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OCTAVIO VAZQUEZ - NEWSLETTER, WINTER 2007-2008

OCTAVIO'S NEW CD IS OUT !! (click on image) The Guernica Trio was commissioned by the GUERNICA PROJECT, a NGO that promotes international cooperation and peaceful conflict resolution through music and the arts. Following the successful premiere at Carnegie Hall, the FLATIRON TRIO recorded the piece last Spring in Prague "very powerful, with something of the searing quality of Shostakovich" C.G. Koonce, Operatically Inclined "Emotional impact and direct communication with the audience" P. Yañez, Mundoclasico.com
	WORLD PREMIERE OF THE PIANO CONCERTO Commisioned by the Galicia Symphony Orchestra for the Barrie Foundation's 40th Anniversary, the concerto was premiered by Cristina Pato and conductor J.M. Perez Sierra on November 16 "climaxes of great orchestral power, followed by unfathomable silences... volcanic temperament and profound expressiveness" P. Yañez, Mundoclasico.com "the genius of a very great composer... [this concerto] will become part of the repertoire of the great orchestras and pianists" A. Mallo, Galicia Hoxe "enormous talent!" J. Medal, La Opinion de A Coruña
CARLOS KALMAR PREMIERES LETHE Oregon Symphony Orchestra conductor Carlos Kalmar premiered Lethe with the OSG to a sold-out Opera House on November 2. On the program also Mahler and Stravinsky "a dark palette, of enormous textural wealth" J.A. Malde, La Opinion de A Coruña "a great concert, received with a great ovation" J. Carrillo, El Pais
OTHER NEWS The MONUMENT PIANO TRIO played the Guernica Trio in Baltimore and Washington D.C. on September 23 and October 2 and 3. These concerts were co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland College Park, and the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C. As part of its 40th Anniversary celebrations, The BARRIE DE LA MAZA FOUNDATION presented a selection of Octavio's chamber music in Coruña and Vigo, November 7, 8, 21 and 22. The composer collaborated with soloists Roberto Alonso, David Garrido, Cristina Gestido, and Borja Quintas, and with visual artists Anton Cabaleiro and Andres Rosende, and body-movement artist Alfonso Rivera
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