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Upcoming 24 January 2012: Fashioning Modernism: Rimbaud meets Verlaine meets Debussy

Tania León’s “Homenatge” Performed in New York and Burgos, Spain

July, 2012: The 2011 Composer’s Commission “Homenatge” by Tania León debuted in New York City’s Carnegie Hall in November, 2011. Professor León’s piece is intended as a response to Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002). Recently, Adam Kent performed the piece at the Dance Theatre of Harlem with choreography by Pedro Ruiz. Adam Kent will also perform “Homenatge” this coming summer at the Burgos International Music Festival.

Iberian Musical Traditions: The Guitar and Piano

29 February 2012: The Foundation for Iberian Music is sponsoring a guest lecture-recital for the graduate seminar “Local and Global Perspectives in Spanish Music” at the CUNY Graduate Center. The guest lecturers include concert pianist Adam Kent and guitarist José María Gallardo. Both guests will discuss and perform music as a means to explore the evolution of Spanish music for keyboard and guitar.

2012 Composer’s Commission: Benet Casablancas

2012: The Foundation for Iberian Music proudly announces that Benet Casablancas has been chosen for the 2012 Composer’s Commission. In theme with the Tania León’s 2011 Composer’s Commission, his musical piece will celebrate the Centennial of Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2012), one of the most prominent figures in the Catalan music scene in the 20th century.

Vancouver New Music Festival 2011 Focuses on Xenakis

Oct 20-22, 2011: This year’s Vancouver New Music Festival will focus on Iannis Xenakis. The festival features three nights of concerts devoted to Xenakis, with performances by New York’s JACK Quartet, Montreal-based clarinetist and improviser Lori Freedman, Vancouver’s Fringe Percussion, and more. Sharon Kanach, director of the Xenakis Project of the Americas, and Xenakis scholar James [...]

Call for papers: “Xenakis’ Electroacoustic Music,” Université Paris 8

May 23-25, 2012: Xenakis’ electroacoustic works are relatively few in his whole production, but they are very important. Indeed, most of them – from Diamorphoses through to S.709: Concret PH, Bohor, Persepolis, Polytope de Cluny, La Légende d’Eer, Mycènes alpha, Voyage absolu des Unari vers Andromède, Gendy3… – punctuate the history of electroacoustic music as masterpieces [...]

Iannis Xenakis-In Memoriam International Conference

3-5 November 2012: The Director of the Xenakis Project of the Americas, Sharon Kanach, will be a keynote speaker at the Iannis Xenakis–In Memoriam International Conference.

The New York City Al-Andalus Ensemble

The Foundation of Iberian Music is sponsoring the NYC Andalus Ensemble that meets every Sunday at the CUNY Graduate Center for its musical workshop. Open to all levels of musical experience, this ensemble traverses a wide repertoire of Ala-Andalusit classical songs in Arabic and Hebrew.

Book Launch: Performing Xenakis, edited by Sharon Kanach

24 January 2011, 6:00 to 8:00 pm: The Xenakis Project of the Americas, Pendragon Press, the Electronic Music Foundation, and The Drawing Center are delighted to invite you to a book signing event with Sharon Kanach for her book Performing Xenakis. The event will take place at the Electronic Music Foundation, 307 Seventh Avenue, Suite [...]

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