Name Emilio Colon Role Conductor | Education Jacobs School of Music | |
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Albums Ginastera: Pampeana No. 2 / Ponce: Estrellita / Falla: 7 Canciones Populares Espanoles Similar People Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Federico Agostini, Puerto Rico Symphon, Philippe Muller |
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Emilio Colón (born in Puerto Rico) is an American solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, composer and pedagogue. He is an international artist, concertizing in Canada, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Malta, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
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He has performed as guest conductor and soloist of the Classical Symphony Orchestra of Guatemala and the Orquesta de Camara Concerto in Puerto Rico; for Barge Music in New York City; at the Casals Festival of Prades and for recital tours of Malta, Italy, the Netherlands, Korea and Japan.
Colón recordings are featured on the Enharmonic, Centaur, Zephyr, and Lyras labels. Colón currently records for Klavier as solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, and composer under the label. Colón’s arrangements, editions and original compositions are published by Masters Music Publications and H.P. Music Publications.
As the second youngest faculty member to be appointed in the history of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Colón is also known as a pedagogue. He has offered courses at the Paris Conservatoire, the Geneva Conservatoire, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and Toho Gakuen in Tokyo, Japan. He is also on faculty at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top in Texas and Chamber Music Unbound at the Mammoth Lakes Music Festival in California.
Colón received a bachelor’s degree from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in 1986 as a student of Joaquín Vidaechea, where he won the Pablo Casals Medal upon graduation. As a student and teaching assistant to the distinguished cellist and pedagogue Janos Starker, Colón earned a master’s degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1989. He won first prize at the Las Americas Festival Solo Competition. Colón plays on a J.B. Vuillaume Cello from 1844 and a Dominique Peccatte bow.
The given name of Emilio Colón is Emilio Waldo Colón de Colón. Colón, or Professor Colón, as he is affectionately called by his students at Indiana University, gets along well with cellists, musicians, and lovers of Puerto Rican cuisine and fine wine.
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Recordings
Co-producer for the album, arranger, and cello soloist
Description: All new arrangements by Emilio Colón for cello and piano
Program: Lecuona: Danzas Afro-Cubanas Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas Piazzolla: Nuevo Tango: Oblivion, Tzigane Tango, Milonga del Angel, Muerte del Angel Danzas Célebres Puertorriqueñas Morel Campos: Felices Días Mislán: Tu y Yo Miranda: Impromptu, Op.10 Colón: Armando's Waltz for Cello and Piano (premiere)
Emilio Colón, cello and Sung Hoon Mo, Piano. Cello and piano pieces from Spain and Latin America
Program: Ginastera: Pampeana No. 2, Op. 21 Ponce (arr. Cassadó): Estrellita Falla (arr. Colón): Siete Canciones Populares Españolas Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango Villa-Lobos: Pequena Suite Morel-Campos (arr. Colón): Bella Illusión Tavárez (arr. Colón): Un Recuerdito Danza capricho Turina (arr. Colón): Tres Sonetos, Op. 54: 1. Anhelos (Desires) Sarasate (arr. Colón): Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
Emilio Colón: Co-producer for the album, cellist, arranger, composer
Trio Amadé debut recording
Program: Copland: Vitebsk Bernstein: Trio Piazzolla: Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas Colón: “N” Tango for Piano Trio
Compositions
Salmetón para Violin y Piano
Dedication: for Jessica Mathaes on the occasion of her Cuypers 200th birthday; inspirado por mis queridos amigos Rafi y Ramonita
Premiered on December 9, 2007 by Jessica Mathaes & Rick Rowley at Bates Recital Hall in Austin, Texas.
Suite Miniatura para Violin, Cello y Piano
- Ari y Sofía: El Juego de las Sillas
- Bodie at Horshoe Lake
- Erratics
- Iris y Naomi: Libros de Niños
- Ana y Elisa: Par' de Camisas
Commissioned by Ellen Siegal and the Felici Trio
Dedication: A mis queridos amigos The Felicio Trio y Ellen Siegal
Premiered on August 1, 2007 by the Felici Trio at the Mammoth Lakes Festival in California
For Double Bass & Piano
Commissioned by James Vandemark
Dedication: A mi querido amigo JB and his lovely daughter Dana
Premiered on June 9, 2007 at the International Festival-Institute in Roundtop Texas by James Vandemark and Nariaki Sugiura
Poemas Borincanos para Cello y Orquesta
- La Casa Grande: La Casa Vieja de Maresúa
- Tinayarí
- Bonita
- El Combate
Commissioned by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
Dedication: A lamemoria de dos seres queridos Elsie Ramírez de Roque y Evelina Cucalón de Fougeres
Premiered on May 4, 2007 by Emilio Colón and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Lowenheim, conductor
For Cello & Piano as companions to Armando’s Waltz
Premiered on April 10, 2005 recital at the Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Doña Bele y Don Enrique
Armando’s Waltz
Pambel
For Cello and String Quartet
Premiered by Trio Amadé on 8/23/2001 at the Sommerabendmusik Series, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Delray Beach, Fl
Recorded by Trio Amadé for Klavier Records 8/2001
For Cello and String Quartet
Commissioned by and premiered at the Cedar Arts Forum String Camp, Waterloo, IA
For Cello and String Quartet
For Piano Trio and String Orchestra
Commissioned by and premiered at the Cedar Arts Forum String Camp, Waterloo, IA
For violin and piano
Guánica
Jíbaro
Impro sobre un seis
Madre
Prelude for Piano
For medium voice and piano
Prelude for Piano
For medium voice and piano