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Carlos M. Fuentes performs Frederic Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with Strings
Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 2pm
Lorraine Crozier, violin, Annette Orella, violin
Dayne Sazaki, viola, Chris Allen, cello
Vincent Antolini, bass
Carlos McMillan Fuentes, piano
Sacramento Community Concert Association - St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, Sacramento, CA
Admission: $25 adults, $6 students, 14 and under free
World Premiere of Commission for the San Francisco Pride Band
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Herbst Theater in San Francisco, CA
Admission TBD
New Music: Harp Quintet
Roger Xia, violin, Melisa Jones, violin
Aaron Allen, viola, William Masters, cello
Aden Barbuta, harp
Premiered January 5, 2025 at 2pm at the Harris Center Folsom Lake College
as part of the Great Composers Chamber Music Series presented by VITA Academy
(Music begins at 2:42)
The Harp Quintet, op 19 was originally inspired by Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet. The principle theme was inspired by a choral work I once began but never completed. In the Quintet, I explore the timbral differences between the different string instruments as the theme passes and transforms between them.
Carlos McMillan Fuentes on “Rob at Home” - Region Rising: The Power of Music
Monday, February 19, 2024 at 7:30pm
Airing on PBS KVIE, on the PBS app, & online at www.RobOnTheRoad.org
After over twenty years of work, my composition Concerto da Requiem received its first performance by Camerata California Chamber Choir & Orchestra on November 12, 2023. It is a cross between a piano concerto (piano & orchestra) and a Requiem mass (choir, vocal soloists, and orchestra).
The Soloists
Recorded November 12, 2023 at 3pm at First United Methodist Church, Sacramento CA
Video by Cambridge Sound, Marc & Ed Cambridge. https://cambridge-sound.com/
Audio by John Bologni, Recording and Mixing Engineer. https://www.johnbologni.com/
Thanks to the Rucker Family Foundation, the Living Heritage Foundation, VITA Academy, and Mary Wesley for sponsoring this concert.
A simultaneous translation is available in YouTube captions
View the printed program. http://tinyurl.com/yzwsn377
View a full text and translation. http://tinyurl.com/3kjkzu7m
photo by McJefferson Agloro
Lesotho Variations (Daniel Carr), performed by Carlos McMillan Fuentes (begins at 29:04)
A Winter Rhapsody (Carlos McMillan Fuentes), performed by Carlos McMillan Fuentes & Symphony d’Oro Rancho Cordova
Piano Concerto no. 23, mvmts. 2 & 3, K. 488 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), performed by Carlos McMillan Fuentes & Symphony d’Oro Rancho Cordova.
Community Theatre of Greensboro (North Carolina) presents pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter Carlos McMillan Fuentes performing a selection of musical theatre numbers live from his home in quarantine, 2020.
Precious Lord, Take My Hand (Thomas A. Dorsey, 1932) and Lift Every Voice And Sing (James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson, 1900). Arranged and performed by Carlos McMillan Fuentes. Performance at the annual "Celebration of Heritage" founded by Archalene Martin in honor of Black History Month at St. Andrews AME Church in Sacramento, CA on Sunday, February 28, 2016.
Fantasie in D-flat major, op. 9 (Carlos McMillan Fuentes). Recorded at BCB Recording Studio in Greensboro, North Carolina. The score in the video is the handwritten original manuscript, from when I used to create all of my scores by hand. Nowadays I exclusively use Finale for everything but the roughest of drafts.
Carlos & Brennen
Coty (Quincy Hilliard), performed by Brennen Milton, clarinetist & Carlos McMillan Fuentes, pianist
Quatuor pour la fin du temps/Quartet for the End of Time (Olivier Messiaen), performed by Reylynn Imai, violinist, Brennen Milton, clarinetist, Jiamo Chen, cellist, & Carlos McMillan Fuentes, pianist. From A Celebration of the Human Spirit on October 20, 2018
Duo Concertante Op 48 III: Rondo (Carl Maria von Weber) & Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite I: Prelude (Paul Reade), performed by Brennen Milton, clarinetist & Carlos McMillan Fuentes, pianist
News
Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 2pm: Carlos M. Fuentes performs Frederic Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with Strings - Sacramento Community Concert Association - St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, Sacramento, CA
Sunday, June 8, 2025: World Premiere of Commission for the San Francisco Pride Band - Herbst Theater in San Francisco, CA