Joaquin Maria NIN-CULMELL

Background

NIN-CULMELL, Joaquin was born on September 5, 1908 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Joaquin Nin and Rosa Culmell.

Education

Schola Cantorum and National Conservatoire, Paris. Privately with Manuel de Falla.

Career

Piano Concerto, El burlador de Sevilla (ballet), Piano Quintet, Sonata Breve, Tonadas (piano), Twelve Cuban Dances (piano), Three Old Spanish Pieces (orchestra), Diferencias (.orchestra), Concerto for cello and orchestra (after Padre Anselmo Viola), Mass in English (for mixed chorus and organ), Louisiana Celestina (opera), Cantata for voice and harpsichord or piano and strings (after Padre.lose Pradas), Le reve de Cyrano (ballet), incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Federico Garcia Larca"s Yerma, Six Sephardic Folksongs (for voice and piano), songs, choral pieces, organ variations, pieces for guitar, et cetera Foreign theatre: Cuban Evocations, commissioned by Spanish Repertory Theatre of New York 1985-1986.Instructor, Middlebury College, Vermont 1938, 1939, 1940, Williams College 50. Professor, of Music, University of California 1949-1974, Emeritus Professor since 1974, Institute of Creative Arts 1965-1966. Has appeared as pianist and conductor with the San Francisco Symphony and other orchestras in the United States of America and Europe.

Correspondent.

Achievements

• NinCulmell combined the features of national Spanish music he learned from his father and the neo-classical elements of modernist composition that he learned from Manuel de Falla. He was famous as a pianist with numerous musical groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. Besides he contributed famous prefaces to his sister Anaïs Nin's four-volume Early Diaries.

Works

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  • Linotte: The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1914-1920 (English and French Edition)

    ( A charming and amusing view of Nin's early life, from a...)

  • Nin - Complete Works for Piano By Joaquin Nin-Culmell^Joaqun Nin (Composer),,Thomas Tirino (Piano) (2001-12-03)

    (Brand new)

  • Concert Per a Violoncel L'Orquestra / Suites
  • Granados: Goyescas Books 1 & 2 / Nin-Culmell: Tonadas (Volumes 1-4)

Membership

Royal Academy, of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid 1962). Institute Jury Maria Canals Institute Competition, Barcelona, Marguerite Long Institute Competition, Paris.

Interests

• Philosophy, detective stories, swimming.

Connections

Father:

Joaquin Nin

Mother:

Rosa Culmell