A new piece by Costa Rican composer and Latin Grammy winner Carlos José Castro was premiered by Laura Falzon in New York City at Somethin’ Jazz Club during the Costa Rican CONCIERTico organized by CRNGNYC, and curated by Edmundo Ramirez.
“As the name of this new work states,” explains Carlos José Castro, “it has to do with night music and it also reveals romantic resonances.” In an interview with Laura Falzon, the composer reveals that he was thinking of Orpheus’s loss of Euridice. “In the music there is a thematic relationship between the B and the A. At the end only the B remains, even though it recalls the A with nostalgia.”
Costa Rican composer Carlos José Castro is the recipient of the prestigious Latin Grammy award in the category of “Best Composer Contemporary Classical Music”, which he received in 2008 for his Concierto del Sol. His work has been performed across the globe: in Cuba, Mexico, the United States, Germany, Poland, Spain, France, Italy, and Costa Rica. He studied with a number of prestigious teachers including Benjamín Gutiérrez, Rand Steiger, Blas Emilio Atehortúa, Leo Brouwer, David Vayo, and Bernal Flores. Castro teaches at the Instituto Nacional de la Música and the University of Costa Rica and freelances in composing, music producing, and scriptwriting.