THE ARTISTS
THE ARTISTS
PostClassical Ensemble was founded in 2003 by Angel Gil-Ordóñez and Joseph Horowitz as an experimental orchestral laboratory based in Washington, D.C. All PCE programming is thematic and cross-disciplinary, frequently incorporating art, film, dance, or theater. Of its previous Naxos releases conducted by Gil-Ordóñez, Dvořák and America, featuring the world premiere recording of the PCE-created Hiawatha Melodrama, was named one of the best albums of the year by Minnesota Public Radio. PCE’s series of Naxos DVDs presents classic films from the 1930s – The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River, The City and Redes – with the scores newly recorded.
Angel Gil-Ordóñez is the music director of PostClassical Ensemble and Georgetown University Orchestra, and principal guest conductor of New York’s Perspectives Ensemble. In León, Mexico, he serves as lead advisor for Trinitate Philharmonia, modeled on Venezuela’s El Sistema. He has appeared as guest conductor with the American Composers Orchestra, Opera Colorado, the Pacific Symphony, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and at the Brevard Music Festival. The former associate conductor of Spain’s National Symphony Orchestra, he is the recipient of the Royal Order of Queen Isabella, the country’s highest civilian decoration.
