2010 Con Edison Composer in Residence Octavio Vazquez in Union Settlement Program

June 15, 2011

CONTACT: David Johnston, Associate Director, david@exploringthemetropolis.loc
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UPDATE:  PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE BELOW.  THIS PROGRAM WILL NOW TAKE PLACE AT 1 PM AT UNION SETTLEMENT, RATHER THAN THE PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED 7 PM.

Composer Octavio Vazquez will perform at Union Settlement in East Harlem on September 16, at 1 PM in a program of compositions by Vazquez, Berthold and Puccini.  The free program is part of the Con Edison Musicians’ Residency, sponsored by Exploring the Metropolis and is supported with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Sopranos Roza Tulyaganova, Olga Shyp and violinist Patmore Lewis are featured in this program. The music of Octavio Vazquez has been performed by conductors such as Carlos Kalmar, Hansj Schellenberger, Eric Jacobsen and Nicholas Cords.  He has received commissions from the New York State Council on the Arts, Galician Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Meet the Composer, and the Guernica Project, among others.

Called “…one of the foremost composers of classical music” by El Progreso, and “…one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation,” by O Sil, Vazquez was a 2010 Con Edison Composer-in-Residence at Turtle Bay Music School. Recently, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra premiered his commission to commemorate Gustav Mahler’s 100th anniversary.  Later this year, Vazquez will premiere new works with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic and the Knox-Galesburg Symphony.

Exploring the Metropolis sponsors the Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program.  This residency provides composers with use of consistent, suitable composition and rehearsal space for a three-month period. Each composer also receives a stipend.

This September 16 program at Union Settlement is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.  It is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.  Programs at Union Settlement are in cooperation with the New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA).