His compositions are played and recorded by a lot of guitarist around the world: Jan Wouters (Bélgica), Etienne Plasman (Luxemburgo), Antigoni Goni (Grecia), David Tanenbaum (USA), Jasón Vieux (USA), Yang Xuefei (China), Michael Nigro (USA), Lisa Schroeder, Willam Simcoe (USA), Louis Johnson (USA), Wang Zhen (China); Bruce Paine (Nueva Zelandia), Máximo Pujol (Argentina), Eduardo Martín (Cuba), Lee Khee Gan (Japón), Eric Cabalo (USA), Danny Shoemaker (USA), Stanley Yates (Inglaterra), Elliot Frank, Allar Õunapuu (Estonia), Matthew Hornbeck (USA), Dietmar Oliver Kunzler (Alemania), Adam Holzman (USA), Robert Guthrie (USA), Luis Andrés Campos Yépez (Ecuador), Marcelo Coronel (Argentina), Théan Slabbert, Roma Sprung, Victor Celis, etc.
He worked as an orchestrator and arranger with the composer Jorge Drexler in performing the soundtrack of the movie "City of Your Final Destination" by James Ivory with Anthony Hopkins as one of the protagonists.
He has made an adaptation for string quintet with guitar, choir and soloists from the opera Orpheus and Euridice by Glück at the request of the company, "The Sea of Puppets" and recorded and distributed on DVD by the label "Sello Autor”.
He has composed the music for "Water" for the "Expo Zaragoza" 2008 recorded and distributed on DVD by the label "Sello Autor”.
He has composed the music for "Rimas infantiles par alas estaciones del año" with the poet Cristina Alvarez Puerto.
His compositions are included in the studio's programs of a lot of universities and conservatories around the world. There are more than 10,000 WEB pages in the Internet about of his activities.
Merlin`s biography was published in the Who's Who in Music (London), 14th and later editions, together with the world's most distinguished musicians. Since ten years ago he received many students of Guitar and Composition from different countries.
THE JOSÉ LUIS MERLÍN QUARTET- U.S. Tour 2010
José Luis Merlín- Guitar, Voice
Brian Baumbusch- Guitar, Voice
David Merlín- Violín
Solange Merdinian- Voice
Aaron Shafer-Haiss- Drumms
The José Luis Merlín Quartet is a group dedicated to performing Folklore Argentino, the music of the gauchos, the pampa, el asado, and el vino! It was formed as a collaboration between the family of world renowned Argentinean classical guitarist and composer José Luis Merlín and his protégé Brian Baumbusch, an ethnomusicologist specializing in Argentinean Quechuan folk music. It began as an opportunity for the Merlin family to return to their roots as Argentineans, using their distinct talents from the world of classical music, and creating musical arrangements that celebrate their artistic foundations, the folk music of their country.
The group was originally founded in Madrid, and included José Luis, David, and Sebastian Merlín, and Brian Baumbusch, a quartet for two guitars, violin, and the bombo leguero of Argentina. The group is now organizing its first tour in the United States, including New York Latin percussionist Aaron Shafer-Haiss, and Argentinean singer Solange Merdinian, a Julliard graduate and student of famous soprano Dawn Upshaw. The group has been sponsored by the Argentine Embassy in Washington, DC, and promoted through the Argentine Consulate of New York in the hopes that this will be their opportunity to continue to spread their culture throughout the U.S.
The music that is shared in Argentinean folk culture is a music inspired by humility and pride. This humility and pride is evoked by broad plains of grain and cattle, the golden tides of wheat and the jagged majestic cordilleras, the winding brooks and dried up river beds that make ravines through the ranges of spiny bushes upon which wanders a tarantula toward a small glebe where a little mud ranch rests peacefully, and where the sandy and dusty grounds which when stomped upon in dance raise a cloud of mysterious haze around the coals from the algarrobo wood roasting the baby goat and asado, hanging in a circle around the fire.
This is what evokes humility and pride in the people of Argentina, and this is what The José Luis Merlín Quartet aims to transmit.
LAST 2010 USA TOUR DATES
27/3
18 hs.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the Millennium Stage
Beatty Competition winners.
World premiere Jose Luis Merlin pieces for this competition:
Un paseo a Caballo
Beso de Luna
Bailongo Campero
28/3
19 hs.
Gala Hispanic Theatre (Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos)
3333 14th St. NW, Washington DC 20010
202 234 7174
31/3
20 hs.
Zebulon Cafe Concert
258 Wythe Ave. Brooklyn NY 11211
718 218 6934
1/4
19:30 hs
Bard College. Bard Hall
5000 Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504
845 758 6822
3/4
Barbes
376 9th St. Park Slope, Brooklyn NY 11215
718 965 9177
347 422 0248
6/4
Inter-American Development Bank, Art Galery(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Galerìa de arte)
12:30 hs.
1300 New York Ave. NW. Washington, DC. 20577
202 623 1000
7/4
20 hs.
Public Assembly
70 N 6th St. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
718 384 4586
8/4
17 hs.
Argentine Consulate
12 W 56th St, NY, NY 10019
212 603 0400
8/4
20 hs.
Caffe Vivaldi
32 Jones St. New York, NY 10014
212 691 7538
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