KONZERT DER TEILNEHMER:INNEN der Gitarrentage der Musikschule Niedergrafschaft 2023
So., 04. Juni
|Aula Emlichheim
mit der Uraufführung "Memorias" ein Auftragswerk für Gitarrenorchester der Komponistenlegende Maestro Leo Brouwer - © Iván Soca (Foto)
Zeit & Ort
04. Juni 2023, 16:00
Aula Emlichheim, Lägen Diek 8, 49824 Emlichheim, Deutschland
Über die Veranstaltung
Hier der Lebenslauf von Leo Brouwer:
Leo Brouwer (Havana, 1939)
Cuban-born composer, orchestral conductor, guitarist, researcher, pedagogue and cultural promoter, Leo
Brouwer is among the most recognized figures of our times. Brouwer is currently Commandeur des Arts et
Lettres (France, 2019), American Academy of Arts and Letters as a foreign honorary (United States, 2019),
honorary member of the CIM of UNESCO (France, 1987) the Italo-Latin American Institute, the Academy of
Fine Arts of Granada, the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Córdoba, and full member of the Cuban
Academy of Language, among other prestigious international institutions.
Has appeared as guest composer at The Akademie der Künste (Berlin Academy of Arts, DAAD, 1970), and
beyond his compositional output, Brouwer has conducted more than one hundred and twenty symphony
orchestras and chamber ensembles from around the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Scottish National Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Orchestra Nouvelle Philharmonic de Paris,
and the Symphonic Orchestra of Madrid to name a few. He has adjudicated numerous international guitar,
composition and orchestral conducting competitions. Founder and director of the Sound Experimentation
Group of the ICAIC (1968). In 1960 he was appointed director of the first music department of the Instituto
Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) and the Teatro Musical de La Habana (1962). Since April
2005, he has served as president of the Leo Brouwer Office, based in Havana, and his own Ediciones Espiral
Eterna publishing house. He is the past President of the International Guitar Competition and Festival of
Havana (1982-2004), and General Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba (1981-2003),
Director of the Orchestra of Córdoba, Spain (1992-2001), and Artistic Director of the Carrefour Mondial de la
Guitare (Martinique, 1976-2001). Several groups and festivals bear his name such as: B3: Brouwer Trio
(Valencia, Spain), Coro Brouwer (Cordoba, Spain), Vocal Leo (Havana, Cuba) and Joven Filarmonía Leo
Brouwer, formed by musicians from various regions of Spain. In December 2008, the biennial International
Violão Leo Brouwer Festival was created in Sao Paulo, Brasil, Leo Brouwer Chamber Music Festival in Havana
was held annually (2009-2014) which he produced and directed. Brouwer has also produced Les Voix
Humaines Festival (Sept-Oct 2015), the Solidarity Concerts in 2016 and Festival Contratenores del Mundo
(Sept-Oct 2016) in Havana.
Brouwer has more than three hundred international artistic and academic distinctions, among them; the
"Manuel de Falla" Prize (Andalusia, Spain, 1998); the Doctor Honoris Causa Degree at the University of the
Arts (ISA) in Havana and at the University of Santiago de Chile; the MIDEM Classical Awards (Cannes, 2003)
for his Concerto de Helsinki for guitar and orchestra; the Pablo Neruda Order (Santiago de Chile, 2007), the
Goffredo Petrassi Award for Composition (Zagarolo, 2008), the National Music Award in its first edition (Cuba,
1999); the National Film Prize (Cuba, 2009); the Tomás Luis de Victoria Ibero-American Music Prize (SGAE,
Spain, 2010) and two Latin Grammy Awards (in 2010, for the complete string quartets and in 2017 with his
work Sonata del Decamerón Negro No. 3 for guitar).
Brouwer’s artistic output speaks for itself with a discography of his music that exceeds 1200 records and a
catalog of more than 600 works that cover almost all genres and musical forms. In recent years he has
composed works requested by Adelaide Guitar Festival, Changsha International Guitar Festival, Japan Guitar
Ensemble Festival, Guitar Foundation of America (GFA), Camerata Argentina de Guitarras, Tom Kerstens y G
Ensemble Plus, VZW Rhapsodies, Global Education Center & Intersection, Lux Nova Duo, Elena Papandreou
and Cristiano Porqueddu. He has composed and dedicated works to renowned musicians such as Julian
Bream, John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, Carlos Prieto, Edin Karamazov, Andreas Scholl, Egberto Gismonti, Chucho
Valdés, EOS Guitar Quartet, Ricardo Gallén, Pedro Chamorro, Costas Cotsiolis, Bandini Duo-Chiacchiaretta,
Niurka González, Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, Apollo Chamber Players, Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo, Joao
Luiz Rezende, Anne Akiko Meyers, Kaori Muraji, Thibault Cauvin, Grigoryan Brothers, Sheku Kanneh-Mason,
among others.