Diego Tedesco: Varietas

Diego Tedesco

Diego Tedesco is an Argentine composer born in Buenos Aires in 1974. Initially self-taught, he later studied composition with Julio Viera and Francisco Kröpfl, alongside studies in fine arts and graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. His music has received numerous distinctions, including the Juan Carlos Paz Prize, the Argentine National Award, the Koussevitzky Foundation Music Award, and the Premio Municipal. In 2016, his first opera, El Fiord, commissioned by the Teatro Colón, was premiered in Buenos Aires. His works have been performed internationally by distinguished soloists and ensembles in venues and festivals across the Americas and Europe.

Miranda Cuckson

Recently called “a fearless, visionary, and tremendously talented artist” (Sequenza21) and “a poetic soloist with a strong personality, yet unpretentious” (Die Presse, Vienna), Miranda Cuckson delights audiences with her playing of a great range of music and styles, from older eras to the newest creations. An internationally acclaimed soloist and collaborator, violinist and violist, she enjoys performing at venues large and small, from concert halls to casual spaces.

She has been a featured artist at the Berlin Philharmonie, Suntory Hall, Casa da Musica Porto, Teatro Colón, Cleveland Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music, the 92nd St Y, National Sawdust, and the Ojai, Bard, Marlboro, Portland, Music Mountain, West Cork, Grafenegg, Wien Modern, Frequency, and LeGuessWho festivals. Miranda made her Carnegie Hall debut playing Piston’s Concerto No. 1 with the American Symphony Orchestra. She recently premiered Georg Friedrich Haas’ Violin Concerto No. 2 at the Vienna Musikverein and with orchestras in Japan, Portugal and Germany, and the Violin Concerto by Marcela Rodriguez with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México. Miranda is a member of interdisciplinary collective AMOC and director of non-profit Nunc. She has guest curated at National Sawdust and programmed concerts at the Contempo series in Chicago and Miller Theatre in New York, among others. Her numerous lauded albums include Világ, featuring the Bartok Sonata for Solo Violin with contemporary works; the Ligeti, Korngold, Ponce, and Piston concertos; music by 20th century American composers; Bartók/Schnittke/Lutoslawski sonatas; Melting the Darkness, an album of microtonal/electronic music; and Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, named a Recording of the Year by The New York Times. An alumna of The Juilliard School, where she earned her doctorate, she teaches at Mannes College/New School University.

Composers Conference Ensemble

Composers Conference Ensemble: Founded in 1945, The Composers Conference is a summer program that embraces collaborative music creation by musicians at the beginning of their careers, those that are well-established, and those for whom music is an important part of their lives. The oldest and most respected program of its kind, The Composers Conference was guided by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Mario Davidovsky for 50 years. In 2019, composer Kurt Rohde was appointed the new Artistic Director. As part of the conference’s programs, the Composers Conference Ensemble consists of the finest new music specialists, many of whom are members of highly regarded groups in the U.S.. The Ensemble performs and records music of the Composer Fellows and Guest Composers, whose music is featured along with contemporary classics and rarities from the standard repertoire in the summer concerts.

Daniel Lippel

Guitarist Dan Lippel, called a "modern guitar polymath (Guitar Review)" and an "exciting soloist" (NY Times) is active as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. He has been the guitarist for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) since 2005 and new music quartet Flexible Music since 2003. Recent performance highlights include recitals at Sinus Ton Festival (Germany), University of Texas at San Antonio, MOCA Cleveland, Center for New Music in San Francisco, and chamber performances at the Macau Music Festival (China), Sibelius Academy (Finland), Cologne's Acht Brücken Festival (Germany), and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. He has appeared as a guest with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and New York New Music Ensemble, among others, and recorded for Kairos, Bridge, Albany, Starkland, Centaur, and Fat Cat.

counter)induction

In its twenty years of virtuosic performances and daring programming, the composer/performer collective counter)induction has established itself as a force of excellence in contemporary music. Hailed by The New York Times for its “fiery ensemble virtuosity” and for its “first-rate performances” by The Washington Post, c)i has given critically-acclaimed performances at Miller Theatre, Merkin Concert Hall, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Music at the Anthology, and the George Washington University. Since emerging in 1998 from a series of collaborations between composers at the University of Pennsylvania and performers at the Juilliard School, counter)induction has premiered numerous pieces by both established and emerging American composers; including Eric Moe, Suzanne Sorkin, Ursula Mamlok, and Lee Hyla. c)i has also widely promoted the music of international composers including Jukka Tiensuu, Gilbert Amy, Dai Fujikura, Diego Tedesco, and Elena Mendoza. Since its inception, c)i’s mission has been straightforward: world-class performances of contemporary chamber music, without hype and without agenda other than a complete commitment to the most compelling music of our day.

Natalia Cappa

Natalia Cappa developed her career as a singer and performer within contemporary music and free improvisation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated from the Manuel de Falla Conservatory of the City of Buenos Aires as a music teacher and singer with a Postgraduate Degree in Contemporary Music. She has performed numerous premieres of opera and musical theater and chamber music in Argentina. With extensive training in singing, theater and movement, she dedicates her work to the research of new vocalities and extended vocal techniques for their use in contemporary singing, as well as teaching. She has performed works by Stockhausen, Berio, Cage, Ligeti, and works by Argentine composers such as Oscar Edelstein, Jorge Sad, Antonio Tauriello, Mario Davidovsky, Alejandro Viñao, Facundo Llompart. She has sung under the direction of Diego Mason, Enrique Diemecke, Antonio Russo, Santiago Santero, Marcelo Delgado. She has played roles in several theater plays. She also works as a singing and improvisation teacher. She has participated in colloquiums and lectured at international music festivals in Argentina and Mexico; and has published articles and papers on the voice in contemporary music in academic publications and specialized journals in Argentina and Spain. She is a member and co-founder of the TRoneitor Duo and the Soundscraps group with which she has performed since 2018 in many cultural centers, art galleries and auditoriums in the city of Buenos Aires. The work of the Soundscraps group “El Plata a su Derecha” has won the Special Recognition for National Production at the edition of International VideoArt Festival FIVA 2019. TRoneitor Duo’s works have been programmed at numerous international music and sound art festivals in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Germany.The Duo has published their first album and is now recording their second album with works created by composers of Argentina and Latin America at the 1st TRoneitor Residence.