Chamber music, wind ensemble, and other works by HCC.

Concert Music

Double Switch for String Quartet

Originally written as a 2 minute fanfare for the Dallas Wind Symphony brass and percussion in 2009, Foozle was revised and expanded in 2013. The now 4 minute work comprises of a full complement of winds, additional brass, percussion, piano, and contrabass.

Recorded live January 31, 2013 at Bates Recital Hall
CLUTCH Wind Ensemble, Ryan Kelly conducting

Foozle - Fanfare for Wind Ensemble

Written for Charles (Charlie) Everett Camacho, born January 27, 2013 at 8:37am

Premiered January 31, 2013 at Bates Recital Hall
CLUTCH Wind Ensemble - Marc Sosnowchik conducting

Song for Charles (Wind Ensemble)

The Nocturne (final) movement from Three Pieces for Mixed Sextet
Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, Piano, Percussion

Premiered March 2007 at The University of Texas at Austin

Three Pieces for mixed sextet - III.

Final movement to the Violin Concerto

The University of Texas at Austin - Bates Recital Hall
Live Performance, January 2012
Kevin Mendoza, violin
Hermes Camacho, conductor

Violin Concerto - III.

Hermes Camacho is a composer, conductor, and violinist based in Austin, Texas. 

His music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and has garnered awards and recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Composers Forum, ASCAP, SCI, the Dallas Wind Symphony, 60x60, MusicX, ArtsAha!, and the Vermont Arts Council, among others, and has served residencies with the Chamber Music Conference of the East, Winthrop University (South Carolina), Boulder Youth Symphony (Colorado), Austin Youth Philharmonic, Northwest Vista College (Texas), Southwestern University (Texas), and the Southwestern College Summer Music Fest (Kansas). 

Camacho has over 150 conducted performances to his credit in a variety of genres and ensemble types, including a performance for a delegation of 45 Ambassadors to the United Nations and a nationally televised broadcast performance for the 2013 Mexican Independence Day festivities in Austin. He has also conducted the premiere of numerous works, primarily with the Sonorous ensemble, a group specializing in contemporary music that he co-founded in 2009. After his freshman year in college, Camacho was invited to serve on the faculty of the Sacramento Youth Symphony, primarily conducting their summer chamber workshop orchestras, coaching small ensembles, and overseeing the Composer-in-Residence program. 

Camacho is currently Lecturer in Music Theory, Aural Skills, and Composition at the University of the Incarnate Word and is on the teaching faculty of Austin Soundwaves, a youth music program benefiting the underserved area of East Austin, Texas, where he leads the wind ensemble and music theory programs, and teaches orchestra, violin, and viola. 

Austin Soundwaves follows the principles of El Sistema, established by Dr. Jose Abreu during the 1970s in Venezuela, among whose most notable alumni include Gustavo Dudamel, the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the world-renowned Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. 

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Camacho is also a Co-founder and Content/Development Lead at Picardy, an online education platform for building and developing music skills.

Originally from Northern California, Dr. Camacho earned degrees from Cal State Long Beach (B.M.), the University of Colorado at Boulder (M.M.) and a doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin in 2011. He studied composition with Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Daniel Kellogg, Robin Cox, and Carolyn Bremer, violin with Kimiyo Takeya, conducting with Akira Endo, Richard Rintoul, and Samuel Krachmalnick and masterclasses with Pulitzer-Prize winners John Adams, William Bolcom, Jennifer Higdon, and Steve Reich. Camacho and his wife spend their free time watching the 49ers, SF Giants, Longhorns, or their toddler, Charlie, who endlessly harasses their two (very patient) cats.

Foozle - Fanfare for Wind Ensemble

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