ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN - PUERTO RICO
BORN 5 JULY
BORN 5 JULY
Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón writes music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys and electronics as well as chamber ensembles and orchestras. Her music has been described as “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR/Q2) and “mesmerizing and affecting” (Feast of Music) while The New York Times noted her “capacity to surprise” and her “quirky approach to scoring”. Angélica has been commissioned by the Albany Symphony, Bang on a Can All-Stars, A Far Cry, MATA Festival, loadbang, The Playground Ensemble and the American Composers Orchestra, among others. Her music has been performed at the Kennedy Center, the Ecstatic Music Festival, EMPAC, Bang on a Can Marathon and the 2016 New York Philharmonic Biennial and her film scores have been heard numerous times at the Tribeca Film Festival. She has collaborated with artists like Sō Percussion, The Knights, Face the Music and NOVUS NY, among others and is a founding member of the electronic indie band Balún. Angélica is currently a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center (CUNY), where she studies composition with Tania León and focuses on the work of Meredith Monk for her dissertation.
She's a teaching artist for New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers Program and Lincoln Center Education working with learners of all ages on creative composition projects. Angélica is currently an artist in residency at National Sawdust working on a lip sync opera titled Chimera for drag queen performers and chamber ensemble exploring the ideas of fantasy and illusion as well as the intricacies and complexities of identity. She is the composer in residence for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra for their 2018-2019 season.
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ADELAIDE PEREIRA DA SILVA - BRAZIL
BORN 5 JULY
Adelaide Pereira da Silva was born in Sao Paulo. She started studying piano with her mother from an early age, and later with Nair de Souza. She became a well-accomplished pianist, when she took advanced interpretation classes with Professor Hans Bruch. According to the renowned pianist Gilberto Tinetti, she was one of Bruch's most talented students (along with Isolde Bass - Bruch's wife - , Gilberto Tinetti himself, Rudolf Frisch, Elisa Capocchi, Arnaldo Antunes, Maria Elisa Figueiredo, and Roberto Delollio). In her thesis as well as in an article about Adelaide Pereira da Silva's compositions, Maria Mati Sakamoto quotes Gilberto Tinetti, who referred to Prof. Pereira da Silva's "exuberant sonority" as a pianist.
Initially, Adelaide Pereira da Silva studied composition with Dinorah de Carvalho and Osvaldo Lacerda. Later, she was Camargo Guarnieri's student, and became one of the major figures of his composition school, along with famous composers such as Osvaldo Lacerda himself, Almeida Prado, Sérgio Vasconcelos Correia, Nilson Lombardi, Lina Pires de Campos and Kilza Setti. She began working as a music teacher in 1960, and was also a Professor at Santa Marcelina College and Belas Artes College. She composed a number of works based on Brazilian folk themes. Her knowledge and expertise in Brazilian folk music were acquired through studies developed under Rossini Tavares de Lima's guidance.
Professor Pereira da Silva was one of the founders of the "Brazilian Pro Music Society" (Sociedade Pró-Música Brasileira).
As a composer, Adelaide Pereira da Silva was awarded many prizes, decorations, distinctions and honors:
- First prize by the Gazeta Burajiruforukurore Association composition competition with "Três canções sobre temas do folclore brasileiro" (Three songs based on Brazilian folk themes)
- Second prize in Santos Composition Contest (Secretaria Municipal da Cidade de Santos) for the song "É tão pouco o que desejo" (based on a poem by renowned writer, Vicente de Carvalho).
- Medal - José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (awarded by Sociedade Brasileira de Heráldica - Brazilian Heraldry Society)
- Medal - Marechal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (awarded by Sociedade Geográfica Brasileira - Brazilian Geographic Society)
- Medal - Legião Joana D'Arc (Sesquicentenário da Independência do Brasil - 150th Anniversary of Brazilian Independence) - Medal - Ana Neri (awarded by Sociedade Brasileira de Educação e Integração - Brazilian Society for Education and Integration)
- Medal João Amos Comenius (awarded by Academia Brasileira de Letras - Brazilian Literary Academy)
- Decoration (The Great Rondon) - Silver Jubileum - Marechal Cândido Rondon and its founding president Agenor Couto de Magalhães
- Medal - Euclides da Cunha (Clube dos Estados - State Club) - Spring Medal - Agenor Couto de Magalhães (awarded by Sociedade Geográfica Brasileira - Brazilian Geographic Society - Campaign for ecological protection)
- Medal - José Vieira Couto de Magalhães ( awarded by Sociedade Geográfica Brasileira - Brazilian Geographic Society
- Decoration - Carlos Gomes (Highest honor for Cultural Merit).
Adelaide Pereira da Silva was born in Sao Paulo. She started studying piano with her mother from an early age, and later with Nair de Souza. She became a well-accomplished pianist, when she took advanced interpretation classes with Professor Hans Bruch. According to the renowned pianist Gilberto Tinetti, she was one of Bruch's most talented students (along with Isolde Bass - Bruch's wife - , Gilberto Tinetti himself, Rudolf Frisch, Elisa Capocchi, Arnaldo Antunes, Maria Elisa Figueiredo, and Roberto Delollio). In her thesis as well as in an article about Adelaide Pereira da Silva's compositions, Maria Mati Sakamoto quotes Gilberto Tinetti, who referred to Prof. Pereira da Silva's "exuberant sonority" as a pianist.
Initially, Adelaide Pereira da Silva studied composition with Dinorah de Carvalho and Osvaldo Lacerda. Later, she was Camargo Guarnieri's student, and became one of the major figures of his composition school, along with famous composers such as Osvaldo Lacerda himself, Almeida Prado, Sérgio Vasconcelos Correia, Nilson Lombardi, Lina Pires de Campos and Kilza Setti. She began working as a music teacher in 1960, and was also a Professor at Santa Marcelina College and Belas Artes College. She composed a number of works based on Brazilian folk themes. Her knowledge and expertise in Brazilian folk music were acquired through studies developed under Rossini Tavares de Lima's guidance.
Professor Pereira da Silva was one of the founders of the "Brazilian Pro Music Society" (Sociedade Pró-Música Brasileira).
As a composer, Adelaide Pereira da Silva was awarded many prizes, decorations, distinctions and honors:
- First prize by the Gazeta Burajiruforukurore Association composition competition with "Três canções sobre temas do folclore brasileiro" (Three songs based on Brazilian folk themes)
- Second prize in Santos Composition Contest (Secretaria Municipal da Cidade de Santos) for the song "É tão pouco o que desejo" (based on a poem by renowned writer, Vicente de Carvalho).
- Medal - José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (awarded by Sociedade Brasileira de Heráldica - Brazilian Heraldry Society)
- Medal - Marechal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (awarded by Sociedade Geográfica Brasileira - Brazilian Geographic Society)
- Medal - Legião Joana D'Arc (Sesquicentenário da Independência do Brasil - 150th Anniversary of Brazilian Independence) - Medal - Ana Neri (awarded by Sociedade Brasileira de Educação e Integração - Brazilian Society for Education and Integration)
- Medal João Amos Comenius (awarded by Academia Brasileira de Letras - Brazilian Literary Academy)
- Decoration (The Great Rondon) - Silver Jubileum - Marechal Cândido Rondon and its founding president Agenor Couto de Magalhães
- Medal - Euclides da Cunha (Clube dos Estados - State Club) - Spring Medal - Agenor Couto de Magalhães (awarded by Sociedade Geográfica Brasileira - Brazilian Geographic Society - Campaign for ecological protection)
- Medal - José Vieira Couto de Magalhães ( awarded by Sociedade Geográfica Brasileira - Brazilian Geographic Society
- Decoration - Carlos Gomes (Highest honor for Cultural Merit).
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