Encargo del Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM) Available for Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble Instruments Flute (changes to Piccolo) Oboe Clarinet in Bb Bassoon French Horn Trumpet in C Tenor Trombone Percussion (Timpani (4), Whip, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Suspended Cymbal, and Snare Drum) Piano Violin I Violin II Viola Violoncello Double Bass Notas al programa […]
Niké
Commissioned by Classical Music Indy in 2022 for the Micro Composition Project Performers Eric Salazar, clarinet Allison Vickery, piano Corey Denham, percussion Studio Recorded at Round Table Recording Company in Indianapolis, IN Engineers Matt Vice, mixing engineer Noah Walker-Glover, recording engineer Producers Jorge Muñiz Eric Salazar Classical Music Indy PROGRAM NOTES 2020 and 2021 have […]
Goyescas XXI: Homage to Enrique Granados
I. Los políticos II. La Leocadia III. Aquelarre 2016 marks the hundredth anniversary of the untimely death of Enrique Granados, one of the greatest Spanish pianists and composers of his time. After the premiere of his opera Goyescas in New York, and with tickets in hand for his ship voyage back to Spain, he received […]
An American Sketch Book
An American Sketch Book, scored for violin and guitar, features a diverse selection of American music genres, all integrated within a work that represents a journey in sketches through America’s recent history of its vernacular. In each movement each genre transforms itself from its traditional version into one with a more contemporary angle. Through its three […]
String Quartet No. 2
In one movement and two sections, the second string quartet offers an expressive canvas that is a musical portrait of expressive melodic lines and textures and quasi-impressionist colors.
Piano Quintet No. 1
Composed in three movements, the piano quintet is a work of vast Spanish imprint in style, rhythm, and melodic quality.
Chamber Study No. 1
This work is a first study in ensemble performance for flute, piano and string quartet, of abstract fabric and very contrasting textural overlappings.
Pathos
“Flora Prieto” Composition Prize This sonata is articulated in four movements (Preamble, Song, Mascharade, and Scherzo) with both great rhythmic vivacity as well as lyricism.
Concerto for English Horn
4th Prize, SGAE Young Composers Competition, 1997 Designed in three movements, this concerto features a very virtuosic part of the soloist, which joins an ensemble both acoustic and electronic. The digital tape and the seven accompanying instruments present a first movement of great interaction and energy. The second movement is dedicated to the memory of […]
Three Icelandic Legends
“Jacinto e Inocencio Guerrero” Prize 1997 A journey to the past mythology of Iceland. Three tragic stories by Rev. Skúli Gíslason (Modolfo de Modolfsfell, Skotta y Mori, and Death and Cold is Death) articulate this work for a very diverse ensemble of organ, flute, oboe, trumpet, horn and trombone.
Elegy
A short, very expressive composition in the memory of my grandfather, Baldomero Salas.
Chamber Study No. 2
Designed in two movements, this work is an etude in ensemble and collaboration. A slow introduction is followed by a vibrant tarantella.
In the Carnegie Museum of Art
Divided in four movements, In the Carnegie Museum of Art helps us experience an imaginary visit to this museum of modern art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four abstract paintings are depicted in this composition: Elke (1996) – Picture by Georg Baselitz Elke in armchair – Picture by Georg Baselitz Untitled 2 (1986) – Picture by Brice Marden Untitled (1960) – […]
String Quartet No. 3
This work is designed in three sections that explore contrasting textures of the ensemble. The vibrant rhythm of the first and last sections is opposed to an ethereal and ghostly central section based on clusters of harmonics in all strings. Overall, the work has a very organic quality based on the few main motives presented […]
Novecento
Novecento is a personal view of the 20th Century in three movements. With this work, the composer reflects on three fundamental aspects of the development of this century:stability, more or less enduring, more or less broad, contrast between different groups and different forms, and technology, without any doubt what has push the widest and fastest advancement (and sometimes regression) […]
Monologo
A short work for two violoncellos designed to present, not a dialog between the instruments, but two sides of the same argument, or monologue.
Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano
Written in three contrasting movements, this work for cello and piano combines the tradition of Russian liturgical singing with the virtuosity of the cello and the piano.
Chamber Symphony “Asturian” (Symphony No. 1)
Chamber Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra Versions available The fabric of this work has been completely immersed in the colors of the homeland of the composer, Asturias, in Northern Spain. The composer is presenting a very personal and intimate view of this land, its customs and landscapes. The imagery is not presented literally, but as memories […]
Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, “Amabile”
The Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano, “Amabile sonata” is the composer’s tribute to the genius of Johannes Brahms. While the essence of his music pervades the whole work, this sonata shows yet the composer’s own perceptions on the master’s music. Divided in two sections, it mirrors the first movement of Brahms’s G Major […]
Libera me
Libera me was commissioned in remembrance of the victims of the terrorist attacks on March 11, 2004 in Madrid. The work is inspired by the final absolution text of the requiem mass. My aim was to compose a piece for violin and piano that respectfully keeps the memory of the innocents who lost their lives on […]