We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

SYLVIA CONSTANTINIDIS - Visions

from SYNTHESIS VOL. 2 by International Compilation

/

about

Sylvia Constantinidis was born in Venezuela of European ancestry and began her study of music at an early age in Caracas. Her music teachers in Venezuela were: Blanca Estrella de Mescoli, Modesta Bor, Abraham Abreu, Alberto Grau, María Guinand, Beatriz Bilbao, Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera and Isabel Aretz. She continued her studies in Paris at the Ecole Martenot and the Sorbonne university in Paris. She worked as a pianist in Venezuela, playing with orchestras and touring, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Music at the Central University of Venezuela. In the 1990s, she graduated with a Masters in Piano Performance and later obtained a second Master in Music Theory and Composition, both degrees from the University of Miami, USA.She later studied composition with Ladislav Kubík, in the Czech Republic, and with Malcolm Singer, in England.

Constantinidis began composing at an early age, and is a prolific composer. Her music has been played and broadcast internationally. Besides grants and fellowships, she received The Music Note Award 2003[3] for her 3 children's operas and the ASCAP Plus Award for Concert Music in 2009 and 2010. She is active as a conductor of youth orchestra and serves as artistic director of the Omorfia Contemporary Ensemble and the Southeast Composers Chamber Orchestra. Constantinidis teaches at colleges and universities, and is an advocate for music education. She has served as President of the Southeast Chapter of NACUSA (National Association of Composers of The United States of America).

  "Visions" is an electro-acoustic piece for chamber orchestra and pre-recorded sounds. The piece is aleatory in nature including the voluntary audience participation of children performing certain instruments at will. Particularly, the instruments given to the audience during the performance will be cuicas, rattlers, sticks, shakers and rainmakers. These instruments imitate some of the Amazonic Jungle's sounds.
  
       "Visions" is a work inspired on the Amazon Jungle at the south of Venezuela. This is the birth country of the composer Sylvia Constantinidis. The piecea typical bird from Venezuela. The "Guacharo"evoques the agitation of nature during the heavy rains that characterize six months of the tropical year. The piece closes with the peaceful and refreshing feeling that follows a heavy storm.
      
In 2010, at the FLAMINGO FESTIVAL, this piece was a wonderful experience for the audience present at the concert. For another idea of performance, The piece can be accompanied by visual images portraying the Amazon Jungle. It can be use as an exploration to this fantastic and exotic territory.   


www.SylviaConstantinidis.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Constantinidis

   

credits

from SYNTHESIS VOL. 2, released July 5, 2015

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Urban Arts Berlin image

Urban Arts Berlin Berlin, Germany

Non-profit arts organisation & music label that supports non-commercial projects from all over the world.

contact / help

Contact Urban Arts Berlin

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Visions, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now