Cristián Alvear will offer a concert of Japanese guitar music from the 20th century & XXI. 

The program will include works by Toru Takemitsu, Toshio Hosokawa, Futoshi Ebihara, Yoshihisa, among others.

Program
Toshio Hosokawa (1955 - )
Serenade (2003) *
I. In the Moonlight
II. Dreampath

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Folios (1974)
I. Folio I
II. Folio II
III. Folio III

Makiko Nishikaze (1968 - )
St. Michael’s Garden (2004) *

Yoshihisa Taïra (1937-2005)
Monodrame III (1988) *

Cristian Alvear

Chilean musician dedicated to the premiere, interpretation and recording of contemporary and experimental music. He is curator of the Relincha festival in Valdivia and directs, together with Santiago Astaburuaga, LOTE, an ensemble whose work is focused exclusively on the creation of experimental scores. He has performed, from 2000 to date, both concerts and recitals and participated in festivals in Chile, Switzerland, Japan, France, Poland, Mexico and England, among which highlights include Cha'ak'ab Paaxil (Mérida, Mexico), Sesiones Umbral (DF, Mexico), Frutillar Musical Weeks (Frutillar, Chile), Muzzix (Lille, France), Instants Chavirés (Montreuil, France), Café Oto (London, United Kingdom), Bang the Bore (Bristol, United Kingdom), Over the Top (Sheffield, United Kingdom), XI Festiwalu Muzyki Teatralnej (Wroclaw, Poland), Centrum Amarant (Poznań, Poland), Ftarri (Tokyo, Japan), Omise Space (Tokyo, Japan), l-e Osaki (Tokyo, Japan), Guggenheim House (Kobe, Japan), Yusuruago (Kyoto, Japan), Shangri-la (Sendai, Japan), Soutokuann (Osaka, Japan), La Voirie (Biel, Switzerland), Le Cabinet (Geneva, Switzerland), Säulenhalle Landhaus (Solothurn, Switzerland), AtelierKonzert (Basel, Switzerland), Festival Tsonami (Valparaíso, Chile) and International Festival of Contemporary Music of the University of Chile (Santiago, Chile). His work has been published on specialized labels in Germany, the United States, England, France, Mexico, Canada, Portugal and Austria, including Edition Wandelweiser Records (Germany), Irritable Hedgehog (USA), Cathnor/Another Timbre (England), Rhizome.s (France), Potlatch (France, Lengua de Lava (Mexico), Caduc (Canada), Melange Records (Japan), 1000füssler (Germany), Mappa (Slovenia) and b-boim records (Austria).
In December In 2011 he was selected among the "100 Young Leaders 2011" by the magazine El Sábado of the newspaper El Mercurio and the Adolfo Ibáñez University. changing the form in music is made by the New York magazine Remezlca. He is currently studying the Master's Degree in Performance taught by the DMus of the University of Chile and is preparing a tour of Taiwan, South Korea and Japan for October and November of this year.

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