Reynaldo Young
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Reynaldo Young [b. 1966] is a London-based Uruguay
an composer, arranger, guitarist, teacher and workshop leader. He has written concert pieces as well as music for dance, theatre, and video – many of them performed worldwide; he is also an active player at the free improvisation
scene around Europe and the United Kingdom.
Founder and director of the ‘Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble
’, the UK’s only professional avant-garde music
group whose members are all homeless people, refugees and asylum seekers; writing, directing and performing contemporary and improvisatory music with mixed ensembles of professional and non-professional musicians is one of his main fields of expertise (a skill he acknowledges he learned working with his former teacher Daryl Runswick
).
Other activities include performing with electroacoustic trio 'lrs
' and with the algorithmic junkestra 'Halal Kebab Hut’.
He has collaborated with various artists, including: Luis 'Toto' Alvarez, Darío Bernal Villegas, Luke Fraser, Leonel Kaplan
, Simon Katan, Christof Kurzmann, Fernando Perales and Nikos Veliotis, (free improvisation), Melanie Clarke, Rosalind Crisp, Carla Onni, Zoi Dimitriou, Antigone Avdi and Danai Pappa (dance), Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens)
(theatre) and Mario Lewis (video).
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
an composer, arranger, guitarist, teacher and workshop leader. He has written concert pieces as well as music for dance, theatre, and video – many of them performed worldwide; he is also an active player at the free improvisation
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
scene around Europe and the United Kingdom.
Founder and director of the ‘Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble
Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble
The Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble is an experimental music group based in London, UK. Its members are all homeless, ex-homeless or at risk of becoming homeless people. Founder and director Reynaldo Young, is an award winning composer and performer....
’, the UK’s only professional avant-garde music
Avant-garde music
Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres....
group whose members are all homeless people, refugees and asylum seekers; writing, directing and performing contemporary and improvisatory music with mixed ensembles of professional and non-professional musicians is one of his main fields of expertise (a skill he acknowledges he learned working with his former teacher Daryl Runswick
Daryl Runswick
Daryl Runswick is a classically trained English composer, arranger, musician, producer and educationalist.He started playing bass with leading UK jazz musicians in the mid-60s, including Dick Morrissey and John Dankworth, with whom he would tour and compose for extensively for some 12 years...
).
Other activities include performing with electroacoustic trio 'lrs
LRS
LRS can refer to:* Lactated Ringer's solution* Legislative Reference Service* Ley de Responsabilidad Social en Radio y Televisión, a Venezuelan broadcasting law* Linear Recursive Sequence* Linear Reference System* Long Range Surveillance...
' and with the algorithmic junkestra 'Halal Kebab Hut’.
He has collaborated with various artists, including: Luis 'Toto' Alvarez, Darío Bernal Villegas, Luke Fraser, Leonel Kaplan
Leonel Kaplan
Leonel Kaplan is an Argentine trumpet player active in free improvisation. He has been part of the international improvised music scene since the early 2000s performing and recording throughout Europe and U.S....
, Simon Katan, Christof Kurzmann, Fernando Perales and Nikos Veliotis, (free improvisation), Melanie Clarke, Rosalind Crisp, Carla Onni, Zoi Dimitriou, Antigone Avdi and Danai Pappa (dance), Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens)
Adrian Jackson (Cardboard Citizens)
Adrian Jackson is the founder-director and chief executive of a unique theatre company, Cardboard Citizens, in which most the performers and many other employees are homeless and ex-homeless people, refugees or asylum-seekers...
(theatre) and Mario Lewis (video).
Selected premiered works
- cuatro piecitas - for flute alone, by Sandra Nión (Montevideo, 30/08/95).
- oleanna suite - for flute, bass clarinet and percussion, by Sandra Nión, Martín Castillos and Andres Morón (Montevideo, 11/07/97).
- overnite obstination - for cello alone, by Nikos Veliotis (London, 19/11/97).
- november night gathering of seven lonely yoru-no-tsuru - for chamber ensemble, by the Royal Northern College of MusicRoyal Northern College of MusicThe Royal Northern College of Music is a music school in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Chorlton on Medlock, at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester and is one of four conservatories associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music...
New Ensemble, conducted by Clark Rundell (Manchester, 18/04/98). - exablusis - for prepared guitar alone, by Clive Carroll (London, 11/11/98).
- farewell’99 - for violinist pierrot, colombine, mime and chamber ensemble, by Emilio García Díaz and The Leyton Wandering Moons (London, 8/06/99)
- last starship to mont (via westminster i-g s)- for double bass and piano, by Victor Obsust and Mark Ray (London, 8/10/00).
- self-portrait with haiku - for double bass and piano - by Mette Hanskov and Marc Cracknel (Wells CathedralWells CathedralWells Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who lives at the adjacent Bishop's Palace....
, 7/10/01). - 7 caprichos - for electric guitar alone, by the composer (London, 7/12/01).
- earlier person under the train - for cello alone played with bach-bogen, by Nikos Veliotis (Athens, 1/04/02).
- ay’tik - for any large number of voices and percussion, by Coma voices and Frances Lynch conducted by Daryl Runswick (Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire, 26/07/02).
- capricho 21 - for electric guitar and computer generated sounds, by the composer (London, 13/02/03).
- yarará - for a large group of improvisers by The 2:13 Ensemble (Athens, 1/04/04).
- four temperaments: fragments - for ensemble and live electronics by The Cardboard Citizens New Music EnsembleCardboard Citizens New Music EnsembleThe Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble is an experimental music group based in London, UK. Its members are all homeless, ex-homeless or at risk of becoming homeless people. Founder and director Reynaldo Young, is an award winning composer and performer....
(London, 19/06/04). - king: a street story and response - by The Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble (London, 11/05/05).
- dust - by The Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble (London, 27/07/06).
- tea with yximalloo - by The Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble (London, 23/09/06).
- in the dark - (guitar, electronics) music for a choreography by Melanie Clarke (Giessen, 06/02/06)
- down/out - by The Cardboard Citizens New Music Ensemble (London, 19/07/07).
- goddesses in exile (guitar, electronics), music for a choreography by Zoi Dimitriou (London, 6/05/08).