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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Ofício de Compositor -
</STRONG></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>palestra ilustrada do compositor
irlandês <STRONG>Benjamin Dwyer </STRONG>(sobre sua trajetória
criativa)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>20 de abril, sexta-feira, às 16h, na Sala de
Concertos da Tulha do Departamento de Música de Ribeirão Preto da
ECA-USP,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Uma realização do Curso de Música da ECA-USP de
Ribeirão Preto, com a</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>gradecimento especial a
Fabio Zanon, pelo apoio!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ENTRADA GRATUITA</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span>sobre Benjamin
Dwyer:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=Apple-style-span>One of the leading
figures from the younger generation of Irish composers, <STRONG>Benjamin
Dwyer</STRONG>'s music is performed regularly both nationally and
internationally. A Ph.D. Graduate of Queens University of Belfast in
composition, in recent years Dwyer has completed a number of important
large-scale works including his <SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Concerto for Percussion and Orchestr</SPAN>a (<SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Rajas, Sattva, Tamas</SPAN>),
<SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Scenes of Crow</SPAN>
(an extensive work for chamber ensemble and electronics based on the Crow poems
by Ted Hughes), and his major virtuosic work for guitar - <SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Twelve
Études</SPAN>.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN class=Apple-style-span>He has received commissions from RTÉ (the
national television and radio broadcaster), to compose music for
the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (<SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra, Concerto No.
2 for Guitar & Orchestra</SPAN>), Instituto Cervantes <SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">(Concerto No. 1 for Guitar and
String Orchestra</SPAN>, <SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Al-Andalus</SPAN>), Canadian electric guitarist Tim
Brady (<SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Omeros
II</SPAN>), German pianist Ortwin Stürmer (<SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Apuntes</SPAN>), Irish music ensemble Vox21 (<SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Scenes from Crow</SPAN>), the
Rejoyce Festival Dublin (<SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Afterjoyce I</SPAN>), RTÉ Lyric fm (<SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Voces Críticas</SPAN>, <SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Al-Andalus</SPAN>), the Office
of Public Works - Ireland (<SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Enclave</SPAN>). Commissions for 2007 include those
from the Music Network for the Syrius Trio and from Spain's foremost new music
group, Ensemble Madrid.</SPAN></P>
<P>Founder and Director of Ireland's leading contemporary music event MUSIC21
(formally Mostly Modern, see www.music21.ie) and the new music ensemble VOX21
(see www.vox21.ie), Dwyer is one of the foremost activists in Ireland for
contemporary music. He is a regular contributor to Irish national radio and
television and his articles on music criticism have been widely published. He
was recently elected a member of Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists
established by the Arts Council to honour those artists whose work has made an
outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland.</P></FONT></DIV>
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