May is on her death bed. As she recalls the true memories of her life, her son (Stephen Dedalus) enters the room. They have their last conversation.

Sara Itzel Morales, soprano (https://www.instagram.com/saritztagram)
Alberto Carvajal, baritone (https://www.facebook.com/alberto.adhemar) 
Enrique Schadenberg, piano (https://www.enriqueschadenberg.com/)
Charles M. Champi, violin
Music and libretto by C.M. Champi

Live recording at my master's degree exam! (Music Faculty, UNAM). You can check out my thesis here: https://charlesmchampi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/0852177.pdf

Kinch (micro opera)

May is on her death bed. As she recalls the true memories of her life, her son (Stephen Dedalus) enters the room. They have their last conversation.

Sara Itzel Morales, soprano (www.instagram.com/saritztagram)
Jesús Cozaín, baritone 
Enrique Schadenberg, electric guitar (www.enriqueschadenberg.com/)
Charles M. Champi, violin
Music and libretto by C.M. Champi

Live performance @ Museo Experimental El Eco, Festival Aires 2024, 24 august 2024

Eironeia (2024) for flute, cello, percussion, and tape

Composed during the 14h Tchaikovsky City Contemporary Music Festival @ Tchaikovsky City. 

Performed by CEAM Artists on 12 sep. @ Expo Center (Tchaikovsky City) and on 15 sep. @ Artemyev Art-space, Moscow Conservatory (Moscow)

eironeia

II, for viola, piano, and tape (2023), by Enrique Schadenberg

Piñata en Llama Dúo 
Viola: C. M. Champi
Piano: Enrique Schadenberg

II, by Enrique Schadenberg

No.20/30 from "Stoikheia" (etudes for piano), for Simone Keller

Stoikheia, no.20

Labyrinth (fragment)

An improv for a piece for my friend Mario Salinas, thinking about Jason Becker. Yes, it's me on the guitar. And yes, I was at work, so there's some backround noises.

Soapberry Jam (sketch)

Hephaestus workshop

live recording: Sabato 12 Aprile 2025 – Sala Piatti, h.16 (Bergamo, Italia) 

Marcello Parolini, direttore e maestro concertatore
Antonella Bini, ottavino, fl. sopranino in fa, fl. in do, fl. in sol, fl. basso, fl. contrabbasso
Stefano Merighi, piccolo in mib, cl. in la, cl. in sib, cl. basso
Elia Leon Mariani, violino
Emanuele Rigamonti, violoncello
Gabriele Rota, pianoforte

composer: Charles M. Champi

inspired by a passage from Plato's Republic. Dedicated to Achrome Ensemble. 

Scholion (2025)

Retro-Disco Trio (retrodisco.org/)
Live performance; july 7, 2022 @ Centro Cultural Hidalguense (CDMX)

@retrodisco-1

11 daily requiems

Performed at Festival Neofonía 2025 (Ensenada, Baja California, México), 18 september 2025. 

Soprano: Sara Itzel
Violin: Juanmanuel Flores
Violin/electronics: C.M.Champi

Pandora's Song

Piñata en Llama
Sara Itzel: Pandora (soprano)
Han Zhang: live electronics, mixer
Yifan Guo: live electronics, mixer
Enrique Schadenberg: Zeus/piano
Charles M. Champi: narrator/Prometheus/violin

Idea, libretto, fixed media: Charles M. Champi

live performance, april 2025, Morelia (México)

Pandora (full performance, 2025)

Logodia (2016), by Charles M. Champi
for violin and piano (and, in this performance, Mexico City)

Violin: Diren Checa
Piano: Diego Sánchez-Villa 

sep 2025, as part of Festival Aires

Logodia (ver.2025)

A joke that got out of hand. A weird objet trouvé. A funny digression. But most importantly: "a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing".

Sinfonia Tumbada

Synthesis (2014) for string quartet, piano, percussion and tape.
Noodus-Cromano Ensemble. 
Conductor: Eduardo Caballero
Piece composed at the "Prácticas de Vuelo 2014" program @CMMAS, Morelia, México

Score: https://charlesmchampi.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/%CF%83%CF%8D%CE%BD%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82-synthesis/

σύνθεσις (2014) for string quartet, piano, percussion and tape

Omaggio a Ligeti (2012), for ensemble. 

Premiered on 28 sep. 2012 @ Paraninfo de la UdeG, Guadalajara, Jalisco. 
Ensemble Proyecto Caos
Conducted by: Gamaliel Cano

Charles M. Champi

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