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Avella, Vicente (b. November 27, 1970,
Caracas). Venezuelan composer, now resident in the USA, of orchestral, chamber,
choral, and vocal works that have been successfully performed in the Americas;
he has also composed many film scores.
Mr. Avella studied
piano performance with Lev Vlassenko and Enrica Cavallo-Gulli at Indiana
University from 1991-95 (BMus). He then studied composition (on a full
scholarship) with Ellsworth Milburn at Rice University in 1995-96 and
composition with Sydney P. Hodkinson and Christopher
Rouse at the Eastman School of Music from 1996-98 (MMus).
He has received
numerous awards, including Honorable Mention at the International Composition
Competition for Young Composers ALEA III (1997), the Bernard and Rose
Sernoffsky Composition Prize from the Eastman School of Music (1998) and honors
at the Waging Peace through Singing International Competition (2002).
In addition, he was a
finalist for the Pete Carpenter Fellowship Award of BMI (1999), the Morton
Gould Young Composer Award (2000) and the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers
Competition (2001).
As a pianist, he has toured since 1994 and as a teacher, he has taught at the Newark School of the Arts since 1999 and the Suburban Community Music Center since 2001. He is also organist at the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Newark.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: vavella@earthlink.net
Street address: Mr. Vicente Avella, 162 Chestnut St. #2, Rutherford, NJ
07070, USA
Telephone: 201 672 0480
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Pearls, 1997; Different Beginnings, 2 tamboras, orchestra, 1998
CHAMBER MUSIC: Chamber Paintings, flute (+ piccolo),
clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, 2 percussion, 1995; String Quartet, 1995; From a Land of Sands, Donkeys and Prickly Pears…, 2 oboes, 2
clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 French horns, 1995; Pandora’s Box, clarinet,
string quartet, 1996; Winter’s Cold Light, French horn, 2 trumpets,
trombone, bass trombone, 1996; Premonition,
guitar, 1997; The River of the White
Dolphin, viola, piano, 1997; Awakening
between a Serpent and a Rainbow, oboe, 3 percussion, 1997; Short Stories, violin, cello, piano, 2001
CHORAL: And Two Continents…, 4 male voices (+
maracas, stones), 1997; Ave Maria,
mixed chorus, 2000; Phantom Towers,
mezzo-soprano, mixed chorus, 2002; A
Prayer, mixed chorus, 2002
VOCAL: Between Two Gardens (song-cycle),
soprano, piano, 1994; The Waiting Room,
soprano, orchestra, 1994; En el Fondo
Forestal del Día, mezzo-soprano, harp, violin, cello, percussion, 1996; Vegetaciones, mezzo-soprano, 2 oboes,
bassoon, harpsichord, 1997; Canciones de
Arena, mezzo-soprano, piano, 2000
PIANO: Walpurgis Night, 1994; Two Unrelated Pieces, 1997
FILM SCORES (DIRECTOR): A Spring Day, 1998 (animation; Glenn Ehlers); Outdone, 1999 (animation; Dan Pejril); Up the Tree, 1999 (animation; Glenn Ehlers); A Night Less Ordinary, 1999 (John Rockefeller); The Diestmobile, 2000 (animation; Shaun
Foster); Bibbily Bobbily Job, 2000
(animation; Valerie Perkins); The Shell,
2001 (Elizabeth Harnois); Cross-Pollination, 2002 (animation; Shaun Foster);
Scapegoat, 2002 (Sean Sullivan)
(Last updated on July 16, 2002)
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