How To Build Fences and Gates (2008-2015) for orchestra with electronic sound

Carleton College Orchestra, 2015; Hector Valdivia, conductor

How To Build Fences and Gates

Jeffrey Treviño (b. 1983, Los Angeles, USA) is a pianist and composer working in California's San Francisco Bay area. His compositions and transcriptions have been performed by some of the most accomplished soloists and ensembles of our time, including pianist Steven Beck (New York Philharmonic), harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, the Arditti String Quartet, carillonneur Tiffany Ng, bass clarinetist Anthony Burr, percussionist Ross Karre (ICE), pianist Rei Nakamura, contrabassist James Ilgenfritz, violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer, and Wild Rumpus, with notable premieres at the International Computer Music Conference, the Oberlin Conservatory Percussion Institute, New York City's Symphony Space, Germany's Akademie Schloss Solitude Summer Residencies, South Korea's Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Mexico's Visiones Sonoras, SIGGRAPH, the International Conference of the Society for Improvised Music, the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik, June in Buffalo, Portugal's Vila Real Conservatory, New York City's Miguel Abreu Gallery, the Carlsbad Music Festival, Freiburg im Breisgau's E-Werk, and Berlin's Hanns Eisler Akademie.

     Treviño has shared his creative work at renowned festivals and universities and is in demand as a teacher and presenter; most recently, he offered composition masterclasses, lectures, and workshops as an invited composer in residence at the Ecos Urbanos (Mexico City) and Dias de Música Electroacústica (Seia, Lisbon) festivals of electronic music. He has also given invited presentations at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Yale University, Harvard University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Lisbon's Escola Superior de Música, and he has been an invited composer in residence at Stuttgart's Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Arts Letters & Numbers, and Porto's Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo. Treviño has taught courses in music at Stanford University, the University of California (San Diego and Santa Cruz), Carleton College, and Colorado College.

How To Build Fences and Gates

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