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2022 Alba Festival Alumni Commission

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Nicolás Aguía

2022 William Thomas McKinley Memorial
​Alba Alumni Commission

We are thrilled to announce Nicolás Aguía, a 2019 Alba Composition Program Alum, is the recipient of the 2022 Alba Alumni Commission. This commission, named in honor of the late American composer, William Thomas McKinley, and supported by gift from the William Thomas McKinley Foundation, is awarded annually to one of the alumni of the Alba Music Festival Composition Program. Mr. Aguiá will compose a new work for the 2022 resident group, The Estrella Consort, for premiere during the 2022 Alba Music Festival.

About The Commissioned Composer

Nicolás Aguía is a composer from Bogotá, Colombia. Aguia received two bachelor’s degrees: one in music from Sergio Arboleda University and one in Philosophy from the Pontifical Xavierian University. He received his M.M in Music Theory and Composition from New York University (Steinhardt), and has studied composition with Ricardo Márquez Romero, Ezequiel Viñao, Eric Moe, Amy Williams, and Mathew Rosenblum. Ensembles and performers such as Sonia Diaz, the JACK Quartet, TAK Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, Loadbang, Duo Cortona, Duo Jacarandá, Bearthoven and Sonic Apricity have performed his music in the United States, Italy, and Colombia. In August 2021, the Orfeo Choir from Bogotá premiered an evening length work titled “The American Poetry Choral Cabaret”, a collaboration with transdisciplinary artist Alfonso José Venegas. It is a choral song cycle and performative art piece that sets texts of different American poets from the 18th and 19th century, including: Walt Whitman, Phillis Wheatley, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins. “The American Poetry Choral Cabaret” won the Small Grants Project sponsored by the United States Embassy in Colombia. He received the “Premio Especial” for his String Quartet “Melismas Espectrales” in the Second String Quartet National Composition Competition of Colombia, in 2020. His musical style is characterized by pulsating rhythms and prolonged harmonic fields that change gradually and conceives form as an extension of the rhythmic patterns and melodic motives used to structure his works. Aguia also explores heterophonic textures, expanding musical material through the gradual ornamentation of a main melodic line. He was a Composer Fellow at the Alba Composition Festival in 2019 and composer in the Artist in Residency Program at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Nicolás (last on the right) with some of the other 2019 Alba fellows during a concert with Sonic Apricity.

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