Ross Thompson, guitar
Program
Carlé Costa
Antología Utópica (World Premiere)
Calmadamente
Scherzando
Andante
Interludio
Quasi cadenza, libre
Lento, libre
Canción
Andante
Fluido e misterioso
Contemplativamente
Giocoso (Finale)
Ross Thompson
Blue Heron I (2019) (World Premiere)
Sostenuto
Andantino
Grave
Marcha
Lento
Allegro
Intermission
Carlé Costa
En la luz del templo
Carlé Costa
Preludio iridiscente
Ross Thompson
Prelude Op.30 N°2 (2007)
Carlé Costa
4 estudios from "Estudios anacrónicosincrónicometaanárquicos"
Inipi
Paraíso a la deriva
Artist Profiles
English-born composer and international concert guitarist Ross Thompson spent his childhood in Puerto Rico before moving with his family to the United States. He began his study of the guitar at age 13. During his higher education, he completed his masters and post-graduate degrees at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the Royal College of Music in London. His principal guitar teachers were David Tanenbaum and Carlos Bonell. He has over 25 years of experience as an instructor of the classical guitar and is an author of 26 volumes of original works for guitar solo including chamber music and 6 match studio recordings. He has been invited by a number of international festivals and schools to perform including the International Festival of Contemporary Classical Music (Lima, Peru), Leo Kestenberg Musikschule Berlin, Mozarteum of Uruguay, Seoul National University, National Conservatory of Music (Rio Gallegos, Patagonia, Argentina), Peruvian North American Cultural Institute, San Francisco Performances, San Francisco Opera, and the National Conservatory of Peru. As a composer, he has received commissions for original music from various institutions including California Shakespeare Festival, Leo Kestenberg Musikschule, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Institute of Nano Science, Seoul National University. In addition to works for the guitar, he has written for voice and string trio, Orfeo, a score of original music and text. He is a first prizewinner in the American String Teachers Association National Competition. Ross Thompson has toured and recorded with guitarist Carlé Costa and flutist Natalia Kaminska-Palarczyk. He serves on the Pre-College faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His dedication as a professor of guitar has earned him an honorary chair, dedicated in his name, in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall. Currently, Mr. Thompson lives in California. His compositions are published by Editions Ross Thompson and DeSantis Publications, Berlin.
Flutist Natalia Kaminska-Palarczyk is a dedicated performer and teacher, with a passion for music outreach. She believes that collaboration with artists in all mediums is the key to creating strong performance art. A versatile artist, Natalia has premiered several works, including “TAKEABITE: the opera” by David Antonio Cruz, premiered in El Museo in New York City, and “Korean Duets Op. 44” by Ross Thompson premiered in Seoul, South Korea.
Natalia has played flute and piccolo in numerous ensembles, including the Hudson Valley Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, the orchestra at Radio City Hall with the internationally acclaimed pop-opera trio “Il Volo”, and at the Pacific Region International Music Festival in British Columbia, Canada. As an avid chamber musician, Natalia was a semifinalist at the National Fischoff Competition and the New England Chamber music competition.
She has held numerous teaching positions including at Bay Path University and the Green Street Learning Center at Wesleyan University, and is currently on faculty at Cazadero Music Camp. Natalia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Music Performance from UCLA and a Master’s in Flute Performance from The Hartt School, where she was a student of Janet Arms.
Carlé Costa was born in 1959 in Uruguay and grew up in Argentina. He studied with many important teachers although his main education happens to be autodidactic, an education of profound exercise and consideration about silence which he devoted himself to during his ten years living in nature. As a young guitarist, he was a pioneer of contemporary music in Latin America: he has contributed to its growth on the continent with numerous performances, comprehensive teaching, and recordings. He gives concerts regularly where he presents his own compositions as well as a large spectrum of repertory-pieces as part of international festivals and concert series in Europe, Asia, and the American continents. He composes for solo-guitar, chamber music ensembles, and orchestra with commissions requested by international soloists, ensembles, music schools, choreographers, and music festivals. Some of his compositions are considered important milestones among contemporary music repertory (NN, Cantos en la piedra, Visiones sobre las nueve rocas -for piano-, Tráfico pesado -for guitar quartet-, Inipi and more). CD´s with recordings of his interpretations and compositions have been released since 1986 in Argentina, Sweden, and Peru. He has attracted special attention from audiences and press with his refreshing and powerful interpretations of the work of Heitor Villa-Lobos. Besides his artistic activities Costa devotes himself to pedagogical work, promoting new didactic concepts to awaken the creativity of young musicians. He teaches guitar, chamber music and free improvisation in mixed ensemble at the Leo Kestenberg Musikschule Berlin as well as masterclasses at international seminars and festivals. Four of his artistic tours (October 2013/14/16/18), have been sponsored by Goethe Institut and/or Berliner Senatskanzlei for whom he has performed in the Berliner Philharmonie. He performs with Robert Garcia guitars (CA) using Savarez strings. Carlé Costa lives in Berlin, Germany.