Enrico Chapela: new contract with Boosey & Hawkes
(June 2008)
Mexican composer Enrico Chapela has signed a publishing agreement with Boosey & Hawkes covering his existing output and future works. Chapela is one of the most exciting young talents to emerge from Latin America, with a growing number of international performances and commissions. Current projects include a rock trio concerto for the Dresden Sinfoniker for premiere in September, a new work for the NYDD Ensemble in Tallinn, and a commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic for performance in the Green Umbrella new music series in 2009.
Chapela studied guitar and composition at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música in Mexico City, and has combined activities as a guitarist with further studies at the University of Paris at St Denis. His musical style fuses different geographic traditions and musical soundworlds, so that contemporary techniques happily coexist with minimalist, jazz or rock idioms. This dialogue of cultures is not ‘world music’, but rather a place where jam sessions can meet complex metrical games, where the anarchic drive of favela buskers can collide with the chants of football fans.
Chapela’s symphonic poem Ínguesu has travelled widely since its premiere by the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra in 2003, including a North American tour last autumn by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. The Dallas News described how the work “transmutes the cheers and jeers of the 1999 Mexico vs. Brazil soccer match into an Ivesian collage of chatter, blast and slide.” The work can be heard on a CD Baby disc entitled Antagónica, together with the saxophone quartet La Mengambrea and Lo Nato es Neta for rock trio and acoustic quintets.
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