Jake Hale is currently the principal clarinetist of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as the second/Eb clarinetist of the Waco Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, Odessa-Midland Symphony Orchestra, and Round Top Festival Institute Orchestra.

Mr. Hale has competed in the International Clarinet Association Competitions, making several appearances as a semi-finalist and finalist. In 2015, he won the Orchestral Audition Competition and the same year made finals in the Young Artist Competition as the only American to advance.

 

Jake Hale is from Fort Worth, Texas. He studied with Richie Hawley at Rice University where he completed a Master in Music Performance in 2018. He received his undergraduate degree in Music Education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he studied under Dr. Jun Qian, Dr. Vanguel Tangerov, and Alan Olson. Mr. Hale has also studied with Dr. Richard Shanley and Ivan Petruzziello of the Fort Worth Symphony.

Jake enjoys exercising by running, swimming or playing basketball. When he isn’t performing, he enjoys teaching his clarinet studio in Texas. Jake is an avid sports fan and during the football and basketball seasons, he supports the Baylor and DFW sports teams. He owes his success to his friends and supportive parents who give him inspiration to create and to pursue exquisite music making.

 

 

Composer in Residence of the ASMF 2019

He was born in Matanzas on January 3, 1944. He graduated in Choral Conducting at the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory in Havana in 1966 and in Orchestral Conducting at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 1973. From that year he acted as guest conductor of the Symphony Orchestra. National of Cuba. He is professor of orchestra conducting at the Higher Institute of Art and Director of the Chamber Orchestra “Música Eterna”. He is the founder of the ISA, Full Professor and Head of Dept. of Orchestra Direction. He has developed a successful career in which he recently highlighted his tour of Italian cities and the premiere of a choral work at the World Choir Symposium at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona.

He has achieved outstanding achievements in his artistic career, both nationally and internationally. His works have been awarded in the most important composition contests held in Cuba, such as National Composition Contest, Contest of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), Contest July 26, The Golden Age and Adolfo Guzmán Contest .

His work as a Symphonic Director has earned him great success and very complimentary comments from international critics. Among his most significant performances in Europe include those made at the Warsaw Philharmonic, Poland, the Grand Hall of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary and the Lisinsky Theater in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. It has also offered successful concerts in important cities of Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Spain and the United States.

In 2010 he was invited by the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Switzerland, to conduct a concert exclusively with his symphonic compositions -coral. It was performed at the Musikkolegium with clamorous success from the public and critics. In Latin America he has also obtained very notable successes in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala and Paraguay, countries where he has offered numerous concerts.

He was selected as the most outstanding foreign director in the 1991 season, by the Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra of Mexico.

In 2005 he was awarded the UNESCO Medal “Valparaíso, Cultural Heritage of Humanity” in Chile. He has directed all the Cuban symphonic orchestras, standing out in an outstanding way his interpretations of the 9th. Symphony of Beethoven at the head of the National Symphony Orchestra and the executions of his work Victoria de la Esperanza for symphony orchestra, choir, soloists, actors, dance and cinema. Particularly notable was his performance as Principal Conductor of the Matanzas Symphony Orchestra, an institution that figures in the first Cuban musical planes.

His renowned prestige as a composer and symphonic director has made him an increasingly sought-after artist on stages and international events. They include New Music Festival of Winnipeg, Canada 2006, where he won the Audience Award, the Interamerican Encounter of Composition organized by the University of Indiana, United States, which was invited with the highest category granted by the event in 1996 , the Sounds of the Americas Festival organized by the American Composer Orchestra that had as its venues Carnegie Hall, Juliard School and other important New York institutions and the Oregon Bach Festival during which their compositions were performed with great success. As well as, the Ibero-American Festival of Contemporary Music held in Spain, the Tribune of Latin American and Caribbean Music held in Argentina, the Franco Donatoni Festival held in Mexico, the Contemporary Music Festival of the Catholic University of Chile, the Contemporary Music Festival of El Salvador and Forums of Caribbean Composers, held in Venezuela, Mexico and Guatemala. He has toured Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Russia, GDR, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria.

Several universities and centers of higher studies in different countries have invited him to offer lectures and master classes, with special significance being the designation of Distinguished Guest awarded by the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2005. There the Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and different chamber ensembles performed several of their works together with the Eternal Music Chamber Orchestra, forming a Concert Day dedicated to the music of López-Gavilán.

His work in the development of the Cuban Youth Symphonic Movement is very remarkable, founding and directing various symphonic and chamber orchestras that have obtained resounding successes in events held in Cuba and other countries. He is a Full Professor of the Higher Institute of Art, leading the Chair of Orchestral Direction for more than twenty years. For his artistic merits he has received numerous decorations among which are the Alejo Carpentier Medal, the Distinction for National Culture and the Recognition Prize awarded by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba to the creative work for life. For the work of all life was awarded the National Music Award 2015, the highest distinction awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Cuba.

He is currently President of the Association of Musicians of the UNEAC and President of the Havana Festival, a prestigious international event dedicated to contemporary music that is held annually. He has been elected Founding Member of the College of Latin American Composers of Art Music.

Works by Maestro López Gavilán

As a riddle,
Camerata in guaguancó.
Where my brother fell, cantata, text: Fayad Jamís.
My song.
Cumbanchero Variations (based on a work by Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández) Variants, choral and legend.
Victory of hope, for symphony orchestra, choir, soloists, actors, dance and cinema.

Timpani and Percussion, Chile / Panama

Ella Ponce Uribe, a Chilean-Panamanian percussionist, made her first studies at the National Conservatory of Panama. Later, he travels to Chile, where he finishes his basic stage studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Chile. In this same University, she continues her undergraduate studies, and obtains her Bachelor of Arts degree with a mention in Percussion, with professors Elena Corvalán and Ramón Hurtado. Later, she obtained her specialty in Percussion Music Performance with Maximum Distinction, being the fourth woman in Chile to obtain this title, and the first in Panama. She travels to Panama, where from 2002 to date she belongs to the National Symphony Orchestra of Panama; He has worked as a teacher of the National Institute of Music in the subjects of Theory, Solfeggio and Percussion; The year 2012 opens for the first time the Chair of Percussion at the University of Panama.
She has performed in various musical activities, in Panama, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico among others. Since 2003, he has created the ensemble “Mixturas”, with which he has developed a work of chamber music incorporating vibraphone and percussion into unconventional acoustic and electroacoustic formats, incorporating elements of folk music, learned and jazz. For a couple of years he has participated in the project “Tributo a Chile”, of the Panama Jazz Festival, where he shares with musicians from all Latin America and North America, spreading and developing Chilean music in international stages. He has recorded CDs with various artists in Chile and Panama, such as “Homenaje a Panamá” by violinist Luis Casal, “Legado de Mi Tierra … Panamá” by Dabaiba Conte, “Farewell”, by Ricardo Aguilera, to name a few.
Currently, he works as a teacher at the University of Panama, as a percussionist at the National Symphony of Panama, as a percussionist of the “Colectivo Voces Figuras y Ritmos”, supports the FEPECE (Percussion Festival of Central America), Panama Jazz Festival, with the projects of “Mixturas” and “Tributo a Chile”.

 

 

The Tocando Madera Foundation created, organizes and develops the Panamanian singer-songwriters movement since 2004. Discovering and launching new talents supporting the artistic development of those who already have a career as exponents of the country’s author song. We have more than 50 exponents in our ranks. Since 2011, Yigo Sugasti is the president of the Tocando Madera Foundation.

Producing to date more than 500 concerts of song by local author with touring stage Tocando Madera, the tour.

In 2005, Tocando Madera in the National Theater was the only activity of the Music Festival organized by the French Alliance of Panama.

In the last 12 years it is the only Panamanian organization with presence in Latin American music industry markets such as: Circulart and Boom (Colombia), Fimven (Venezuela), Sim (Brazil), Fifba (Argentina) and Imesur (Chile), among others .

He created and organized the only International Festival of the Song of Author of Panama 2006, 2008 and 2010, presenting artists from Panama, Spain, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil.

He produced the first multi-generational album of the first four generations of Panamanian author song Tocando Madera, the tour … in studio Vol.1 (2011) with singer-songwriters like: Emilio Regueira, Carlos Méndez, Rómulo Castro, Alejandro Lagrotta, Iván Barrios , Apache Ness and Rubén Blades among others.

Listen: https://tocandomadera.bandcamp.com/album/tocando-madera-la-gira-en-estudio-volumen-uno

Promoted a weekly program Tocando Madera Radio for three years (2013/2014 and 2015) of independent music from the country and Latin America.
Tocando MaderaTV monthly program during the years 2014 and 2015 that impelled the creators and interpreters of the new contemporary music of Panama, both for the platform of the state cultural and educational channel Sertv.

Since 2013, the regional artistic exchange began in our regular concert program, introducing Latin American singer-songwriters in Panama: Carla Morrison (Mexico), José Delgado (Venezuela), Jesús Garriga (Spain) and Nano Stern (Chile), among others.

In 2014, he is part of Musicalción with a whole night of Tocando Madera with the singer-songwriters: Alejandro Lagrotta (Panama), Joaquín Rodríguez (Veraguas), Javier Medina Bernal (Los Santos) and Horacio Valdés (Panama).

Between March and May of 2015, the first tour of the country sponsored by the INAC was held in 5 provinces. Herrera, Chiriquí, Veraguas, Darién and Coclé. We started the Panamanian Authors Cycle at the Cultural Center of Spain – Casa del Soldado.

On October 30, 2015 in Panama, the concert of Joan Manuel Serrat, icon of the Ibero-American song for the benefit of the Tocando Madera Foundation was held. The opening show was a sample of singer-songwriters of our movement.

During 2016 he made the XII season of Tocando Madera. On February 28, 2016, it inaugurated transmissions of the program Tocando Madera Radio by Telemetro Radio of the Medcom Corporation to date. That year he made a monthly program of 35 concerts and 40 radio programs with 24 Panamanian singer-songwriters invited live, 2 international Panamanian artistic representations, 2 educational workshops and 3 conferences with free admission to the public, we presented 3 international guest artists and participated representing Panama in 4 Ibero-American events. It initiated an alliance with the Yo Me Reciclo Fair, the backbone of the artistic programming of the first celebration of the Day of the Author and Panamanian Composer 2016.

In 2017 and 2018 he won the prize of the Ibermúsicas Program representing Panama, with the project of Artistic Residence – Sonoro Corridor, where Panamanian singer-songwriters traveled to Argentina, generating a cultural exchange via the song, proposing that Panama can and should become a hub of the regional and world song.

Since 2017 he has been producing two research albums without antecedents in our music scene: The Lords of Panamanians Calypso by Leslie George, a compendium of great successes (50s to 80s) of this Panamanian genre in extinction and Tocando Madera Vol.2, that presents the fifth generation of singer-songwriters in the country along with other singer-songwriters with a distinguished career, both of whom must leave next year.

In 2018, he starts the XIV season of recitals featuring the maestro Rómulo Castro at the prestigious and legendary Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago Illinois, USA.

He was co-organizer with the City of Knowledge Foundation of Trama – Industria de la Música, the first formal platform for strengthening the business within the Panamanian music scene. This year, the French Alliance of Panama awarded the Tocando Madera Foundation the honor of being the artistic producers and curators of the Music Festival, where they presented 25 musical projects of the country from different genres and an international guest.

In 2019 they celebrate XV years of activities, performing concerts of different formats, educational workshops related to the song and the music industry, they relaunch the international festival “Festival Tocando Madera” and they will continue reaffirming their media, research and avant-garde commitment in the region on the importance of Panamanian musical immaterial heritage as a source of culture and economy through the projects and programs of our agenda.

Fundación Tocando Madera is a member of ADIMI (Association for the Development of the Ibero-American Music Industry) and a founding member of MMF Latam (Latin American Association of Music Managers) and has a close relationship in music markets and festivals in Latin America.

See updated information of 2018 about Tocando Madera and its activities in:
https://www.facebook.com/fundaciontocandomadera

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With a focus on avant-garde music, Carlos Camacho explores the sound possibilities of Percussion. Currently, Dr. Camacho is a percussion professor at the University of Panama and president of the Panama chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. Prior to his appointment at the UP, Camacho was professor of percussion at Ohio Wesleyan University and in the preparatory department of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, in the US. Notable activities include performances with the Louisville Orchestra, the Chattanooga Symphony, the Kentucky Symphony and the Orchestra of the Americas Orchestra, as well as being a guest artist at a festival such as the Pittsburgh Festival of New Music, the Eastern Music Festival and the Rome Music Festival, among others. Dr. Camacho holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate percussion degrees from Sam Houston State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music respectively. He has recorded under the Centaur and Ablaze records and his music is published exclusively by Cayambis Music Press. Dr. Camacho is proudly, an official artist for Mike Balter Mallets and Dream Cymbals and Gongs. For more information, visit http://www.carloscamachomusic.com

 

 

 

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