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2013 The Orchestra of the League of Composers, conducted by Louis Karchin, will present the American premier of Memoria(i)mobile, for orchestra, in New York City. The work was commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage, and premiered in 2010 by the Netherlands Chamber Philharmonic Hilversum and conductor Peter Eötvös.
Postponed to 2013 New commission from Fundação OSESP - São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. "Ó" for narrators, choirs, chamber orchestra, and electronics will be premiered at Sala São Paulo, by the OSESP choir, members of the orchestra. This work will be a sonic reading of a short segment of "Ó", a book by Nuno Ramos, one of Brazil's most original and unclassifiable living artists.
July 2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to take part in "The Problem of Translation: Philosophical, Cultural, Literary, Genealogical", a summer dissertation seminar in the humanities" hosted by the Comparative Literature Department at New York University.
April 13th 2012 The Mivos Quartet will perform Corde Vocale at the Brazilian Endownment for the Arts, New York. The piece was the winner of the Mivos/Kanter Prize.
March 25th 2012 Duo Diorama (Minghuan Xu and Winston Choi) will perform Prisma, for violin and piano, at Lorain County Community College, in Elyria, Ohio, as part of the 2011-2012 Signature Series.
February 16th 2012 The Distractfold Ensemble (UK) will perform Postacard, for clarinet and scordatura violin, at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, in Manchester, England.
Spring 2012 Tran(slate) will be recorded by the JACK Quartet as part as an áltaVoz album that will feature new Latin-American music for string quartet. The album will release under the Urtext label.
November 5th 2011 Screaning of DVD "Nos Sons da APA SFX", an interdiciplinary project that took in São Francisco Xavier, Brazil, located in the Atlantic Forrest, more precisely in the Mantiqueira mountain range. Lara will lead 50 local school children in collaboration with Espaço Cultural Ventos Uivantes (ECVU), a nucleus of Associação Cultural Jatobá (AJA), and the non-profit organization Instituto Acáia, São Paulo. The project involved a musical game/composition where the students will collect numerous found objects found in each of the five ecological protection areas in the forest in order to use them as musical instruments in a culminating 26 minute-long performance.
October 25th 2011 Recipient of the 2011 Fromm Foundation Commissions, from Harvard University, to write a solo flute work to be premiered by Claire Chase.
October 23rd 2011 Camerata Aberta performed Prisma, for violin and piano, at the Palais de Beaux-Arts, in Brussels, as part of the Biannual International Arts Festival Europalia, along with works by Alexandre Lunsqui, Aylton Escobar, Roberto Victorio, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Flo Menezes, Rodrigo Lima, and Silvio Ferraz.
October 21st 2011 Camerata Aberta performed Prisma, for violin and piano, at Sint-Martinuskerk, in Herzele, as part of the Biannual International Arts Festival Europalia.
August 7th 2011 Onda, for orchestra, was performed in Tanglewood as part as the Festival of Contemporary Music, at Seiji Osawa Hall, by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, conducted by Case Scaglione. Full festival program click here. Read Allen Kozinn's New York Times Review "The New and the Newer; Hold the Preconceptions".
June 6th-August 1st 2011 Artist residency at Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil.
July 21st 2011 Feature article in Jornal Cruzeiro do Sul (Sorocaba) entitled "Ócio criativo na Ilha de Itaparica", about the work realized at Sacatar Foundation, Brazil.
July 17th 2011 Article in Folha de São Paulo entitled "Casa dos Artistas", about the work realized at Sacatar Foundation, Brazil.
July 16th 2011 Featured in a television segment in Mosaico Baiano (TV Globo) filmed at Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil. Watch here.
July 11th, 12th 2011 Thaught a two day workshop as visiting lecturer at Universidade Federal da Bahia, Escola de Música, Salvador, Brazil.
July 2nd 2011 Corde Vocale for string quartet wins the 1st Kanter/MIVOS String Quartet Prize, New York. The MIVOS Quartet will perform the work in New York City in the Spring 2012.
June 25th 2011 Violinist Mari Kimura and pianist Stephen Gosling performed Prisma at Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, along with works by Sciarrino, Takemitsu, Debussy, Kimura, Viñao, and Cavanna.
May 18th-21st 2011 Interdiciplinary project "Sons da APA" took in São Francisco Xavier, Brazil, located in the Atlantic Forrest, more precisely in the Mantiqueira mountain range. Lara will lead 50 local school children in collaboration with Espaço Cultural Ventos Uivantes (ECVU), a nucleus of Associação Cultural Jatobá (AJA), and the non-profit organization Instituto Acáia, São Paulo. The project involved a musical game/composition where the students will collect numerous found objects found in each of the five ecological protection areas in the forest in order to use them as musical instruments in a culminating performance. The project will include local visual artists, activists, teachers, recording engineers, and video artists. The recordings of the jungle as well as the students performance will be collected in the end and will eventually become the source materials for a new electro-acoustic composition.
May 16th 2011 Lecture about his recent orchestral and chamber music at the department of music (ECA) at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil, with support from LAM and FAPESP.
May 13th 2011 Presented a lecture about his recent orchestral and chamber music, as well as teach a composition workshop at the department of music at Unicamp, in Campinas, Brazil.
May 12th 2011 Feature article in Jornal Cruzeiro do Sul (Sorocaba) entitled "Minha música é mesmo difícil".
May 12th 2011 Lara present a lecture about his recent orchestral and chamber music at Fundação de Desenvolvimento Cultural de Sorocaba (Fundec), in Sorocaba, Brazil.
April 12th 2011 Camerata Aberta and conductor Ricardo Bologna performed Tutti in their season opening concert titled Ritmo Cor, at Sesc Consolação, São Paulo, Brazil, along with works by Crumb, Adams, Mesquita, and Viñao. For full review in Portuguese click here.
March 21st 2011 New York New Music Ensemble will perform Livro dos Sonhos for clarinet and piano as part of the Latin Roots Festival 2011, at the Americas Society, New York City.
February 23rd 2011 Arturo en el Barco will present Postcard for clarinet and violin at El Museo del Bario, in New York City. The concert will featur music by áltaVoz composers, as well as a pre-concert talk.
February 8th 2011 Esther Noh and Jakob Rhodeeack performed Prisma for violin and piano at St. Peter's Church, in New York City, along with works by Finnisy and Adams.
January 23rd 2011 Counter)induction performed Livro dos Sonhos for clarinet and piano as part of Transit Circle, at Mannes College, in New York City.
January 2011 New work for harp and string quartet commissioned by Elizabeth Morse.
December 14th 2010 Lara presented an hour-long talk about his recent music as a featured guest at the New England Conservatory Young Composers Forum, at NEC, in Boston.
November 29th 2010 Feature article about Lara's music on newspaper Comunidade News.
October 28th 2010 Playground Ensemble's Susan Jensen and Reggie Berg will perform Prisma for violin and piano in the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, at the University of Denver, Colorado.
October 22nd 2010 Duo Diorama will perform Prisma for violin and piano at the 31st New Music Festival in Bowling Green, OH.
October 17th 2010 Orchestra commission from Südwestrundfunk (SWR) Memoria(i)mobile was premiered at Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010 by the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Hilversum with Peter Eötvös conducting. The concert also featured works by Steen-Andersen, Norris, and Stroppa. This year’s festival featured world premieres of 22 works by composers from 15 countries.
Among them Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Georg Friedrich Haas, Peter Ablinger, Ondrej Adamek, Aaron Cassidy, James Dillon, Brian Ferneyhough, Vinko Globokar, Alan Hilario, Liza Lim, Alvin Lucier, Philippe Manoury, Michael Norris, Klaus Ospald, Alberto Posadas, James Saunders, Simon Steen-Andersen, Marco Stroppa and others. All of these were commissioned by the Südwestrundfunk (SWR).
July 2010 Postcard for clarinet and violin will be released as part of a new CD by áltaVoz. The CD also features works by Mauricio Pauly, José-Luis Hurtado, Jorge Grossmann, and Pedro Malpica. Click here to purchase.
July 2010 Premier screening in Darmstadt, Germany, of David Ryan and Andrew Chesher's new film, Knots and Fields, a documentary that examines the history of the Darmstadt courses and the ways in which that history still shapes the courses today. It includes documentation of live performances, interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Györg Kurtág, young composers on recent courses and distinguished performers such as the Arditti String Quartet, as well as archival footage. An Interview with Lara is included in the film, which is part of the Kettle's Yard collection, published by University of Cambridge (UK).
April 2010 Article in Brazil's classical music magazine Revista Concerto.
March 27th 2010 Interview in Jornal Ipanema, Sorocaba, Brazil.
March 19th 2010 Feature article in the Correio de Itapetininga, Brazil.
March 17th 2010 Biographic chapter in Sidney Molina's book "Música Clássica Brasileira Hoje" (Brazilian Classical Music Today), published by Publifolha as part of the series Folhaexplica, São Paulo, Brazil. The book traces a panorama that comprises 49 texts about 14 composers and 35 interpreters that represent the many areas of this "Classical" music scene in the country and abroad.
March 13th 2010 The Arditti Quartet will perform Tran(slate) at Ars Musica Festival, Antwerp, Belgium, along with works by Xenakis, Dufour, and Birtwistle.
March 13th 2010 Feature Article in Jornal Cruzeiro do Sul, Sorocaba, Brazil.
March 8th 2010 Feature Article on the cover of the arts section (Ilustrada) of Brazil's largest newspaper Folha De São Paulo. Photos by Gilberto Tadday.
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March 5th 2010 Review in the New York Times by critic Anthony Tommasini after a JACK Quartet performance of Tran(slate) at Merkin Hall, New York.
March 3rd 2010 The JACK quartet performed Tran(slate) at Merkin Hall in a Washington Square Contemporary Music Society concert.
February 11th 2010 The JACK quartet performed Corde Vocale at the Americas Society in New York along with new works by the members of áltaVoz. The concert was part of the Music of the Americas concert series funded by MetLife Foundation.
February 10th 2010 Lecturer at Boston University College of Fine Arts along with fellow members of áltaVoz.
January 16th 2010 Ensemble Recherche performed Tutti in Freiburg, Germany, in a concert called East Coast/West Coast featuring works written in the United States by Ferneyhough, Czernowin, Wolpe, Glass, Nancarrow, Chin, and Ives.
December 1st - 4th 2009 Featured composer/lecturer at the Music School at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil at the Encontro de Compositores of the XXI Seminários Internacionais de Música.
December 11th 2009 Vocalise for two bass clarinetists was performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble in Chicago, at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, along with works by Chin, Balter, Zorn, and Ingebritsen. Short interview about the piece can be heard at the ensemble's Podcast. Read the review in the Chicago Classical Review.
November 10th 2009 Tran(slate) for string quartet was performed by the JACK Quartet at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, along with works by Sciarrino, Xenakis, Nakamura, Roberts, and Toscano. Review in the Classical Voice of New England.
November 1st 2009 Interdiciplinary project "Desenhando na Mata" took place in São Francisco Xavier, Brazil, located in the Atlantic Forrest, more precisely in the Mantiqueira mountain range. A recording of Onda, for orchestra, was presented while visual artists including Cinthia Crelier, Flávio Castellan, Gabriela Mariano, and students from São Paulo transferred their impressions and reactions to a large panel (7'2" by 4'), in real time, while listening to the work. After the first painting was finished, I connected with the artists via Skype, from New York, and we had a brief discussion about my original intentions while composing the work. After everyone became more familiar with the general intent of the work a second panel was made, also in real-time. Video artists Roberto Fachini and Mayara Rodrigues captured the two versions of the work-in-process with two video cameras, and a DVD will be released with the juxtaposition of both panels, slowly crystallizing two collective subjectivities. Several stages of the process were frozen in the form of photographs that were taken during the entire experience. The collaboration was presented by the Espaço Cultural Ventos Uivantes (ECVU), a nucleus of Associação Cultural Jatobá (AJA), and the non-profit organization Instituto Acáia, São Paulo.
October 30th 2009 Tran(slate) for string quartet was performed by players of the Ex Novo Ensemble of Venice, in the chamber hall Sale Apollinee, in the Opera House Teatro La Fenice. The event was hosted by Fondazione Emilio e Anna Bianca Vedova and Archivo Luigi Nono.
September 24nd 2009 Tutti was performed by Ensemble Música Nova, conducted by Ricardo Bologna, at SESC Santos, Brazil, as part of the 44th Festival Música Nova.
September 22nd 2009 Tutti was performed by Ensemble Música Nova, conducted by Ricardo Bologna, at SESC Vila Mariana in São Paulo, Brazil, as part of the 44th Festival Música Nova.
June 24th 2009 Percorso Ensemble performed Tutti at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, São Paulo, as part of the CD release concert for Música Plural. The 2-CD album features works by Brazilian composers born in the 1970s.
May 23rd 2009 Tran(slate) will be performed by the JACK quartet in a concert presented by Dal Niente at the Music Institute of Chicago's Nichols Recital Hall.
May 2nd 2009 The JACK quartet will present the New York premier of Tran(slate) at the Tenri Cultural Institute.
April 7th 2009 Esther Noh and Stephen Gosling from Either/Or will present Prisma for violin and piano at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York.
April 6th 2009 Joshua Rubin and Campbell McDonld from ICE will perform Vocalise for two bass clarinetists at the Uncommon Ground, in Chicago, in a program also featuring works by Cornelius Cardew, Elliott Carter, James Tenney, Steve Reich, Henri Pousseur. Click to see ICE listing.
December 15th 2008 Prisma for violin and piano and Corde Vocale for string quartet released in the CD "Quatro Visões Contemporâneas na Música Paulista" (Four Contemporary Visions in the music from São Paulo). The works were recorded in Chicago by Duo Diorama and in Luxembourg by the Arditti Quartet. The CD will also feature works by Brazilian composers Alexandre Lunsqui, Ignacio de Campos, and Leonardo Aldovandi. Postcard for clarinet and piano will be performed at the launch recital at Faculdade Santa Marcelina in São Paulo, Brazil.
November 11th 2008 Radio broadcast in Germany, hr2-kultur [20:05h]. Performance of Tran(slate) by the Arditti Quartet and Experimentalstudio Freiburg. The concert was recorded in Darmstadt, July 2008. Works of Birke J. Bertelsmeier, Kristian Ireland, Patricia de Almeida, Milica Djordjevic, Felipe Lara, Christopher Trebue Moore, and Arturo Fuentes.
September 2008 Recipient of the ASCAPplus award.
July 10th 2008 Tran(slate) - second string quartet (version with live-electronics) is the winner of the Staubach Preis in Darmstadt, Germany. The Arditti Quartet premiered works by the seven finalists in one of the highlight concerts of the 44th International Summer Courses for New Music, Darmstadt. The seven finalists were Patricia Almeida, Birke Bertelsmeier, Milica Djordjevic and Kristian Ireland who wrote "instrumental" quartets, and Arturo Fuentes, Felipe Lara and Christopher Trebue Moore wrote quartets with the live electronics of the Freiburg Experimentalstudio Studio. The award was presented by the Eiler Foundation.
June 23rd - July 5th 2008 Short residence at the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO fuer akustische Kunst e. V. Freiburg (Germany) as part of a fellowship for the completion of the live-electronics for a new string quartet to be premiered the following month in Darmstadt. The work was possible by the assistance of Tonmeister Michael Acker.
June 21st 2008 Arditti Quartet premiers the version without electronics of Tran(slate) in Blonay, Switzerland.
June 13th - 22nd 2008 Invited for the Second International Summer School 2008 for Contemporary String Quartet Music in Blonay (Switzerland), at the Hindemith Institute with the Arditti Quartet and Wolfgang Rihm. The event was hosted by the Pro-Bio Foundation, London.
May 14th 2008 Awarded the Graduate school of Arts and Sciences Summer Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, from New York University.
May 8th 2008 Postcard for violin and clarinet to be performed by Adam Zagor and Andie Springer at New York University as part of "of the Refrain", a collective of performers, composers, and musicologists informed by texts by Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida.
May 1st 2008 New work commissioned work, Postcard, for violin and clarinet will be premiered at the Stone in New York by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble. The work will be played by Erik Carlson and Joshua Rubin.
April 29th 2008 International Contemporary Ensemble will perform a revised version of Prisma for Violin and Piano at Merkin Hall, in New York City as part of the NYU GSAS Music Department Annual Concert.
April 16th 2008 Lara was selected as a finalist for "Der Staubach Preis" presented by The International Music Institute Darmstadt (IMD), "Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation" (USA), the Arditti Quartet (London/UK) and the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO fuer akustische Kunst e. V. Freiburg (Germany). As a finalist Lara will compose a new work for String Quartet and Live-Electronics to be premiered by the Arditti Quartet with the assistance of the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO Freiburg during the 44th International Summer Courses for New Music, Darmstadt.
March 21st Arupa for violoncello solo will be performed by Ronald Feldman at Barge Music in Brooklyn, NY.
March 17th Musicians from ECCE performed two concerts with Prisma for violin and piano in Denver, Colorado.
March 11th - 13th 2008 Lessons and masterclasses with composer Helmut Lachenmann who'll be in residence at the Music Department (GSAS) at New York University.
February 29th 2008 Conductor Ronald Feldman and the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra will premier Onda at Williams College.
February 24th 2008 Arupa for violoncello solo will be performed by at Boston Conservatory by cellist Jessica Billings-White.
February 14th 2008 Lara will give a 45-minute lecture to composition students on his recent music at Manhattan School of Music,in New York City
November 9th 2007 Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin (KNM - Berlin) premiered Vocalise for two Bass-clarinets at the Goethe Institute in New York City.
October 25th 2007 Interview with Dutch musicologist Frans Waltmans posted in his website for Early and Contemporary music.
September 12th, 13th, and 15th 2007 Arditti Quartet performed a revised version of the Corde Vocale as part of the quartet's Latin-American Tour. Lara co-curated the tour which featured two concerts at the 42nd Festival de Musica Nova in São Paulo, and a concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón. The events also featured South-American premiers of Ferneyhough's 5th quartet and Lachenmann's Grido, both works recently composed for the Arditti's aswell as works by Ligeti, Xenakis, Clarke, Dusapin, and world premiers by Brazilian composers Flo Menezes and Alexandre Lunsqui. Each of the two concerts in São Paulo featured approximately 650 expectators.
August 4th 2007 ES for solo Saxophone was performed by Martino Scovacricchi in the Center for intercultural Musicology at Churchill College in Cambridge, UK. The piece was presented as part of the Composition in Africa and the Diaspora Symposium and Festival 2007.
July 5th - 20th 2007 Selected to take part in the 2007 Acanthes Festival in Metz, France. Corde Vocale was rehearsed and recorded at l'Arsenal by the Arditti Quartet who ultimately performed the European premier of the work in Luxembourg's Philharmonie. The Arditti Quartet concert was followed by a performance by Ensemble instrumental de l'Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg conducted by Peter Eötvös and Zsolt Nagy. Lessons with Michael Jarrell, Marco Stroppa, and Yan Maresz, and attended computer music seminars led by IRCAM pedagogic department.
July 2007 Corde Vocale for string quartet was awarded 2nd place at the 4th Sun River New Composition Competition which took place in Chengdu, China. The competition was hosted by the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.
April 30th 2007 ICE performed Tutti at Merkin Hall. The concert also featured premiers of works by some of my colleagues at New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The event is part of ICE's intense Young Composers Project Marathon.
April 28th 2007 Corde Vocale for string quartet was presented at the Chealsea Art Museum in an event curated by Julliard pianist Vicky Chow.
April 25th 2007 Serenata for mixed octet was featured at WKCR 89.9 afternoon new music broadcast as part of ICE's Young Composers Project.
March 14th 2007 Duo Diorama performed Prisma (a violin and piano duo commissioned and written for them) at Columbia University's Italian Academy.
The peformance took place as part of the Music for the New Century series.
February 25th 2007 International Contemporary Ensemble's Joshua Rubin and Corey Smythe performed Livro dos Sonhos 1 for Clarinet and Piano at the Tenri Cultural Institute in the East Village.
February 5th 2007 Newly commissioned 5.1 for brass quintet and percussion as premiered at the innauguration of the new state-of-the-art Music Building at Tufts University. Click here to see the building.
February 3rd 2007 Harvard Ethnomusicologist Marc Gidal presents a paper on the music of Lara and the composers of AltaVoz: Jose Luis Hurtado, Mauricio Pauly-Maduro, Pedro Malpica, and Jorge Villavicencio Grossman. Gidal's work is titled "Listening for Place, Marketing Identity: Latin American Composers of New Music in the U.S". The paper was presented at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association, as part of the XXVII Annual ILASSA Student Conference, University of Texas at Austin. Click here to read handout.
December 8th 2006 First Performance will present two works by Lara at New York University: Trajetória dos Grãos for electronic sounds and Oração for solo piano. Michael Gallope will perform the piano work. The concert will also feature works by my colleague-composers from New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Jenny Olivia Johnson, Alex Ness, Hila Tamir, Matt Quayle, Paula Matthusen and Clara Latham.
December 2nd 2006 NEXTET will feature Lara's work Trajetória dos Grãos for electronic sounds at University Of Nevada Las Vegas. Lara was an artist-in-residence on campus along with the composers of AltaVoz. Lara also gave private lessons for seven Masters students as well as a lecture on his work.
December 1st 2006 Trajetória dos Grãos for electronic sounds was presented at New York University on an evening of electroacoustic works presented by the Washington Square Computer Music Studio.
September 24th 2006 Duo Diorama performs Prisma at The Music Gallery in Toronto's Centre for Creative Music. Click here for more info.
August 2006 Duo Diorama will tour Latin-America with Prisma, a new commissioned work for violin and piano written for them. Performances will take place in Brazil (São Paulo, Santos, and Salvador), Argentina (Buenos Aires), and Colombia (Bogotá), in festivals such as the 41st Festival de Musica Nova, and the Festival Internacional 2006.
July 2nd 2006 Petrobras announces the inclusion of Felipe Lara's Tutti in a 2-CD set of "Young Brazilian Composers". The work will be recorded by Percorso Ensemble, an ensemble comprised of musicians from OSESP (State Orquestra of São Paulo), under the direction of Ricardo Bologna.
May 22nd 2006 The Julliard Pierrot Ensemble will perform the NYC premiere of Tutti in Julliard's Paul hall.
May 20th 2006 The Julliard Pierrot Ensemble will perform Tutti at Harvard University's John Knowles Paine Hall as part of a collaboration with AltaVoz ensemble.
April 26th 2006 The International Contemporary Ensemble will premier Serenata for mixed octet at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City
March 26th 2006 The Arditti String Quartet performs the world premiere of Corde Vocale in New York City.
Fall 2005 Ballatella di Cristallo was a finalist at the Internationaler Kompositions Wettbewerb Klaviertrio hosted by the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz, Austria.
