Name Carlos Surinach | Role Composer | |
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Died November 12, 1997, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Education Conservatori Superior de Musica del Liceu Books Flamenco Meditations for Voice and Piano, Acrobats of God (Ballet): Full Score Albums Albeniz: Iberia, extraits - Surinach: Feria Magica - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol (Stereo Version) People also search for Maro Ajemian, Grant Johannesen, Howard Hanson, Robert Whitney | ||
Carlos surinach concertino movt 1 mac mcclure piano
Carlos Surinach (or Carlos Suriñach) (March 4, 1915 – November 12, 1997) was a Spanish composer and conductor.
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Life and career
He was born in Barcelona, where he held conducting posts at the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. He studied composition with Enrique Morera at the Barcelona Conservatory, then went to Germany, where he studied in Berlin with Max Trapp, and also with Richard Strauss, taking five of Strauss's seminars. In 1948 his opera El mozo que caso con mujer brava premiered in Barcelona. In 1951, he emigrated to the United States, where he became a successful composer for the dance. He became a U.S. citizen in 1959. He composed three ballet scores for the renowned choreographer Martha Graham: Embattled Garden (1958), Acrobats of God (1960) and The Owl and the Pussycat (1978). He also composed for the Joffrey Ballet (Feast of Ashes). His harp concerto was commissioned by Charles Royce for his daughter Maria. The premiere was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1978, with Nicanor Zabaleta playing. The concerto was then performed by maria Royce at Interlochen. The Surinach harp concerto has not been played since.
Surinach also orchestrated part of Isaac Albéniz's piano suite Iberia.
His notable students include Louis W. Ballard.
Surinach died in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, aged 82.
The BMI Foundation sponsors The Carlos Surinach Awards and Commissioning Programs, which recognizes talented emerging young musicians for their service to American music and funds the creation of new works by former winners of the BMI Student Composer Awards. The program was established by a bequest from Surinach. [1]