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William Kraft
Composer
2009
“It is obvious from the first measures [Concierto Fantastico / El dia de la liberacion] that you are a mature composer"
News Magazine, Austria
May 4, 2006
“Today, it is a rare thing for opera premiers to be remembered. El día de la liberación by the Chilean composer Luis Saglie is in all ways memorable... its musical material abstains from experimentation, yet manages decisively to tell a story through a vivid melodic sense.”
Jan Jankovic
Hornist with the Vienna Philharmonic
December, 2006
“Luis Saglie has shown through courageous strides, how musically and technically virtuosic horn literature can be, yet at the same time pleasant and understandable for audiences today. Most of all, he acquires this with much respect of the instrument’s natural physical potentials... Through my experience of premiering all the horn repertoire of Luis Saglie, I feel that the roots of his musical ideas would compliment as well as enrich the world of film music... Whether through his solo repertoire, chamber works or larger scale compositions with horn, Mr. Saglie is establishing himself as a pioneer of his time, standing side by side with the most respected composers such as W.A. Mozart, G. Mahler, and R. Strauss.”
Jake Heggie
Composer
May, 2008
"El día de la liberación... You have a wonderful gift... There is a real sense of gesture, motion, character, line, architecture and shape... I understood the emotion very clearly... I love the orchestration and the way you handle the voices - alternating between sung and spoken lines and the use of the voices.It is very smart, powerful and theatrical... The development of musical gestures is very clear...”
Peter Damm
Former Solohornist of the Staatskapelle Dresden
Professor at the Hochschule fur Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden
October, 2003
"Mr. Saglie... your Sonata for Horn and Piano... The work, with its romantic feel, belongs with the highly technically demanding compositions for horn. Much to my liking, the instrument is not forced into experimentation against its character. You achieved to take advantage of the adequate musical possibilities of expression. The horn presents itself both as an instrument of Espressivo with delicate singing leading lines as well as powerful strength and rhythmic energy, sometimes with jaunty playfulness. The second movement moved me deeply with its deep elegy-dreamy feel... I congratulate you on this work.”
Erwin Acel
Conductor / Professor at the University of Music on Vienna
March 25, 2000
“A well developed conductor... Mr. Saglie possesses an efficient conducting technique, effective rehearsing technique with orchestra and excellent musicality. He is capable of extraordinary achievements with orchestras.”
Vitaly Margulis
Concert Pianist / Professor at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)
January 28, 1997
“...as for his musicality, it is something that didn’t have to be taught... He has very interesting interpretational ideas... I have been impressed by the enthusiastic response his compositions have received from audiences... His conducting portrays great communication with every player and remarkable understanding of an orchestral piece as a whole... Whether he is conducting an orchestra or collaborating with a soloist in a concerto, Luis transmits a deep sense of musicianship.”
Kronen Zeitung, Austria
April 29, 2006
“The musical language of Luis Saglie in the Chamber Opera El día de la liberación encorporates impacting forms of expression... Saglie portrays the emotional atmosphere clear and straight forward. He manages through good effects of sound to create an atomsphere, while sudden projecting lyricism break the situation... The orchestra ambitiously producing their sound under the direction of the composer...”
Ingrid Haimböck
Director of the Herbert von Karajan Centrum in Vienna
2001
“Luis Saglie (Conductor-Composer-Pianist)... it was undoubtedly his musical versatility with which he was able to convince audiences in numerous evening performances. Luis Saglie was commissioned a musical work... Labyrinth for trumpet and organ was created, built predominantly upon ostinato, impressing by transparent simplicity and producing an exciting contrast to existing compositions for trumpet and organ.”
Wiener Zeitung
April 29, 2006“What the composer embodies is a amiability for a moderate Modernism... colorful effects and rough rhythms assure tension. As conductor at the performance in the Penzinger Studiobühne, the Chilean composer was able to portray his composition as a success.”
Carole Dawn Reinhart
Trumpet Soloist / Professor at the University of Music in Vienna
October 28, 2004
“Labyrinth for trumpet and organ... Pulsating rhythm drives the work forward to its brilliant climax. The harmonic progressions and melodic lines serve the concept of the work well... These same basic elements are found in his Overture for eight trumpets... It's refreshing to have a contemporary composer using the specific trumpet techniques, double and triple tonguing, most effectively... a worthy addition to trumpet ensemble repertoire... In Sonatina (Reminiscence from Childhood) for trumpet and piano, Luis Saglie has produced another interesting work for the trumpet literature.Again, rhythm is one of the most important elements and it lends itself perfectly to the trumpet... Trumpeters are fortunate to have such a young, talented composer setting his exceptionally interesting musical ideas into trumpet tones.”
Reinhard Schwarz
Music Director and Principal Conductor at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich / Professor at the Vienna Conservatory
10 November, 1998
“Mr. Saglie is an extremely talented musician whom besides his pianistic potentials is already portraying himself as a fruitful rising conductor. He acquires a sensitive and widely knowledgable feel for the contents of a score.”
Österreichische Musikzeit Schrift
Juni, 2006
“El día de la liberación... his score is put together through a brilliant technique lying somewhere between moderate serialism and a free-tonality. He convicingly portrayed this as the conductor of the opera’s premier.”
Friedrich Gabler
Former Solo Hornist os the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra / Professor at the University of Music in Vienna
April 8, 2003
“Through the preparation and eventual premier of the Sonata For Horn and Piano by Mr. Luis Saglie, I was able to be awed by the exceptional abilities of the composer... Mr. Saglie has managed very effectively to present the horn as a solo instrument, referring to the optimal usage of the special expressive options – be it virtuosic or elegic.”
Furugh Karimi Djafar-Zadeh
Solo Flutist / Professor at the University of Music in Vienna
September 26, 2003
“I have listened to and performed very much contemporary music and therefore can say to you that what you compose is unordinarily good... With the color of your music one can fly and with the power, one can conquer mountains!”
Huw Rhys James
Artistic Director of the Musikwerkstatt Wien - Vienna
August 24, 2006
“The performance of his opera, El día de la liberación was an enormous success... he composed a score that was full of contrasts and never lacked tension. He has a strong sense of rhythmic structure as well as being able to compose lyrical lines which express the different personalities of the characters on stage... He is an exremely good conductor, with a clear beat and a secure baton technique.”
©Luis Saglie 2010
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