Carlos Malcolm (composer)

Carlos Malcolm (born November 24, 1945 in Havana ) is a Cuban composer and pianist .

Malcolm had his first piano lessons with Juana María Quiñones and Sonia Montalvo. From 1962 he was a student of Alicia Perea and Federico Smith at the Escuela Nacional de Música . He continued his training with Amadeo Roldán and Margot Rojas Mendoza at the Conservatorio Amadeo Roldán and graduated in 1981 from the Instituto Superior de Arte .

He then worked as a pianist and composer for the Conjunto Nacional de Danza Moderna and the Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión as well as for a dance formation in Ecuador. He performed his own compositions on concert tours to Mexico (1979 and 1981), Jamaica (1980) and Canada (1986). In the autumn of 1985 in Warsaw he took part with the composition Quetzalcóatl for flute and piano. During further stays in Warsaw between 1987 and 1989 he met Iannis Xenakis , who had a noticeable influence on his compositional style. Malcolm has lived in Poland since 1990, where he completed his musical education at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music . He has been a member of the Polish Composers Association since 2013.

Works

• Estudios for piano, 1963
• Marionetas for symphony orchestra, 1964
• Allegro en Son for wind quintet, 1964
• Dúo for clarinet and piano, 1964
• Sonatina for piano, 1964
• Tonos de orquesta for voice and instrumental ensemble, 1968
• Montaje for instrumental ensemble, 1969
• Allegro en son for wind quintet, flute and clarinet, 1964
• Canción intermezzo for choir and guitar ensemble, 1965
• Lo que puede ocurrir en dos pulsaciones for cello and piano, 1969
• Montaje for wind ensemble and percussion, 1969
• Articulaciones for piano 1970
• Un verso me piden for choir, soloists and instrumental ensemble, 1971
• Contorno for symphony orchestra, 1971
• Una flor que se abre for clarinet and piano, 1972
• Oposiciones y cambios for two pianos and three percussionists, 1972
• Collage for jazz quintet, 1972
• Sones de guerra for guitar and piano, 1973
• Beny Moré redivivo for string quartet, 1973
• Adagio for piano four hands, 1974
• Diálogo I for two percussionists and three pianos, 1975
• Dos canciones for voice and piano (text: Rubén Martínez Villena ), 1976
• Sonata for two pianos, 1977
• Canto con interrupciones for cello and piano, 1978
• En broma y en serio for violin, cello and piano, 1978
• El remediano for piano, 1978
• Eclosión , ballet music, 1979
• Balada del güije for voice and piano, 1979
• Coplas de Juan el Barbero , 1979
• La Caja de las pequeńas sorpresas , Suite for a young pianist, 1979
• Movimiento sinfónico para flauta obligada , 1980
• Antillanos for voice and piano, 1980
• Concierto for piano and orchestra, 1981
• Spring in New Hampshire for voice and piano, 1981
• The Tropics in New York for voice and piano, 1981
• Rondas para un nuevo son for alto saxophone and piano, 1983
• Quetzalcóatl (Canto de la serpiente emplumada) for flute and piano, 1983
• Lo uno y lo vario for violin and piano, 1984
• Oposiciones cambios for three percussionists, 1984
• Rumores for violin, cello and piano or piano trio, 1984
• Autógrafo for piano, 1998
• The one and the many for violin and piano, 2003
• Canto en Familia for soloists, choir and piano, 2003
• 4 Escenas breves for piano, 2005
• Sonata for violin and piano, 2007
• Sonata Divertimento No 1 for piano, 2009
• Sonata Divertimento No 2 for piano, 2012

See also

Cuban music

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• Carlos Malcolm at EcuRed
• Carlos Malcolm at Warsaw Music Encounters
• Layda Ferrando: El cubano Carlos Malcolm. In: CMBF Radio Musical Nacional. December 21, 2015, archived from the original on December 30, 2015 ; accessed on March 26, 2020 .