The Foundation for Iberian Music At A Glance

2001-2010

Courses

Cuban Jazz workshop – Flamenco: The Art and the Life – Latin jazz piano master class – Latin Popular Music – Multicultural Spain: Studies in the Music of Catalonia, Andalusia and other Iberian Regions – Music of Three Cultures: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Spain – The Business of Latin Music: A Seminar – The Catalan Keyboard Tradition: From Soler to de Larrocha – The Great Spanish Opera Singers – The Llibre Vermell of Montserrat – The Catalan Piano Trio – Of Foxes and Hedgehogs: Music and the Worldview of Tolstoy’s Fictions – Carlos Surinach and The Creation of Modern Dance in New York – Mateo Flecha’s Ensaladas – Intimate Exiles: Chopin and George Sand in Majorca – Hybrid Barcelona: New music and new multicultural identities in CataloniaAlbéniz and the Rise of Spanish National OperaMusic in Spain around 1700: theatre music and cantata in contextThe Beginnings of Jazz in Catalonia Music in Catalonia During the War of the SuccessionMusic as a Cultural Weapon: Fighting for Ethnic Identities in Spain rom Canço to Rock and Rap (1960-2010)

Composers’ Rediscoveries, Concerts, & Lecture-Recitals

Antoni Parera Fons’ Songbook – A tribute to Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002) – Barcelona Modernista: The music of Roberto Gerhard and Xavier Montsalvatge – Ernesto Halffter’s CentennialJoaquim Homs Centennial – Julián Menéndez Rediscovered – Sylvia Torán in Concert: Iberian Piano Music – The Academia Marshall at 100: The Catalan Piano Tradition from Granados to Larrocha – The Complete Piano Music of Manuel de Falla – The Complete Piano Trios of Joaquín Turina – The Music of Rafael Rodríguez Albert (1902-79) – Spain’s New Generation: Mauricio Sotelo, Eneko Vadillo, Juan Manuel Artero, Roberto López – The Piano Music of Román Alís – The Popular Songs of García Lorca – Two-piano music from Spain – Oscar Esplá and the Guitar – Carlos Suriñach and the Creation of Modern Dance in New York – Sephardic Music Festival – Sephardic Scholar SeriesIberian Sacred PolyphonyPiano Trios from Brazil: Heitor Villa Lobos and Lorenzo FernandezRicardo Viñes: Pianist and VisionaryThe Travels of Tirant Lo Blanch: Music and Chivalric SplendorInside the Music: Salvador Brotons

Composer’s Commissions

2005: Piano Works by Josep Prohens
2006: Piano Trio by Román Alís
2007: Hesperia by Anna Cazurra
2008: Mentum by Antoni Parera Fons
2009: Ladies in White by Paquito D’Rivera
2010: Songs of the Infinite by Miquel Àngel Roig-Francolí
2011: Piano Work: Homage to Xavier Montsalvatge by Tania León

Book, CD and Film Presentations

Mi vida saxual by Paquito D’Rivera – Music & Literature in the Spanish Caribbean: Tina Casanova’s books – Oscar Esplá in Belgium by Jan de Kloe – Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla by Carol A. Hess – Rap and the Cross (USA, 2004) – Bailaores (Italy, 2004) – Madrugada (USA, 2003) – The Fallen Nightingale by John W. Milton
Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano by Walter Aaron Clark – Trios Brasileiros by Damocles Trio – Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain by Susan Boynton

Round-tables, Lectures, & Panel Discussions

Arquitectura y Música: Una poética del espacio – Celebrating Don Quixote – Challenges and Trends in Hispanic Music Today: Nationalism, Multi-Nationalism, And Internationalism –
Manuel de Falla’s Concerto and Master Peter’s Puppet Show: Two Unique Neoclassical Works From The 1920’s – The Presence on the Past in the Llibre vermell of Montserrat – The Music of Al-Andalus Lecture by Reynaldo Fernández Manzano

Exhibitions

A Lost Generation: Musicians and People of the Balearic Isles from the Alan Lomax Photo Archive – Music and Architecture in 20th Century Spain and Antoni Gaudí: Una visión poliédrica Salvador Dali: Dream of Venus. An Exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art

Conferences

Music in Art: Music Iconography as a Source for Music History – Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers, and Fads – Don Quixote: The First 400 Years – Romania, Enescu, Europe

Higini Anglès Dissertation Award

2006: Mauricio Molina

Visiting Scholars & Composers in Residence

Anna Cazurra – María Palacios – Iván Iglesias – Fátima Bethencourt – José Leopoldo Neri – Cristina Menzel – José Luis Palacios – Antoni Cotanda – Gonzalo Fernández Monte – Alejandra Pacheco – Amparo Porta – Francesc Vicens – Belén Vega Pichaco

Contributing Scholars

Adam Kent – Brook Zern – Jan De Kloe – Joseph Horowitz – Yvan Nommick – Walter Aaron Clark – Walter Frisch – Marcarmen Gómez Muntané – Susan Boynton – Anne Stone – Mauricio Molina – Enric Bou – Susan Weiss – Ischiro Fujinaga – Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum – Stuart Hodes – Carmen de Lavallade – Aaron Sherber – Candice Agree – James Mello – Carol Hess – Susana Asensio Llamas – Juan José Carreras – Grayson Wagstaff – Paul Griffiths – Jordi Pujol Baulenas – Álvaro Torrente – Sílvia Martínez

Contributing Composers

Eneko VadilloJuan Manuel ArteroMauricio SoteloPaquito D’RiveraRoberto LópezRomán AlísSalvador BrotonsTania LeónJosep ProhensAntoni Parera FonsBenet CasablancasAnna CazurraMiquel Àngel Roig-FrancolíGabriel ErkorekaHèctor ParraJoan ValentAntón García AbrilJose Luis TurinaConsuelo DiezTania León

Performers

Adam KentAlbert DíazAlicia de LarrochaAlón YavnaiÁngel Gil-Ordoñez – Antonio López – Ari YoshiokaBenita Meshulam – Brenda Feliciano – Carmen Serrano – Lara St. JohnOriente LópezOskar Espina-RuizPaquito D’RiveraPedro CarbonéRosa MateuSybylle JohnerSylvia Torán – Laurine Celeste Fox – Maxim AnikushinDouglas RivaAlberto UrrozManuel MinguillónSamuel R. ThomasPaul HostetterSato MoughalianCarles Magraner

Ensembles

Damocles TrioPerspectives EnsembleCelebrate OrchestraSendebarSmadarAsefaCoral Universitat de les Illes Balears Orchestra of St. LukeMAYA Capella de Ministrers

Participating Institutions and Sponsoring Organizations

Americas SocietyDirección General de Cooperación y Comunicación Cultural
Instituto CervantesInstitut Ramon LlullGeneralitat de CatalunyaGovern BalearKing Juan Carlos I Center of NYUMinisterio de Educación, Cultura y DeporteInstitut d’Estudis BaleàricsQueen Sofia Spanish InstituteQueens Museum of Art, NYConsulate General of Spain