About Me

General Info

General Location

Greater Philadelphia Area

Company/Institution

LaFi Publishers Ltd.

Occupation

Composer and Conductor

Community Role

Composer
Performer
ACF Member

Gender

Male

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Efraín Amaya
amaya@lafipublishers.com
http://www.efrainamaya.com
http://www.lafipublishers.com
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=efrainamaya

Musical Info

Instrument(s)

Piano and Conducting

Interests

Composing, conducting, New music, Live performances

Additional Info

Web site

http://www.efrainamaya.com

About me

American composer and conductor Efraín Amaya was born in Venezuela, where he began his musical training. Continuing his studies in the United States, he earned degrees in composition and piano from the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and a Master’s degree in conducting from Rice University.

Amaya's compositions have been selected for performance at major international festivals, such as the Seattle Symphony's Viva la Música Festival; the American Composers Orchestra Festival of Venezuelan Music at Weill Recital Hall in New York; the XVII Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez in Mexico City; the XV, VIII and XI Festival Latinoamericano de Música in Caracas, Venezuela; the 37th, 35th, 32nd and 29th Annual National Flute Association Conventions in New York, New York; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Nashville, Tennessee; and in Dallas, Texas; the Gala Concert of the Jeanne Baxtresser International Master Classes at Carnegie Mellon University and the Juilliard School in New York, and in Boston at the Modern Orchestra Project recital series.

In 2004, Efraín Amaya received a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He was also a Meet The Composer Composer-in-Residence with Gateway to the Arts, WQED-FM, Renaissance City Wind Music Society and Shaler School District from September of 2001 to September 2004, which was made possible by Meet The Composer, Inc. and its New Residencies program. His music has been performed by numerous ensembles, including the Orquesta Municipal de Caracas, Orquesta Sinfónica Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, the Point Chamber Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil del Estado de Veracruz, the Turtle Island String Quartet, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Dali Quartet, the Madison String Quartet, Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, the IonSound Project, as well as the Carnegie Mellon University and the Duquesne University Contemporary Ensembles, among several others. Amaya’s work has also been included in the Sewickley Bachfest, the Shadyside Concert Series and the Renaissance City Winds concert series. His opera Clepsydra premiered as part of the First Night celebrations in Pittsburgh as a collaborative multimedia performance for tape, live performers, and edited video projection, sponsored by the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and the Heinz Endowment.

Élan Recordings released his debut CD A Sense of Time on June 1, 2001. In 2004, Albany Records released the two-cello version of Silent Conversations in a CD entitled Zoo of Dreams, featuring the Amici Chamber Players. Amaya’s two chamber operas: Clepsydra: An Operatic Installation with 13 Performers, and Phantasmagorilla? No! Phantasmagoria were also released by Albany Records in 2009.

Mr. Amaya is the founder and Music Director of the Point Chamber Orchestra, which made its debut performance during the summer of 2006 with a tour of seven concerts in Italy, performing in venues such as the Fenice Theater in Venice, the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi and the Parco della Musica in Rome. Recent work includes Marahuaka, a concerto for 3 marimbas and Wind Symphony Orchestra and Epona’s Portal, a concerto for bassoon and Wind Symphony Orchestra both commissioned by Robert Boudreau and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra premiered in 2009 and 2010 accordantly.

Hometown

Caracas, Venezuela

Education

College / University

Rice University

Graduation Year

1988

Contact Information

Phone

412-760-8450

Address

P.O. Box 345

City / Town

Plymouth Meeting

State

PA 19462

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