Jonathan Borja - Flute Music from Mexico (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

With performances described as “the highlight of the evening” (Kansas City Star), Jonathan Borja enjoys a varied career as a performer and educator. Dr. Borja is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse where he teaches flute and music history. As an orchestral musician, he is a member of the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra (Acting Principal 2021-2022), and has played with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra (2010-2015) and the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra (2009-2018).

Dr. Borja holds three graduate degrees from the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance (Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance, Master of Music in Flute Performance, a Master of Music in Musicology) and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Principia College. Before coming to the United States, he studied at the National Conservatory of Music in his native Mexico City. His teachers and mentors include Marie Jureit-Beamish, Mary Posses, and María Esther García. He has appeared in master classes in both the United States and Europe with some of the world’s leading flutists, including Jeanne Baxtresser, Jacob Berg, and Peter-Lukas Graf.

Dr. Borja has performed throughout the United States and Mexico and has appeared in festivals devoted to the music of J.S. Bach, George Crumb, Gustav Mahler, Olivier Messiaen, and Elliott Carter. He has performed at Steinway Hall, Helzberg Hall, at the Facultad de Música (UNAM), the National Conservatory in Mexico City, the Sala Manuel M. Ponce, Sala Carlos Chávez, Sala Silvestre Revueltas (CCOY), and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Singapore. His continued advocacy for the music of our time has led him to collaborate with some of today’s finest composers, including Chen Yi and Zhou Long, George Crumb, Libby Larsen, Yehudi Wyner, Narong Prangcharoen, and Samuel Zyman.

TRACKLIST

1. Jonathan Borja - Introspección
2. Jonathan Borja - Amatzinac (Arr. for Flute and Piano by José Pablo Moncayo)
3. Jonathan Borja - What lies within
4. Jonathan Borja - Canción de Cuna
5. Jonathan Borja - Beldad y fuerza
6. Jonathan Borja - Transparencias: I. Torito
7. Jonathan Borja - Transparencias: II. Arrullo
8. Jonathan Borja - Transparencias: III. ¡Rompe!
9. Jonathan Borja - Transparencias: IV. Jarabe
10. Jonathan Borja - Danzón No. 5 "Portales de madrugada" (Arr. for Flute and Piano by Jonathan Borja)



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