In Crescendo: Consonant Chamber Music of the 21st Century Habemus Quartet

• Andreas Apostolou:
• 1 Metamorphoses 07:39
• Pavel Karmanov (1970 - ):
• 2 Second Snow on the Stadium 06:53
• José González Granero (1985 - ):
• 3 String Quartet No. 1 "Noches del a insomne" 11:47
• Elena Kats-Chernin (1957 - ):
• 4 Dance of the Paper Umbrellas (Version for Piano Quartet) 03:54
• Ivan Palomares: Con moto:
• 5 Con moto: I. Motion 02:14
• 6 Con moto: II. Amore in transito 03:46
• 7 Con moto: III. ADHD 01:50
• 8 Con moto: IV. Hymne de réconciliation 05:39
• Jan Wachowski:
• 9 Quintet 09:38
• Total Runtime 53:20

Info for In Crescendo: Consonant Chamber Music of the 21st Century

World Premiere Recordings of works awarded in 2016 Cum Laude Music Awards: The concept of this release responds to an idea that arose at the time of programming a concert of consonant contemporary music several years ago by the Non Profit Music Foundation. The aim was not only to increase the loudness of the programme but also the sound texture that the listener would perceive. With this aim in mind, the concert begins with the least possible instrumentation and the number of instruments on site is increased until the last piece is programmed. In this sense, the recital presented on this album meets precisely the same criterion. Thus, the program begins with a solo piano piece followed by a duet between viola and piano. The third piece that can be heard is a string quartet followed by a quartet with piano, that is, piano together with violin, viola, and cello. Then, the texture of another string quartet returns, ending the recital with a piano quintet where all the instrumentalists are on stage. This album contains the world premiere recordings of the works awarded in the first edition of Cum Laude Music Awards.

Habemus Quartet
Daniel Del Pino, direction

Daniel del Pino
is one of the leading Spanish concert pianists in the international scene. He has performed in all five continents. His performances have been heard in the most prestigious venues all over Europe (Salle Gaveau in Paris, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, Atheneum G. Enescu in Bucharest, Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Auditori in Barcelona, Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao), in Morocco, Tunisia, all over the Middle-East, Gabon, Kazakhstan, Japan, Taiwan (Taipei’s National Concert Hall), Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Australia, and in the U.S.A. (Carnegie Hall in New York). He has been a soloist with the following orchestras: Symphonies of RTVE (Spanish Radio Television, Madrid), Clasica de España, Sevilla, Cordoba, Valencia, Galicia, Malaga, Castilla-Leon, Murcia, Chamber Orchestra Reina Sofia and the Meadows, Winchester, Kenosha, Federal Way, Garland, Las Colinas, New Arlington, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Medellín, Virtuosi di Praga, Soloists from the Almaty Symphony Orchestra, Filharmonia Podkarpacka (Rzeszow, Poland), Bucharest Philarmonic “George Enescu” (Romania), Brasov, and Transilvania State Symphony Orchestras among others, with conductors such as: Max Bragado, José Miguel Rodilla, Gloria Isabel Ramos, Enrique Garcia-Asensio, Alejandro Posada, Rubén Gimeno, Carlo Rizzi, Marco Gatti, Alfonso Saura, Carlos Riazuelo, Robert Carter Austin…

He is a frequent guest at numerous festivals worldwide, Segovia, León, Zaragoza, Coruña, Valencia, Vigo, Gijón, Cadaqués, Ubeda, Ayamonte, Pau Casals (Vendrell), Otoño Soriano (Soria), Itu (Brasil), Morelia Festival (Mexico), Bravissimo Festival (Guatemala), Verbier (Switzerland), Musifleuves, Piano en Saintonge and Cap Ferret Festival (France), Chamber Music International (Dallas, USA), Newport Music Festival (USA) for fifteen consecutive years, and the Haifa Chamber Music Society (Israel). He has premiered works by José Zárate, Elena Kats-Chernin, Nikolai Kapustin, Jorge Grundman, Francisco Lara and Antón García-Abril, among others.

Daniel del Pino was born in Lebanon in 1972 of spanish parents. He started his piano studies in Rabat (Morocco), then at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica of Madrid (Spain), Yale University and at Southern Methodist University in Dallas (USA). His teachers were Marisa Villalba, Julián López-Gimeno, Peter Frankl and Joaquín Achúcarro. He was a Piano Professor at the Toledo Conservatory in Spain and is currently part of the Faculty at Musikene (Superior Conservatory of the Basque Country).

He has been an adjudicator at numerous national and international piano competitions and has given masterclasses at the “Klagenfurt Masterclass” (Austria), EuroArts Festival and Academy in Leipzig (Germany), Boston and Houston Universities, Barratt Due Institute in Oslo (Norway), Cap Ferret Academy (France), Jordan Academy of Music (Jordan), San Esteban de Gormaz, Presjovem in Cordoba (Spain), in Tucson and Washington (USA) and the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (Birzeit University, Palestine).

His performances have been broadcasted by the RNE (Spanish Public Radio), RTVE (Spanish Public Television), SWR 2 (Sttutgart, Germany), Morelia (Mexico), Brasov, Bucharest and Cluj Televisions (Romania), Boston WGBH, Chicago WFMT, Dallas, Libreville, Taiwan National Television and Sydney ABC radios. He has recorded the complete Chopin etudes under the label Verso, the CD “Live in Villa San Lorenzo” with the double-bassist Alberto Bocini (NBB Records), the complete Goyescas by Granados (Verso) as well as the CDs “Minds” (violin and piano) and “No Seasons” (violin, voice, piano and orchestra) with violinist Ara Malikian and the Non-Profit Chamber Orchestra. Most recently the CD “2+2 4 Kapustin” was released, with music by Kapustin with premiere recordings of his concerto for two pianos and percussion along with Ludmil Angelov and Neopercusion. In February 2012 his CD “Looking back over Chopin” (along with saxophonist, voice-flutist and clarinetist Andreas Prittwitz) was released, with a new perspective on the music of Chopin, from an improvisational point of view. This CD was recorded and presented at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

Since 2010 he serves as the Artistic Director of the concert series “Cita con los Clásicos”, in Guadarrama and from 2014 also from the Festival that is organized by Sierra Musical around Madrid. He is part of the faculty as a piano professor at Centro Superior Katarina Gurska, in Madrid.

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