Saturday, May 23, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts River Walk Plaza (click here for...
International Music Festival “African Rhythms”
Sunday, May 24, 2015, 6:00 p.m. Ruth Taylor Recital Hall at Trinity University (click here for map/directions) Artist Bios “I’m not a jazz musician,” “I’m really a storyteller through music.” -Randy Weston Pianist Randy Weston grew up surrounded by some of the greatest musicians in jazz. But it was his deep connection to Africa that inspired his personal style of music. “I search for the traditional music wherever I go. I try to find the oldest musicians I can find,” he says. “And I hear the foundation of what we do in the Western Hemisphere is coming from African civilization.”...
International Music Festival “Time, Place, Action”
Friday, May 15, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Tobin Center for the Performing Arts Carlos Alvarez Studio Artist Bios Featuring Vijay Iyer: MacArthur Genius Fellow, Harvard Music Professor and Grammy nominated jazz pianist with the award-winning Brentano String Quartet of the Yale School of Music. Best known as a jazz pianist, Iyer has released 17 albums, and in 2012 was named jazz artist of the year by Down Beat magazine. The New Yorker dubbed him “extravagantly gifted” and “brilliantly eclectic.” In the work titled “Time, Place, Action,” stylistically speaking, Iyer draws on everything from hard-bop jazz, to Indian ragas...
International Music Festival Performers
Born and raised in Argentina, Claudio Asprea’s dance background includes classical ballet (Colon Theater Superior Institute of Art – I.S.A. – Buenos Aires, Argentina) and modern dance (Taller de Danza Contemporanea del Teatro San Martin de Buenos Aires). He started his argentine tango training in Buenos Aires in 1988. In 1990 Mr. Asprea joined Argentine Theater Ballet Company of La Plata, the second most important lyric opera house in Argentina. Mr. Asprea was the guest performer and argentine tango master teacher at both the The Official USA Championship & USA TANGO FESTIVAL, in San Francisco, CA, from April 17 to...
Highlights of International Music Festival 2014
We opened the festival on Saturday, 22 February with the help of our ever-great, jazz arm: Bradley Kayser, Chuck & Anne Parrish, Sherry Layman and of course our very own, James Sanders! President Eric Miller received The Lifetime Achievement Award for Chamber Music Patronage at the start of the program and his lovely wife Michelle and all three children were present on stage to share in this great honor! The legend Charles Lloyd, born in 1938 visited San Antonio for the first time and was accompanied by the triple-Grammy nominated pianist, Gerald Clayton. A crowd of over 500 was transported to a place beyond words and was reluctant to...
Music Without Borders “Kids’ World Music Festival”
Music Without Borders “From Russia With Love”
Ukrainian soprano Uliana Alexyuk is a featured soloist at the Bolshoi Theater, where she has been singing since 2010. Her roles include Brigitta in Iolanta; First Lady in The Magic Flute; Adele in Die Fledermaus; Lyudmila in Ruslan and Lyudmila; Frasquita inCarmen; Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride; Fire, Princess, and Nightingale in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges; and, most recently, Amina inLa sonnambula. She returned there in December 2013 to sing Adele in Die Fledermaus. In 2011, she sang in the world premieres ofLe Cerisaie by Philippe Fénelon at the Opéra National de Paris and Lo stesso mare by Fabbio Vacchi at Teatro...
Music Without Borders “Indian Fusion”
Program Sandeep Das, “Taal Rasa” Sandeep Das, Tabla and Urmi Samadar, dance Kinan Azmeh “A sad Morning, Every Morning” “Fantasy In three characters” “November 22”, Kinan Azmeh clarinet, St. Petersburg string quartet, Zlatan Redzic, double bass Evan Ziporyn ,“Sulvasutra” Ka Agni Letter to Pythagoras Sandeep Das, Tabla, Amie Maciszewski, sitar and St. Petersburg string quartet Tchaikovsky, Andante- Cantabile Tsintsadze, 5 Jewish songs for string quartet St. Petersburg String Quartet Kinan Azmeh “Wedding” Kinan Azmeh, clarinet, Sandeep Das, Tabla, St. Petersburg String Quartet, Zlatan Redzic, double...
Music Without Borders “Entreflamenco”
Musical Bridges Around the World presents the new award-winning Entreflamenco dance production. This full-length dance performance features flamenco masters Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and their company Entreflamenco. Musicians included in the cast are guitarists Alex Jordan and Jose Tejeda from Cuba and singer/percussionist Francisco Orozco “YiYi” from Spain-Musical Composition Grant Recipient of the Year from The Artist Foundation of San Antonio 2014. This flamenco dance production will ignite your senses with the its new choreographies, original costuming, and new musical composition....
Music Without Borders “Amal”
Program Schubert, Fantasy for 4 hands Avner Dorman, Karsilama Prokofiev/Terashima Classical Symphony Allegro Larghetto Gavotta: Non troppo allegro Finale: Molto vivace Shostakovich-concertino op. 94 Rachmaninov, Suite no.1. I. Barcarolle. Allegretto, in G minor. II. La nuit… L’amour… Adagio sostenuto, in D major. (The night…the love…) III. Les Larmes. Largo di molto, in G minor. (The Tears) IV. Pâques. Allegro maestoso, in G minor....
Music Without Borders “Jazz Expressions”
Charles Lloyd “Charles Lloyd’s approach to performance is quite different. The more Lloyd goes inside himself the more he draws his audience in. With Jason Moran on piano, Eric Harland on drums, and Reuben Rogers on bass, Lloyd once again has a group able to follow his excursions into the music and into the mystic. Lloyd is one of the greats, rather like Joan Miro in modern art, he has no peer save himself. Music of total transport and delight.” Jazzwise “Follow the career of Charles Lloyd, and you see a map of great jazz across half a century. “Mr. Lloyd has come up with a strange and beautiful distillation of the...
Musical Bridges presents “Music Without Borders”
From: On the Town Magazine, Nov-Dec 2013, pages...
International Music Festival
Musical Bridges Around the World is proud to offer concerts and performances FREE & OPEN to the public over the course of our 2nd Annual International Music Festival! As a token of our appreciation, preferred seating is available for members based on availability, RSVP required. Musical Bridges Around the World is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization serving nearly 80,000 annually. Members are our lifeblood and your gift—at any level—makes it possible for us to offer: Kids to Concerts – FREE, high-quality, TEKS-compliant music education inside San Antonio public schools Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral – FREE...