JOSÉ-LUIS MAŚRTUA
Jose-Luis Maśrtua,
associate professor
of composition and theory, joined the music faculty at Central
Michigan University in August 1999. Studied composition with
Ladislav Kubik and conducting with Paul Vermel and Leon Gregorian.
Dr. Maśrtua has written music for the concert hall, dance, theater
and film. His music has been performed in the U.S., Canada, Mexico,
Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Czech Republic, England and
China. In July 1998, he participated in the Czech-American Summer
Music Institute at the Prague Academy of Music, his Peruviana
for solo piano being premiered at the Dvorak Museum. His Muliza
for Alto and Tenor Saxophones, Piano and Percussion (Dorn
Publications, Inc.) and his Rucaneo for Alto Saxophone and
Piano (Watchdog Music) were premiered at the World Saxophone
Congresses in Montreal, Canada in 2000 and in Minnesota, USA in
2003. In May 2001, Dr. Maśrtua collaborated with original music for
Little Palaces: Michigan’s Historic Small Town Movie Theaters,
a documentary produced by the College of Communication and Fine Arts
at Central Michigan University. His Two Peruvian Songs for
Choir received their premiere in Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai in 2002
while his Dream Of Peace, written for the Tainjin
Conservatory Choir was premiered in Tianjin in 2004. The same year,
Danzas Breves for Horn and Percussion and
Les Trois Tiques for Flute and Clarinet were premiered in Canada
and England. In 2006 his work Festejo, based on Afro-Peruvian
rhythms, was premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru
and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela. His Mambo
Mķstico for Two Pianos and his Les Trois Tiques for Flute
and Clarinet are being released in 2007 by White Pine Music Records,
performed by Le Belle Donne Piano Duo and The
Crescent Duo.
Dr. Maśrtua’s
musical activity encompasses not only classical music but Jazz,
Latin Jazz, Music Theater, Pop, Latino and Latin American folk
genres as well. He has composed and arranged music for symphony
orchestra, chamber ensembles, big band, salsa band and ensembles of
varied nature. His knowledge of Latin American music comes mainly
from performing in diverse groups as a pianist, guitarist and
singer. In this capacity he recorded with his group Vocal 3
in Puerto Rico in 1994 and, as a pianist and arranger he recorded
with Constelación Salsa Band in Ecuador in 1987 and with
Lilo Gonzales y los de la Mount Pleasant in Washington, D.C. in
1995. Dr. Maśrtua has also been writing songs for children every
year since 1980. In September 2002 his musical Soaring! was
premiered at the Midland Center for the Arts in Michigan. The year
2006 marked the 23rd anniversary of his Concierto 2000
Orchestra in Peru; the performance included Maśrtua’s orchestral
compositions and arrangements from the early 1980s and some new ones
performed by the musicians and their children. Dr. Maśrtua continues
to work on his composition commissions; he also maintains an
engagement schedule as an orchestral conductor. He has been guest
conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru, the Trujillo
Symphony Orchestra, the Bach International Festival Orchestra, The
Rochester Symphony (Michigan) and the Chamber Orchestra of the
University of Mexico, among others. From 1998 to 2002 he was music
director and artistic advisor of the Trujillo International Voice
Competitions in Peru with participants from Latin America, the U.S.
and Canada. Dr. Maśrtua holds a doctor of music degree in
composition from Florida State University, a master of music degree
in composition from George Mason University, and a bachelor of music
degree in composition from Carlos Valderrama Conservatory, Trujillo,
Peru.
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