| Oskar Espina Ruiz introduces
late-Romantic Spanish composer Julián Menéndez to
American audiences Oskar Espina Ruiz is a pioneer in the research and study of the late-Romantic Spanish composer Julián Menéndez. He has offered both lectures and performances on Menéndez at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Madrid Royal Superior Conservatory and the Central Beijing Conservatory, among other venues. This ongoing research culminated in his recording of the complete works for clarinet and piano by Menéndez on two CDs (KB 13703), which has never been done before. Orchestrations of Menéndez’s works and a book-length study are further ventures he has been involved with recently. In 2003, the Metropolitan Museum of Art included a clarinet of Julián Menéndez in its Musical Instruments Galleries. The Menéndez clarinet shares pride of place with the instrument of another eminent clarinetist of the 20th century, the American Benny Goodman. On August 9, 2006, Oskar Espina Ruiz won first prize at the International Clarinet Association Research Competition in Atlanta with a presentation on Menéndez. The Clarinet magazine will publish his article on Menéndez. |
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At the clarinet display of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art Musical Instruments Galleries, clockwise,
Enrique Ojeda, Consul of Spain in New York, Herbert
Heyde, Associate Curator, Dept. of Musical Instruments, Oskar
Espina Ruiz and Noriko Nagasawa, moments before their concert, Keneth
Moore, Head of the Dept. of Musical Instruments and,
within the display, the clarinet and photo of Julián
Menéndez. April 2003 |
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