Penumbra for String Quartet.  Performed here by the sadly now defunct Cordova Quartet.

Penumbra for String Quartet

I am a composer/performer. Today I begin to upload a lifetime of recordings! Be patient. A lot more to come...

Compositor argentino/
Argentinian composer

Born in Buenos Aires and initially self-taught, Diego Tedesco (b. 1974) went on to formally study piano, violin, guitar and music theory. His composition teachers were Julio Viera, with whom he also studied counterpoint, harmony and orchestration, and Francisco Kröpfl, who also taught him musical analysis. At the same time, he studied fine arts and graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. He gained recognition as a composer in 2007 when he was awarded the first prize at the Juan Carlos Paz competition (Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts) for his work for two choirs, “Amor constante más allá de la muerte” (Constant Love Beyond Death). He has received numerous commissions and won a grant from Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts in 2011. He was granted with the Stefan Kaske fellowship in the Composers Conference at Wellesley College in 2014 and in the same year won the second place in the most important prize in his country, the “National Award” for Symphonic and Chamber music. In 2016 was premiered his first opera, El Fiord, commissioned by the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. In 2017 he attended to the Composers conference for second time and won the renowned Koussevitzky Foundation music award. In 2018 he was granted by the Williams Foundation. His Capriccio was the recipient of two prizes, the Juan Carlos Paz prize (2018) and the National Council of Music, Unesco (2019). He attended to seminars with Mario Davidovsky, Jorge Rotter, Augusta Read Thomas, Steven Mackey, Yu Hui Chang, Eric Wubbels among others. 

His works have been performed in music venues in Argentina, the U.S. and Europe by renowned soloists and ensembles like Patricia García, Victor Torres, Dan Lippel, Miranda Cuckson, Lois Martin, Molly Morkoski, Nunc, Bracelet, New York New Music Ensemble, Compañía Oblicua, Counter)induction, KlangKonzepte, Conference Ensemble and Plural ensemble among others. 



Prizes:

https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-147/librarys-koussevitzky-foundation-announces-commission-winners/2017-10-18/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/culturaargentina/15576291890

https://fnartes.gob.ar/novedades/se-anunciaron-los-ganadores-del-concurso-de-obra-en-composicion-premio-juan-carlos-paz

Press:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/arts/music/classical-music-listings-for-jan-22-28.html

https://www.clarin.com/espectaculos/musica/estilizado-bestiario_0_SkA3cssF.html

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/maquina-lamborghini-nid1928405

https://www.clarin.com/musica/orquesta-amigos-nueva-musica_0_ry7Z_4khvQx.html

Some programs:

http://nuncmusic.org/january-24-concert-at-national-sawdust/

https://avantmusicnews.com/2016/01/05/nunc-at-national-sawdust-in-brooklyn/

https://www.as-coa.org/events/concert-new-york-new-music-ensemble

http://leagueofcomposers.org/blog/2016/9/25/lois-martin-new-music-for-viola

https://www.contrapunto-fbbva.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PROGRAMA-DE-MANO-CONCIERTO-RETRATO-IV-21-DE-FEBRERO-DE-2018-2.pdf

https://complejoteatral.gob.ar/ver/concierto_XII

https://www.fundacionwilliams.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/Programa-FNOBA.pdf

https://docplayer.es/11245114-Musica-contemporanea-de-espana-y-de-hispanoamerica.html

Other links:

https://www.babelscores.com/es/DiegoTedesco

https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/americassocietynynme/

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/against-method

http://www.cck.gob.ar/eventos/como-y-que-escuchan-los-que-hacen-musica-ignacio-bartolone-y-diego-tedesco_1391

Harnessing the chugging, energetic sounds of contemporary postmodernism as a starting point, Andres R. Luz develops his artistic idiom from the legacy of music history stretching back to medieval and Renaissance stylistic practices, up to those of the present-day.  
Andres Luz has studied with Jeffrey Miller at California State University, East Bay (B.A. Music, magna cum laude, 2013) and taken private studies in electroacoustic music with Ian Dicke, as well as master classes with Hannah Lash, P.Q. Phan, Zae Munn, and Paul Salerni.  Andres Luz completed the Master of Music Composition at the University of Redlands in 2016.

In 2022, Andres Luz completed the Doctorate in Musical Arts in Composition at the University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, studying with Peter Van Zandt Lane, Adrian Childs, and Emily Koh.  Andres Luz also served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Theory and Electronic Music Composition at the University of Redlands and as the assistant of the Dancz Center of New Music at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at UGA.

His music has been played internationally and notably by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Wind Symphony of the College-Conservatory at the University of Cincinnati.  Among his electroacoustic pieces, Andres Luz’s 2017 fixed media work, Premotions, Landscape at Twilight is featured on MUSLAB-Cero Records’ PLANETA COMPEJO album from Fall 2023.  Among the works for large ensemble, Dr. Luz’s dissertation composition, Bulosan: On American Democracy for Narrator, Wind Symphony, and Fixed Media (2021, rev. 2023), won the 2023 American Prize in Composition, College/University-Level Wind Ensemble Division and Runner-up among American Prize compositions featuring Social Justice content.  This work is featured in Ablaze Records’ first volume of the Wind Orchestra Masters series released in Summer 2024.  In the upcoming November/December 2024 issue of Fanfare Magazine, reviewer Ken Meltzer describes Bulosan as “an eloquent and moving work, one I recommend heartily.”  In another review by Colin Clarke, Bulosan is lauded as "expertly structured and emotionally powerful," while Natalie Szabo writes that the album documents a "masterful ensemble performance.  Five stars."

Andres Luz is a member of ASCAP, SEAMUS, Millennium Composers Initiative, and Society of Composers, Inc., and is published by Murphy Music Press and Post-Classical Music.

I am a composer, author, editor, teacher, and technologist. My work engages the advancement of arts and technology from both humanist and experimental perspectives. I am available for commissions, master classes, writing & editing, teaching & presentations, seminars & performances, and music digital engraving.

The scores for all the notated music you hear here can be downloaded and, one hopes, performed at your leisure:
http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/biglist.html

Dr. Shirley Meyer Blankenship initially began performing with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra as a violinist when she was a student and Bernard Goodman was the conductor. Throughout the years she has played viola and keyboards as well as the harp. Currently, Shirley is the principal harpist.

Dr. Blankenship was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in composition from the University of Illinois. Among her compositions are: Chansons Innocentes, Visions and Revisions, Terse Trio, The Trees Stand, It’s Always Ourselves We Find, Christmas Images, Metaphysical Waltz, Sagileo, Be Careful, The Squirrel, Duo for Violin and Cello, and Fantasy Stuck.

In addition to her participation in the Symphony and the creation of new works, Shirley has been active in local theaters as an accompanist, music director, violinist, harpist, and actress. These theaters include The Station Theater, The Champaign-Urbana Theater Company, The Sunshine Dinner Playhouse, Parkland College, Artco in Tuscola, and Little Theater On The Square in Sullivan. At The Station Theater, she was music director and accompanist for two Menotti operas: The Medium and The Telephone. At the University of Illinois, Shirley performed The Fantastiks (harp) and She Loves Me (violin) with Thomas Schleiss, music director and accompanist. In the summer of 2010, she was the accompanist for the musical Honk performed in Tuscola.

For the past 10 years, she has been a collaborator with composer Robert Martin. In 2008, Shirley recorded his composition, The Owl and The Pussycat, for harp and flute, with Amanda Pond, flutist. This recording is now included in an album titled Metamorphosis and can be located online here. In 2010, she completed the recording of 100 piano pieces comprising Martin’s Mt. Fuji project.

Dr. Blankenship is a member of The American Harp Society, Composer’s Forum, and The Society of Composers, Inc. On her page on the Forum website is posted a recent article concerning compositional issues she has encountered in the works of Jolivet, Brün, Haken, Martin, Berg, Rouse, Baxter, and Rands. She is currently a professional international editor/consultant for composers writing new music for the harp.

Her ongoing autobiography, Polarities, documents her career in the arts as a musician, actress, and teacher, as well as her personal life struggles.

Shirley’s teaching website is available at www.shirleymeyerblankenship.com, and her papers and archived musical works are held in The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music. Her new website, The Harp Legacy Project, promotes awareness of issues in composition of new music for the harp.

Penumbra for String Quartet

Robert Gross