Krista Audere - conductor
Eduardo Rojas - stage director
Students from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
Orgelpark, 23Jun2015

Baptista, Vel Solis Cedens

"Reading" session with Manufaktur Ensemble at Mixtur 2016 (Barcelona). 

Vincent Hepp - violin
Marie Schmit - violoncello

Shadow - Echo - Transcription

Live-Aufnahme vom 30. Mai 2017 @SLUB Dresden

Antonio Scandello: "Bon Zorno Madonna Ben Vegnua"

Cuarteto Égaré

April 9th 2017
Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, Madrid
"I Campus UAX", organized by SIGMA Project

My piece “THULE. Libro de las Profecías” (THULE. Book of Prophecies) is one from a series of music theatre works (besides “Mnemea” or “Nefas, Nykteris”) and refers directly to the series of texts collected by Cristopher Colombus before and after his first journey to America in 1492.
He thought he was predestined to discover a “new world”, especially after the study of selected texts such as the prophecy written by Seneca in his “Medea”, with which Colombus felt identified:

"In later years a time will come 
when Oceanus shall relax his bars
 and a vast territory shall appear,
 and Tiphys shall discover new worlds,
 and Thule shall be no longer 
the remotest spot on earth."


The idea of journey and prophecy, therefore, are very present in the piece: for me as composer since I was surer of the steps than of the goal to reach while composing: I was sailing in darkness while writing; and for the performers since there is, literally, a journey throughout the piece that they have to complete and that shall make them feel exhausted after sixteen or eighteen minutes of sections played by heart, movements in darkness, very fine and delicate sounds in the boundary of the audibility, etc. 

The resonance of the piano, used also in other pieces such as the series Estado Interior, represents as in “Medea” the uncertain and prophetic character and the opportunity of opening a new space, an unexplored world. In my experience while writing “THULE”, this magical inertia has led me to compose one of my most personal and beloved pieces so far.

THULE. Scenic action for Saxophone Quartet, piano as resonator and spaces

Dirigentin: Katharina Dickopf
Hochschulsinfonieorchester der Hochschule für Musik Dresden

Schubert Unvollendete Probenmitschnitt Hochschulsinfonieorchester der Hochschule für Musik Dresden

Quimera y Fantasma (2017)
for alto sax, internal loudspeaker, transducer loudspeakers and resonant windows.
Performed by Pedro Pablo Cámara Toldos
-Academy of Spain in Rome, 16-06-2018

Quimera Y Fantasma (version with resonant windows)

TRAÇ I for baritone saxophone

Joan Martí-Frasquier (baritone saxophone)
Festival Mixtur 2018, Barcelona

TRAÇ I for baritone saxophone - 2018 (excerpt)

Bass Saxophone: Andrés Gomis

Music for Bass Saxophone with trumpet mute and electronics after paintings by Goya

KITRA - for bass saxophone w/ trumpet mute and electronics

Commissioned by the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra (OSCYL). Part of the tryptic "Paisajes de Castilla y León"

Premiered on November the 14th and the 15th at the Auditorio Miguel Delibes in Valladolid.

Live recorded at the Auditorio Miguel Delibes

Evocación del monasterio de San Pedro De Arlanza (2019) | for large orchestra

Michel Lambert, Airs à une, II. III. et IV. parties avec la basse-continue (Paris, 1689). Doubles by J.M. Hotteterre (ca. 1721).

Laia Blasco López, dessus
Gabriel Belkheiri García del Pozo, recorder & haute-contre
Lidia Rodrigo Royo, recorder and harpsichord
Jérémy Nastasi, theorbo

Audio Recording: Andrea Friggi (Amsterdam, November 2019)

'L'Amour, le seul Amour'.

"Resucita Loto", Collective Chamber Opera by the students of the Composition Department of Superior Conservatory of Music of Aragon, on a text by spanish writer and painter Ginés Liébana.

Recording of the Premiere Concert at "Eduardo del Pueyo" Concert Hall, CSMA, Zaragoza, on 03/19/2013

Scene 10 by Alberto Arroyo
Conductor: Nacho de Paz

Resucita Loto - Scene 10 (Instrumental)

Composer based in Germany and Spain.

Experience with Music Theater and Instrumental Contemporary music.
Founder and Artistic Director of Continuum XXI, historical instruments ensemble for Early & Contemporary Music.

Currently PhD and writing my first opera among other projects...

Resucita Loto - Scene 10 (Instrumental)

Alberto Arroyo (composer)

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