Guest Recital
Patricio Cosentino,tuba
Craig Knox, tuba
Vahan Sargsyan, piano
Program:
Halleyn Ruiz Polo Tuba limeña
Bendetto Marcello Concerto in C minor for oboe
Giancarlo Castro D'Addona Sonatina for tuba
Adriana Figueroa Mañas Tango Image
Carole Bayer Sager & David Foster The Prayer
Billy May The green Hornet
Astor Piazzolla Libertango
Anna Baadsvik Cats Affairs
John Hartmann Rule Britannia
Patricio Cosentino (b. 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is the most active Latin American tuba player, having made a career as a soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue and conductor.
After receiving his musical degree under the tutelage of the celebrated tuba player, Walter Hilgers, at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Franz Liszt’ in Weimar, Germany, in 2009, he went back to Argentina to accept the position as principal tuba with the National Symphony Orchestra. Patricio became the first tuba teacher in the country with a University Degree.
After a few years of orchestral experience, Patricio discovered his love for performing on stage and decided to concentrate solely on his solo career from 2012 onwards.
Since then he has been traveling consistently, performing regularly with some of the finest brass and wind ensembles, as well as orchestras, in America, Europe and Africa.
Notably, Patricio Cosentino worked together with many Latin American composers to develop new repertoire for brass instruments. This collaboration has produced over 250 new pieces from composers hailing from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil and Colombia.
His support for Latin American composers has redefined the brass world and has enabled world premieres of concertos by Roberto Pintos, Jorge Tagliapietra, Ignacio Freijo, Noelia Escalzo, Luis Rojas, Gerardo Gardelin, Pablo Aguirre, to name a few, adding new pieces to the tuba and brass literature.
From 2011 to 2014, Patricio worked together with the International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA) as an international representative of the executive committee, being the first Latin American tubist to belong to such a prestigious international organization.
Patricio Cosentino is well known for his masterclasses and brass clinics which are frequently held in numerous leading universities throughout the United States and Europe, including Curtis Institute of Music, Brass Academy Alicante, Conservatorie à rayonnement Regional de Paris, Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, ESMUC, University of Southern California, University of Arizona, North Georgia University, Ithaca College and Louisiana State University among others.
As a recording artist, Patricio has several albums as a soloist and chamber musician including "Sudamérica Vibra", "MOVE!", "Viejos Aires", “Just for fun”, “Klangspuren”, and “Durchgang”.
As well as being a soloist, Patricio Cosentino is a member of the Dispar Trio.
For the past 10 years, he has been working with brass bands in Europe, the United States, and Latin America winning the German National Brass Band Championships in 2018 and the title of the best Eb tuba section of the competition where Patricio performed as the principal tuba. He also competed at the European Brass Band Championship in Montreux, Switzerland, in 2019 placing in 4th place.
In 2022 he was selected by the magazine 4barsrest as a member of the "Brass Band of the Year", being called the "evangelical converter" of the world of brass bands and noted for his outreach work.
Since October 2022 he is the artistic director and conductor of the Brass Band MV.
Patricio Cosentino is artistic director of the "Encuentro Argentino de Eufonios y Tubas” and held the same position in the “International Summer Brass Band Camp” and the “Jenaer Blechbläser-Seminar” as well as other various events in Peru, Colombia and Spain.
Patricio Cosentino serves as an ambassador of Latin American music and is a Buffet Crampon Artist and plays F tuba Melton/ Meinl Weston 4250 “Tradition”,, Bb Tuba 197 and Eb Besson Sovereign 982.
Cost: Free and open to the public; No tickets required.