FReuben profile picture

FReuben

About Me

Federico Reuben, born Costa Rica (1978) was trained as a pianist since the age of 9. He studied political science for two years at Universidad de Costa Rica, before leaving for the United States in 1999 to study composition with Lawrence Moss at the University of Maryland. In September 2002 he moved to The Netherlands to continue his studies at The Royal Conservatoire, The Hague. He earned a Bachelors (2003) and Masters (2006) degree in composition from this institution, where he studied with Louis Andriessen, Richard Ayres, Gilius van Bergeijk and Martijn Padding. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Brunel University's School of Arts – Department of Music, London, United Kingdom. His supervisors are Richard Barrett and Christopher Fox and his research focuses on Derivative Music and Plunderphonic strategies. He received courses and workshops tutored by composers including Steve Reich, Jonathan Harvey, Clarence Barlow, Marco Stroppa and Michael Jarrell. He also attended a one-year intensive course in Music Technology at The Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands.- Art work by Eszter Takács-

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/20/2006
Band Website: ranchonotorious.org/federico_reuben
Band Members: Federico Reuben
powered by ODEO
Influences: Conlon Nancarrow, Iannis Xenakis, Trevor Wishart, Clarence Barlow
powered by ODEO
powered by ODEO
Sounds Like:
powered by ODEO
Record Label: Internet
Type of Label: None

My Blog

E-tudes Video

Hi everyoneI just posted in my profile the video of a concert i had last May in London. It's split in three different youtube players, but if you want to watch it as a whole, you can by following this...
Posted by FReuben on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:40:00 PST

daddy video

HiI just found the other day an old video that hee-seung made for "daddy, buy me a radio monkey".here it is:enjoy!:) ...
Posted by FReuben on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:04:00 PST

New Stuff in WebSite

Hi!I have been uploading new things to my website.For those of you who are interested, I've been uploading some scores, a small description of the new piece I'm working on called E-tudes, etc. I have ...
Posted by FReuben on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:18:00 PST

FReu-pinta

freu pinta is a project that collects some of those crumbles left behind by the composer's ego:click here for the linkhave fun!!and revisit since I will be uploading more stuff soon...FReuben...
Posted by FReuben on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:02:00 PST

Occupation No.3

occupation No.3 - Missa Papae MarcelliPalestrina/FReuben powered by ODEOThe mass was composed in honor of Pope Marcellus II, who reigned for three weeks in 1555. Recent scholarship s...
Posted by FReuben on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:23:00 PST

Videos

...
Posted by FReuben on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:16:00 PST

Belgrade Concert

This is the review I got for the premiere of "Reinita Amarilla termina en el charco" (2006) -ad. lib. translation: "Little Yellow Queen ends up in the puddle"The only problem is it's in Serbian... I d...
Posted by FReuben on Thu, 10 May 2007 03:14:00 PST

Video: Ensemble Klang

This is a video of the performance of a piece I started in 2003 and then got shelved. In April 2006, I got a commission to write a piece for Ensemble Klang. I had 15 days to write it so I decided to u...
Posted by FReuben on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:09:00 PST

Video - Odd Spots

I posted a new video of a song I wrote for Leche Vaqera (www.lechevaqera.com). The text is borrowed from Vladimir Nabokov's "Transparent Things". The video is a realization of Eszter Takács....
Posted by FReuben on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:56:00 PST

Moving to London

It's official now:I will be moving to London next October. I will do a PhD in Composition supervised by Richard Barrett (www.ump.co.uk/barrett.htm) and Christopher Fox (www.foxedition.co.uk) at Brunel...
Posted by FReuben on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:54:00 PST