The Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle (RTOOT)

Composer-in-Residence


The Really Terrible Orchestra Of the Triangle (RTOOT) is pleased to announce the signing of Enrique Varela, Jr., as Composer-in-Residence. Sr. Varela has worked at Icarus Studios LLC, (www.icarusstudios.com), a multimedia and virtual works company in the Triangle that produces serious games ... an oxymoron if there ever was one. Sr. Varela's major influences, as a composer, include Johann Sebastian Bach (no-brainer), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claude Debussy, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky, and Nobuo Uematsu (see www.nobuouematsu.com).

We believe ourselves to be the
only civic orchestra in the triangle with a resident composer!

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Sr. Enrique Varela, Composter-in-Residence

Our first collaboration will be a piece for Really Terrible Orchestra and Audience Participation Celfone Ensemble, to be presented in an upcoming concert.

Sr. Varela was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and has lived in the US for the past 24 years. He is a graduate (2004) of the University of North Carollina at Chapel Hill, and studied composition there with Allen Anderson.


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Sr. Enrique Varela, Composer-in Residence, and My Strow Hobgood
Ponder Music Notation for Celfones. Photo by Chris Jones, 501 Diner.