BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA
El último asalto: idilio, sublimación y catarsis musical en la Luis Ángel
*Por Luis Fernando Valencia Rueda
Escuchamos plácidos el sintético, erudito, y furioso cuarteto de Atehortúa; y el evocativo y exquisito cuarteto de Leone, quien, a propósito, nos invitó a entenderlo como un proverbial viaje musical hacia la cima de una montaña, en donde finalmente lograríamos divisar el tesoro de una hermosa melodía con aires de samba pampeana. Allí, en el descubrimiento paulatino de ese tesoro musical, Avalon se fajó. El mismo Leone se refirió a la interpretación de su cuarteto de esa noche como, ni más ni menos, ¡“el paraíso del compositor.”
SPLASH MAGAZINES
BY Debra Davy
About CORSON, for trumpet and tape
"It was an exceptionally intriguing and multi-layered piece with satirically amusing high-level tape accompanied by Burns’ superb trumpet playing."
SPLASH MAGAZINES
BY Debra Davy
Gustavo Leone’s “String Quartet No. 4”, 2016, was written for both Avalon and for Cuarteto Q-Arte, performing in a unique international cultural exchange in Bogota as part of the Chicago Latino Music Festival. Q-Arte is known as ‘the recognition and outreach leader of projects of the Latin-American music patrimony”. The piece, 14 minutes long in a three-part single movement, was lovely, lyrical, rich and unique, bursting with energy. The 3 sections, Leone has said, are "all in one mode-almost like one gesture" yet the Avalon Quartet's intense phrasing revealed the different themes within the melody.
MUSIC IN THE MISSIONS
A lecture to introduce the performance of San Ignacio, ópera de las misiones jesuíticas de Moxos y Chiquitos. LUMA October 25, 6:00pm at Simpson Hall.
The performance of this newly edited version of the score by Piotr Nawrot included some of the best musicians in Chicago, including soprano Michelle Areyzaga and conductor Emanuele Andrizzi. The video of this production includes supertitles and can be seen here: San Ignacio, opera de las misiones jesuíticas de Moxos and Chiquitos.
RED QUINTET
Ear Taxi Chicago 2016 - Mix tape inclusion
By Louis Harris
THIRD COAST REVIEW
BY LOUIS HARRIS ON OCTOBER 8, 2016
A highlight was the US premiere of Gustavo Leone’s String Quartet No. 4. Leone, born in Argentina, is one of the two heads of the Latino Music Festival. His 4th String Quartet is an ingenious amalgam of two very simple musical motifs: a series of rapidly repeated notes played half or whole steps apart on the four instruments, and three notes that sometimes ascend, other times descend. The ASQ provided precise blend and perfect intonation.
CHICAGO CLASSICAL REVIEW
Gustavo Leone’s String Quartet No. 4 offered more substantial fare, and was heard in its U.S. premiere. Jointly dedicated to the Avalon Quartet and Columbia’s Cuarteto Q-Arte, the concise work concists of a single movement of 14 minutes though the breaks between three sections are clearly delineated.
The music begins with quick agitated music, the fragments batted back and forth between the four players, leading to an angular new theme, played with admirable drive and energy. The second section offers a repeated-note theme that segues into an easygoing folk-like violin melody that grows louder and more insistent. A driving syncopated final section was dug into with great vitality by the Avalon players leading to an emphatic coda. Leone’s quartet is skillfully crafted and makes deft use of its elemental material.
STRING QUARTET NO.4
Sunday, November 13, 2:00 pm
International Connections
Cuarteto Q-Arte and Avalon String Quartet
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
111 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60603
Funding for this international cultural exchange is provided by the McArthur Foundation through an International Connections grant for 2016.
STRING QUARTET NO.4
Wednesday, October 5, 7:00 pm
Avalon String Quartet and Cuarteto Q-Arte
Sala de conciertos de la Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango
Calle 11#4-14, Bogotá, Colombia
Funding for this International cultural exchange is provided by the McArthur Foundation through an International Connections grant for 2016
STRING QUARTET NO.4
Friday, October 7, 5:30 pm
Avalon String Quartet
The Latino Music Festival in collaboration with Ear Taxi Chicago
Harris Theater, Cube Space
• 205 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL, 60601
• In collaboration with Ear Taxi
STRING QUARTET NO.3
Thursday, October 6, 6:30 pm
KAIA String Quartet
Música Argentina
Chicago Public Library, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 South State St.
Chicago, IL 60605
COMO UN SUEÑO
Friday, September 30, 3:00 pm
Orquesta Sinfónica del Conservatorio de Música de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
National University of Colombia, Bogota, Conservatory of Music
Bibiana Ordoñez, harp
Guerassim Voronkov, conductor
Auditorio Leon de Greiff
Carrera 45 No 26-85 - Edificio León de Greiff
Bogotá D.C. - Colombia
Free
FORO DE COMPOSITORES LATINOAMERICANOS
Friday, September 28
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Cátedra Bogotá Musical Internacional
TALLER DE COMPOSICIÓN
September 28-October 3
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Festival Internacional de Cuartetos de Cuerda
STRING QUARTET NO. 3
Thursday, September 22, 7:00 pm
KAIA String Quartet
Performance-conversation on the first movement of string quartet.
FACETADA
Septemberr 13
Ensemble Concept-21
CORSON
for trumpet and tape
Septemberr 25, 2:00pm
CMMAS 10th Anniversary Concert
Stephen Burns, trumpet
Chicago Public Library, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 South State St.
Chicago, IL 60605
VIAGGIO PROFONDO
Septemberr 25, 2:00pm
CMMAS 10th Anniversary Concert
A film by Paul Hettel with music by me.
Chicago Public Library, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 South State St.
Chicago, IL 60605
MUSIC OF THE JESUIT MISSIONS
The scores that I reconstructed and published on E-Commons through Loyola University Chicago had the readership displayed above. The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage was the sponsor for this work.
IN ORANGE AND BLUE
Benjamin Melsky playing in Orange and ue, for harp and tape
The University of Chicago
Fulton Hall
Chicago, IL
April 15, 2016
2016
Gustavo Leone Composer
