Alejandro Rutty’s compositional output includes orchestral, chamber and
mixed-media music, arrangements of Argentine traditional music, and
innovative outreach musical projects.
A unique feature of Rutty’s
music is its affection for textures suggested by modern recording
processing techniques, and the use of Tango - a genre he performs as a
pianist-and other South American genres as part of the music’s surface.
Rutty’s compositions and
arrangements have been played by the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra,
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra,
National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, National Symphony Orchestra of
Brazil, Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra,
Linköping Symphony Orchestra, American Modern Ensemble, the New York
New Music Ensemble, the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, and the Cassatt
String Quartet among other groups. Rutty’s music has been published by
Effiny Music, SCI/European American Music, and Ricordi Sudamericana.
Recordings of his music have
been released by Navona Records, Capstone Records, Arizona University
Recordings, and ERM Media, PAI Records.
Alejandro Rutty (PhD SUNY
Buffalo) is currently Associate Professor of Music Composition at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
We at the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century
Music are looking forward to having composer and UB alumn Alejandro Rutty
visit the Center next month. On Wednesday, March 6th, Rutty will be coming
to the University at Buffalo from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, where he is currently an Associate Professor, and offering a
presentation on his music as part of our visiting lecture series.
Rutty has recently released his first CD on Navona Records, The Conscious Sleepwalker. The album's
title piece, The Conscious Sleepwalker Loops, for orchestra, has received
enthusiastic reviews, and has been called "a terrific curtain-raiser"
(Boston Globe) and "amusing... an immediate test of the ensemble's
mettle" (New York Times). We look forward to hearing about his recent CD
and several of his other projects during his visit.
Here is an interview with Dr. Tom Moore, where Rutty talks
about his recent concerto for saxophone quartet and orchestra, A Future of Tango, also on The Conscious Sleepwalker, as well as several of
his other recent pieces.
More background on Alejandro Rutty can be gleaned from his
biography below:
Alejandro Rutty
“Alejandro Rutty’s compositional output includes orchestral,
chamber and mixed-media music, arrangements of Argentine traditional music, and
innovative outreach musical projects.
“A unique feature of Rutty’s music is its affection for
textures suggested by modern recording processing techniques, and the use of
Tango - a genre he performs as a pianist-and other South American genres as
part of the music’s surface.
“Rutty’s compositions and arrangements have been played by
the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Indianapolis
Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, National Symphony
Orchestra of Brazil, Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Symphony
Orchestra, Linköping Symphony Orchestra, the New York New Music Ensemble, the
Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, and the Cassatt String Quartet among other groups.
Rutty’s music has been published by Effiny Music, SCI/European American Music,
and Ricordi Sudamericana.
“Recordings of his music have been released by Capstone
Records, Arizona University Recordings, and ERM Media. The Conscious
Sleepwalker (an All-Rutty CD, Navona Records) including A Future of Tango and
other orchestral pieces was released in March 2012.
“Founder and Artistic Director of the Hey, Mozart! Project,
Alejandro Rutty is currently Associate Professor of Music at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro.”
Check out the excellent live video below of Rutty's Simultaneous Worlds, for flute and percussion, performed by the Due East Duo:
We’re really looking forward to the next half of the season,
which will feature one of our largest Slee Sinfonietta concerts ever, including
guest performances by some of contemporary music’s leading musicians, including
Ensemble SIGNAL, conductor Brad Lubman, soprano Laura Aiken, bass-baritone
Ethan Herschenfeld, and percussionist Tom Kolor. The Spring Slee Sinfonietta
concert will feature the premiere of David Felder’s Les Quatres Temps
Cardinaux, a large work for about thirty musicians and ten channels of
electronics, and which is Felder’s second commission from the Koussevitsky Music Foundation. We asked Felder about the commission, and he was kind enough
to let us in on some of the details, “An interesting aspect of the
piece is that I have audio recordings of the poets reading their poems, and can
use their voices as source material. Most of the readings will be substantially
electronically transformed... Often the phonemes from the spoken poems will be translated into
instrumental analogues, or processed into bell sounds or other timbres. The
texts will also be carried, to a large degree, by the singers. It’s been a
really big project – projecting to be about 40-45 minutes.”
Ensemble SIGNAL
Many other events will be happening in the spring: we’ll
have a visit from French composer Phillipe Hurel, a brief cameo by composer
Josh Levine, hailing from Oberlin, Ohio, a visit from University of North
Carolina composer and UB alumn Alejandro Rutty, and a guest appearance from
percussionist Patti Cudd from the University of Wisconsin. We’re also looking
forward to a residency from the terrific French new music ensemble
Court-circuit, who will offer a fresh concert of new music pieces as well as
perform UB graduate composer works.
Most important, of course, will be June in Buffalo 2013,
which will be the inaugural year of the June in Buffalo Performance Institute,
and which will feature an exciting performance faculty comprised of cellist
Jonathan Golove, pianist Eric Huebner, the virtuosic and
tremendously popular JACK Quartet, percussionist Tom Kolor, and the incredible
Talujon Percussion Ensemble. This will be the first year for young performers
of new music to study, workshop, and collaborate with some of the leading interpreters
of contemporary music at June in Buffalo.
A lot more will be happening in the upcoming months, and we'll be sure to keep you posted. Details on the University at Buffalo Spring Season, June in
Buffalo 2013, and other information about the Center's events posted below:
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