News
After a two year wait, the performance of Andronicus: Violin Concerto will finally take place on April 24, 2022!
Hear Now Music Festival 2022 (Originally 2020) — Andronicus: Violin Concerto has been selected for performance at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall with the UCLA Philharmonia, Neal Stulberg conducting and Nathalie Bonin on violin. This is the orchestral concert of the festival’s 10th Anniversary Concert Series.
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September 2018
Kaleidoscope 2018-2019 Finalists — Selected as one of the 52 finalists out of 2200 applications from composers in 76 countries.
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January 21 – 31, 2015
MEET JOHN DOE – OPERA WORKSHOP and EXCERPTS PREMIER in CINCINNATI, OH — Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) opera program have selected Daniel Catán’s unfinished opera “Meet John Doe” for their Opera Fusion: New Works Workshop in January, 2015. Under the guidance of Andrea Puente Catán, chief editor and conductor/composer Maestro Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Michaela Eremiášová, and Jairo Duarte-Lopez, have been commissioned to complete Daniel Catan’s “Meet John Doe.” See Press release
Daniel Catán (April 3, 1949 – April 9, 2011)
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February 2013
Boston Metro Opera’s Contempo Festival – International Composer’s Competition 2013
— Bodas de Sangre awarded the BMO Mainstage Award.
— Car Crash Opera awarded the Director’s Choice Award.
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April 2012
43rd ASIFA-EAST Animation Awards 2012 — Car Crash Opera awarded the Excellence in Soundtrack – Independent Film
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November 30 and December 2, 2012
BODAS DE SANGRE (BLOOD WEDDING) – OPERA EXCERPTS PREMIER in MONTCLAIR, NJ — The Montclair State University Opera Workshop presents scenes from Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), an opera-in-progess recently commissioned by the John J. Cali School of Music. Composed in collaboration with Michaela Eremiášová. Based on the play “Bodas de sangre” by Federico Garcia Lorca.
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January 20, 2012
CAR CRASH OPERA – SHORT FILM PREMIER in ROCHESTER, NY — New animated cartoon short “Car Crash Opera” By Rochester Animator/ RIT Prof. Skip Battaglia. Screenings at The Little Theatre before all presentations of the feature film “The Artist.” CAR CRASH OPERA – PRESS RELEASE
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June 15, 2011
OPERA COMMISSION: Together with Michaela Eremiášová, we have been selected by the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University to compose a new operatic work for December 2012. The opera will be based on the play Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) by Federico Garcia Lorca.
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January 30, 2011
OLD FILMS & NEW MUSIC presented during the Kurt-Weill Festival at the Arsenal Kino, Berlin, Germany. In collaboration with composer Michaela Eremiášová. Curated by German film historian Prof. Reinhild Steingrover. Commissioned by the Kurt-Weill Festival in collaboration with the George Eastman House and the Eastman School of Music. Films from the 1910’s to 1930’s by Moholy-Nagy, Lotte Reiniger, and Walter Ruttmann
Eastman composers, performers, and faculty in Berlin with Kurt Weill Fest directors. Photos © 2011 Alexej Eremias
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September, 2010
Recipient of the 2010-2011 ASCAPLUS Award
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September 18, 2009
Recipient of the 2009-2010 ASCAPLUS Award
“The ASCAPLUS Awards Program is for writer members of any genre whose performances are primarily in venues not surveyed; and/or writer members whose catalogs have prestige value for which they would not otherwise be compensated.” More info. at: ASCAPLUS Awards
This year’s jury included H. Robert Reynolds, Prof. Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Judith Clurman, conductor
and Director of Choral Activities at The Juilliard School, and Steve Smith, Classical Music editor for Time Out New York.
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July 29, 2009
CD RELEASE
Published by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, the album National Prizes in Music Composition, 2007 includes the work: Ekphrasis sobre “El Miedo” de Tanguy, performed by David Gerstein (Principal cellist at the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra). Download score PDF
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2009 Honors, Awards and Achievements of ASCAP Concert Members
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May 2, 2009
Car Crash Opera has been selected for performance at the
2009 New York City Opear’s VOX Festival.
The festival will take place on the 1st and 2nd of May at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU. Visit: www.nycopera.com
See also [press release]
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“Beautiful, witty writing”
Matthew Levy
Director
Philadelphia Music Project
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“entertaining”
QOnStage.com
New York’s Performances and Arts Reviews
Full article here
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Film Scoring Concert – April 6, 2009
This event is a new collaborative project between the Eastman School of Music and George Eastman House.
The concert includes a presentation of the film Currents by filmmaker Stephanie Maxwell with music by Michaela Eremiášová and Jairo Duarte-López.
[press release] [watch]
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2008
MACCM Annual New Music Festival — Corriente Fluida has been selected for performance at at Bryan Recital Hall during the 29th MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. This is the world premier for violin, clarinet, and piano performed by Eastman Triana.