Hilda Paredes has been commissioned by soloists, ensembles and orchestras around the world. Her music has been performed by internationally renowned ensembles such as Lontano, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Neue Vocalsolisten, Ensemble Signal, Ensemble Sospeso, and Arditti Quartet It has been widely performed at important international festivals, such as Huddersfield in the UK; Berlin Philharmonic and Eclat in Germany; Festival D'Automne, Cité de la Musique, Musica and Octobre en Normandie, in France; Wien Modern, in Austria; Akiyoshidai Music Festival, in Japan; Archipel, in Geneva; De Ijsbreker Chamber Music Festival, in Amsterdam; Warsaw Autumn, in Poland; Ultima, in Oslo; Melbourne Festival, in Australia; Festival of Arts and Ideas and June in Buffalo in the USA, Ars Musica in Bruxelles; Festival de Alicante, in Spain; Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico, amongst others.
A music theatre work Harriet based on the life of the Afro-American freedom fighter Harriet Tubman premiered in 2018 in Amsterdam and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.