ALBA POTES -
BORN 28 JUNE
BORN 28 JUNE
Alba Potes was born in Cali, Colombia and moved to the USA in 1983. She began composing music in 1990 and has established a career as a composer with a subtle, yet energetic and personal style. In her music, one notes rich European influences blended with occasional traces of rhythms and melodic gestures inspired by Latin-American traditional music. Ms. Potes is the Artistic Director and Founder of the music series Las Américas en Concierto (americasenconcierto.org).
Orchestral performances include Reflexiones by the Queens-based string orchestra conducted by Eugene Muneyoshi, Lucidity Chamberistas, the world premiere at Carnegie Hall of Tucanos for guitar and chamber orchestra performed by Nilko Andreas Guarín and the Azlo Orchestra conducted by Vince Lee, the world premiere of Cantares para Orquesta by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela (XVI Festival de Música Latinoamericana) conducted by Germán Cáceres, and the El Salvador premiere of Cantares para Orquesta by the National Symphony of El Salvador (IV Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea) conducted by Alfredo Rugeles. Ms. Potes' music has also been performed by the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, The North/South Consonance, the National Symphony of Colombia, the Symphony Orchestra of Cali, Darmstadt 2000 Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, International Alliance for Women in Music, the ISCM in New York, Parnassus, the Composer's Conference at Wellesley College, the Network for New Music, Momenta Quartet, Ensemble CG (Colombia), The Stefan Wolpe Society, The New York New Music Ensemble, the Institute for New Music in Freiburg, Germany, and the ISCM in Seoul, South Korea. Her music has been heard in England, Colombia, Brazil, Austria, El Salvador, Germany, Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela.
She holds a DMA and a M.M. in composition, as well as a B.M. in music theory from Temple University where she studied composition with Matthew Greenbaum, Ursula Mamlok and Maurice Wright. Ms. Potes teaches at the College Preparatory Division at Mannes School of Music-The New School, Pratt Institute, and Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY.
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Canciones a lo ausiente by Alba Potes
Canciones a lo ausiente by Alba Potes
SUMIRE NUKINA - INDONESIA
BORN 28 JUNE
Nukina Mohamed van Haasen, Sumire started as a pianist. She is the daughter of professor english and esperanto Yoshitaka Nukina (Japan) and classical singer/choral conductor Pauline van Doornum (Netherlands).
At an early age her family moved to the Netherlands Amsterdam. In 1992 she graduated in composition with Daan Manneke from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. In November 1973 she married painter/poet/percussionist Humbert Ronald 'Mo' Mohamed (Aruba, San Nicolas 1944-). In 11.may.1974 together with Ivan Krillzarin and Mo Mohamed she gave a farewell concert at Cas di Cultura in Oranjestad Aruba.
As a jazz singer she was known as Sumi Rae. She is now a herborist in the Netherlands.
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