Category Archives: Performances

Roberto Oliveira at the 12th Edition of the Festival de Jazz de Vigo

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Artist extraordinaire Roberto Oliveira will be performing two of my compositions at the 12the edition of the Festival de Jazz de Vigo on July 4th. He is part of a great program with outstanding musicians, including Hermeto Pascoal.

Screen Shot 2016-06-26 at 10.19.32 AMVuelve la fiesta del jazz a Vigo y lo hace un año más de la mano del Imaxina Sons, el festival promovido por el ayuntamiento y que se celebra del 1 al 9 de julio de 2016. La decimosegunda edición del Festival de Jazz de Vigo Imaxina Sons llega bien completa. Un programa construido a base de conciertos de primer nivel y actividades para todos los públicos expandidas por diferentes espacios de la ciudad. Música que sonará a cubierto y a cielo abierto con especial atención al jazz de nuestro entorno y en la búsqueda de la complicidad de toda la ciudadanía. Una celebración de la música y de la cultura para arrancar el mes de julio y el verano en la ciudad. Las entradas estarán a la venta a partir del 20 de junio en ataquilla.com.

Listen to Roberto performing “Nunca tan lejos”

     Nunca tan lejos – for vibraphone and computer (version by Roberto Oliveira – excerpt)

“Leonardo” premiered at Concordia College

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The Big Band at Concordia College conducted by artist extraordinaire Russell Peterson, premiered my recent work Leonardo on April 11. Super exciting news!

Program notes about the work:

The piece is about Leonardo’s Pizzeria located on the corner of 13th St. and University Avenue in Gainesville, Florida. It is also about the composer Leonardo Balada. It is not about Leonardo Da Vinci.

There is a video of the live performance here.

          Leonardo (version by the UT Big Band, Keith Brown conductor, Alex Reyes, tenor sax)

“Nunca tan lejos” in the Discordia album release

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Album release concert featuring electroacoustic music from the southeast! Nearly all the works appearing on this 2nd release from the EMPiRES label are beign performed at the Dancz Center for New Music in Athens!

Check out this line-up…

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“Nunca tan lejos” – Jorge Variego
Justin Iadonisi, percussion

“Pyromancer” – Peter Van Zandt Lane
Peter Van Zandt Lane, bassoon

“Over $100,000 Worth” – Jason R. Butcher and Don Hassler
Jason R. Butcher and Don Hassler, synthesizers

“From Afar, Drawing Near” – Cody Brookshire
Victoria Bethel, Bb trumpet

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“Malleis” – Aaron Anderson
Matheus Rocha, piano

“A Cave” – Adam Scott Neal
Hanna Lisa Steffanson, piano

“Tunnel of Quantum Love” – Hanna Lisa Steffanson
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“fragments/frames” – Rob Seaback
Addison Mason, tenor saxophone

“In Fields Forgotten by the Sun” – John Hennecken
Lucas Scalamogna, violin

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Snacks and beverages will be on hand before the concert and during the intermission. An open post-concert talk/panel/Q&A will immeditaly follow the concert.

Also,the whole thing is FREE! Come out and support these regional composers and performers creating great electronic music!

Generous support from UGA’s Willson Center has made this event possible. See you there!

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Album Description: After the 2014 release of the metallic-tinged electroacoustic compilation “Sonic Flux,” EMPiRES sought to organize a compilation of music by composers and performers from the southeastern United States. Here in this second compilation volume, there is an overarching evocation of discord present across the 10 tracks, musically depicted not only in harmony and timbre, but also in rhythm, space, form, and contrasting characters of sound source elements. With this theme fortuitously arising out of the contributed recordings, it was fitting to use the title “Discordia,” taken directly from the title of the album’s cover art by Frances Jemini.

Nicole Chamberlain premieres “Minute flute” for solo bass flute

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To close out the SoundNOW festival, Terminus Ensemble invites you to join us for a unique program of 1-minute solo miniatures by 20 composers from the southeastern US. We are joined by Boston-based duo Transient Canvas (bass clarinet + marimba), who will be performing new works by Georgia-based composers, including Sarah Hersh, Peter Van Zandt Lane, and Brent Milam.

Transient Canvas set:
Rationalize (2016) — Cody Brookshire
ripples (2015) — Adam Scott Neal
[Title tbd] (2016) — Brent Milam
Your Mind is a Maze of Mystery (2015) — Sarah Hersh
Exergy Bubblebath (2015) — Peter Van Zandt Lane

Terminus set (order TBD) — solo miniatures by
John Allemeier, David Brighton, Russell Brown, Nicole Randall Chamberlain, Tom Dempster, Drew Dolan, John Hennecken, Olivia Kieffer, Brent Milam, James Paul Sain, Andrew Sigler, Nolan Stolz, Mitch Turner, Jorge Variego, Rachel Whelan, Natalie Williams, Ryan Williams

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Faculty recital at UT on 3/8 – Very new music

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This Tuesday, March 8th at 8 PM in Powell recital hall. Free and open to the public.

Program
1- Sonatina para piano (2001) – J. Variego
a.    Lento y muy rubato
b.    Muy lento y fúnebre
c.    Allegro diabólico
Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo – piano

2- Static motion (piano and electronics – 2010) – J. Variego
Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo – piano

3- Conversations with Harry (bass clarinet and electronics – 2015) – O. García
Jorge Variego – bass clarinet
World premiere

4- After Thad Jones (bass clarinet – 2012) – J. Variego

5- A rare form of kleptomania (bass clarinet and computer – 2015) – J. Variego

6- Inner blues (vibraphone and visuals – 2014) – J. Variego
Emory Hensley vibraphone, visuals

7- 4 flutes quartet (2005) – J. Variego
Rebecca Percy, Natalie Gregg, Shannon Frisco, Zac Morgan – flutes

8- A very new piece (this very moment)
Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo – piano

Inner blues at the CMS Regional Conference in Birmingham

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Research paper presentation and piece at the CMS regional conference at Birmingham Southern College.

– Paper “Teaching with GlassCasts: Using Google Glass to Teach Music Theory”. In Collaboration with Dr. Brendan McConville.

Short abstract: Podcasts have become an effective and portable tool for introducing and drilling material in music theory courses. Though audio and video podcasts formats have been pedagogically succesful for some time, it is important to continually consider how this technology might evolve. Is it possible to make them fully immersive, first person learning experience by capturing then through wearable technology? Google Glass is a “smart” technology built into a pair of eyeglasses. It posseses several important functions, such as taking photos, video capture, and Internet capabilities. This presentation will report on the creation, implementation, and effectiveness of Glass Casts in theory courses at a music school during the spring semester 2015.

– Piece: Inner blues – for vibraphone and electronics. Emory Hensley (vibraphone)

     Inner blues (solo vibraphone) (version by Emory Hensley)