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The
composer says: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue was commissioned by the
Brazilian guitarist Nicolas de Souza Barros. The work features a combination of
extended traditional European forms and compositional techniques with a wholly
Panamerican atmosphere, from American jazz to the Brazilian Seresta and Choro.
The composer owes an important part of this piece’s formal idea to César
Franck’s homonymous piano work and his inspiration from the cultural freshness
of the American continent. However, its raison d’être has been the
intimate and intrinsic relationship between the guitar and the composer’s
native Brazil, of which that marvelous instrument has become its most prominent
musical voice.
Alexandre
Eisenberg was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1966. An active flutist since
1985, he has been taking part in many concerts and recitals as soloist, chamber
player and orchestra member both in Brazil and USA, and was principal flute in
the Amazonas Philharmonic (Manaus, northern Brazil) from 1997 to 1999. He
premiered many works by Brazilian contemporary composers, some of which were
dedicated to him. As an active composer, Mr. Eisenberg's activities also date
back to 1985, including several works commissioned by prominent players such as
Brazilian guitarists Nicolas Barros and Fabio Adour, Venezuelan clarinetist
Jorge Montilla and Israeli violist Yuval Gotlibovich, as well as institutions
such as the Brazilian National Flute Association and the Brazilian Contemporary
Music Biennale. Mr. Eisenberg has won the 1999 Rodrigo Riera International
Guitar Composition Competition in Caracas, Venezuela, the Angoulême 2005
International Bassoon Composition Competition in Angoulême, France, and the
2005 Dean's Prize in Chamber Music Composition at the Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music, USA. At the present time, he is an adjunct professor
of music at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, where he teaches
composition and related courses
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