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Alejandro García Caturla and the Orquesta de Conciertos de Caibarién

Jul 19, 2026 • 17:30
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Alejandro García Caturla was one of Cuba’s most prominent and prolific composers of the early 20th century. He was a student of Nadia Boulanger and a member of Edgard Varèse and Henry Cowell’s Pan-American Society of Composers. Caturla and Cuban colleague Amadeo Roldán were responsible for bringing a new Nationalism into the symphonic concert hall, one that included Afro-Cuban rhythms and percussion instruments. Beyond his activities as the leader of a jazz band, an orchestral violinist, and a judge, Caturla’s never ending energy led him to work with any musical organization that would play his music. And since he lived in Remedios, away from Havana, he regularly worked with wind bands. These activities eventually led him to start his own wind ensemble twenty years before Fennell. His Orquesta de Conciertos de Caibarién debuted in 1932 and brought with it a wave of new music making.

Darrell Brown

Darrell Brown is the Director of Bands in the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University where he conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and is the coordinator of the graduate wind conducting program. He is also the conductor of the Statesboro Chamber Orchestra, and guest conducts domestically and abroad, and has performed with his ensembles at conferences of the CBDNA, NAfME, ILMEA, and WMEA. Dr. Brown received his DMA from UNLV, and he is an active composer, arranger, and researcher of wind band repertoire. He is a member of the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik and serves as treasurer for the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.