Discipline: Music Composition

Brian Folkins-Amador

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2009

Brian Folkins-Amador is the musical director and guitarist for the Latin music ensemble Sol y Canto. He worked on Sabor y Memoria: a Musical Feast in 7 courses, for Sol y Canto and string quartet. Sol y Canto's recording Cada día un regalo (Each day a gift), consisting mainly of Brian's compositions, was released in 2008 on the MusicAmador label.

Studios

Irving Fine

Brian Folkins-Amador worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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