Residency in San Juan, PR
Very much looking forward to being in residency next week at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico and performing in the stunning Sala Sinfónica Pablo Casals at Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan. This concert is at the invite of the historic Pro Arte Musical series with the Victory Players, a chamber orchestra of which I am a founding member. The concert is the culmination of a yearslong commissioning project of living Puerto Rican composers that we began in 2018. Although we have now recorded most of these works at GBH Boston for our debut album El Puerto Rico, this is the first time we will perform all of the music live. It is so rewarding for us to bring this music home to the island that inspired it all.
The concert invite has been widely covered by media, including El Nuevo Día (the NY Times of PR): www.elnuevodia.com
and Noticentro: www.wapa.tv/noticias/
More information: proartemusical.com/
"Through commissioned repertoire, the growing Puerto Rican musical heritage will be illustrated by the Victory Players… its members are the virtuosos Elly Toyoda, Clare Monfredo, Eric Schultz, Nathan Ben-Yehuda, Robert Rocheteau and Giovanni Pérez, flutist graduated from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music.”
"A través del selecto repertorio se ilustrará de manera didáctica el creciente acervo musical puertorriqueño... un sexteto que emplea violín, violonchelo, flauta, clarinete, piano y percusión. Sus integrantes son los virtuosos Elly Toyoda, Clare Monfredo, Eric Schultz, Nathan Ben-Yehuda, Robert Rocheteau y Giovanni Pérez, flautista egresado del Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico."
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Anyone who cannot make it to San Juan can enjoy our filmed studio concert from GBH Boston last year, including full (seven camera!) video recordings all of the music and interviews with each composer: www.classicalwcrb.org/el-puerto-rico/
One work, "Prints of Lost Breath" by José J. Peña-Aguayo, is particularly visually impressive. Inspired by the use of traditional Puerto Rican Bomba on the island to protest the murder of George Floyd, the work adds three bomba drummers and a bomba dancer to our orchestra – check it out!
