Event

Orlando Cela '97, flute

Venezuelan flutist and DePauw alumnus Orlando Cela '97 returns to campus at the invitation of the music faculty to offer our next Faculty Select series concert. Known for his extended technique and collaborations on new works for flute, Cela will perform a range of music from Edgard Varèse's "Density 21.5" to "Anūsvâra" by Indian composer Shirish Korde celebrated for "integrating and synthesizing music of diverse cultures into breathtaking works of complex expressive layers."

Cela plays in a wide variety of styles and settings, having performed with the Ensemble 451, I/O New Music Ensemble, Music at Eden's Edge, Duo SopraVoce, as a solo and collaborative performer in the US and abroad in the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Great Britain and China, including lecturing and performing for the MusicAcoustica Electroacoustic Music Festival at the Central Conservatory of China.

During his visit to DePauw, a part of the School's 21st-Century Musician Initiative, Cela will talk with composition students and play some of their new works, meet with the DePauw Flute Choir and play two very different concerts, including a program of Germanic flute for the 10:20 a.m. Wednesday morning Recital Hour. Then for the 7:30 p.m. Faculty Select concert, he will perform a collection of contemporary music for flutes and electronics (live, sampled and created), featuring the works of Natacha Diels, Peter Koeszeghy, Shirish Korde and Edgard Varèse, among several others.