The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present Mills Music Now 2015-2016
HILDA PAREDES
A concert of music by Mexican composer Hilda Paredes. Paredes is at Mills College for the week prior to this concert as the 2015-2016 Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence.
Program:
Tlapitzalli 2 for flute and percussion
Joanna Martin Berg, flute
William Winant, percussion
Permutaciones for violin
Hrabba Atladottir, violin
Paráfrasis for trombone
Weston Olencki, trombone
Páramo de voces for piano and electronics
Kate Campbell, piano
Alegoría Tri-partita for piano trio
Gianna Abondolo, cello
Hrabba Atladottir, violin
Kate Campbell, piano
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Free to Mills students, faculty, and staff
$15 general/$10 seniors, non-Mills students, and Mills alums
Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at:
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Wheelchair accessible
Free parking on campus
Mills College
Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
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Hilda Paredes biography
Firmly established as one of the leading Mexican composers of her generation, she has made her home in London since 1979 and her music is now performed widely around the world.
As an active participant in master classes at Dartington Summer School, she studied with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle and Richard Rodney Bennett. After graduating at the Guildhall School of Music, she obtained her Master of Arts at City University in London and completed her PhD at Manchester University.
She continues to be involved in the musical life of her native country, having taught at the University in Mexico City and several other music institutions and was also a radio producer of new music.
Hilda Paredes has been commissioned by soloists, ensembles and orchestras around the world. Her music has been performed by internationally renowned ensembles such as Trio Arbós, Arditti Quartet, Aventure, Court Circuit, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Signal, Ensamble Sospeso, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, London Sinfonietta, Lontano, The New Julliard Ensemble, Neue Vocalsolisten, Ensamble Sospeso, L’Instant donné, London Sinfonietta, and Lontano, amongst others. Her music has been widely performed at important international festivals, such as Huddersfield, Edinburgh Festival in the UK; Eclat and Ultraschall in Germany; Musica and Octobre en Normandie, in France; Wien Modern, in Austria; Akiyoshidai and Takefu Music Festivals, in Japan; Archipel ans Music monat , in Switzerland; De Ijsbreker Chamber Music Festival, in Amsterdam; Warsaw Autumn, in Poland; Ultima, in Oslo; Melbourne Festival, in Australia; Festival of Arts and Ideas in the USA, Ars Musica in Bruxelles; Festival de Alicante and ENSEMS Festival, in Spain; Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico, amongst others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et64KjLSiBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTLQDPwY9Qs
Cost: $15 general, $10 seniors and students