FRANCISCO C. GOLDSCHMIDT
...pedazos de rostros... 
(2014/rev. 2017) for six instruments 
(alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, gran cassa & piano) 

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KOMMAS ENSEMBLE

Christian Vásquez Miranda, alto flute
Hugo Queirós, bass clarinet 
Gustavo Vergara, violin
Bernhard Rath, cello
Ramón Gardella, percussion
Claudia Chan, piano
Francisco C. Goldschmidt, conductor

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Live Recording 
Maximiliano Estudies, Sound Director
November 10, 2017 / Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany

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The title is based on the novel "Eloy" by Carlos Droguett.

Titel translation (english/german/french): 
...shards of faces...
...Scherben von Gesichtern...
...morceaux de visages...

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Upcoming performances:

*2019 / Sound of Wander Festival / Mailand, Italy
MDI Ensemble

*November 10, 2017 / Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
Kommas Ensemble

*August 02, 2017 / Oviedo´s Contemporary Music Festival, Spain 
Ensemble MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik

*September 14, 2016 / Centre Culturel Neimënster, Luxembourg
United Instruments of Lucilin

*Mai 23, 2014 / New Talents – Biennale Cologne 2014, Premiere
Ensemble MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik

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This piece was commissioned for the » new talents - biennale cologne « with the support of the Culture Department of the city of Cologne and was awarded with the RheinSilver Award 2014.
http://www.2014.newtalents-cologne.de/programm2014/rheinsilber/

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Nicolás Rupcich, Photo, Untitled, 2017

...pedazos de rostros... / for six instruments

We are a Cologne-based international chamber ensemble of young performers and composers specialized in new music (graduates of „Ensemble Modern Akademie Frankfurt“) as well as jazz musicians and outstanding specialists of the free improvisation scene. We have already performed at renowned festivals throughout Germany, doing our international debut at the Mixtur-Festival in Barcelona in 2017 and subsequently performing at the Acht Brücken Festival 2018, WERFT-Festival 2019 in Cologne, the Frakzionen Festival 2020 in Bielefeld and at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

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upcoming:

ELOY (DVD). In 2025 will be released the audiovisual record of the instrumental monodrama «ELOY -music with images of isolation»; (work in progress 2013–2022, 100 min.) for 9 amplified instruments, video & voice based on the homonymous novel by the chilean writer Carlos Droguett.

«PALINGENESIS» (2024) -premiere: Cologne, 08.06.2024- for three amplified violas, electronics & sound installation (50 min.), commissioned by the City of Cologne and TRIO ESTATICO.

«cantos póstumos» –after Lola Kiepja
for amplified violin and video (7 min.)
world premiere: Alte Feuerwache Cologne, 27.04.2024
Johannes Haase, violin / Nicolás Rupcich, Video 

«K'an –fueron deshojados» (2023) -premiere 08.09.2023- for percusission solist, bass flute, clarinet, viola, cello and 15 instruments (21'), commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the MUSICAHORA Festival. Premiere by Kommas Ensemble & La Serena's OSULS Chamber Orchestra of Chile.

«new work» (2026) -premiere: november 2026- for female voice, 2 bass flutes, 2 cellos, 2 pianos & percussion (25'), commissioned by Kommas Ensemble and BRuCH.

...pedazos de rostros... / for six instruments

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