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NEWS
~ View recent press on Sacbé performances at the Montreal Jazz
Fest:
~ In the US ONLY: a new CD containing twelve original Sambas by Enrique and Eugenio is available at all Target Stores
~ The new album Tri-Neo by Sacbé will soon be available only through internet.
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Click here to
listen to the 2nd movement of the Concerto for Improvised Piano and Orchestra
by Eugenio Toussaint.
(Recorded live at Sala Silvestre Revueltas of the National Music Conservatory in Mexico City with Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes conducted by Jesús Medina)
Archive
~ Eugenio Toussaint is now officially a
Yamaha artist
~ Eugenio celebrated Sacbé's 30th year
anniversary with guest Ivan Lins at Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico
City, March 23, 2007. (View PDF)
~ Todo Sacbé will be reissued
by the Urtext label
~ Check out Eugenio conducting and playing with Billy Mc Laughlin at
www.billymclaughlinproject.com/music.html
~ You are invited to check out
www.musycom.com.mx
which is finally a reality.
~ Campeche´s Jazz Festival (Dec 4-6, 2006) honors Eugenio Toussaint this
year
~
The Concerto for Improvised Piano and
Orchestra (which was performed in Brussels, Belgium at the Brussels Conservatoire
with the Charlemagne Orchestra)will be performed again in New York City on December 13,
2006
by the Philharmonic
Orchestra of Americas, TriBeCa Arts Center, conducted by Mexican conductor
Alondra de la Parra, Eugenio Toussaint, soloist.
~ On November 8th, Eugenio received an honorary medal
for achievement in music from the conservatory at Universidad Autónoma
de Tamaulipas.
~
The Concerto for Improvised Piano and
Orchestra was performed in Brussels, Belgium at the Brussels Conservatoire
with the Charlemagne Orchestra (Bartholomeus-Henri Van de
Velde conductor, Eugenio Toussaint, soloist).
View
images from the performance.
~ On July 29 Eugenio received the Juan Jose Calatayud
Medal for merits in his jazz career in Veracruz, Mexico
~ Eugenio has relinquished his position as Academic Director of Fermatta
School of Music
~ Read Eugenio´s anecdote articles every month in MusicLife
magazine.
~ The full version of Eugenio´s music for the ballet Days of the Dead
is finally available through
www.urtextonline.com. You can also buy other CD's of Eugenio´s classical music through this
site.
~ Eugenio has just completed the score of the movie "Los Pajarracos"
a black comedy about Mexico,its border, lucha libre fighters, drug
dealers.border problems etc. For more on the movie check
www.lospajarracosthemovie.com
 ~ The
Eugenio Toussaint Jazz Trio has released a new CD
called 'TRIO'. Listen to MP3 sound clips from
the CD. For more on the Trio, click here.
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~ The CD Eugenio Toussaint ¨Música de Cámara¨
[listen to audio excerpts] has been
nominated for Best Classical CD for the 2005 Latin Grammy Awards to be held in Los Angeles on
Sep. 1, 2004. This is the second time Eugenio has been nominated for a Latin Grammy in the
Classical Music category. (He was nominated in 2001 for the album "Gauguin")
 ~
Eugenio's CD "Eugenio Toussaint - Musica
de Cámara" includes chamber pieces performed by some of the best
chamber groups and performers in Mexico such as Horacio Franco, Cuarteto Latinoamericano,
Ensamble tres and Alberto Cruzprieto amongst others. Released by Urtext Digital Classics, the
CD is available at Mix Up, Tower Records and Gandhi.
~ The book "50 Jazz Pieces" will be released in
December and will have a reference CD so that people can hear the tunes the way they were
recorded. This book will be sponsored by Yamaha, Sennheizer and Sala Chopin (a music store in
Mexico City). It includes a foreword by Michel Colombier and Clare Fischer. Visit
Sound Check to purchase the book.
~ The CD "Conciertos para el fin de Milenio" of cellist Carlos Prieto including
Toussaint's "Concierto para cello numerto dos" is now available through
Urtext Digital Classics
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