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written by Alberto Ginastera
I. Danza del viejo boyero II. Danza de a moza donosa III. Danza del gaucho matrero February 2012
"A Christmas Carol"
Winner of the 2012 Fairfax Choral Society Composition Competition. Written by Travis Whaley. Recording by Virginia Tech Chamber Singers, December 2012. Soloists Nora Cotter and Travis Whaley.
Undergraduate Research Scholar of the Month
January 2013
This article appeared in the fall 2014 issue of virginiatech's Impact Magazine:
The email arrived on April 14, 2014. Travis Whaley, a rising senior from Cary, North Carolina, read it several times to make certain he hadn’t misread anything. He hadn’t. He was in.
The email, from the selection committee of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, Germany, notified Whaley that he was among only 45 pianists in the world invited to compete in the 64-year-old competition this past summer.
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Bach Competition pre-screening recording.
Travis Whaley, a junior from Cary, N.C., triple majoring in piano performance, music composition, and German language and literature, arranged a rendition of Tech Triumph for the piano.
A Christmas Carol by Travis Whaley, Fairfax Choral Society
The Casualties of Classical Music
The following appeared on "Salty Pitches" on August 10, 2014:
*disclaimer: when I say "Classical Music," I'm referring to the term in general (encompassing all music written before around 1900), not the specific period from 1750-1820ish.*
I just got back from an amazing piano recital at the Großes Festspielhaus- an entire program of Chopin! He played the B minor Sonata and 10 Mazurkas. Plus 3 encores... so it was a wonderful (and long) evening. His third encore was the Schubert Impromptu I played Freshman year, so that was cool to hear. However, I'm not writing this post to talk about how great the pianist was (his technique was FLAWLESS) or how upsetting it was that he seemed so disinterested the minute he stood up from the keys and only halfway bowed to the audience as he sauntered off the stage. It's so hard for me to enjoy the music when it doesn't look like the performer does, no matter how good the pianist (and he was spectacular- I can't stress that enough). But really, that's not what this post is about. In fact, it's about the opposite.
Find the full article here.