Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Amadeus Regucera is (along with Clare Glackin and Selim Göncü) one of three resident composers at this year’s Mizzou International Composers Festival with a West Coast connection.
A native Californian, he earned his B.A. in music in 2006 from the University of California, San Diego and last year completed work on his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
Regucera also has considerable experience in concert production, having served as production director of UC Berkeley’s Eco Ensemble, production and operations manager of the University of California, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, and as artistic production director for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.
Regucera (pictured) describes his compositions as engaged with “the embodied and acoustical energy of sound and its production, the erotics of performance, the musical vocabulary of popular music, and noise.”
For the MICF, he’s written a new work called “CRVD” that Alarm Will Sound will perform as part of the festival’s “Eight World Premieres” grand finale on Saturday, July 29.
Other recent projects include a new piece for Ensemble Linea for the 2017 Festival Musica in Strasbourg, France, and a new work for bassoonist Adrian Morejon.
Regucera’s music also has been performed by JACK Quartet, Ensemble Intercontemporain, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Duo Cortona, and more.
He has presented works at ManiFeste, Voix Nouvelles, the Resonant Bodies Festival and the SONiC Festival in New York, as well as at the Hong Kong Modern Academy; the International Summer Courses in Darmstadt, Germany; the Impuls Academy in Austria; June in Buffalo; and the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts. Regucera also was part of the American Composers Forum artist delegation in 2015 to the Havana Festival of Contemporary Music.
In addition to music written for the concert stage, Regucera’s work intersects with visual and performance art, most notably in the piece “Communication,” which was featured in 2013 as part of the group show “Seelenwäsche” at the Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten in Graz, Austria; and “Schlachtfeld (a)”, performed by the composer in collaboration with Hong Kong-based choreographer Elysa Wendi.
You can hear samples of Amadeus Regucera’s music on his SoundCloud page and via the embedded players below.
“Skin, stretched upon the frame”
Written for and premiered by David Milnes and the University of California, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra in March 2017 at Hertz Concert Hall
“S A F E”
Written for EXAUDI vocal ensemble, featuring Natalie Raybould (soprano), Lucy Goddard (mezzo-soprano), Tom Williams (counter-tenor), Stephen Jeffes (tenor), Gareth John (baritone), and Simon Whiteley (bass), directed by James Weeks. Premiered at the 2016 Voix Nouvelles rResidency at Abbaye-Royaumont in Asnières-sur-Oise, France.
“SKRWL”
Written for the soloists of Ensemble Intercontemporain – Alain Billard (clarinet, bass clarinet), Benny Sluchin (trombone), Hidéki Nagano (piano), Claire Merlet (viola), Pierre Strauch (cello) – and premiered at the 2016 ManiFeste in Paris, France.