LUIS SERRANO ALARCÓN

NEWS OF LUIS SERRANO ALARCÓN


In Germany
                        Hong Kong
                                                Singapore
                                                                        Spain
                                                                                        Manchester





ALARCÓN IN GERMANY April 15th

Landesblasorchester Baden-Württemberg

On 15 April 2012, the Landesblasorchester Baden-Württemberg will give a concert in Ludwigsburg Form. Led by its principal conductor, Isabelle Ruf-Weber, they will play Alarcón’s Marco Polo, the Silk Road.

Guest soloist in Martin Ellerby’s Clarinet Concerto will be Wolfgang Meyer, Clarinet Professor at the University of Music Karlsruhe, a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and known worldwide as a chamber musician and soloist in contemporary works.

Hong Kong Festival Wind Orchestra

ALARCÓN IN HONG KONG April 21st

My programme in Hong Kong with the Hong Kong Festival Wind Orchestra will include Luis’ Pequena Suite para Banda

...together with

Holst/Marching Song

Grainger/Marching Song of Democracy

Jackson/Passacaglia

Wong/Song of the Sea – World Premiere

Woolfenden/Gallimaufry

Gorb/Dances from Crete

ALARCÓN IN SINGAPORE April 30th

The Philharmonic Winds of Singapore

For the second time, Luis Serrano Alarcón has been invited as guest conductor with The Philharmonic Winds of Singapore. This time the Valencian composer leads a program, entitled Roots,including two of his own works (Concertango and Duende) and a selection of pieces by composers of Latin Americans. The soloist will be the prestigious American saxophonist Kenneth Tse. The concert will be held on April 30 at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore.





ALARCÓN IN MANCHESTER

Thursday 28 June 1.15pm RNCM Concert Hall

Timothy Reynish, Yibin Seow conductors

Peggy Nolan cello

RNCM Wind Orchestra
Kenneth Hesketh Vranjanka
Luis Serrano Alarcon Tramonto
Adam Gorb Repercussions

Today’s programme opens with Kenneth Hesketh’s Vranjanka, based on a traditional Serbian folksong. Tramonto was composed as an homage to famous local painter Joseph Morea and is based on one of his paintings: one that evokes a melancholic evening in Italy. The programme ends with Adam Gorb’s Repercussions, described by the composer as a ‘history of the world in four chapters’.

NEW HORN CONCERTO BY ALARCÓN

Luis Serrano Alarcón

Luis Serrano Alarcón is writing a concerto for horn and orchestra in 2012 for Radovan Vlatkovic.

Radovan Vlatkovic,is one of the major horn soloists in the world, is a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Escuela Reina Sofia in Madrid and has worked extensively as a soloist and with other great performers such as V. Ashkenazy, G. Kremer and H. Holliger among others.

The work, for horn and orchestra, was commissioned by the Down Syndrome Foundation of Madrid and will be released in this city in March 2013 ..