For violin and piano (2021)
Marina Kifferstein - violin
David Broome - piano

Commissioned by the Darmstadt Summer Course.
Premiered 8/4/21

jm, dr, bf, sss, & bh

Mundus Imaginalis - 2009 (extrait)
María Cristina Kasem
Réalisée au studio LIPM, Buenos Aires, Argentine
Premier Prix Biennale Nationale d'Art, Bahía Blanca,
Argentine, 2013

Mundus Imaginalis

Triptych

Triptych - for Alto Saxophone and Piano

Live recording by Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Rundel
First performance: 3 July 2023

Escape - for Orchestra

Performance by Ensemble Adapter and Ensemble Pamplemousse, November 2013, Berlin Germany.

A Thing is a Hole in a Thing it is Not (III)(Ens. Adapter + Pamplemousse)

ENSAMBLE IÓN (Alumnos del Departamento de Música de la Universidad Nacional de San Juan)
Fabricio Banchig, flauta
Gaspar Videla, clarinete
Mayra Cappa, viola
Clara Zupan, cello
Emiliano De La Fuente, contrabajo

Grabado en el Auditorio Juan Victoria (San Juan), por Daniel Toret
Edición y mezcla: Sergio Manganelli. El Hornito

ION (2022)

Diego Tedesco’s De los Sos Ojos was commissioned in 2022 and is an open score in which Cappa has enough freedom to display her histrionic virtuosity. Tedesco writes, “Distortion, nonsense and limits of comprehension are part of the work, and the multiple types of reverb add a layer of polyphony that complement and challenge the entire piece.”
It's part of the album "Una" by Argeninian soprano Natalia Cappa realized by New focus recordings (NY).

De los sos ojos (2023)

Las aguas abismales 
(The abysmal waters)

This piece is based on the Toba theogony.   The voice of the sorceress tells the origins of the world. From the musical point of view is a sort of acquainted recitative. The composition of the piece serves itself of the recognition and the loss of recognition of the voice, as two opposed parameters. The public may recognize a good number of traditional instruments (some flutes, quenas, bombos, cañas, etc.) transformed afterwards by classical studio procedures (filters, shuffling, changes of velocity, etc.) The piece is a sort of suite, whose last episode remembers the magic fluid of water. There, at the bottom of the abysmal water, the wizard’s apprentice fights against terrible demons and defeat them.
The piece was created in the Studio du Nord of the University of Lille 3 in France in 2008 and obtained the first prize at the 2009 Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music.

Las Aguas Abismales - 2008

Composer: María Cristina Kasem
Violin : María Cristina Kasem
The piece has received the Honorable Mention from the Argentine ISCM section (2008); the selection for the World Music Days of Sweden (2009) and the selection for the Earplay New Chamber Music of San Francisco (2015)

Niebla y Luz . María Cristina Kasem composer and violinist

"Ivi Mara He'y"  was created in the Studio of Electroacoustic Music of the University of Lille 3 , France in 2011
This piece received the Honorary Mention of the International Festival of Sound Art of Monterrey - Méjico in 2012

Ivy Mara He'y (La tierra sin mal) 2011 , composer María Cristina Kasem

Penumbra for String Quartet.  Performed here by the sadly now defunct Cordova Quartet.

Penumbra for String Quartet

Compositor argentino/
Argentinian composer

Born in Buenos Aires and initially self-taught, Diego Tedesco (b. 1974) went on to formally study piano, violin, guitar and music theory. His composition teachers were Julio Viera, with whom he also studied counterpoint, harmony and orchestration, and Francisco Kröpfl, who also taught him musical analysis. At the same time, he studied fine arts and graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. He gained recognition as a composer in 2007 when he was awarded the first prize at the Juan Carlos Paz competition (Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts) for his work for two choirs, “Amor constante más allá de la muerte” (Constant Love Beyond Death). He has received numerous commissions and won a grant from Argentina’s National Endowment for the Arts in 2011. He was granted with the Stefan Kaske fellowship in the Composers Conference at Wellesley College in 2014 and in the same year won the second place in the most important prize in his country, the “National Award” for Symphonic and Chamber music. In 2016 was premiered his first opera, El Fiord, commissioned by the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires. In 2017 he attended to the Composers conference for second time and won the renowned Koussevitzky Foundation music award. In 2018 he was granted by the Williams Foundation. His Capriccio was the recipient of two prizes, the Juan Carlos Paz prize (2018) and the National Council of Music, Unesco (2019). He attended to seminars with Mario Davidovsky, Jorge Rotter, Augusta Read Thomas, Steven Mackey, Yu Hui Chang, Eric Wubbels among others. 

His works have been performed in music venues in Argentina, the U.S. and Europe by renowned soloists and ensembles like Patricia García, Victor Torres, Dan Lippel, Miranda Cuckson, Lois Martin, Molly Morkoski, Nunc, Bracelet, New York New Music Ensemble, Compañía Oblicua, Counter)induction, KlangKonzepte, Conference Ensemble and Plural ensemble among others. 



Prizes:

https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-147/librarys-koussevitzky-foundation-announces-commission-winners/2017-10-18/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/culturaargentina/15576291890

https://fnartes.gob.ar/novedades/se-anunciaron-los-ganadores-del-concurso-de-obra-en-composicion-premio-juan-carlos-paz

Press:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/arts/music/classical-music-listings-for-jan-22-28.html

https://www.clarin.com/espectaculos/musica/estilizado-bestiario_0_SkA3cssF.html

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/maquina-lamborghini-nid1928405

https://www.clarin.com/musica/orquesta-amigos-nueva-musica_0_ry7Z_4khvQx.html

Some programs:

http://nuncmusic.org/january-24-concert-at-national-sawdust/

https://avantmusicnews.com/2016/01/05/nunc-at-national-sawdust-in-brooklyn/

https://www.as-coa.org/events/concert-new-york-new-music-ensemble

http://leagueofcomposers.org/blog/2016/9/25/lois-martin-new-music-for-viola

https://www.contrapunto-fbbva.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PROGRAMA-DE-MANO-CONCIERTO-RETRATO-IV-21-DE-FEBRERO-DE-2018-2.pdf

https://complejoteatral.gob.ar/ver/concierto_XII

https://www.fundacionwilliams.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/Programa-FNOBA.pdf

https://docplayer.es/11245114-Musica-contemporanea-de-espana-y-de-hispanoamerica.html

Other links:

https://www.babelscores.com/es/DiegoTedesco

https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/americassocietynynme/

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/against-method

http://www.cck.gob.ar/eventos/como-y-que-escuchan-los-que-hacen-musica-ignacio-bartolone-y-diego-tedesco_1391

De los sos ojos (2023)

Diego Tedesco

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