UCF student Michael Delgado is close to graduating and was able to showcase his musical composition Wednesday night at Marching Knights Pavilion.
Delgado, a music performance and composition major, presented the musical pieces he has written throughout his time in the music program at his designated recital.
“The recital at the end of our career in college, it’s what everything adds up to,” Delgado said. “This is pretty much all my work, this is everything I’ve done, and this is what it has amounted to.”
Although the recital is a requirement for music majors, Delgado said it is a special time for students like him, as they have the opportunity to play their music in front of an audience.
He said over time he has built a repertoire of diverse sounds through working privately with Alexander Burtzos, composer and music composition professor at UCF.
Burtzos is the founder and Artistic Director of ICEBERG New Music, a New York-based composers’ collective dedicated to increasing the stylistic and demographic diversity of contemporary classical music.
Through his expertise and teaching, he evaluates each of his student’s strongest points and pushes them in a direction of improving their skills.
“It’s an overwhelming sense of pride to start working with these students when they have very little practical experience with composition, and then shepherd them through their careers at UCF,” Burtzos said.
