Saturday, March 15, 2008
The Bloomingdale Piano Project includes a lecture and two concerts, as well as monthly online features from November 07 to March 08.




Monthly Piano Project Features

February 08 - Program and List of Performers - Bloomingdale School of Music is pleased to announce the program for Piano Project 2008: Sonidos de Espana/Sounds of Spain. Join us on Saturday, March 15 as 63 students and 12 faculty come together to present a rich variety of Spanish piano music.

December 07 - Conversations with Oskar Espina Ruiz - a video interview with Bathsheba Marcus Conley and Spanish clarinetist and Bloomingdale faculty member Oskar Espina Ruiz. Oskar discusses growing up in Spain and the importance of classical music, folk music, and specifically the piano in his home country.

November 07 - The Music of Spain: Renaissance through Classical - an extensive exploration of Spanish music in the 15th-17th centuries, including many composers who will be featured in the Piano Project 2008 concerts. Context is provided through a timeline of Spanish history, as well as information on writers and artists of the period.
  Bloomingdale Piano Project 2008: Sonidos de España/Sounds of Spain
—Bathsheba Marcus Conley


Granados and Albéniz. These are the composers most frequently associated with classical piano music from Spain. Spain, however, has an immense history of music written for the keyboard, stretching from the Golden Age of the Renaissance to the modern day. Certainly it is the nationalist music of Enrique Granados and Isaac Albéniz that is most well-known with iconic piano works such as Goyescas, España, and Iberia. But there is also the music of Antonio de Cabezón, Padre Antonio Soler, Manuel de Falla, Oscar Espla, Federico Mompou, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Joaquín Turina, to name just a few.

The Bloomingdale Piano Project Sonidos de España/Sounds of Spain will celebrate the music of a wide range of composers, allowing audience members the opportunity to hear an evolution of Spanish musical tradition. The influence of Spanish music on other European composers, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries will also be explored through the works of composers such as Ravel, Debussy, and Szymanowski. The two concerts held on March 15, 2008 will feature Bloomingdale's piano faculty and students. Online features will be presented monthly beginning in November, providing background information on specific composers and pieces that will be part of the program. Make sure to check back each month for features!




Resources:

The Foundation for Iberian Music
This website includes a history of Catalan music along with links to the foundations of many Spanish composers.

Naxos Composer's List
The website of the classical music record label Naxos offers biographies and images of composers. Search the name of any composers mentioned above for further information. 		 




Participating Faculty Members

Project Curator
Bathsheba Marcus Conley

Robin Binderman
Jonathan Faiman
Gunhild Glass
Jacob Greenberg
Roberto Hidalgo
Sachiko Kato
Yuko Kato
Judith Olson
Marc Peloquin
Tania Tachkova
Yvonne Troxler
Monica Verona

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