Joaquin Nin-Culmell

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Nin-Culmell was the youngest child of Cuban singer Rosa Culmell and pianist-composer Joaquin Nin. After his parents separated, his mother moved Nin-Culmell, his sister Anaïs and brother Thorvald, to New York City, where they lived for nine years. At age fifteen, Nin-Culmell and his family moved to Europe where he attended the Schola Cantorum and the Paris Conservatoire, receiving a first prize in music composition there in 1934. He was a student of Paul Dukas, and also studied in the early 1930s with Manuel de Falla, Spain's foremost composer, focusing on harmony, counterpoint and fugue, as well as musical composition. Career In 1939, Nin-Culmell moved to the United States. He taught at Middlebury College, Vermont for two years before joining the music department of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts (where Stephen Sondheim was one of his students). He stayed at Williams for a decade, before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1950. While at Berkeley, he conducted the University of California Symphony Orchestra and appeared as a pianist with numerous musical groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1952, he performed as soloist in his own "Concerto in C Major" for piano and orchestra with the San Francisco Symphony, under the direction of Pierre Monteux, and was the symphony's guest conductor in March 1953. His compositions include Cuban Folk Songs for mixed chorus, Catalonian Folk Songs for soprano and piano, and Eight Variations on a Theme by Gaspar San

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Henry & June

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Henry & June: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Joaquín Nin-Culmell: The Complete Tonadas & Other Works for Piano

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Henry & June - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Victoria de los Ángeles Canta Nin

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Mélodies hébraïques (Arr. for Cello and Piano)

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Joaquin Nin & Joaquin Nin-Culmell: Concierto para Violoncelo y Orquesta

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In Every Lake The Moon Shines Full

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Henry And June

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Amor de la Danza

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Zambra!: Guitars from Spain

Joaquin Nin-Culmell: The Complete Tonadas and Other Works for Piano

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