Gabriel Vicéns' music often features emotional neutrality, scattered elements, and an emotional coolness, reflecting influences from Webern and Feldman.
Composer Biography
Gabriel Vicéns, the composer, is known as a jazz musician with three albums as a leader and numerous other recordings as a sideman.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Morton Feldman's music, with its use of space and meditative aura, significantly influenced Gabriel Vicéns' serious pursuit of classical composition.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gabriel Vicéns' interest in classical composition was sparked by an introduction to twelve-tone music and the sonorities of Schoenberg's Five Piano Pieces.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gabriel Vicéns is also a painter, and he sees his paintings as an extension of his music, with similar conceptual processes.
Album & Artwork
This album, Gabriel Vicéns' first as a 'classical' composer, is dedicated to the memory of his friend Sammy Morales.
Composer Biography
Gabriel Vicéns studied jazz and Caribbean music at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico and later pursued master's and doctoral degrees in jazz in New York.
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