The Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle (RTOOT) is pleased to announce the signing of Enrique Varela, Jr., as Composer-in-Residence. Sr. Varela is the staff composer for Icarus Studios LLC, (www.icarusstudios.com), a multimedia and virtual works company in the Triangle that produces serious games ... an oxymoron if there ever was one. Sr. Varela's major influences, as a composer, include Johann Sebastian Bach (no-brainer), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claude Debussy, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky, and Nobuo Uematsu (see www.nobuouematsu.com).
We believe ourselves to be the only orchestra in the triangle with a resident composer!
Sr. Enrique Varela, Composer-in
Residence
Our first collaboration
will be a piece for Really Terrible Orchestra and Audience
Participation Celfone Ensemble, to be presented in the 2009 concert
series.
Sr. Varela was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and has lived in the US
for the past 22 years. He is a graduate (2004) of the University of
North Carollina at Chapel Hill, and studied there with Allen
Anderson.
Sr. Enrique Varela, Composer-in
Residence, and
My Strow Hobgood Ponder Music Notation for Celfones. Photo by Chris
Jones, 501 Dine.r