Miguel del Aguila - Pacific Serenade for clarinet and string quartet by Peermusic Classical

Miguel del Aguila Pacific Serenade for Clarinet and String Quartet

Written in 1998, Pacific Serenade was commissioned by the Pacific Serenades ensemble of Southern California, who premiered the work that same year. Inspired by the ensemble’s name, this “peaceful serenade” is romantic, quasi-improvised music that should be sung at night under the stars. The main “singer” here is the clarinet, and the string quartet has the expressive challenge of setting the mood for the singer. In general the music is quiet, delicate, sensuous, and sentimental. Latin song elements (especially the nostalgic Brazilian folk song) are at times combined with the melodic and harmonic style of the blues. In an age of boomboxes, media bombardment of information, and pop culture becoming increasingly aggressive, boisterous and violent, I felt the need to write just the opposite . . . to show once more that less is more. — Miguel del Aguila

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, American composer Miguel del Aguila moved to the U.S. in 1978. After graduating from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music he moved to Vienna, where he was active as a composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher. He returned to the U.S. in 1992 to live in Southern California. Numerous premieres of his works followed, and in 1994 the Los Angeles Times chose him “resident music man of the year” and later “One of the West Coast's most promising and enterprising young composers”. He was honored with a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award in 1995 and several California Arts Council Fellowships and Residencies from 1996 to 2000. In 2004 he was awarded a “Music Alive” Extended Residency administered by Meet The Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League, under which he served as composer-in-residence with the New Mexico Symphony. Miguel del Aguila's catalog of 90 works includes opera, orchestral, choral, solo and chamber works as well as incidental music for theater and film. International premieres of his works have been broadcast worldwide on radio and TV. His works have been recorded on numerous CDs by labels and artists in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. As pianist, Aguila has performed with orchestras in the U.S. and abroad, and given solo concerts in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, and at Konzerthaus and Bösendorfer Hall in Vienna. Aguila was conductor and music director of California’s Ojai Camerata from 1996 to 2000, and is founder/director of the West Coast composers’ group Voices. Since 2000 Aguila has spent his summers as resident composer at the Chautauqua Institution Summer Festival.

Duration: ca. 10 minutes

Commissioned by Pacific Serenades

Pacific Serenade Op.59 for Clarinet in Bb and String Quartet

Miguel del Aguila (1998)

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