A gamelan in the distance with Chen-Hui Jen’s recording was played on WUSF Radio Modern Notebook show with Tyler Kline, The work can be heard between November 3-9. More here

It’s a great pleasure to be guest composer as part of the Musicahora Festival in La Serena, Chile taking place during the first week of September. I am looking forward to the premiere of my work sonic transformations for two guitars by Diego Castro and Erik Marroquin two amazing guitarists as part of the festival as well as a performance of my work una luz en la neblina distante for oboe and percussion by the Dibujos ensemble. Also looking forward to presenting lectures about my work and participating on panels. Should be a great week. More

la vida que vendrá recently released by Loadbang on New Focus Recordings was included on the July 7, 2024 Flotation Device show. You can listen to the show here

My latest portrait album la vida que vendrá featuring the Loadbang Ensemble was released on New Focus Recordings on May 24. The album features 5 of my works including 4 works for soloist and fixed media as well as an acoustic work for the ensemble. You can listen on bandcamp here

Really fortunate to be able to start a scholarship for future FIU Music Composition students interested in Cuban Culture.

More here and on the flyer below:

I am very much looking forward to 3 weeks in August at the Visby Centre for Composers (VICC) in the town of Visby located on the island of Gotland off of the coast of Sweden. I will be composing a new work for stellar mezzo soprano Rachel Calloway and the excellent Amernet string quartet for premiere in January. More about VICC here

Looking forward to my work as faculty and director of the inaugural Gingold Chamber Music Festival Composition Institute. The Festival runs from July 10 – 30 at Barry University in Miami. Joining me are Chen Yi and Chinary Ung and a group of very talented composers. The festival also boasts some incredibly talented students and a performance faculty headed by virtuoso violinist Andres Cardenas. More here

I was extremely pleased with the premiere performances in Mexico City of my work imagenes de viento, llluvia, y sonidos cristalizados, performed by the Orquesta de Camara de Bellas Artes, classical guitarist Jaime Marquez, and artistic director Luis Manuel Sanchez conducting at the Sala Manuel Ponce in the Palacio de Bellas Artes on June 22 with a repeat performance on June 25 at the Sala Silvestre Revueltas in the Conservatorio Nacional. A big thanks to them and to maestro Ludwig Carrasco for his interest and support for the project. The performances were exceptional and the audience response was extremely positive. More

It was a great pleasure to spend time in the writers room at the Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive the first week of March. The residency allowed me the time to complete the new work for String Noise Duo being premiered by them as part of the New Music Miami Festival on April 5 and subsequently in NYC. Very grateful for the opportunity at a wonderful place to work.More here

a gamelan in the distance performed by Chen-Hui Jen was aired on WUSF/WSMR’s Modern Notebook program featuring host Tyler Kline. The music was part of the September 11th evening edition. The recording by Chen-Hui Jen is available on bandcamp here

I will be in residence at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY from May 2-15. During my time there I will be working on a new piece for the Madrid based Nuevo Ensemble de Segovia for premiere in the fall of 2022. This will be the 3rd work I complete for the ensemble written over the last 10 plus years as they celebrate 25 years of existence.

The online new music journal I Care If You Listen recently published an interview with me regarding my work impulso/momentum premiered as part of a concert with the theme of social justice featuring the NYC based Ensemble Pi. I am very grateful to ICIYL for allowing me the opportunity to present my views on my work, the text I created for the work, and the subject/theme for the concert. The interview can be accessed here

I am extremely honored and humbled to have received the 2022 Walter Hinrichsen Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This award was established by the C. F. Peters Corporation, music publishers, in 1984, and is given for the publication of a work by a gifted composer. I am very much looking forward to having my music included in the catalog of this extremely important and historic publisher and am very grateful to the committee. More here

On March 2 the New York City based Ensemble Pi will be premiering my new work impulso/momentum for baritone voice and chamber ensemble. The work commissioned by the ensemble will be part of a concert on the theme of social justice. More information here

I am extremely humbled and honored to have received my 5th Latin Grammy Nomination in the best Contemporary Classical Composition Category. I am in great company with some great works and composers nominated. More here

Incredibly productive 4 weeks in Key West at the 4 week artist residency I realized at the Studios of Key West mid June to mid July. Completed the large part of a 22 minute work for classical guitar and chamber orchestra for virtuoso guitarist Jaime Marquez and the Orquesta de Camara de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and its director Ludwig Carrasco for premiere in December. The Studios are a great place to work with the combination of all of the tranquility and diversion anyone could want. More

Extremely grateful to Composers Now to be part of their Impact Series. The 30 plus minute program first aired August 12 but available indefinitely where I briefly present my thoughts on art and music and my work for cello and string orchestra with virtuoso cellist Jason Calloway as well as my work for video and electronics with video by Jacek Kolasinski can be found here

Extremely pleased to have been the producer and initiator of this project to promote the wonderful music of Cintas Foundation Fellowship winning composers Flores Chaviano, Ivette Herryman Rodriguez, Odaline de la Martinez, Eduardo Morales Caso, Sabrina Peña Young on a new album being released in June 2021 by Neuma Records with the support of the Cintas Foundation. Sonidos Cubanos 2 is a second album in a series of recordings championing the music of these outstanding composers. Review here and more information here

I am pleased to announce that I have entered an agreement with Theodore Front for the publication of a limited number of my works. The current agreement calls for Theodore Front to sell and make available hard copies of scores and parts of my works to universities around the US. This will increase the availability of my music to students, performers, and scholars.

I am very excited to begin working on the music and soundscape for a new Science Fiction film being released by Playard Studios. The 30 minute film is being created by Carlos and Tanya Fueyo and I am very much looking forward to its completion at the end of the summer. More here and here

The Metier/Divine Art label will be releasing my next portrait album featuring the exceptionally talented Amernet string quartet performing my 3 quartets. The 3 works span more than 30 years starting with my first quartet written when I was working with my mentor Morton Feldman and the last written recently for the Amernet. The album will be available on Feb 12 here. A brief excerpt can be heard on YouTube here

It was great to see that an excerpt of my work una marea creciente recorded by virtuoso violinist Jennifer Choi and the Malaga Philharmonic on Toccata Classics, was part of the popular BBC 3 Radio Show Words and Music. The work was include on the edition titled The Body which was originally broadcast on the shows web page starting in late November. The show that combines words/poetry/text with music will be available for the month and can be found here.

I was very humbled and honored to be named Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University. The designation is the highest rank you can achieve at the university and given the achievements and recognition of the other faculty inducted it is quite an honor. More information regarding the award and more here.

I was very pleased to find out that my music is prominently featured in Colombian film maker Mauricio Arango’s new short film No Weight Whatsoever. The beautifully shot film received a mention in the Marseilles film festival this summer. You can see the trailer here.

I am very honored to have been inducted as an honorary member into the Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Music de Arte as one of the composers representing my native Cuba and the Americas. More about the Colegio here.

I am very fortunate and pleased to have the following performances in late December and January. First the New World Symphony Orchestra will be presenting my work the Distant Wind II for clarinet and string orchestra as part of their concert on December 22 at the New World Center on Miami Beach. This is followed by the January 8 premiere of my new work beneath the surface for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists being premiered by the Ensemble Berlin Piano Percussion in Berlin. I am looking forward to being there in large part with the support of the ensemble and the German-American Fulbright Commission. Later that month on January 17, 18, and 19 The Florida Orchestra based in Tampa presents the premiere of my work, the impending silence followed by virtuoso bassoonist Rebekah Heller premiering my work prelude interlude and postlude with video images by Jacek Kolasinski and John Stuart as part of the New Music Miami ISCM Festival on January 22. I hope that those of you that may be nearby any of these will come by.

The Florida Orchestra in Tampa will be premiering my new work the impending silence on their January 17, 18, and 19, 2020 concerts. The title is a reference to Beethoven’s eventually deafness and to my interest in sound that moves towards silence. The 6 minute work will open the concerts and outside of the title and several conceptual and formal references to Beethoven’s 9th is squarely within my aesthetic world. More here

INSPICIO an online magazine about the arts in South Florida published by The College of Communication, Architecture, and the Arts featured me and my work in the latest issue. More here

The Pontificia University in Valparaiso Chile will be celebrating my 65th year with a portrait concert of my music on May 24. In addition, I will be lecturing about my music as well as my mentor Morton Feldman’s works during my visit. I am very much looking forward to my time in Chile.

Stadluft macht frei for video and electronics was selected for screening at the Echofluxx 19 Experimental Film Festival in Prague. The work was a collaboration with visual artist Jacek Kolasinski and is scheduled for presentation during the festival that runs May 1 – 4. More at http://echofluxx.org/ECHOFLUXX19/index.html  Later that month I will be in residence at the universidad pontificia de Valparaiso, Chile lecturing, presenting master classes, and there for a portrait concert of my music taking place May 24.

In June my work, multiple views of the same objects, is scheduled for performance by the Quasar saxophone quartet at a concert taking place at the Amphithéâtre du GESÙ in Montreal on June 6. Later on June 20, separacion for soprano sax and fixed media will be presented at NYU as part of the International Computer Music Conference/New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival by virtuoso saxophonist Enzo Filippetti.

Check back for more information about these and other concerts and events in the future.

I am looking forward to visiting Mexico City in March to lecture at the UNAM and to participate on a radio show featuring my work. Later this spring and summer I am looking forward to concerts of my music in Chile and Cuba (dates TBA) and will be at an artist residency in late June and into July at the Sirius Arts Centre in Cork Ireland working on a new piece for 2 pianos and 2 percussion for Ensemble Berlin Piano Percussion. More to come soon.

This season several works are being premiered in South Florida and internationally including Coptic Bound for piano quintet with the Amernet string quartet and pianist Asiya Korepanova, muro de viento for flute, video, and electronics with images by Jacek Kolasinski performed by Cassandra Eisenreich, a return to fragmentation and the use of negative space for cello and string orchestra with cellist Jason Calloway and the musica eterna ensemble as part of the Contemporary Music Festival in Havana, and works in progress for Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalcberg’s Bichord Drone designed electric stringed instrument, the Quasar saxophone quartet, FIU Wind Ensemble, and a new work for high school orchestra being written for the Miami Arts Charter Orchestra.

My latest CD on Toccata Classics Orlando Jacinto Garcia Orchestral Music Volume 2 received a very favorable review in Fanfare this month. The reviewer Colin Clarke closed by saying This is fascinating, stimulating fare, excellently recorded in Málaga’s Sala Beethoven and provided with a booklet essay by Sarah Cahill that is a model of its kind. Bravo! You can find the entire review on the Fanfare web page and if not a member reprinted on my web page here

This month my work Afternoon Tea with Satie for bass clarinet and percussion is being performed by the Duplum Duo (Fernando Dominguez bass clarinet and Ivan Manzanilla percussion) in Oaxaca, Mexico on July 6 at 7:00 PM. The concert is part of the Festival de Clarinete y Saxofón Oaxaca/Veerkamp 2018. Later in July conversations with Harry for bass clarinet and fixed media is being performed by clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt on the July 21 evening concert as part of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. The work was written for and is dedicated to the late Harry Sparnaay.

I will be discussing my work with host Michael Brooks on this week’s version of Musical Chairs being broadcast on King FM 98.1 Seattle’s classical music station this Friday, May 25 at 7:00 PM Pacific Time. The hour-long interview includes conversation as well as the airing of 3 of my works. The show was recorded when I was in Seattle back in mid-April. More information here and to listen here

My latest portrait CD album is being released on Toccata Classics in April. The album is my second CD on Toccata Classics with my orchestra pieces and includes virtuoso soloists violinist Jennifer Choi, pianist Cristina Valdes, and clarinetist Fernando Dominguez with me conducting the Malaga Philharmonic. Three of the four works on the album are for soloist and chamber orchestra and the fourth for full orchestra. To listen to excerpts and order click here

Coming up this spring the premiere of new works for the Amernet string quartet, pianist Keith Kirchoff, violist Melia Watras and the Seattle Modern Orchestra, pianist Sarah Cahill, a new site specific work for string trio wind chimes wine glasses and electronics for the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.

Looking forward to the opening of my new installation at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami next week. The installation brings to life the instruments in the music room that given how old they are no longer playable. I have created digital samples of each that will be triggered by motion sensor as the public walks by the room. More here

It’s a great pleasure to be participating once again this November in the Festival de la Habana de Musica Contemporanea. This fall I will be conducting the premiere in Havana of my work asimetrias for string orchestra with the ensemble musica eterna on Wednesday November 15. In addition, my solo violla work la fuente de los coyotes will be performed by virtuoso Anolan Gonzalez on November 17 and my choral work el sonido dulce will be performed by the Schola Cantorum Coralina on Saturday November 18. More information to come.

Looking forward to my participation in the General Assembly during the ISCM World Music Days in Vancouver November 2 – 8 and to my presentation of an “Awesome Talk” on Saturday at 2:00 PM. The TedX type talk will focus on the perception of time in music and of course in my case the freezing of time that certain types of works can create. Also very much looking forward to the concerts and other related events.

My works despues de los humanos for cello electronics and video, the city air will make you free for video and electronics, (both with videos by Jacek Kolasinski) and la fuente de los coyotes will be included on the October 11, 25, and November 29 NODUS concerts respectively being presented at the Miami Beach Urban Studios. Great concerts with excellent performers and fascinating works. More here

I will be spending June 5 – 19 at the Brush Creek Ranch Foundation residency and am very much looking forward to the dedicated writing time in Wyoming and the physical beauty of the surroundings.

I will be spending April 24 through May 8 in residence at the Visby International Centre for Composers on the island of Gotland, Sweden working on the vocal and instrumental parts for the Knight Foundation supported Interdisciplinary work being premiered next Spring at the Faena Forum on Miami Beach.

This coming spring my activities include premieres, lectures, an artist residency and the related travel. First of all two new works are receiving world premieres. The first at the Miami International Guitar Festival with guitarist Federico Bonacossa in February followed by a new work for trumpet and amplified resonating bodies for Andrew Kozar at the New Music Miami Festival in April.

Also in February the Malaga Philharmonic will be recording 4 works for a new album, 3 of the works featuring virtuoso soloists Cristina Valdes, Jennifer Choi, and Fernando Dominguez.

In addition to lectures in the US, I will be back in Havana this April participating as guest composer and master artist for the Composition Prize Casa de las Americas and the related Latin American Composition and Performance Workshop.

Later that month I will head back to the island of Gotland off the coast of Sweden and the Visby International Centre for Composers for a 3 week residency where I will continue working on the Knight Foundation Arts Challenge funded evening long interdisciplinary work, a rising tide.

The work which includes electronics, video, movement, and an ensemble of instrumentalists and vocalists, is scheduled for premiere in the spring of 2018 at the Faena Art Forum on Miami Beach. Faena Art is assisting with the funding of the work and providing other support as well. The multifaceted installation/performance work is a collaboration with visual artist Jacek Kolasinski, architect and designer John Stuart, choreographer Augusto Soledade, and poet Campbell McGrath.

The week of November 13 I will be in Havana, Cuba participating in the XXIX Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de la Habana directed by Cuban composer Guido Lopez-Gavilan. On Monday November 14 at 11:00 AM in the Sala Rubén Martínez Villena of the UNEAC I will be speaking about my music for orchestra, followed by a performance of my Images for Wood and Wire by pianist Cecilio Tieles Ferrer on Tuesday, November 15 at 6:00 PM in the Basílica Menor del Convento de San Francisco de Asís. The following day Wednesday, November 16 at 3:00 PM my collaborative work for video and electronics created with visual artist Jacek Kolasinski and titled Stadluft Macht Frei (The City air will set you free) will be presented at the Casa de las Américas followed by the world premiere that same evening at 6:00 in the same theater of my work for string orchestra, Ascending into the eternal light, with me conducting the Orquesta de Cámara ¨Música Eterna¨ More

The week of November 7, I will be presenting master classes and lectures in the UK first at the Birmingham Conservatoire on Monday, November 7, followed by a concert meet the composer session before the November 8 London premiere of my entanglements with the Fidelio Trio as part of the 6th London Festival of American Music, and ending with a lecture for the students at the Royal Holloway University on Thursday afternoon, November 10.

This Wednesday night, October 5, my work the Distant Wind II for clarinet and string orchestra opens the 25th International Review of Composers being held in Belgrade, Serbia, October 5 – 10. For more information click above

For those of you in South Florida in October, I invite you to hear 2 world premieres as well as a Florida premiere of my music written for the performers being featured at the FIU Music Festival. On Thursday, October 13 the FIU Women’s Choir and Wind ensemble present the world premiere of la belleza que es el mar (the beauty that is the sea). If you aren’t in South Florida and/or can’t make it here is a link to the live streaming of the concert http://livestream.com/fiu-som/161013fiuurbanlandscapes
The following Thursday, October 20 the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet presents the word premiere of my work multiple winds in the distance; and on the next day Friday, October 21 clarinetist Fernando Dominguez presents the Florida premiere of my conversaciones con Harry (conversations with Harry) for bass clarinet and electronics all at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center. More information can be found here

In addition to working on the electronics for the large scale interdisciplinary work being funded by the Knight Foundation and several chamber works, this summer I will be completing the music for the documentary film, Liberty Square, being created by Moses Shumow. More information on the premiere screenings to come.

I will be a composer in Residence at the Suono Sacro Festival in Assisi, Italy August 3 – 7 presenting master classes and conducting the chamber ensemble at the festival. If you are in Italy, please check it out here

The Berlin Piano Percussion Ensemble will be recording my work September 2007 (Remembering Morty) for piano and percussion on their Telos CD coming out in October.

My work the Distant Wind II for clarinet and string orchestra will receive its Serbian premiere on October 5 at the opening concert of the 25th International Review of Composers presented by the Composer’s Association of Serbia in Belgrade. More information to follow.

The Mexico City Woodwind Quintet will be premiering a new work being written for them as part of their tour of the US in the fall. Their performance at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center is scheduled for October 20th as part of the 20th year celebration of the FIU School of Music. More information TBA

A new work for the FIU Chamber Winds and Women’s Choir will also be premiered in October at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center also as part of the 20th year celebration of the FIU School of Music. More information TBA

In November I will be in the UK lecturing and attending the performance of my Entanglements for piano trio being performed by the Fidelio Trio on November 8 as part of the 6th London Festival of American Music. More information TBA

Later that month on November 16, I will be conducting the premiere performance of my work Ascending into the Eternal Light for string orchestra at the Havana New Music Festival with the Musica Eterna String Orchestra. My collaborative work Stadluft Macht Frei, with video by Jacek Kolasinski is also scheduled to be presented as part of the festival. More information TBA

Several upcoming premieres for the spring and information regarding the 2017 New Music Miami ISCM Festival will be coming soon…

I will be presenting a lecture on my work and master classes as part of the Festival Latinoamericano de Musica being held in Caracas, Venezuela. My works Conversations with Harry for bass clarinet and fixed media as well as my In Memoriam Earle Brown will be performed by clarinetist Gorgias Sanchez and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra respectively.

Next week on Tuesday, April 26 at 6:00 PM I will be presenting a lecture on my music at the University of California in San Diego. That same day I will be doing master classes for a number of their graduate students. I am very much looking forward to my visit and to seeing friends, colleagues, and meeting the students.

A link to the second inversion site with a recording available for streaming of the October 17 premiere of From Darkness to Luminosity performed by the Seattle Modern Orchestra with pianist Cristina Valdes and Julia Tai conducting can be found here Please scroll down to the 4th track to listen…

I am extremely humbled to have received a Knight Foundation Challenge grant for the creation of a new multidisciplinary work on the theme of sea level rise. The site specific evening long work to include video, electronics, instrumentalists, singers, and dancers, is being created in collaboration with a very talented group of colleagues including visual artist Jacek Kolasinski, architect John Stuart, poet Campbell McGrath, choreographer Augusto Soledade, and Faena Art. The work is tentatively scheduled for premiere in December 2017. More

Very honored and humbled to know that my work Auschwitz (nunca se olvdarán) released on Toccata Classics was one of 6 nominated works in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category of the Latin Grammys. The winner will be announced on November 19 at the Latin Grammy ceremony being held in Las Vegas. More here

Premiere of my work for bass clarinet and fixed media by composer performer extra ordinaire Jorge Variego in March. The work was written at the Visby International Centre for Composers on the island of Gotland, Sweden in August

Premiere of my work una lluvia fuete (con mezcal) a hard rain (with mezcal) by virtuoso pianist Kathleen Supove this March at the New Music Miami Festival

Premiere of a new piano quartet April 4 at a concert of music by Cuban composers being held at Symphony Space in NYC. The work was written for the Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble who will be performing the premiere

Premiere of my work for string quartet and orchestra with the Miami Symphony Orchestra and the Cuarteto Latinamericano April 9 and 10 in Miami

The premiere of a new work for string quartet and clarinet for Michael Norsworthy and the Amernet based on my Distant Wind II for premiere April 15 at the New Music Miami Festival

I will be lecturing on my work and presenting master classes at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in April

A performance of my In Memoriam Earle Brown by the Simon Bolivar Orchestra at the Festival Latinoamericano de Musica being held May 22 – 30 in Caracas, Venezuela

Please check out the links to YouTube videos of my works in the Video tab listed under Performances as well as links to audio excerpts of some of the CDs listed in the Discography section.

Tomorrow Tuesday, August 4, I will be leaving for a 3 week artists residency at the Visby International Composers Center (VICC) on the island of Gotland just off the coast of Sweden. I will be creating a new work for Henry Sparnaay one of the greatest champions and virtuosos of the bass clarinet in the history of the instrument. The piece being written for him and his proteges will be for solo bass clarinet and electronics. I am looking forward to creating the work at the VICC and to it’s eventual premiere later in the coming season.

I will be joining my good friends Bernard Rands and Chinary Ung as part of the composition faculty at the Miami Summer Music Festival June 29 through July 12. The festival will accept up to 12 young emerging composers who will work with the 3 of us and have their works performed by excellent musicians. More information here

The Distant Wind II was selected for performance by the Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva Manuel Enriquez in Mexico City. The work will be performed by virtuoso clarinetist Fernando Dominguez and the Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes on June 7. See upcoming performances for more information.

Mixtura for fixed media and cello has been selected for performance at the NYCEMF this summer. The festival takes place between June 22 and 28. See performances for more.

Stadluft Macht Frei my collaborative work with video artist Jacek Kolasinski will be presented at the SEAMUS 2015 Conference being held at Virgina Tech March 26 – 28. The work will be running continuously in the listening viewing room throughout the festival.

Mari Kimura will be presenting the premiere of my solo violin work marea cambiante (changing tide) at the New Music Miami ISCM Festival on March 20. The concert is being held at the FIU/CARTA Miami Beach Urban Studios.

The New Music Miami Festival continues this week with a concert featuring cellist Jason Calloway and composer Calloway on Thursday, January 29 followed by the Friday night concert with the FIU Symphony and guest virtuoso violinist Jennifer Choi performing the premiere of my work una marea creciente. More

I will be running a composition workshop in Assisi, Italy as part of the Suono Sacro Festival July 12 through 25. During the 2 weeks I will be working with up to 12 composers as they create a new piece for the Suono Sacro Ensemble in residence at the festival. These new works will be read and recorded by the ensemble and a number of them will be performed during the festival. The workshop is part of the Study Abroad offerings at Florida International University and is open to all advanced undergraduate students and graduate students from any institution. More information here

The New Music Miami ISCM Festival opens tomorrow Friday, January 16 with a performance by the Chicago based Fonema Consort. They will be performing works by Joan Arnau Pamies, Shawn Lucas, Pablo Santiago Chin, and the South Florida premiere of my work entre Michigan y Jefferson. More here

On December 4th I will be celebrating my 60^th birthday year with a retrospective concert and CD signing party taking place at FIU’s CARTA Miami Beach Urban Studios. The event will feature my friends the Amernet string quartet, bassist Luis Gomez Imbert, and guitarist Mesut Ozgen. The evening will start with a pre-concert reception including drinks and hors d’oeuvres followed by a post concert champagne toast and CD signing. The CD Auschwitz (nunca se olvidaran) on Toccata Classics and my most recent will be on sale before and after the concert with proceeds going to fund a scholarship for a talented FIU music composition student. An invitation will be going out soon with RSVP requested. I hope to see many of you there.

I will be presenting lectures on my music and aesthetics at York University on November 11 and the University of Birmingham on November 12 in the UK. From there I will travel to Madrid, Spain for the premiere of my new work pentimento by the Nuevo Ensemble de Segovia at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes on November 15.

During September and October of 2014 I presented my work and lectures about my music at festivals in Merida (Peninsula Sonora), Morelia (visiones sonoras), and Mexico City (SMME at the CENART), in addition to a portrait concert presented at the CNMAS in Morelia. It was an extremely positive time and I am looking forward to returning in the near future.

I was awarded a Bogliasco Foundation Residency for April – May 2015 to begin working on a new work for 2 violins and orchestra for Igor and Vesna Gruppman. Igor is the concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and his wife Vesna is also in the violin section – both are excellent performers. The premiere is tentatively set for 2016/17 with several orchestras and venues in Europe being considered. In addition, the foundation awarded me its Aaron Copland Bogliasco Fellowship in Music which will defray my travel and other expenses to/from and while in Italy.

A new CD with 3 of my orchestra works is being released on Toccata Classics September 1. The new CD titled Auschwitz (they will never be forgotten – nunca se olvidarán) includes the title cut for orchestra and choir as well as Varadero Memories (recuerdos) and In Memoriam Earle Brown both for full orchestra. The CD features celebrated conductor Jose Serebrier and the Malaga Philharmonic with the FIU Concert Choir. To hear excerpts and  get more information visit the Toccata Classics web page here
http://www.toccataclassics.com/cddetail.php?CN=TOCC0239

Check out the on the road segment were I will be posting from my travels – prior posts from  my travels to Italy, Spain, Poland, Argentina, Slovakia, Austria, and the US over the last year are up. And check out Score Availability under the Works tab – I will periodically be posting downloadable PDFs of my works. Feel free to scroll down for more news…

As of May 1, 2014 and after 4 and half years I have left the job as director of the FIU School of Music and accepted the position of composer in residence at our FIU CARTA Miami Beach Urban Studios – while continuing my work as professor of composition and coordinator of the composition program for the School of Music. During the summer and Fall semesters I will be on research assignment composing at artists residencies, and lecturing and conducting my works at festivals and other related events in the US and abroad. I am very proud of what we where able to achieve as a School in those 4 plus years but my research and creative activities have compelled me to move on to this new post. As the composer in residence at our Miami Beach Urban Studios I will be creating and curating new works to be presented at the Studios by our faculty, students, and guest artists and ensembles, bringing additional visibility to the space while continuing my work as a composer nationally and internationally.

From August 5 through 26, I will be in residence at the Millay Colony in New York working on my interdisciplinary video opera universos paralelos – parallel universes for chamber ensemble, video, and electronics.

I will be in residence at the Assisi Suono Sacro Festival from July 16 – 21 to lecture and conducting the premiere of my work Ascension being written for the L’ensemble Suono Sacro.

From July 1 through July 16, I will be in residence at the Casa Zia Lina in Elba, Italy writing a new work for the Bugallo-Williams piano duo. The work will be premiered by the duo during their 2014-15 concert season.

During the month of June, I will be working at the Audiotheque Subtropics studios on Miami Beach to create the electronics for a new piece being written for the Chicago based Fonoma Consort ensemble. The work for soprano, flute, percussion and electronics will be premiered at the visiones sonoras festival in Morelia, Mexico in October

I have been in residence at the MacDowell Colony from April 28 leaving June 2. During that time I completed a new work for the L’ensemble Suono Sacro based in Assisi, Italy. The work for flute, harp, and string quintet will be premiered on July 17 as part of the Assisi Suono Sacro Festival. Also while in residence, I began a work for the Neuvo Ensemble de Segovia (the New Ensemble from Segovia) for alto flute, bass clarinet, percussion, and piano to be premiered November 15 in Madrid, Spain as part of the COMA Festival.

On April 11, I will be conducting my work the Distant Wind for clarinet and orchestra as part of the Pomeranian Clarinet Festival being held in Szczecin, Poland. The soloist will be Woytek Mrozek with the Szczecin Philharmonic – Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Memorial Symphony Orchestra. I will also be lecturing at the conservatory and the music academy in Szczecin during my visit as well.

This week the Miami Symphony Orchestra will be premiering a new version of my work Celestial Voices for 2 contrabasses and orchestra. The performances on April 5 and 6 will feature bassists Luis Gomez-Imbert and Jeff Bradetich. This performance is part of my work as composer in residence with the orchestra which includes advising the artistic director Eduardo Marturet as well as creating new works for the orchestra.

I will be diffusing my work la catedral de cristal at the SEAMUS Conference taking place at Wesleyan University in Connecticut on March 29.

I will be participating at the ISCM World Music Days representing the Miami ISCM Chapter at the General Assembly in Slovakia and Vienna November 4 – 15.

I have been invited to present a paper lecture demonstration in Spanish on my electronic music and collaborations with video and other artists as part of a conference on Music and Technology being held at the National Institute for the Arts (IUNA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina Spetmeber 26 – 28

Beginning for the 2013 – 14 season I have been named composer in residence with the Miami Symphony Orchestra assisting maestro Eduardo Marturet with projects being initiated for/by the orchestra. I look forward to assisting one of the regions important musical ensembles.

The January/February 2012 issue of Chamber Music Magazine includes an article on my work written by writer, critic, and composer Kyle Gann. The article is available for free from Chamber Music America by requesting it at their web site located here. The January/February 2012 issue of Chamber Music Magazine includes an article on my work written by writer, critic, and composer Kyle Gann. The article is available for free from Chamber Music America by requesting it at their web site located here. The January/February 2012 issue of Chamber Music Magazine includes an article on my work written by writer, critic, and composer Kyle Gann. The article is available for free from Chamber Music America by requesting it at their web site located here

Orlando Jacinto Garcia’s work mixtura (mixture) was nominated for a 2011 Latin Grammy in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition Category More. The work was recorded by cellist Iracema de Andrade on her solo CD electro-acustico released by CNMAS in Mexico. Orlando Jacinto Garcia’s work mixtura (mixture) was nominated for a 2011 Latin Grammy in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition Category More. The work was recorded by cellist Iracema de Andrade on her solo CD electro-acustico released by CNMAS in Mexico

Electro-acústico works for cello and electroacoustic sounds featuring cellist Iracema de Andrade with works by Javier Alvarez, Rodrigo Sigal, Daniel Barreiro, Paul Rudy, and Garcia’s mixtura. Released 1/11 on the CMMAS label. electro-acústico works for cello and electroacoustic sounds featuring cellist Iracema de Andrade with works by Javier Alvarez, Rodrigo Sigal, Daniel Barreiro, Paul Rudy, and Garcia’s mixtura. Released 1/11 on the CMMAS label