8/16/2019 Joseph Perez Mirandilla presskit

1/2

A Filipino guitarist, received his first training at the Universityof Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music under the guidanceof Ruben F. Reyes. In 2005, Joseph went to Japan to pursuehis post-graduate studies focusing on contemporary guitarmusic with Norio Sato, a world renowned leader of thecontemporary music group Ensemble Nomad, at theElisabeth University of Music. Currently, he is aprofessor for guitar performance at the SichuanConservatory of Music in China.

Joseph has performed in numerous concerts inJapan, Germany, China, Singapore, Thailand,Vietnam, and the Philippines, where he continues

to inspire many by teaching in masterclassesand workshops.

 josephperezmirandilla

 josephperezmirandilla@gmail.com

http://www.josephperezmirandilla.tk

http://www.josephperezmirandilla.tk/http://www.josephperezmirandilla.tk/

8/16/2019 Joseph Perez Mirandilla presskit

2/2

About the music…

About the music…

Undulations (Yori-aki Matsudaira)

Waves grow, burst and change shape.

Millions of droplets become one with the wave.And then each droplet changes shape again, energizing a new wave.This process is repeated, again and again.We hear something similar in the piece Undulations  for solo guitar.As a whole, the piece has one unified process; at the same time, having six different processes, and within

 

those sixty more processes exists; Sounds changing shape, like waves.

-Yori-aki Matsudaira 

Yori-aki Matsudaira was born in Tokyo on March 1931. He studied biology at Tokyo MetropolitanUniversity and was self-taught in both piano and composition. Throughout the span of hismusical career he has employed various compositional techniques – serialism, indeterminacy,

combines and new modal music.

Tres Momentos Microtonales (Agustin Castilla-Avila)

Agustin Castilla-Avila is one of Spain’s prolific composers of his generation. He first began his career inmusic as a guitarist while composing on the side and eventually focusing more in composing later on.His works to date comprises of works for orchestra, solo instruments, chamber music and theatre music.

Many years ago, during my guitar studies, I fell in love with microtonal music on the guitar. I wantedto play microtones but I could not afford either to get one of the existing microtonal guitars or tolearn a special technique to play them. In addition, the repertoire for those instruments was very limited.So, mainly because of practical reasons, I created my own system on the ordinary guitar using six G

strings tuned at sixths of a tone. By doing so, I don´t only solve the problem of getting a new instrument orlearning a special technique for it but also create a beautiful and very particular resonance having thedifferent microtones on open strings.As a composer, I like very much to use this instrument as a bridge between folk and contemporary music.While in Tres Momentos Microtonales , one could hear strong influences between Southern Spain and ArabicMusic; Sakura  (dedicated to Joseph Mirandilla) is an arrangement of the Japanese Folksong.

-Agustin Castilla-Avila