Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Artslink.co.za: Tania León workshop at Linder Auditorium 3 PM Aug. 12 with JPO Academy Orchestra

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Public open workshop with Tania León

WSOA - Wits School of Arts
08/01/2012 12:04:44

Tania León will give a unique public open workshop at the Linder Auditorium on Sunday 12 August at 15:00 with the JPO Academy Orchestra.

The workshop is presented by Wits School of Arts / WitsMusic and Wits Theatre.

Tania León, (b. Havana, Cuba) is highly regarded as a composer and conductor and recognized for her accomplishments as an educator and advisor to arts organizations. 
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León's opera Scourge of Hyacinths, based on a play by Wole Soyinka with staging and design by Robert Wilson, received over 20 performances throughout Europe and Mexico. Commissioned by Hans Werner Henze and the city of Munich for the Fourth Munich Biennale, it took home the coveted BMW Prize. The aria "Oh Yemanja" ("Mother's Prayer") was recorded by Dawn Upshaw on her Nonesuch CD, "The World So Wide."
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The programme for the workshop with the distinguished Mellon Visiting Professor will include Tania León’s work BATÁ and works by Ferdinand Herold (“Zampa”), Bizet, Grieg, and Smetana.

The JPO Academy programme serves as an ideal incubator for the professional JPO orchestra and the industry in general, which benefits from a constant supply of well trained and highly competent young musicians. The JPO Academy Orchestra offers a limited number of full scholarships to talented students who would otherwise not be able to afford to study music at tertiary level. 

[The website of the Afro-Cuban composer and conductor Tania León (b. 1943) is http://www.tanialeon.com/; she is also profiled at AfriClassical.com]

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