SVMC CD Nº 1: 
25 Years - Venezuelan Composers Anthology I
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The Venezuelan Society for Contemporary Music (SVMC) reaches 25 years of activity in the year 2000 and it is precisely with this compact disc that we wish to celebrate them and initiate the publication of a series of recordings that will include works of Venezuelan contemporary composers. The SVMC was founded in 1975 at the initiative of Yannis Ioannidis together with Alfredo del Monaco, Eduardo Lira Espejo and a group of young musicians and artists, who introduced it to the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). Since 1976, the SVMC became the official Venezuelan representative of said international organization, and through it many Venezuelan composers have had the opportunity to attend and present their works at the World Music Days’ Festivals that the ISCM annually organizes since 1922.

The Venezuelan Society for Contemporary Music has had the privilege of counting among its presidents Prof. Eduardo Lira Espejo and Mtro. Alfredo Del Monaco, this latter recently awarded with the  Venezuelan National Music Prize 2000 and the Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize 2002.  Likewise, its current directive members, Adina Izarra and I, have been honored with the designation as Constituent Members of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Contemporary Music since1994.

The past Board of Directors of the SVMC elected in the year 1999, had the intention then, among other things, to reactivate the widespread of new music with the regular presentation of concerts, the carrying out of the Latin American Music Festival and the production of compact discs such as the present one, that would provide a wider dissemination of our works at a national and international level. It also aimed to intensify the communication among Venezuelan composers and broaden the reach of the information regarding their works through the advantages of the Internet.

We hope that the music presented in this first effort will be truly enjoyed, and to be able to complete further editions which may little by little show a view of the new music of Venezuelan composers.

Alfredo Rugeles
Chairman SVMC

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