Recording from the premiere performance of Michael Thomas-Foumai's Wushu Duel for flute and cello.  
Erika Boysen, Flute.
Horacio Contreras, cello.

Michael-Thomas Foumai - Wushu Duel

Third movement of Cuban composer Leo Brouwer's revised version of his Sonata for cello solo, revised in 1994. Performed by Horacio Contreras.

Leo Brouwer - Sonata for cello solo, 1994 - III. Lento.

Second movement of Cuban composer Leo Brouwer's revised version of his Sonata for cello solo, revised in 1994. Performed by Horacio Contreras.

Leo Brouwer - Sonata for cello solo, revised in 1994 - II. Scherzo.

First movement of Cuban composer Leo Brouwer's revised version of his Sonata for cello solo, revised in 1994. Performed by Horacio Contreras.

Leo Brouwer - Sonata for cello solo, revised in 1994 - I. Allegro.

Live performance - Distler Hall, Tufts University, Boston, MA, September 2016
Horacio Contreras, cello

Alberto Ginastera - Puneña n. 2 for cello solo - II. Wayno Karnavalito

Horacio Contreras, cello
César Cañón, piano
Michigan State University

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Second Sonata for cello and piano - I. Allegro Moderato

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Second Sonata for cello and Piano - II. Andante cantabile

Open Borders for cello solo, composed by Venezuelan composer Ricardo Lorenz in 2006 and performed live at the Latin IS America festival, in April 2016, by Horacio Contreras.

Ricardo Lorenz - Open Borders for cello solo

Fourth movement of Cuban composer Leo Brouwer's revised version of his Sonata for cello solo, revised in 1994. Performed by Horacio Contreras.

Leo Brouwer - Sonata for cello solo, revised in 1994 - IV. Allegro.

Fourth and fifth movements of the Suite "Jaguar Songs" for cello solo, composed by Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne. Performed by Horacio Contreras.

Paul Desenne - Suite "Jaguar Songs" for cello solo - IV. Birimbao - V. Jaguar

World premiere of Diáspora for cello and piano by Reinaldo Moya.
Horacio Contreras, cello
Ana María Otamendi, piano
Schubert Club Courtroom Concerts series, St. Paul, MN, May 2019

Reinaldo Moya - Diáspora for cello and piano

Commisioned by and dedicated to Horacio Contreras.
Recorded as a part of Khemia Ensemble's debut album "Voyages" in 2016 at the Audio Studio in the Digital Media Commons, University of Michigan Library.
Special thanks to Jameson Eisele and Patterson McKinney

Carolina Heredia - Añoranzas for cello and electronics

With Amy Petrongelli, soprano.
Recorded as a part of Khemia Ensemble's debut album "Voyages" in 2016 at the Audio Studio in the Digital Media Commons, University of Michigan Library.
Special thanks to Jameson Eisele and Patterson McKinney

Harold Meltzer - Two Songs From Silas Maner I. At Night Came His Revelry

With Amy Petrongelli, soprano
Recorded as a part of Khemia Ensemble's debut album "Voyages" in 2016 at the Audio Studio in the Digital Media Commons, University of Michigan Library.
Special thanks to Jameson Eisele and Patterson McKinney

Harold Meltzer - Two Songs From Silas Maner II. The Bewilderment

Venezuelan cellist Horacio Contreras has gained esteem through a multifaceted career as a concert cellist, chamber musician, pedagogue, and researcher. He has collaborated with prestigious institutions across the Americas and Europe as a concerto soloist, a recitalist, a chamber musician, and a master class clinician.
Highlights of his career include solo performances with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Municipal Orchestra of Caracas in Venezuela, the EAFIT University Orchestra in Colombia, the Camerata de France in France, and the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and the Music Institute of Chicago’s Chamber Orchestra in the US; chamber collaborations with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and members of the Detroit and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin; and master classes at Bloomington, Juilliard, Michigan, Oberlin and the ASTA National Convention, as well as at many renowned programs from Latin America. Recent collaborations include the recording of the works for cello and piano by Ricardo Lorenz, the commission and premiere of Diáspora for cello and piano by the Schubert Club’s composer-in-residence Reinaldo Moya, and the recording of Shuying Li’s World Map Concerti with the Four Corners Ensemble.
Horacio serves on the faculty of the University of North Texas and the Music Institute of Chicago, and the University of Michigan’s MPulse summer institute Center Stage Strings. His students have attended festivals such as Aspen, Orford and Domaine Forget, and have won awards at regional and national competitions. They have continued their education at institutions including the University of Michigan, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, and the Hochschule for Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim, Germany. Some of his former students have pursued successful careers as orchestral musicians, chamber musicians, teachers, and freelancers. Others have devoted their energies to grow in other professional areas and enjoy a meaningful connection with music through the cello.
He is the coauthor of The Sphinx Catalog of Latin-American Cello Works, a comprehensive database with information about works for cello written by Latin American composers, created in partnership with the Sphinx Organization and CelloBello.org. His pedagogic book Exercises for the Cello in Various Combinations of Double-Stops has received recognition as a significant contribution to the instrument’s literature. He is a member of the Four Corners Ensemble and the Reverón Piano Trio. He started his musical studies in Venezuela through El Sistema, and holds degrees from the Conservatoire National de Région de Perpignan, France, the Escola de Musica de Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Michigan.

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