Concert: "Nomads-Oasis" with Agustín Castilla-Ávila & Friends

163 Tower View Drive,Red Wing MN 55066

29 July, 2022

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The Anderson Center at Tower View presents Nomads-Oasis, an evening new classical works composed by Wladimir Rosinskij, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Scott Miller, and artist-in-residence Agustín Castilla-Ávila, on Friday, July 29 at 7 p.m. on the Tower View Barn. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for Anderson Center members & youth under 18. Nomads-Oasis features several world & US premieres. This program is also being presented at Zeitgeist's Studio Z in Saint Paul on Saturday, July 30 and at the National Opera Center in New York on August 6. Featured performers include cellist Ruslana Prokopenko, pianist Gayle Blankenburg, flutist James DeVoll, clarinetist Pat O’Keefe, guitarist Agustín Castilla-Ávila and soprano Tracey Engleman. Composers Wladimir Rosinskij, Richard Cameron-Wolfe and Scott Miller will also be in attendance. Nomads-Oasis serves as a residency capstone event for composer, musician, and interdisciplinary artist Agustín Castilla-Ávila, a July artist-in-residence at the Anderson Center through a Salzburg-Minnesota Artist Exchange program with City of Salzburg, Austria. Visual artworks from Agustín's Still Life with Silence project will also be on view in the Barn during the concert. Minnesota visual artist Emily Donovan is in turn living and working at the City of Salzburg's Künstlerhaus the month of July. Agustín Castilla-Ávila is a pioneer in microtoal music, particularly with guitar scordaturas. Originally from Spain, Agustín’s research is based in Salzburg, with the Ekmelic Society at the Mozarteum. As a composer, he has worked in Europe, Asia and America. His music has been conducted by D. Russell-Davies, J. Kalitzke, and H. Schellenberger, among others. He has written solo and chamber music, orchestras, plays, choreographies and five chamber operas. His music has been played at international centers including Brucknerhaus in Linz, Glinka Hall in Saint Petersburg, Harpa Hall in Reykjavik and Musiekgebouw in Amsterdam. Program Agustín Castilla-Ávila True Love is Not a Flower (Ibn Hazam, poetry) – 2021 Tracey Engleman, soprano, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, guitar Gayle Blankenburg, piano Suite of Movements – 2017 - PREMIERE Ruslana Prokopenko, cello Untitiled Solo Guitar Piece - 2022 Agustín Castilla-Ávila, guitar Richard Cameron-Wolfe Time Refracted – 1990 Ruslana Prokopenko, cello Gayle Blankenburg, piano As Above, So Below, and Autopoiesis from An Inventory of Damaged Goods - 2015 Gayle Blankenburg, piano Memory of the Loss of Wings from Labyrinths - 1979 (W.S. Merwin, poetry) Tracey Engleman, soprano Gayle Blankenburg, piano Wladimir Rosinskij Music No.7 – 1999 - US Premiere Ruslana Prokopenko, cello Evanescencia 2  - 2020 - PREMIERE James DeVoll, flute Pat O’Keefe, clarinet "Keinem, Junge, lass dir reden…" - US Premiere (Robert Schneider, poetry) - 2015 Tracey Engleman, soprano Pat O’Keefe, clarinet Gayle Blankenburg, piano Scott Miller  Katabasis - 2018-19 James DeVoll, flute  /  Pat O’Keefe, bass clarinet Agustín Castilla-Ávila, guitar  /  Ruslana Prokopenko, cello Composer-pianist Richard Cameron-Wolfe was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and received his music training at Oberlin College and Indiana University. After brief teaching engagements, Richard moved to New York City, where he performed and composed for several major ballet and modern dance companies, including the Joffrey Ballet and the Jose Limon Company. In 1978 he began a 24-year professorship at Purchase College, State University of New York. After resigning in 2002, he relocated to the mountains of northern New Mexico in order to dedicate his life to composing. Devoted to the promotion of modern classical music (which he prefers to call “sound art”), Richard has served as an administrator for several musical organizations. Over the past ten years, his creative output has increased immensely, producing a broad array of new works in various media performed throughout the US, Europe, and Russia. Scott Miller’s music has been performed from Oregon to Greece and selections have been published by Editions Musica Ferrum in London, England. Born in Minnesota in 1962, he has been composing since 1975.  As an undergraduate he studied composition with Paul Fetler at the University of Minnesota, and in 1992 earned the M.A. in composition and theory from the U. of M. under Dominick Argento. In 2019, Scott won the annual award from the Minnesota Sinfonia’s New Works by Minnesota Composers Project for his work Dialogues for Chamber Orchestra. His music demonstrates facility in a variety of styles, a rich palette of colors and textures, and poignant lyricism. Also an experienced cellist, Scott has played in orchestras in California, Texas, Minnesota, and Oregon. Wladimir Rosinskij (of Austrian nationality and Russian origin) obtained his Honourable Diploma at the Academy of music, Krasnojarsk in 1986. From 1990 to 1995 he studied at Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. Since then, he has been living in Spain. As a conductor he has worked with orchestras throughout Europe and Russian. Wladimir’s music has been premiered in venues of the importance of Musikverein and Konzerthaus (Vienna), and Au-ditorio Nacional (Madrid), among others. His music has been conducted by Gianandrea Noceda Dima Slobodeniouk, Kynan Johns; played by soloists in-cluding, Frank Stadler, Sabine Winter, Uxia Botana and performed by orches-tras such as Wienerkammerorchester, Orquesta Nacional de España, and Symphonie Orchester Vorarlberg,. In 2013 he founded Camerata de la Or-questa sinfónica de Galicia. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Creative Support grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund. ASL interpretation is available upon request. To request interpretation, please contact Stephanie at [email protected] or 651-388-2009 at least two weeks prior to the event.