2023 Underwriting Recipient5/28/2024UNM Symphony Orchestra Dr. Sérgio Azevedo, a leading contemporary Portuguese composer, is commissioned by the University of New Mexico Symphony Orchestra to compose a concerto for oboe, viola, and orchestra. The world premiere will take place in the fall of 2024. Collaborators include University of New Mexico professors Kimberly Fredenburgh, viola, and Kevin Vigneau, oboe, as soloists, and the UNM Symphony. The concerto will utilize materials from the collected folk and indigenous music found in the John Donald Robb Archives at the University Libraries Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections. The concerto will have a programmatic element related to the story of an Iberian immigrant's journey to Nuevo México. Below is an example of Sérgio Azevedo's compositional oeuvre: "O vento sopra onde quer..." (The wind blows where it wants) Concerto para Orquestra de Sopros (2020) performed by BSP, directed by Francisco Ferreira, 30 October 2021. Dr. Azevedo served as "BSP Composer in Residence" in 2020. Comments are closed.
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