THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC Presents
HOUSEWRIGHT VIRTUOSO SERIES: “Landscapes in Sound: Chamber Music from Latin America” Featuring
Eduardo López-Dabdoub, Clarinet Evan Jones, Cello Diana Dumlavwalla, Piano
Friday, October 2, 2026 Seven-thirty in the Evening Opperman Music Hall
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PROGRAM “Landscapes in Sound: Chamber Music from Latin America” Danzas Latinoamericanas (Latin American Dances) (1997) I. Otoño en Buenos Aires (Autumn in Buenos Aires) II. Pan de Azúcar (Sugar Loaf Mountain) III. Atardecer Tapatío (Sunset in Guadalajara) Arenas d’un Tiempo (1992)
José Elizondo (b. 1972)
Tania León (b. 1943)
Ladies in White (2010)
Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948)
Tres Fantasías (1994) I. Montuno II. Coral III. Doce
Roberto Sierra (b. 1953)
Trio for clarinet, cello (or bassoon), and piano (1998-2000) I. Ornitolo Chipoleao II. Borges Triangle III. Recuerdos de Venosa IV. Tácata Tocata
Paul Desenne (1959–2023)
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Canadian pianist Diana Dumlavwalla is Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Director of the Piano Pedagogy program at Florida State University. She previously taught at Western University, developing its inaugural doctoral piano pedagogy course. Dumlavwalla serves as a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s College of Examiners and adjudicates at local, regional, and state and provincial competitions. As a soloist, chamber musician and scholar, Dumlavwalla has performed and presented research across North America, Europe, and Australia. Her work is featured in leading peer-reviewed journals. Dumlavwalla received two MTNA E-Journal Article of the Year awards and is co-author of Generations Z and Alpha Students at the Piano: A Guide for Piano Teachers (Bloomsbury). She is Past President of the Florida State Music Teachers Association. Dumlavwalla holds a D.M.A. from the University of Toronto, an M.Mus. from the Royal College of Music in London, and a B.Mus. from Wilfrid Laurier University. Evan Jones holds the M.M. and D.M.A. in cello performance and the M.A. and Ph.D. in music theory from the Eastman School of Music. He completed a B.Mus. in cello performance at McGill University and pursued summer studies at Banff, Meadowmount, and Orford. He has given the world premieres of solo works by Clifton Callender, Robert Morris and Ciro Scotto, the North American premieres of two works by Iannis Xenakis, and the New York City premieres of works by Dexter Morrill and Christopher Auerbach-Brown (in Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall, respectively). Jones currently serves as Professor of Music Theory at FSU and as assistant principal cellist in the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra; he previously served as cello instructor at Colgate University and as Pamela Frame’s assistant at Eastman. Eduardo López-Dabdoub is Specialized Teaching Faculty in Musicology at Florida State University, where he teaches, designs, and supervises online music courses. His research focuses on the intersections between jazz, race, and politics, as well as the connections between performance and disability studies. López-Dabdoub received a DMA from the CUNY Graduate Center, where his dissertation on the music of Charles Mingus won the prestigious Baisley Powell Elebash Dissertation Award.
His work has been published in the Journal of Jazz Studies and the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and he has presented his research at conferences throughout the United States, including the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and Feminist Theory and Music. As a clarinetist, he has performed with orchestras, chamber ensembles, and as a soloist throughout the United States and Canada, and participated in festivals such as the Sarasota Music Festival and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He previously taught courses in musicology at the University of Oklahoma and the City College of New York, and coached chamber music ensembles at Queens College. ABOUT THE COMPOSERS Cellist and composer Paul Desenne (1959–2023) was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. As a cellist he won first prize at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and subsequently performed with Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. His compositions have been performed in major venues around the world, including Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in NYC and the BBC Proms. His compositions explore the formidable avenues of Latin American concert music and are characterized by a lush, quirky and irresistibly rhythmic style, often featuring elaborate constructions in rhythmic counterpoint. He was appointed as resident composer for El Sistema and also served one year (2015–16) as resident composer with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Desenne was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and served as a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University in 2010–11. Composer, saxophonist and clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948) was born in Havana, Cuba, and gained early experience performing with the Cuban Modern Music Orchestra. He has recorded more than 40 solo albums and has won 17 Grammy and Latin Grammy awards. In 1988, D’Rivera was a founding member of the “United Nation Orchestra,” a 15-piece band organized by Dizzy Gillespie that won a Grammy in 1991. With a passion for affording Latin repertoire greater relevance, D’Rivera has written all types of compositions for classically trained ensembles and soloists, including commissions for Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra, the International Double Reed Society, the Imani Winds, the Turtle Island String Quartet, and the Ying String Quartet. D’Rivera won his seventh Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition in 2004 for his chamber work Merengue, recorded live at Zankel Hall and released by Sony Records. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. The music of composer Roberto Sierra (b. 1953) has been performed by many of the leading orchestras, ensembles, and festivals in the US and Europe. He pursued early composition studies in Puerto Rico, where he was born, and continued his studies overseas, including with György Ligeti. Sierra received the Academy Award in Music in 2003 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and the American
Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010. In 2017, he was awarded the Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize, the highest honor given in Spain to a composer of Spanish or Latin American origin. He has been nominated twice for a Grammy under the best contemporary composition category, in 2009 for Missa Latina (Naxos) and in 2014 for his Sinfonia No. 4 (Naxos). In addition, his Variations on a Souvenir (Albany) and Trio No. 4 (Centaur) were nominated for Latin Grammys in 2009 and 2015. In 2021, his Sonata para Guitarra won the Latin Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Jose Elizondo’s (b. 1972) compositions have been performed by over 250 orchestras around the world and by internationally acclaimed performers in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Strathmore Hall (Washington), Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), Sala Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico), Teatro Colón (Bogotá), and throughout Europe and Asia. He received degrees in music and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Gregory Tucker Memorial Prize for Music, and he subsequently studied musical analysis, orchestration and conducting at Harvard University. Danzas Latinoamericanas was commissioned by renowned Mexican cellist Carlos Prieto and has been performed in over 2,000 concerts worldwide; the first movement (“Otoño en Buenos Aires”) was included in the DVD recording of Yo-Yo Ma’s legendary performance in Munich in 2016. Cuban-born American composer, conductor, and educator Tania León (b. 1943) is one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of her generation. In 2021 she became the first Latin American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Other honors include the New York Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award; inductions into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and fellowship awards from ASCAP (including the Victor Herbert Award), The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. León has been commissioned by leading orchestras, ensembles, and soloists around the world, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Grossman Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, and numerous solo artists. She has guest conducted the New York Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, the Gewandhausorchester, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Guanajuato, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuba, among others.
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