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Bayolo, Armando (b. May 26, 1973, Santurce, Puerto Rico). American composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in North America and elsewhere; he is also active as a conductor.
Mr. Bayolo began private piano studies with Encarnita Molinaris at age twelve and wrote his first composition at age fourteen. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan in 1989 and there began his composition studies. He studied composition with Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse and Joseph Schwantner at the Eastman School of Music, where he earned his BMus in 1995, and with Martin Bresnick at Yale University, where he earned his MMus in 1997. He finished his studies with Evan Chambers, Michael Daugherty and Bright Sheng at the University of Michigan and there earned his DMA in 2001, on a Rackham Merit Fellowship.
Among his honors are an honorable mention in the First Music competition of the New York Youth Symphony (1998, for Symphony No. 2), First Prize in the competition of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño (2000-01, for August Dramas) and an honorable mention in the Composers Institute Reading Sessions of the American Composers Forum (2004, for Los Conquistadores). He was also selected to attend a young composers workshop of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico (2001). His works have been performed in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Malaysia, and the USA.
Mr. Bayolo is also active as a conductor. He founded the Prime Directive Ensemble and new music concert series in Ann Arbor in 2000 and served as its director from 2000-02. He also served as music director of the University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society in 2002 and as visiting director of the Reed College Chamber Orchestra in Oregon in 2002-03. He founded the Great Noise Ensemble in Washington, DC in 2005 and has since served as its music director.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: Armando526@aol.com
Website: http://newmusicjukebox.org/composers/c_bio_new.asp?ComposerID=18178&ActorID=38031
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Symphony No. 1 (text by Anna Akhmatova), tenor, orchestra, 1994; Symphony No. 2, 1997; Qinah, 1999; Musica Concertata, violin, orchestra, 2000; O Magnum Mysterium, string orchestra, 2001 (version of last movement of August Dramas); Los Conquistadores, 2003; In Darkness..., piano, small orchestra, 2003; Fanfares, symphonic band, 2004; Treadmill, 2004; Concerto a Due, guitar, violin, small orchestra, 2006
CHAMBER MUSIC: Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1993; Domestic Bocce, 2 harps, 2 pianos, 2 percussion, 1996; Three Lyrics (Sonata No. 2), violin, piano, 1996; Sonata, guitar, 1997; Spin, alto saxophone, piano, 1998; Calm Down, Ringo!, 4 percussion, 1998; Vocalise, alto saxophone, 1998; Waiting to Sing..., viola, piano, 1999; August Dramas, string quartet, 1999 (also version of last movement as O Magnum Mysterium); In the Olive Grove..., cello, 2000 (also incorporated into Towards Golgotha); Sharon's Song, English horn, piano, 2000; Hermandad, flute, piano, 2002; Action Figure, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2002; Tango Variations, violin, piano, 2003; St. Luke's Summer, clarinet, string quartet, 2004; Two Little Romances, oboe, piano, 2005; Ludi, 2 string quartets, 2005
VOCAL: Consolations (texts by William Wordsworth, Lord Alfred Tennyson), soprano, piano, 1994; Cancionero (texts by William Blake, Petrarch, Federico García Lorca, Charles Baudelaire, Ogden Nash, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost), tenor, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 1996; Songs to the Supple Suitor (text by Emily Dickinson), medium/high voice, piano, 1998; Towards Golgotha (passion oratorio, texts from the Bible, Mervyn Morris, Vassar Miller, William E. Brooks, David Gascoyne, Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Alexander Pope), soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, mixed chorus ad libitum, cello, small orchestra (14-22 players), 2003 (incorporates In the Olive Grove...); Silly Ditties (texts from an anonymous source, Frederic J. Foster, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Louis Stevenson), soprano, violin, cello, piano, 2001-05
PIANO: Kaleidoscope Fantasies, 1993; Préludes, 1997; Monuments, 2 pianos, 1998; Papillons Hallucigeniques, 2000; Suonare Rapsodico (sonata), 2001; Two Pieces Resembling Improvisations, 2003
(Last updated on June 26, 2006)
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