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Guatemalan Composers: Dieter Lehnhoff, Hernando Franco, José Eulalio Samayoa, Gaspar Fernandes, Manuel José de Quirós
Guatemalan Composers Dieter Lehnhoff Hernando Franco Jos Eulalio Samayoa Gaspar Fernandes Manuel Jos de Quirs Chapters: Dieter Lehnhoff, Hernando Franco, José Eulalio Samayoa, Gaspar Fernandes, Manuel José de Quirós, Rafael Antonio Castellanos, Pedro Bermúdez, Paco Pérez. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million... more » books without charge. Excerpt: Dieter Lehnhoff (born 27 May 1955) is a composer, conductor, and musicologist. Dieter Lehnhoff conducting Born in Guatemala City to German settlers, 1955, Dieter Lehnhoff has been a pupil of Klaus Ager, Gerhard Wimberger, Josef Maria Horváth, and Dr. Friedrich C. Heller in Salzburg. His musique concréte work Requiem was premiered in 1975 at the Austrian Broadcasting (ORF). He earned his master's (M.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees with distinction at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was a graduate student of Conrad Bernier and Helmut Braunlich (composition), Donald Thulean (conducting), Cyrilla Barr, Ruth Steiner, and Robert M. Stevenson (musicology). His original compositions have been performed in Europe and the Americas. His Misa de San Isidro (2001) for a cappella chorus was premiered in Tenerife, the Canary Islands, Spain, in 2002, and has been performed by different professional choirs at festivals in Medellín, Tokyo, and New York City. His Piano Concerto No. 1 (2005), dedicated to the Russian pianist and teacher, Alexandr Sklioutovski, was premiered in June, 2006 at the National Theatre in Guatemala City by José Pablo Quesada as soloist and the Millennium Orchestra, the composer conducting. In 2007, it was performed to critical acclaim and great enthusiasm at the National Theatre in San José, Costa Rica, again with pianist Quesada and the composer conducting the National University Symphony Orchestra. Quesada also performed it at the 15th Latin American Music Festival in Ca...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12712559« less