Angel Subero, bass trombone; Kyunghoon Kim, piano
Angel Subero is the head of the Brass Area and Trombone faculty at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Assistant professor of Brass Studies at the Berklee College of Music. He attended the Conservatorio Itinerante in Caracas, Venezuela where he studied with the legendary Michel Becquet. Since coming to the United States in 2001, he attended the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he studied with Lawrence Isaacson, and the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Douglas Yeo. He also studied with John Rojak at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Subero has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Ballet, Pittsburgh Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Venezuela Symphony, Simon Bolivar Symphony, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, to name a few. He has worked with such conductors as John Williams, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Colin Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Keith Lockhart, and Robert Spano, among many others. In the realms of jazz, Latin, and commercial music, Subero has appeared with such artists as Bob Brookmeyer, Aretha Franklin, Slide Hampton, Jim McNeely, Claudio Roditi, Danilo Pérez, Chris Botti, and many more. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project featured Angel Subero on their album, “From the Institutes of Groove,” which was recorded on the BMOP/sound record label and released in 2013. Grammy-nominated composer, Michael Gandolfi was commissioned by BMOP to write the piece for Mr. Subero to premiere on the album, which is also the name of the piece. In a personal letter to the performer, John Williams quoted: “I found your recording of the Michael Gandolfi bass trombone concerto to be among the greatest examples of individuality and artistry applied to this fabulous instrument, that I can identify or remember.”
Repertoire:
Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948): ‘Bandoneón’ from “The Cape Cod Files (2009)”Anthony Barfield (b. 1983): Red Sky (2012)Jacques Castérède (1926-2014): Sonatine (1963)Carolina Calvache (b. 1985): Encuentros (2019)Carolina Calvache: Ethereal (2017)Eugène Bozza (1905-1991): Prèlude et allegro (1953)Jules Semler-Collery (1902-1988): Barcarolle et chanson bachique (1953)Andrés Eloy Rodríguez (b. 1970): Rêverie y tarantella, Op. 23 (2018)Carolina Calvache: Trombonsillo (2016/17)