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Acclaimed as a passionate and virtuosic performer, Emilio Colón is highly sought after as a solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, composer and pedagogue. An extensive international career has taken him to Canada, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Malta, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
Most recent engagements include guest conductor and soloist of the Classical Symphony Orchestra of Guatemala and the Orquesta de Camara Concerto in Puerto Rico; Barge Music in New York City; concerts at the Casals Festival of Prades and recital tours of Malta, Italy, Holland, Korea and Japan. His recordings are featured on the Enharmonic, Centaur, Zephyr, and Lyras labels. Colón currently records for Klavier as solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, and composer under the label.
Colón’s debut as a recorded composer took place with his ta”N”go for piano trio as featured on Trio Amadé’s recording “Obseción.” Recent performance highlights of his compositions include the premiere of Recuerdos de Tata for cello & orchestra with Colón as soloist as well as the premieres of Colón’s 2007 commissions, Dana la Colorá’ for Double bass & Piano, Los Niños y las Minarets for Piano Trio, and Los Jolgoriosos for Violin & Piano. Colón’s arrangements, editions and original compositions are published by Masters Music Publications and H.P. Music Publications.
As the second youngest faculty member to be appointed in the history of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Colón has since established himself as one of the leading pedagogues in the country. He has offered courses at the Paris Conservatoire, the Geneva Conservatoire, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and Toho Gakuen in Tokyo, Japan. He is also on faculty at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top in Texas and Chamber Music Unbound at the Mammoth Lakes Music Festival in California.
A native of Puerto Rico, Colón received a bachelor’s degree from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in 1986 as a student of Joaquín Vidaechea, where he won the Pablo Casals Medal upon graduation. As a student and teaching assistant to the distinguished cellist and pedagogue Janos Starker, Colón earned a master’s degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1989. He won first prize at the Las Americas Festival Solo Competition as well as the Indiana University’s Concerto Competition. Colón plays on a J.B. Vuillaume Cello from 1844 and a Dominique Peccatte bow.
Recordings
- Title: Esencia Label: Klavier
Co-producer for the album, arranger, and cello soloist
Description: All new arrangements by Emilio Colón for cello and piano
Program:
Lecuona: Danzas Afro-Cubanas
Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas
Piazzolla: Nuevo Tango:
Oblivion, Tzigane Tango, Milonga del Angel, Muerte del Angel
Danzas Célebres Puertorriqueñas
Morel Campos: Felices Días
Mislán: Tu y Yo
Miranda: Impromptu, Op.10
Colón: Armando's Waltz for Cello and Piano (premiere)
- Title: Alma Latina, The Latin Soul of the Cello Label: Klavier, International distribution
Emilio Colón, cello and Sung Hoon Mo, Piano. Cello and piano pieces from Spain and Latin America
Program:
Ginastera: Pampeana No. 2, Op. 21
Ponce (arr. Cassadó): Estrellita
Falla (arr. Colón): Siete Canciones Populares
Españolas
Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango
Villa-Lobos: Pequena Suite
Morel-Campos (arr. Colón): Bella Illusión
Tavárez (arr. Colón): Un Recuerdito
Danza capricho
Turina (arr. Colón): Tres Sonetos, Op. 54:
1. Anhelos (Desires)
Sarasate (arr. Colón): Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
- Title: Obseción Label: Klavier
Emilio Colón: Co-producer for the album, cellist, arranger, composer
Trio Amadé debut recording
Program: Copland: Vitebsk
Bernstein: Trio
Piazzolla: Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas
Colón: “N” Tango for Piano Trio
Compositions
Salmetón para Violin y Piano
Dedication: for Jessica Mathaes on the occasion of her Cuypers 200th birthday;
inspirado por mis queridos amigos Rafi y Ramonita
Premiered on December 9, 2007 by Jessica Mathaes & Rick Rowley at Bates Recital Hall in Austin, Texas.
- Los Niños y las Minarets (2007)
Suite Miniatura para Violin, Cello y Piano
1. Ari y Sofía: El Juego de las Sillas
2. Bodie at Horshoe Lake
3. Erratics
4. Iris y Naomi: Libros de Niños
5. Ana y Elisa: Par' de Camisas
Commissioned by Ellen Siegal and the Felici Trio
Dedication: A mis queridos amigos The Felicio Trio y Ellen Siegal
Premiered on August 1, 2007 by the Felici Trio at the Mammoth Lakes Festival in California
For Double Bass & Piano
Commissioned by James Vandemark
Dedication: A mi querido amigo JB and his lovely daughter Dana
Premiered on June 9, 2007 at the International Festival-Institute in Roundtop Texas by James Vandemark and Nariaki Sugiura
Poemas Borincanos para Cello y Orquesta
1. La Casa Grande: La Casa Vieja de Maresúa
2. Tinayarí
3. Bonita
4. El Combate
Commissioned by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
Dedication: A lamemoria de dos seres queridos Elsie Ramírez de Roque y Evelina Cucalón de Fougeres
Premiered on May 4, 2007 by Emilio Colón and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Lowenheim, conductor
For Cello & Piano as companions to Armando’s Waltz
Premiered on April 10, 2005 recital at the Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Doña Bele y Don Enrique
Armando’s Waltz
Pambel
For Cello and String Quartet
- “N” Tango for Violin, Cello, and Piano (2001)
Premiered by Trio Amadé on 8/23/2001 at the Sommerabendmusik Series, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Delray Beach, Fl
Recorded by Trio Amadé for Klavier Records 8/2001
For Cello and String Quartet
Commissioned by and premiered at the Cedar Arts Forum String Camp, Waterloo, IA
For Cello and String Quartet
For Piano Trio and String Orchestra
Commissioned by and premiered at the Cedar Arts Forum String Camp, Waterloo, IA
- Fantasías Boricuas (1987)
For violin and piano
Guánica
Jíbaro
Impro sobre un seis
Madre
- Pena en Frustración (1986)
Prelude for Piano
- Amor: Tu y Dos Cuadros (1986)
For medium voice and piano
Prelude for Piano
El Ladrón (1985)
For medium voice and piano
Sources
1. Indiana University Jacob School of Music Faculty Profile
2. International Festival Institute at Roundtop Faculty Profile
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