Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (nacido en 1973) es un compositor peruano/brasileño/estadounidense que estudió composición en São Paulo en la Faculdade Santa Marcelina y en los Estados Unidos en la Universidad Internacional de Florida y la Universidad de Boston. Su cuarteto de cuerdas no. 3 apareció en un disco reciente de cuartetos de cuerda lati…[Read more]

Composer Donnacha Dennehy could be described as a bi-coastal composer, but in his case that would be the East Coasts of both Ireland and the United States of America. He is known for his work as co-founder of the Crash Ensemble, based in Dublin, and has four collections of his work issued on CDs from Nonesuch, RTE, and NMC. He joined the…[Read more]

We are lucky to have an extensive obituary for the flutist and composer Auguste Vern, who is well-represented in the printed editions from this lifetime, but, since he was from the provinces, and after his education in Paris, returned to work in the provinces, appeared relatively little in the Parisian press, and to my knowledge, does not appear…[Read more]

Perhaps the earliest known professional flutist to have been active in the new American republic was John L. Downe. I have been able to determine his place of birth (or death), but the earliest notices of Downe (who is almost always referred to simply by his initials, J.L.) place him in Boston, Massachusetts

Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (b. 1973) is a Peruvian/Brazilian/American composer who studied composition in São Paulo at the Faculdade Santa Marcelina, and in the United States at Florida International University and Boston University. His String Quartet no. 3 appeared on a recent disc of Latin American string quartets issued by the JACK Quartet…[Read more]

The repertoire of the great composers and performers for the flute in France during the first half-century of the Conservatoire (1800-1850) remains almost unknown and largely inaccessible, if not entirely lost. Almost none of it has been republished in modern editions since the nineteenth century, although some is now beginning to be digitized…[Read more]