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Nightingales Love
Nightingales
Love was commissioned and is dedicated to pianist Shizuyo Le Nestour.
It had
its premiere in Kyoto/Japan in March 2014. I always have some story behind the
music I write. It is always a story about conflicts and about death but mostly
it is about love as the title suggests in this work. The opening is agitated as
if the nightingale doesn't know what to do to bring back his lost love but
then his Love song commences and he
gets into a frenzy demonstration of his love. As the nightingale realizes that this technical
demonstration will not bring his love back he starts his alternative love theme
(m.73) which finally liberates him from love's bonds and frees himself (at m.
93). His real love was always the love for music and so he sings and dances.
Apostolos
Paraskevas
2013
Duration: approx.
7 minutes
Apostolos Paraskevas is a classical guitarist and composer as well as an award-winning film
director and producer. He has received multiple international awards for his
compositions and was nominated for a Grammy Award. He is the only guitarist
ever to have a major orchestral piece performed at Carnegie Hall under the
direction of Lukas Fossand the only musician who has performed there in a
Grim Reaper outfit. He was the founder and served for 16 years as the artistic
director of the International Guitar Congress-Festival of Corfu, Greece. He is a voting member of the Recording
Academy (Grammys).
After
his undergraduate music studies in Volos he pursued advanced studies in
classical guitar with Costas Cotsiolis (diploma, 1990) and Leo Brouwer (Havana
1984, 1988), as well as postgraduate studies in composition with Lukas Foss and
Theodore Antoniou (DMA in composition, Boston University, 1998). Paraskevas
embarked on a successful career as a guitar soloist and contemporary composer,
achieving distinctions in both disciplines: Grammy nomination for Chase
Dance (Bridge Records, 1999); first prize for Night Wanderings
(Lukas Foss Composition Competition, 2000); first prize for Phygein Adynaton
(National Composers Conference, 1997); and numerous prestigious commissions,
performances, and publications. Following teaching posts at Northeastern and
Boston Universities, Paraskevas has taught since 2001 at the Berklee College of
Music in Boston (professor of composition and classical guitar).
His
eclectic compositional style arises as an idiosyncratic integration of
seemingly conflicting influences from avant-garde approaches to harmonic
structure, form, and timbre, to pop-folk modal and rhythmical concepts
amalgamated into a personal evocative musical language, characterized by rhythmic
verve, melodic grace, dramatic (and sometimes unexpectedly humorous) gestures,
and ritualistic or theatrical elements. The latter feature has also led
Paraskevas to the creation of films, notably the acclaimed I Finally Did It
(Gold award, California Film Awards 2010), dealing wittily with Death, a
recurring extra-musical theme in his music.
The Groves Dictionary of Music
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