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Annual American Composers Update
Leonardo Balada
Leonardo Balada, University Professor of composition
at Carnegie Mellon, served on the jury for the Spanish
Orchestras Association Composition Competition. He also
served in the faculty for the summer's Torroella de
Montgri International Music Festival in Catalonia.
Premieres
On April 22-24, 2001, the chamber opera The Town of
Greed was presented by the Carnegie Mellon Opera and
the Pittsburgh Cameratta, conducted by Colman Pearce.
Rafael Fruhbeck will lead Michael Sanderling and the Berlin
Radio Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of Concerto
for Cello and Orchestra No. 2 - New Orleans, March
9-10, 2002. In Pittsburgh, the River City Brass, conducted
by Denis Colwell, has scheduled the premiere of Irish
Dreams, March 12, 2002.
Recordings
Violin Concerto No.1; Andres Cardenes; Folk Dreams;
Sardana; Fantasias Sonoras; all by the Barcelona
Symphony Orchestra, M. Aeschbacher conductor; Leonardo
Balada - 21st Century Classics 8.554708; Piano Concerto
No. 3; R. Torres-Pardo; Concierto Magico for Guitar
and Orchestra; Eliot Fisk; Music for Flute and
Orchestra; M. Martinez; all by the Barcelona Symphony
Orchestra, Jose Serebrier conductor; Leonardo Balada
- 21st Century Classics 8.555039; both by Naxos
Records. Geometrias; Cuatris; Mosaico; Quasi un Pasodoble;
Homage to Casals and Sarasate; American Brass Quintet;
Spanish Radio TV Symphony Orchestra, Garcia Asensio
conducting; Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Balada conducting;
The Louisville Orchestra, J. Mester conducting; Leonardo
Balada - The Abstract and the Ethnic Troy 417; Symphony
No. 4; Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, J. Lopez-Cobos conducting;
Symphony Concertante for Guitar and Orchestra;
Narciso Yepes and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra,
Balada conducting; Sinfonia en Negro - Homage to
M. L. King; Spanish Radio TV Symphony, Asensio conducting;
Cumbres-a Short Symphony for Band; Carnegie Mellon
Symphony Band, R. Strange conducting; Leonardo Balada
- Symphonies Troy; both by Albany Records
Further Information
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