The Berklee College of Music Awarded the Cubadisco International Prize
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- Arts and Culture
- 05 / 15 / 2011
2011.05.14 - 18:52:57 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. The Berklee College of Music Awarded the Cubadisco International Prize. Santiago De Cuba, Cuba.- The Berklee College of Music of Boston, will receive in this city the Cubadisco International Prize for its album Mtcd: 10 Music Technology Division Production Projects.
In an exclusive interview with ACN, Neil Leonard, professor with that US center who heads a delegation of young musicians of the Berklee Interarts Ensamble now visiting Cuba, said that “it’s a great honor to be acknowledged in this way, more so if we take into account the musical richness of the island.”
“Being here is very important for us for several reasons: first, for being guests of an event of this kind in a city like Santiago, which is music in itself, and second, because as a professor I believe that this visit will change the lives of my students.”
“I see our stay here with a forward-looking approach and I know that our exchanges with Cuban musicians will be a great experience,” he commented.
Leonard confessed to being an admirer of the rhythms of the Caribbean nation, since he discovered them while listening to Chano Pozo and the Irakere and Afrocuba music groups over two decades ago.
The awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, 11:00 a.m., at the Dolores Hall, where the visiting group will share the stage with the Sax Quartet and with students of the Esteban Salas Conservatory, the two of them from this city.
Then, it will travel to Havana, where it will perform on May 20 at the National Museum of Fine Arts to present a series of works composed together with students of the National Laboratory of Electro-acoustic Music and the Institute of Higher Arts.
The concert’s repertoire will be based on pieces that combine voices, electronic music, sound designs and elements of Cuban folk traditions. (ACN)
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