IVAN ENRIQUE RODRIQUEZ

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Epistola No.1.

Michael Sheppard, piano. Recorded at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City on 9.20.18.

Described by San Francisco Classical Voice, Boston Classical Review, and New York Concert Review as fiery, gripping, lyrical, eloquent, with a strong feeling for musical drama, and a gifted colorist with an abundance of emotional energy and the means to communicate it, Puerto Rican composer Dr. Iván Enrique Rodríguez’ (b.1990) music has been performed in P.R., the U.S., throughout North/South America and Europe in important venues and landmarks such as the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Alice Tully Hall in New York City, Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland, Jordan Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, among others around the world.

Iván received his Bachelor of Music degree at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, studying with Alfonso Fuentes. His Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School, and his Doctor in Musical Arts degree in Juilliard’s prestigious C.V. Starr doctoral program under the tutelage of Melinda Wagner, where he has been recipient of the Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize, the Bernard Jaffe Scholarship and Commission, the James D. Rosenthal and Marvin Y. Schofer Scholarship, the King Doctoral Scholarship and, the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship.