Our Keynote speaker for RMCLAS 08 will be Guatemalan composer, conductor, musicologist Dieter Lehnhoff.
His music, ranging from contemporary classical to electroacústica, has been heard in Argentina, Austria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the USA, the UK, and Venezuela.
As a scholar, Dr. Lehnhoff has edited three series of previously unpublished scores by Guatemalan, Portuguese and Spanish composers, and has written numerous articles for journals and reference books. He has also published six books, including Espada y pentagrama: la música polifónica en la Guatemala del siglo XVI (1986), Rafael Antonio Castellanos: vida y obra de un músico guatemalteco (1994) and Música y músicos de Guatemala (1995 Huellas de la guerra en el arte musical (1999) and Creación musical en Guatemala (2005).
For a more detailed description of his many accomplishments, see: http://composers21.com/compdocs/lehnhofd.htm
Dance
On Friday night April 11 from 7:30 – 11:00 we will have a live band entertain
us in the Radisson Ballroom. The band will start off with a set
of Latin American folk music and will then play dance music (salsa,
son etc.).