as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

Robert Xavier Rodriguez

Premieres

In February 2003, Robert Xavier Rodriguez's Decem Perfectum, a concertino for woodwind quintet, brass quintet, and wind ensemble, commissioned by a consortium of wind ensembles, is scheduled to premiere with the University of Arizona Wind Ensemble, Gary Hill, conductor.

Performances

George Schram conducted the Columbus (OH) Symphony in The Tempest, March 2002.  A Music from Copland House program in New York, NY, March 2002, featured Les Niais Amoureux.  Also in March 2002, an all-Rodriguez concert included Con Flor y Canto, The Song of Songs, Fanfare from Adoración Ambulante, Fantasia Lussuriosa, Chronies, and Lull-A-Bear, at the University of Texas at Dallas, in Richardson, conducted by the composer.  The Dallas Opera produced over 55 performances of Monkey See, Monkey Do in spring 2002.  In June 2002, Rodriguez's opera Frida was presented in Nordhausen and Recklinghausen, Germany.

Publications

Gambits, French horn and piano; G. Schirmer.  Smash the Windows, wind ensemble; Hal Leonard Publishing Corp.

Further Information

• 1998-1999 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online
• SAI's Music for Young People section