"Lament for Pipa" was performed and recorded by the HASOM (Herb Alpert School of Music) Chamber Orchestra. I wrote this in honor of my late grandfather (whom we called “Pipa") Atanacio Pates. I imagined doing Tai-Chi with my Pipa with this piece, someday in the Heavens when I see him again. This piece was inspired by the Kung-Fu movies that my Pipa introduced me to when I was young. This piece also brings back fond memories of my grandpa, playing the Banjo. Although the banjo is not featured in this piece, it uses the folk-like sounds of Asia and the pentatonic hymns that Pipa liked to play on the Banjo. Rest in Peace, Pipa. We love you and miss you!

"Lament for Pipa" - HASOM Chamber Orchestra

Solace for orchestra, a programmatic score based on Revelation 4, in 3 movements (May 2011). The second movement, Sea of Glass, Like Crystals, was premiered by the University Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Professor Kimo Furumoto, on March 6, 2011, as part of the 2011 New Music Festival: The Strings in the 21st Century.

(C) 2011, Glenn Pates Llorente, BMI

"SOLACE: Sea Of Glass, Like Crystals" for orchestra

"Zweifel" for saxophone, electric-guitar, and percussion

Equilibrium © 2014, Glenn P. Llorente.

A trio for tenor saxophone, guitar, keyboards, and percussion (c. 10 mins). This recording is the second performance by the Midnight Druthers: Brian Morales (tenor saxophone), David Dag Lee (electric guitar), and Brian Cannady (vibraphone) at the UCLA Grad Composers’ Concert, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA (May 13, 2014). 

First premiere by Brian Morales (tenor saxophone), Stephen Laughlin (electric guitar), and Brian Cannady (xylophone) at the Crystal Cove State Park Grand Opening, Laguna Beach, California (February 1, 2014).

"Equilibrium" for saxophone, electric-guitar, and vibraphone

"Metamorphia" for flute and piano
(C) 2015, Glenn Pates Llorente, BMI.
Metamorphia for flute and piano was commissioned by Cody Hiram-Smith and Chelsea Scullion-Knight. It was premiered on May 19, 2015.

"Metamorphia" for flute and piano

Read and recorded by the UCLA Philharmonia, this orchestra piece, "Der Albtraum" (The Nightmare), was inspired by the painting by Henry Fuseli (1781). I wrote this piece in light of the colors of the paintings and used the sound-colors, as well as the emotional implications of the Fuseli painting. 

Copyright (C) 2015, Glenn P. Llorente (BMI).

"Der Albtraum" for orchestra

Meditations in Mesopotamia for santur, dumbek, violin, and cello (April 2009). Premiered at CSU Fullerton’s Composer’s Forum on April 30, 2009; 2nd performance at Glenn’s Graduate Composition Recital, Nov. 2, 2010 by Golsanam Fazel (santur), Brian Cannady, (dumbek), Miguel Aguirre (violin), and Mitsuru Saeki (cello).

"Meditations in Mesopotamia" for santur, dumbek, violin, and cello

"Reminiscence" for saxophone, violin, and piano
by Glenn Pates Llorente (C) 2016, BMI. 

Performed by Russell Veirs, saxophone. Ambroise Aubrun, violin, and Thomas Feng, piano. Recorded at the Schoenberg Hall, Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA. on May 17, 2016. For video, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ZWxEImlqM

"Reminiscence" for saxophone, violin, and piano

"David and Goliath" is a tone poem/concerto for piano and orchestra, commissioned by Gina Lord from Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, CA. This audio is a realization of the piece (it is not a live recording). It will be premiered by Gina and the Vanguard Symphony Orchestra in the 2014-2015 school year.

"David and Goliath" for piano and orchestra

GLENN LLORENTE is a composer, influenced by Eastern and Western music cultures. He writes music for concert, commercial, and sacred aesthetics. He is a theorist and an educator—currently serving as a Teaching Associate at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music (2013-current), and has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Life Pacific College (2010-2012). He is an active orchestrator—both commercially and ecclesiastically—and a keyboardist, having performed for artists such as Shirley Ceasar, Cece Winans, Marla Reid, and Eric Lige. Llorente holds degrees from Life Pacific College (B.A., 2005), California State University-Fullerton (M.M., 2011), and is currently a PhD candidate in Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California-Los Angeles (2012-2016). Llorente has studied composition with Pamela Madsen, Ian Krouse, Roger Bourland, David Lefkowitz, and Richard Danielpour. This summer, he will be attending the Upbeat! Summer Composition Music School in Croatia (August 2015).

Llorente has received numerous awards, such as the Mannason Scholarship for Composition (2009-10), the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (2012-2016), University Fellowships (2013-2015), as well as grants (University Grants, CSUF 2009-11) and scholarships (Graduate Dean’s Scholarship, UCLA 2012-14). Llorente is also winner of the CSUF New Music Festival Orchestra Competition, with his score, Solace for orchestra, premiered by the University Symphony Orchestra (March, 2011). In 2012, Llorente was commissioned by the Orange County Collegiate Orchestra and premiered Marie for saxophone and trumpet (March, 2012). Llorente’s electro-acoustic video installation, Humanus Pravitas, was featured in the 12th Annual World Electro-Acoustic Listening Project at the Grand Central Arts Theater, Santa Ana, CA (March, 2013). Llorente was commissioned by the Vanguard University Symphony Orchestra for his piano concerto, David and Goliath, to be premiered by pianist, Gina Lord. His trio, Equilibrium, for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, and xylophone, was premiered at the Crystal Cove State Park’s Evironmental Study Loop Grand Opening (February, 2014). Recently, Llorente’s flute/piano duo, Metamorphia, was performed by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (April 2015), and his string quartet, Ang Bakus ni Orion (2014), was performed by the Amarath String Quartet at the Eureka! Musical Minds of California conference (May, 2015).

Glenn Llorente is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda music honor society, the Phi Beta Delta international scholars honor society, and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composer’s Forum. While interested in researching Eastern and Western music cultures, Llorente is also interested in experimental and improvisatory electro-acoustic music. Currently, he is writing his dissertation on the hybridization of Eastern and Western aesthetics, researching gamelan music and its influence to twentieth-century composers.

Glenn Pates Llorente

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