{"id":12807,"date":"2023-01-16T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=12807"},"modified":"2023-01-15T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T19:06:06","slug":"frank-emilio-presenta-a-frank-emilio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/frank-emilio-presenta-a-frank-emilio\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Emilio presents Frank Emilio"},"content":{"rendered":"

By way of self-presentation, and in response to the title that heads this album: <\/span>Frank Emilio presents Frank Emilio<\/span><\/i>Allow me to explain, in broad strokes, my modest artistic trajectory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I began to appear in public around 1934, performing danzones in the style of Antonio Mar\u00eda Romeu. At that time, I became friends with Manolo Puerta, an enthusiastic musician who set about the task of forming a \"French-style\" orchestra (the kind used in the performance of danzones) that would bear my name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1938, I decided to interrupt my artistic activities when I realized my need to study, both in the field of music and in the field of general knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1946, I took the path of art once again, starting to work at Mil Diez radio station. There I established contact with the composers of the group of the <\/span>feeling<\/span><\/i> (Luis Y\u00e1\u00f1ez, Jos\u00e9 Antonio M\u00e9ndez, C\u00e9sar Portillo, Jorge Mas\u00f3n, Ni\u00f1o Rivera, Tania Castellanos, \u00d1ico Rojas and others). Then came the initiative to join the ensemble Loquibambia, directed at that time by Jos\u00e9 Antonio M\u00e9ndez, with which we performed compositions of the <\/span>feeling<\/span><\/i> and American music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My work has been projected in multiple facets: performances in <\/span>night clubs<\/span><\/i>But while valuing all these aspects of my work, the aspiration to make it to the concert hall was beating in me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After having studied music with Juana S\u00e1nchez, Concepci\u00f3n Casta\u00f1er, Pedro Hern\u00e1ndez, Julio Azanza and others, in 1958 I met the master teacher C\u00e9sar P\u00e9rez Sentenat, who made my interest his own, and generously guided me for 14 years in the tasks of serious piano art, having presented my first recital in the hall of the Palace of Fine Arts, with works by Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Cervantes and Lecuona, on July 17, 1959.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around this time, drummer Guillermo Barreto founded the Quinteto de M\u00fasica Moderna Cubana, of which I was a member.<\/span><\/p>\n