Last December I had the great pleasure of being the guest on the terrific new music podcast, SoundNotion. Check it out!

Armando has become a regular contributor to the Sequenza 21 new music blog.  Look for his writings at www.sequenza21.com and at http://www.sequenza21.com/forum/

Why is the new music community so focused on New York, with the rest of the U.S. seemingly ignored by those working in that city?  Read Armando’s article for New Music Box about the “New York Problem” to find out: http://newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=6483

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

“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

Contemporary works do not often get standing ovations, but this was an exception. After the performance, even some of the audience members who came prepared not to like the piece, said that they really enjoyed it. It is a work that deserves to be heard many more times, and in many more places. It is new, it is fresh, and it gets its message across. 
 
Not often can one attend a concert and find no fault or make no complaint, but this was, in my opinion, certainly one. 
 
W. Gerald Cochran, Charlotte Observer
 

Armando is interviewed on NPR’s Studio 360 about musical experiences that changed his life: Star Wars and Andreissen’s De Materie. Listen to the clip here.