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

Ear Taxi/Chicago Latino Music festival and MusicNOW Review- An "embarassment of riches" : new music in Chicago

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


By Lawrence A. Johnson

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

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