“Daniel Rojas”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Rojas received a Bachelor of Music - Composition with Honours (First Class and Medal) and a Master of Music in Composition from Sydney University.^[2] He later graduated with a PhD from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.^[3]

Career

Since 2012, Rojas worked as a solo pianist, performing music by Latin American composers, including Piazzolla and Ginastera, his own works, arrangements of traditional folksongs and free improvisation. He performed his own Piano Concerto no.1 with the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra under George Ellis, has performed solo recitals in Sydney and Townsville and performs with Latin jazz, tango and world music groups such as Latin Kaos; Sonora Galaxia; Orquesta Los Mambizes; Tango Paradiso; Chai Ensemble, Jacana, Drumbeats and Tigramuna.

In 2012 Rojas released a solo album, Latin Piano Expressions, featuring his own works, Piazzolla's Resureccion de Angel and Histiore du Tango as well as four free improvisations. The album was praised in the AU Review,^[4] and was selected as 'Editor's Choice' in Limelight Magazine (Oct 2013).^[5]

In 2015 Rojas performed with the North Sydney Orchestra.^[6] He also joined the contemporary jazz group Alturas,^[7] was a member of the Mendoza Quartet and is the pianist, arranger and composer for Orquesta La Luna, a Sydney-based traditional and contemporary tango ensemble.^[8]

Compositions

Rojas' works draw upon a variety of Latin American influences. One of his most widely performed works, Danza de Montañas for solo piano (2003), features the influence of Afro-Cuban dance rhythms as well as the music of the indigenous communities of the Peruvian Andes. These two influences are combined with nuevo tango rhythms in his Sonata for soprano and piano (2010) and the solo piano work, Entre Bajos y Alturas (2011).^[9] Entre Bajos y Altruas, commissioned by pianist, Zubin Kanga, features a partly prepared piano (evoking a thumb-piano in some sections and the percussion of a salsa band in others) as well as dense polyrhythms and rapid changes in metre.^[10] This fusing of traditional Latin American genres with rhythmic techniques borrowed from Stravinsky, Bartók and Messiaen are also found in his major ensemble works, Danza Amarosas (written for the Kammer Ensemble in 2007), Mirimba for solo marimba (commissioned for Claire Edwardes) and Marimba Concerto (for percussionist, Claire Edwardes and the Sydney Metropolitan Orchestra in 2013).^[11]^[12]^[13]

Rojas has composed two piano concertos. The Piano Concerto No. 1 ("The Latin Piano Concerto") is flamboyant and populist, with a tonal harmonic language and classical structure.^[14] It is also the more widely performed of the two with performances by the Queensland Orchestra, Sydney University Symphony Orchestra and Kuringai Philharmonic following the premiere with the Sydney Youth Philharmonic (and soloist, Zubin Kanga) in 2006. The Piano Concerto No. 2 ("Entre Ritos y Parrandas), commissioned by Ars Musica Australis for the Sydney Youth Orchestra and soloist, Konstantin Shamray, is more unorthodox in structure, starting with a pentatonic folk melody and gradually changing into a savage style.

Selected list of works

Concert works

based on the poem by Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno. Commissioned by Sydney Grammar School Music Association for the School’s Sequicentenary Celebration Concert.

Film scores

Discography

External links

References

1. ^" When the Montuno Meets the Orchestra". CutCommon, 2 September 2015
2. ^¹{{cite book|author=Stephen Pleskun|title=A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS – Vol. 4 1999–2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QTM8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA598|date=28 March 2014|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=978-1-4931-3537-0|pages=598, 655}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/music/staff-profiles/daniel.rojas.php|title=Dr Daniel Rojas - The University of Sydney|last=Sydney|first=The University of|website=sydney.edu.au|access-date=2018-06-17}}
4. ^Jon Jabbagy: "Album Review – Latin Piano Expressions", AU review 26 November 2012, http://www.theaureview.com/albums/daniel-rojas-latin-piano-expressions-2012-lp.
5. ^Steve Moffat: "From Tango to Django", Limelight Magazine, October 2013.
6. ^"Live Review: The Idea of Spain". Cut Common Magazine, 25 September 2015, BY SAMUEL COTTELL
7. ^"Alturas at Smith's Alternative blends tango and jazz". The Canberra Times, 5 May 2016
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.sydneytango.com.au/WebModules/Forum/ShowThread.aspx?ID=5900&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1|title=Pianist & Composer: Daniel Rojas-Gonzales - Interview for Australian Tango Festival|last=|first=|date=|website=Sydney Tango|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
9. ^Jennifer Gall: "Piano Inside/Out: Zubin Kanga in concert" (featuring premiere of Rojas' Entre Bajos y Alturas), The Canberra Times, 25 July 2011.
10. ^Kanga, Zubin: "Inside the Collaborative Process: Realising New Works for Solo Piano", PhD thesis, Royal Academy of Music, 2014.
11. ^The Metropolitan Orchestra: Edwardes plays Rojas (preview article and listing on ClassikOn) http://www.classikon.com/concerts/the-metropolitan-orchestra-claire-edwardes-plays-rojas-the-independent-theatre-june-2013/
12. ^Angharad Davis: "Second Viennese School meets Modern Australian" (review), Resonance, 16 June 2007: http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/second-viennese-school-meets-modern-australian
13. ^¹"Shostakovich, Bach, Gerard Brophy, Daniel Rojas, Matthew Hindson". Limelight Magazine, Julian Day on 8 December 2011
14. ^Program notes for concert by the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra (including The Latin Piano Concerto), 21 May 2013.
15. ^"Claire Edwardes plays Rojas | The Metropolitan Orchestra". Australian Stage. Lloyd Bradford (Brad) Syke, 4 July 2013

Early life and education