Jose Luis Puerta

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• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Score Review(p. 55).
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  Score ReviewBarruecos, Manuel, arr. Granados-Malats-IradierScore review for Soundboard, journal for the Guitar Foundation of America.Vol 48, No 1, March 2022
• Puerta, J. L., & Puerta, J. L. (2022. Score Review(p. 59).
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  Score ReviewGuerra, Stephen Paul: Suite Rio de Janeiro: Three Original Choros for Classical GuitarScore review for Soundboard, journal for the Guitar Foundation of America
• Puerta, J. L. (2021. Review: Cervantes,Ignacio: Danzas Cubanas(pp 55.).
• Puerta, J. L. (2021. Review: Diego, Guillermo: Latin-American forMusic for Classical Guitar.
• Puerta, J. L. (2020. Review: Assad, Sergio, Imbricatta(p. 54).
• Puerta, J. L. (2020. Review: Kalampalikis, Orestis: Ará(p. 56).
• Puerta, J. L. (2019. Gardel, Carlos: Tango, arranged for two guitars(pp 54-55).
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  Score review
• Puerta, J. L. (2019. Montes, Alfonso: El Picaflor(pp no. 55).

Creative Performances

• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Borderland Ensemble Performance. ASA. Arizona Seniors Academy.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Borderland Ensemble Performance. Music Mexico Symposium. University of Houston.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Dido and Aeneas . Opera. Crawder Hall.
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  Baroque guitar as part of the ensemble for Dido and Aeneas for the U of A opera
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Grupo Riken Performance. Sunday at the Garden Concert Series. Tohono Chul: Tucson Guitar Society.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Grupo Riken Perfromance. Tucson Meet Yourself. Tucson, Downtown: Southwest Folklife Alliance.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Judge the Artist of Promise Competition. Adjudicator. Glendale Community College.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Puerta-Vazquez Duo Performance. ASA. Arizona Seniors Academy.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Puerta-Vazquez Duo Performance. Performance. Glendale, AZ: Glendale Community College.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Puerta-Vazquez Duo performance and master class in Mexico.. Semana de la Guitarra. Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico: Universidad Autoctona de Sinaloa.
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  Performance with live transmission on Radio Universidad, and Masterclass for the Semana de la guitarra Guitar Festival.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Puerta-Vazquez Duo performance. Mexican Culture Celebration. Cochise College: Cochise College.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Puerta-Vazquez Duo, Master Class and concert . V Festival de cuerdas. Conservatory of Music in Puerto Rico.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Tucson Guitar Society Orchestra Fall concert. Concert. Holscalw.
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. Tucson Guitar Society Orchestra. Premiere performance. Holsclaw: Tucson Guitar Society.
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  Premier of Pulling Down the Clouds by Olga Amelkina-Vera.  The commission of this piece was led by me through the Tucson Guitar Society.  I conducted the premiere as part of the Desert Song Festival.  the lyrics included poems in Tohono O'dham
• Puerta, J. L. (2023. UA Symphony
  
  Mexican Music Concert
  Perfomed baraque guitar, and lecture.. Concert. Fred Fox School of Music.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Borderland Ensemble
  
  Dia de los muertos concert.. Concert, Dia de los muertos. Casino Ballroom.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Canto Latino, concert. Canto Latino. Leo Rich Amphitheather.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Faculty Recital Series
  
  Accompanied Kristin Dauphinais, "Songs from the Sea" by Olga Almelkina-Vera. Concert. Holsclaw Hall: FFSOM.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Grupo Riken. Concert - Dia de los muertos. MSA: Las Azaleas.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Grupo Riken
  
  
  Concert. Concert. Tucson: Arizona Seniors Academy.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Grupo Riken
  
  Concert - Holiday Nights at Tohono Chul. Concert. Tohono Chul Park: Guitar Salon International.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Grupo Riken
  
  Concert. Concert. Tucson: Tucson Meet Yourself.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Grupo Riken
  
  Performance. Concert. Tucson: Casino del Sol.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Puerta-Vazquez Duo
  
  Concert at the Oro Valley Spanish Cultural Club. Concert. Oro Valley.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Puerta-Vázquerz Duo
  
  Concert. Concert. Sierra Vista: Cochise College.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Puerta-Vázquez Duo
  
  Concert. Concert. Tucson: Arizona Seniors Academy.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Puerta-Vázquez Duo
  
  Performance. concert. Tucson: Monterey Court.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Puerta-Vázquez Duo
  
  the release of the Appunti CD, published by Contrastes Records in Spain.
  . FAS - CD Release concert. Holsclaw Hall: FFSOM.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Solo performance. Church serviceUnitarian Universalist Church.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Solo performance. PerformanceUnitarian Universalist Church.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Tiucson Guitar Quartet
  
  Concert. Concert. Green Valley: Music in the Valley Concert Series.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Tucson Guitar Quartet
  
  Concert. Concert. Phoenix: Phoenix Guitar Society.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Tucson Guitar Quartet
  
  Concert. Concert. Tucson: Arizona Seniors Academy.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Tucson Guitar Quartet
  
  Concerts. Michoacán Tour. Morelia, Michoacan: Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Morelia, Mexico.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Tucson Guitar Quartet
  
  Feast for the Brain. Concert. U of A: Health Science and Innovation.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Tucson Guitar Quartet
  
  Sunday in the Garden Concert Series. Concert. Tohono Chul Park: Tucson Guitar Soceity.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Tucson Guitar Society Orchestra
  
  Conductor. Concert. Grace St. Paul: Tucson Guitar Society.
• Puerta, J. L. (2022. Tucson Guitar Society Orchestra
  
  Fall Concert. Concert. Holsclaw Hall: Tucson Guitar Society.
• Puerta, J. L., & Puerta, J. L. (2022. Grupo Riken
  
  Sunday in the Garden Concert Series. Concert. Tohono Chul Park: Tucson Guitar Society.

Creative Works

• Latin American Soundscapes; Guitar Quartet / CD; June 2020; This work is an extension of my research that started with the DMA document topic.The recording was done at the Haskell Recording Studio at the FFSoM.  It includes works that were never previously recorded as well as world premiers and a piece dedicated to the quartet.
• Lute Chordophones; Ethnomusicology/ Encyclopedia; Sage Publication; January 2019; SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
• Reggaeton; Ethnomusicology/Encyclopedia; Sage Publication; January 2019; SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
• Positively 17th Street; Blues; January 2009; Kubro Productions & Jim Waters; I was invited to participate in a  recording by Harvey Brooks ( bass players for Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, The Doors).  I only recorded in one track. The genre of the Cd is Blues
• Grupo Riken " De Aqui Pa Alla"; Latin Music; independent; February 2016; Independent; CD, Grupo Riken,  Latin Folk and popular music from the Caribbean and Latin America.  I founded this group in 2009 as a way to promote and to bring Latin American folk music to the Tucson Community.  The instrumentation includes guitar, cuatro, and percussion.
• Borderland Ensemble: The space in which to see; Classical/NewMusic; New Focus Recordings; August 2021; New Focus Recording; Hailing from the American Southwest, the Borderlands Ensemble was formed in 2017 to reach across social boundaries and bring communities together through concert music. the space in which to see, their debut release, was catalyzed by a project entitled “Place and Identity in the Borderlands” which specifically explored connections between the shared cultural identity of Arizona and Mexico. Led by artistic director Johanna Lundy, three collaborators brought their specialized knowledge to the project: Dr. José Luis Puerta, guitarist; Dr. Luis E. Coronado Guel, Mexican historian; and Jessica Gonzales, visual artist who created paintings inspired by the music that are included in the album artwork. The collection of music on this release speaks both to the group’s commitment to building cultural bridges through chamber music as well as its refined and impactful performances.The album opens with a work written for Borderlands by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti. the space in which to see sets a text by Layli Long Soldier, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. The poem engages with issues of Indigenous identity and place, concepts which are obviously at the fore in the borderlands region. The opening movement features an unsettling, percolating ensemble texture around which clarion horn notes sound a call to attention. In the second, a quote from the heroic climax of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite is heard in augmentation in the horn over insistent violin notes and a skittering, rhythmic gesture in the cello. The third setting is static and ominous, with unstable sonorities in the strings creating a shrouded texture. The last movement also evokes Stravinsky, albeit his austere later style heard in works such as Requiem Canticles. Individual instrumental entrances form an ambiguous chorale before Lundy’s horn closes the work with a series of meditative breaths.Jay Vosk’s Passing Ships for horn and string quartet is an abstract representation of human migration. The horn and quartet occupy opposite roles in a dialogue, and Vosk establishes a mournful tone throughout that captures the struggle against obstacles that migrants face in their pursuit of freedom and security.Vivian Fine’s Songs and Arias contrasts richly expressive movements with moments that gently poke fun at the classical tradition. Fine ventures through allusions to several styles and eras in the work, from the rhapsodic, Romantic quality of the outer movements, “Love Song” and “Canto Hondo (Deep Song)”, to the early music inspired “Elizabethan Song” and “Arioso”, to the Debussy inspired “Duet.” The work’s more humorous moments come in two excerpts from fictional compositions: “Rupert’s Aria from the opera ‘Unfulfilled’” with its raucous horn part and a concertino style aria from a non-existent cantata, “Life, Oh Sweet Terrible Life.”Mexico City born Charles Daniels’ Dream Machine explores the illogical and fantastical landscape of dreams. The composition avoids recognizable main themes, instead of linking together evocative, colorful textures tied together by a logic all their own.Alejandro Vera’s Ometéotl is inspired by the Aztec god of creation, representing the creative essence that powered all other gods and deities. Integrating pre-Hispanic rhythms and imitations of ancient instruments, Vera conjures a world where faith was invested in powerful forces beyond human control. Angular lines and imitative passagework evoke a ritualistic, mystical expression.The final three tracks on the album are arrangements of Mexican music by artistic director and hornist Johanna Lundy. “La Llorona”, or the “wailing woman,” is an important figure in Mexican folklore, the embodiment of tragic melancholy. “Sin un Amor” is a representative song from the repertoire of the famed New York City based bolero group Los Panchos, formed in 1944. The final arrangement, “Sobre las Olas” is probably the best known of the three, originally composed by Juventino Rosas. Despite his Indigenous heritage, Rosas composed in a wide range of styles, from European waltzes to polkas to mazurkas. 
• Community Health Begins with Knowledge; Soundtrack; August 2020; I composed and recorded the music for the documentary "Community Health Starts with knowledge" (2020)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7lFBUHWHU&t=28sFrom the video description:"This video tells the compelling story of community health workers (CHW) who provide a critical link between the medical community and populations in need of clinical services and disease prevention. The film, shot in Kisumu, Kenya, shows why and how CHWs are trained and how they save lives in their communities. WiRED International has released a rigorous and comprehensive, World Health Organization-compliant curriculum to train CHWs around the globe. It uses computer-based modules, taught in real-time by physicians and nurses. The 140-hour course covers health basics, patient assessment, clinical issues, health teaching, and surveillance. CHWs enroll in WiRED's continuing health education program to remain current, increase their skills, and retain their credentials."
• Once We Moved Like the Wind; Classical Contemporary; Sky Island Music; April 2018; I was invited to collaborate for the premiere performance and recording of "Once We Moved Like the Wind". A guitar quartet piece composed as an homage to Geronimo
• 360 video; 360video; Wiley Ross; Participated in the recording of a 360-degree video of the Tucson Guitar Quartet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq-oFDtEUbo