Alejandro Coello Calvo
Alejandro Coello Calvo (born July 25, 1989 in León , Spain ) is a Spanish percussionist , composer , pianist and arranger . Since 2013 he has been teaching percussion at the Liszt School of Music Weimar .
Life and study
Alejandro Coello is the only son of the composer Emilio Coello Cabrera and the flautist Maria Luisa Calvo. His maternal grandfather, Luis Calvo Rey, was the conductor of the Banda Municipal de Música de Astorga .
At the age of 5 he received his first music lessons in Alcobendas and later learned the double bass at the music high school in Salamanca . At the age of 16 he studied drums with Thomás Martin López and harpsichord with Alfonso Sebastián Alegre at the music academy in Salamanca and graduated with one Diploma.
As part of the Erasmus program , Coello studied from 2008 in Weimar at the Liszt School of Music with Markus Leoson . He has received the Charlotte Krupp Scholarship and the Musical Excellence Scholarship several times and completed his concert exam with distinction.
He attended courses with Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic , Bogdan Bacanu , Miguel Bernat , Emmanuel Séjourné , Julio Barreto , and Arturo Serra , among others .
Since 2013 Coello has worked as a lecturer for solo percussion at the Liszt University of Music in Weimar and also works for the Belvedere Castle Music High School. He gave master classes in Spain, Mexico and China and taught at the University of Music in Castilla y León from 2017 to 2018.
He is married to the Mexican singer Liliana Cortez Burciaga.
Engagements
Coello has worked with numerous music ensembles and has played as a soloist, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de Camara de Madrid, Ensemble Iberoamericano, JOSCYL, Plural Ensemble, Smash Ensemble, Youth Percussion Pool and Hangzhou Philharmonic.
With the Orquesta Ibérica de León he was a soloist at the world premiere of the Concerto for Guitar, Marimba and Orchestra by Flores Chaviano . At the age of 16 Coello conducted the Per Músicam Orchestra in the old Madrid Cathedral (Colegiata de San Isidro). At the same time he founded the Perc`air Duo with saxophonist Xabier Casal Ares and performed with them at the Santander International Music Festival.
In 2010 he founded the percussion duo MixStick with Tomi Ananiev Emilov . In Shanghai they won in 2011 at the Shanghai Percussion Festival first prize. They give concerts regularly in Germany, Spain and Bulgaria.
Coello has been to China several times . In 2014 he gave a percussion concert in Hangzhou and was invited as a visiting professor by the Shanghai Percussion Association in 2015 . In 2016 he was a jury member at the Music Festival in Taiyuan . In 2016 he performed with his music group Art Government Percussions in the Weimar City Palace . He also gave concerts for the WWF and the Shenzhen Foundation .
He played under the direction of well-known conductors such as Christian Thielemann , Zolt Nagy , Jean Paul Dessy , José Manuel López López , Fabian Panisello and Nicolás Pasquet .
Composer and arranger
Coello composes for different groups and styles as well as for electronic music as well as for instrumental music . He mainly focuses on audiovisual media and film music . Some of his works are:
- Concertrate for marimba solo
- Period for vibraphone and percussion
- Malpaíses for guitar and marimba (which he dedicated to the guitarist Ricardo Gallén)
He arranged two versions of Píntame angelitos negros and El cumbanchero for mixed choir, commissioned by the Tenerife Contemporary Vocal Ensemble ( Ensamble Vocal Contemporáneo de Tenerife ) under the direction of Antonio Abreu Lechado.
In 2014 two of his seven preludes were premiered by the pianist Tito García González at the Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid .
In 2015 he worked on audiovisual music projects and short films for master’s students at the Bauhaus University Weimar .
He also worked as a composer for the TV commercial "The conflict in Syria: a gigantic open wound" for the UNHCR (with Melanie Olivares, Anne Igartiburu and Luis Tosar), which was broadcast on Spanish television via Telecinco and the Internet.
Recordings
- One minute later by Diego Barber with Eric Harland and Ben Williams at Avatar Studios, NYC (Sunnyside records)
- Estampas latinas with the Iberoamericano ensemble and guitarist Ricardo Gallén
- Winnipeg. Música y exilio with the Iberoamericano ensemble
- Beatus PALAFOX. Polifonía del Siglo XVII Entre Dos Mundos with the Camerata Lacunensis, Capilla Nivariense and Cantoría San Miguel de las Victorias
- Recordings for the Central German Radio ( MDR Figaro ).
- Percussion Theory with Simon Phillips, Diego Barber, Xabier Casal and Art Government Percussions . Works by Alejandro Coello (published April 2019).
Web links
- Alejandro Coello Calvo at Discogs (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ "List of teachers at the HfM Franz Liszt Weimar". hfm-weimar.de. 01.24 2014
- ↑ University of Music LISZT - teachers. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Alejandro Coello Calvo, de 'Erasmus' a profesor de percusión en la Liszt School of Music. June 15, 2013, accessed February 26, 2019 (European Spanish).
- ↑ BELVEDERE CASTLE MUSIC GYMNASIUM. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ^ Members of the Iberoamericano Ensemble. Retrieved March 5, 2019 (Spanish).
- ↑ Mixsticks - Borken District - Leisure & Tourism. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
- ^ All About Jazz: Diego Barber: One Minute Later. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
- ^ Ricardo Gallén: Discography of Ricardo Gallén. Album "Estampas Latinas". Accessed March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Genuine. Classics. Recording Group: CD Catalog. Genuin CD-Info: Winnipeg. Música y Exilio ". Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Biblioteca Nacional de España ( National Library of Spain ): dates of the album Beatus Palafox: polifonía del siglo XVII entre dos mundos ". Retrieved on March 5, 2019 (Spanish).
- ^ Sunnyside Records: Sunnyside Records catalog: A. Coello "Percussion Theory". Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coello Calvo, Alejandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish percussionist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leon |