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'''Alba Potes (Alba Lucia Potes Cortés)''' born in 1954 in Cali, Colombia, is a composer of contemporary classical music, and teacher at Mannes College The New School for Music, College Preparatory Division in New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~echew/performances/premieres.html |title=Elaine Chew: Performances: Premieres |publisher=Bcf.usc.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-09-05}}</ref> '''Alba Potes (Alba Lucía Potes Cortés)''' born in 1954 in Cali, Colombia, is a composer of contemporary classical music, and teacher at Mannes College The New School for Music, College Preparatory Division in New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~echew/performances/premieres.html |title=Elaine Chew: Performances: Premieres |publisher=Bcf.usc.edu |date= |accessdate=2010-09-05}}</ref>


== Life == == Life ==

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Alba Lucía Potes Cortés
Born1954
Cali, Colombia
Alma mater
Occupations
StyleContemporary

Alba Potes (Alba Lucía Potes Cortés) born in 1954 in Cali, Colombia, is a composer of contemporary classical music, and teacher at Mannes College The New School for Music, College Preparatory Division in New York.

Life

She studied at the Antonio M. Valencia conservatory, and the University of Valle, where she studied with Leon J. Simar. In 1983, she moved to the United States. She graduated from Temple University degree in music theory, cum laude, and with a master's and doctorate in composition. She studied with Matthew Greenbaum, Ursula Mamlok and Maurice Wright.

She lives in New York City.

Career

Ms. Potes' compositions have been performed by the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony of Colombia, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela, Darmstadt 2000 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, the Symphony Orchestra of Cali, Festival Internacional Cervantino, International Alliance for Women in Music, the ISCM in New York, Parnassus, the Composer's Conference at Wellesley College, the Network for New Music, Momenta Quartet, The Stefan Wolpe Society, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Institute for New Music in Freiburg, Germany, the ISCM in Seoul, South Korea and at International Musical Festivals in Germany, México, El Salvador, England, Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela. Her music has been performed by soprano Susan Narucki, pianists David Holztman, Charles Abramovic, Martha Marchena, Ana Cervantes and Blair McMiller, saxophonist Marshall Taylor, percussionist Mircea Ardeleanu and violist Stephanie Griffin.

Awards and Commissions

Her orchestral compositions "Cantares para Orquesta" and "Reflexiones" were winners of the 2002 New Music Reading Sessions of The Women's Philharmonic in San Francisco, and the 1994 Riverside Symphony's First International Composers Reading Project in New York.

Ms. Potes is a winner of 2001-2002 Music of Changes Composer Competition in Los Angeles that included a concert dedicated to her music. Ms. Potes has received commissions from, among others, the Ministry of Culture of Colombia (De las Travesuras y Percances del Amor), Music of Changes (Y la brisa trae aroma de cadmia), the Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts in Philadelphia (Oleajes), Colombia's Luis Angel Arango Recital Hall/Banco de la República (Entre Arrullos y Madrigales), Office of Academic Affairs of Hostos Community College (Dulzuras) and consecutive ASCAP awards (1998–2008). Celebrating Women's Month in March 2006, the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens and the Women's Council of New York recognized her for her outstanding achievements as a composer. Her music is published by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia (A los Pájaros)and Hildegard Publishing Company (Tres Miniaturas para las Mariposas Ausentes).

Reviews

  • 4/2010, Andrew Druckenbrod, Gramophone Review of Martha Marchena's CD: "Casi una pregunta/Almost a Question"/Latin American Piano Music in the 21st Century
  • 4/22/95*James Oestreich (4/22/95). "IN PERFORMANCE; CLASSICAL MUSIC". The New York Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • 4/15/95, Josiah Fisk, The Boston Herald, Classical Music: Title: "Parnassus does its new-music best"
  • 11/4/97, Daniel Webster, Philadelphia InquirerTitle: "School's Contemporary Players open season"
  • 11/26/98, Anthony Tomasini, The New York Times Title: "Gnarly Trills, Honking Winds: The Future Beckons"
  • 4/18/95, Richard Bell, The Boston Globe Title: "Parnassus plays "What if?"

References

  1. "Elaine Chew: Performances: Premieres". Bcf.usc.edu. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  2. "Música académica contemporánea en Colombia desde el final de los ochenta". Music.indiana.edu. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  3. "Alba Lucía Potes Cortés: Compositora colombiana". Banrepcultural.org. 1 June 2005. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  4. Oestreich, James R. (22 April 1995). "In Performance". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
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