commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music & Artistic Director
premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic with soloist Jay Campbell, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni
recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of the LA Phil

excerpt of first five minutes, of ~twelve 

note | Amaru refers to the world serpent in Andean cosmology - rainbow-colored, two-headed, and dwelling beneath the earth. Associated with the emergence of underground water sources and transitions between worlds, Amaru is also related to the dark constellation serpent Mach’acuay whose seasonal appearance coincides with the warm rain season in the Andes and the appearance of terrestrial snakes.

'Amaru' joins a group of recent works that engage Andean & Irish cosmologies, my ancestry. With the distinct opportunity to write for the end of a program and next to a previous work, 'Talamh (land)', I wanted to explore a somewhat risky process: that of detuning an orchestra of strings. As 'Talamh' explores the topographies of Ireland through focused soundscapes, I wanted 'Amaru' to explore the loosening and tightening of ensemble, strings, conductor, and soloist through rich harmonies, wild harmonic gestures, and emergent, cyclic forms.

Amaru [2022] | LA Phil

Me formei em música como flautista. Atuei com professor de música, sou produtor musical e radialista
Quando morei nos Estados Unidos, produzi e apresentei o programa Brazilian Connection na rádio WCBN em Ann Arbor, Michigan com repertório de música brasileira.
Como músico segui a trajetória de todos, toquei música de câmara, música brasileira e jazz nos bares da vida, trabalhei em estúdio de produção publicitária. Gravei um CD que se chama bazulaques brasileiros, peças para piano preparado tocado a 4 mãos, composições em parceria com Livio Tragtenberg.
Fui produtor musical estúdio MC2 do compositor e músico Cid Campos.
Durante 12 anos fui gerente de produção e programação artística das Rádios MEC AM e FM do Rio de Janeiro, aonde produzi e apresentei os programas semanais Música de Invenção e Jazz Livre!. Atualmente produzo e apresento o programa A voz livre - poesia sonora no ar das rádios Morabeza em Cabo Verde e UFRJ FM no Rio de Janeiro.

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inti figgis-vizueta (b.1993) is a composer and educator who works to reconcile historical aesthetics and experimental practices with trans & Indigenous futures. Described as a “rising new music star” (LA Times), with “smooth and serrated melodies” (New York Times) and an “intriguing…highly integrated sound” (Gramophone), “wrought from a language we’d do well to learn” (Washington Post), inti has been commissioned and performed by leading artists including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Dallas Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, New World Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Reflektor, Aspen Music Festival, Ojai Music Festival, Spoleto Music Festival, Kennedy Center’s Sounds of US Festival, International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Wild Up, Roomful of Teeth, Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, Kronos Quartet, Attacca Quartet, JACK Quartet, Music from Copland House, Crash Ensemble, violinist Jennifer Koh, and cellists Andrew Yee and Jay Campbell, among many others. inti’s work has been featured at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Hall Concert Hall, Symphony Center, REDCAT, National Concert Hall (IE), Southbank Centre (UK), Philharmonie de Paris (FR), Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (NL), and Konzerthaus Berlin (DE). 

Upcoming projects include Earths to Come in VR for the Venice Film Festival, mad scramble for crumbs for Opera Saratoga, Metahaven’s film The Feeling Sonnets, and works for flutist Claire Chase, pianist James McVinnie, and cellist Andrew Yee with Roomful of Teeth. inti is the recipient of the Lotos Foundation Prize, ASCAP Foundation Fred Ho Award, National Sawdust Hildegard Award, Café Royal Foundation Music Grant and residency fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks, Civitella Ranieri, Juilliard Summer Percussion, and Music at Copland House.

inti has held faculty positions with Luna Composition Lab (21-24’), Wildflower Composers (20-22’), Fresh Inc Festival (22’), and Atlanticx Composition (21’). She regularly lectures on her music with recent visits to Harvard University, The Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory, and CalArts, among many others. inti has curated programs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella series, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Current Series, Wild Up’s Darkness Sounding, and American Composers Orchestra SONiC Festival. She is the 2024 Robert M. Trotter Lecturer for the College Music Society 67th National Conference. 
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inti studied with Marcos Balter, Felipe Lara, Donnacha Dennehy, and George Lewis. Her mentors include ﻿Tania León﻿, Nico Muhly, Angélica Negrón, Derek Bermel, and Andrew Norman, among many others. inti honors her Quichua bisabuela who was the only woman butcher on the plaza central and used to fight men with a machete.

Coralus is a composer based in Berlin, germany. Open to any genre, he loves to experiment with any style of music in order to find new possibilities for his compositions.

Composer from London.

A lot of my newer pieces are not on soundcloud, so please check my website for most recent recordings.

Photo by Michael Carlo 2023

Electroacoustic composer/producer. Hoping to blur the line between what is felt and what is understood.
I post a variety of different types of projects on here and I've come to be okay with that. 
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