Cellist Philip von Maltzahnn joins the Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, Music Director, for the second of two world premiere performances of Bayolo’s cello concerto, Orfei Mors on April 10, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.  For more information on and tickets to this performance please visit http://www.wpsymphony.org/

Armando Bayolo and cellist Philip von Maltzahnn will join the Society for New Music in Syracuse, New York, for the first of two world premiere performances of Orfei Mors, Bayolo’s cello concerto written for von Maltzahnn and co-commissioned by the Society for New Music and the Western Piedmont Symphony.  The performance, part of the Society’s [...]

Armando Bayolo and Great Noise Ensemble return to the National Gallery of Art on Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. for the premiere of his cantata in memory of Russian American artist Mark Rothko, Kaddish:Passio:Rothko.  Commissioned by the Music Department of the National Gallery of Art, Kaddish:Passio:Rothko is inspired by Rothko’s Harvard murals and [...]

The saxophone and harp duo, Pictures on Silence, will present Bayolo’s “Crudely Spun Tales” at the International Saxophone Symposium at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia on January 16, 2010.  Pictures on Silence (Noah Getz, saxophone and Jackeline Pollauf, harp) premiered “Crudely Spun Tales” at the Mansion at Strathmore in November, 2009.  For more information [...]

Armando was prominently featured in an October 14, 2009 article of the Washington Post on the rise of alternative classical ensembles and performance practices in the new music community.  Anne Midgette’s article, “Roll Over, Beethoven,” can be read at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101303565.html

Armando Bayolo is now a member of the Reverb Nation.  Come listen to streaming audio, stay in touch and become a fan at www.reverbnation.com/armandobayolo (Please note that your web browser’s pop-up blocker will need to be disabled in order to use the Reverb Nation audio player.)

Introducing the all-new official website for composer and conductor Armando Bayolo!

Armando Bayolo has been announced as the 2008 recipient of the Brandon Fradd Fellowship In Music Composition from the Cintas Foundation, which is dedicated to the promotion of Cuban and Cuban-American art!

“Full of lush ideas and a kind of fierce grandeur, it unfolded with subtle, driving power — a work worth hearing again.” –Stephen Brookes, The Washington Post

“I don’t believe in a kind of monolithic new music. The biggest underlying trait of contemporary music is its plurality. A new music group should reflect that and I think that, so far, GNE has been successful in doing so.” –Armando Bayolo, Interviewed by DCist.com