Smog 
﻿for large ensemble, 2012
Premier at the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva  XXXV
at the Manuel M. Ponce Hall from Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City by the Cepromusic ensemble.
conductor: Jose Luis Castillo

Smog (2012)

for flute, alto sax., bass clarinet and piano, 2013
World premier at ​Musik und Gegenwart 41
Kammermusiksaal, HMT, Leipzig, Germany

Das Gebrochene Gesicht Des Kindes (live) (2013)

Stalaktit (electrónica)

Ab initio 
Darmstadt 2014
Chamber Sessions II

Oboe: Krisjiana Thorsteinson
Clarinet: Madison Greenstone
Trombone: Kevin Austin
Contrabass: Otto Will

Ab Initio + Intro/outro (v2.0.)(Darmstadt 2014)

Jacques Zafra
Übergestern (2014) UA
(Pauline Raker gewidmet)
für Lupophon und Kontraforte

Lupophon: Martin Bliggenstorfer
Kontraforte: Elise Jacoberger
TONLAGEN 2014
Dresdner Festival der zeitgenössischen Musik

Neuer Tiefklang - Musik für Lupophon und Kontraforte
Konzert vom 21.10.2014

Übergestern | for Lupophon and Kontraforte

El imperdonable invierno

(listen with headphones )

Guitar: Martin Steuber
Premiered in Leipzig 26.01.2014

Movements
1.
1.5.
2.
2.5
3.

El Imperdonable Invierno | for guitar

Las viejas de mi escuela (for several Jacques)

Logical Interference

April 24. 2015 - Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik

Played by Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie

Conducted by: Pablo Druker

Logical Interference | for chamber ensemble

Sylvia Hinz: Alto Recorder
Premiered in Lausanne, Switzerland on October 26, 2016

for alto recorder -  Jacques Zafra

"                             " for Bb Clarinet
(2016)

Commissioned by "Gute Manieren Frankfurt"

Premiered on October 24, 2016 at the Goethe University Frankfurt by Hugo Queirós

for Bb Clarinet - Jacques Zafra

"vor"

video-score: https://goo.gl/8zf6cQ

Heather Roche (Basss Clarinet)
Clemens Gottschling (Horn)
Paul Hübner (Trumpet)
Florian Juncker (Trombone) 
​
PREMIERE
May 23, 2017
​
Kammermusiksaal, HMT, Leipzig, Germany

vor | for bass clarinet, trumpet, horn and trombone

for Violin - Jacques Zafra

performed by Roberto Jurado

for violin - Jacques Zafra

Piccolo: Ine Vanoeveren

NO MEDICI – CONCERT
Darmstadt Summer Course

for piccolo - Jacques Zafra

Miller/MSP

Jacques Zafra - einmal ist einmal (2018)
for saxophone, cello, piano and audio files

MÚSICA E ARTE: CORRESPONDENCIAS SONORAS - CGAC https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
EXHIBITION: CARLOS GARAICOA. EL PALACIO DE LAS TRES HISTORIAS
http://cgac.xunta.gal/EN/exposicion-d...

World premiere by Vertixe Sonora
June 19, 2018
CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo
Santiago de Compostela
Music and Art: Sound Correpondences 2018


VERTIXE SONORA
Pablo Coello - saxophone / Thomas Piel - cello / David Durán - piano / Angel Faraldo - electronics

Audio: Miguel Novas - Radio Galega
Video: Aarón Roda, Carla Piñeiro

einmal ist einmal | for sax, cello, piano and audio tracks

six têtes - Jacques Zafra*
for oboe, clarinet and string quartet
(2015 - 2019)


Divertimento Ensemble

Luca Avanzi oboe
Maurizio Longoni clarinetto
Lorenzo Gorli violino I
Clarice Rarity violino II**
Victor Guaita viola**
Martina Rudic violoncello

*Compositore e **musicisti selezionati da Ulysses Network

six têtes | for string quartet + oboe and clarinet

...nichts Neues. Im Westen...
(2019)
for four contrabasses

Performed by
Kathryn Schulmeister
Matt Kline
Tommy Babin
Mark Dresser

Studio recording UCSD 2019 - Andrew Munsey
Edition Andrew Munsey and Jacques Zafra

...Nichts Neues. Im Westen... | for four contrabasses

for three virtual instruments - Jacques Zafra

dedicated to Adrian Kleinlosen

OCARINA

CONTRABASS TROMBONE
PIANO



SAN DIEGO - CDMX
2020
ZAFRA

(listen with earphones) for three virtual instruments - Jacques Zafra

For online composition sessions, contact me through Apprentus, link down below.

Jacques Zafra was born in Mexico City on December 8, 1986 and is a member of the National Art Creators System in Mexico. He holds a PhD from the University of California San Diego (UCSD). Previously he did the Meisterklasse in composition at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Leipzig, Germany, where he also did his Master's.

Before studying in Germany he studied in Mexico composition and music theory at the CIEM (Center for Research and Studies of Music).

In 2012 he was awarded with the Music Diploma in guitar performance from the Royal School of Music, London.

He is President of the Leipzig based Non-Profit organization Contemporary Insights and founder of the YouTube channel "Mexican Scores" where he publishes video-scores of contemporary Mexican composers.

His music has been performed in Mexico, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, the US, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Portugal and Germany in festivals such as Darmstadt, Gaudeamus, the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Tonlagen and the FIMNME (Mexico) and has been broadcast in Mexico, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland and Croatia.

In 2016 his piece for alto recorder won the second place in the "New Recorder Music 2016 Composition Competition, from the Flauto Dolce the Association in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2012 his piece "Xochitepec desde mi cuarto" was chosen to represent Mexico at the International Rostrum of Composers of UNESCO in Sweden.

He was awarded with the Deutschlandstipendium (2015-2016) and has been also the recipient of two of the most important Mexican scholarships for musicians: Estudios en el extranjero 2013-15 and Jóvenes Creadores 2016-2017 (FONCA).

In 2019 he was one of the selected composers by the Ulysses Network for the ULYSSES Journeys 2019.

Jacques Zafra

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