Over And Over Again - Nikola Djokic Quintet

To my partner in crime through law school, Vivs! =)

Drip Line

Sr. Langosta:

J.A. Ferreras - electric guitar
Manuel Rodriguez - electric bass
Gamaliel Santiago - drums
Timothy Cooper - congas, vibraphone, percussion 
Alexandra Rivera - clavichord, organ, rhodes 
Daniel Ramírez - trumpet
Francisco Cruz - alto and baritone sax.
Janice Maisonet - tenor sax.
Isaías Sánchez - trombone

From the album: El Experimento Caribeño

Recorded at Casa Fantasmes, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Mix by Mario Negrón
Master by Nico Linares
Art by Rafael Torres Desangles.

Produced and compose by: J.A. Ferreras
2016

El Experimento Caribeño

Electrik - Tukumán

"Stratus" my guitar solo

World premiere performance, Wrocław, Poland, April 30, 2016.
Vijay Iyer Trio (with Tyshawn Sorey & Stephan Crump)
Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra  
Nikola Kolodziejczyk, conductor

Score available from Schott Music

Emergence (2016) for Trio and Orchestra

Connor Frederick - Trombone
Robert Brooks - Tenor Saxophone
Chris Hartley - Guitar
Jon Small - Bass
James Sims - Drum Set

A Step Forward

Pour piano et ensemble.
Créé par l'ensemble intercontemporain et dirigée par Simon Proust.

- Grand Prize from the Ise-Shima Art Committee, Japan (2021) 
- First Prize at the Martirano Award Competition, USA (2021)
- First Prize at the New Classics International Composition Competition, Russia (2020)
- Honorable Mention at the Luigi Nono Composition Competition, Italy (2020)

"For this piece I have chosen a title that in all evidence derives from the pictural world. Smudges over dripping ink suited the poetic image that guided me throughout the composition process. The choice of an english title, a language with which I entertain a rather conflicting rapport, seamed  equally pertinent for its capacity to condense in a few words the intentions of this piece. Smudge is in fact a words that does not find its equivalent with ease in either of the languages with which I am familiarised. 

The present work has not been conceived as a concerto but rather as a piece where the piano has a central role, from which the music flows and drips ; analogue to a plastic artist who composes his canvas in time. The ensemble is therefore subordinate to the piano, is dependent to its propositions, gestures and whims. 

He (or it) proposes one note, as one would cast a drop of ink that collapses in the emptiness of the canvas. She is then blurred, smudged and transformed until inevitably losing its initial aspect and becoming nothing more than a blemish: an awkwardly delicate stain. Once dried, more ink would be thrown, this time dripping and effusing in all its fluidity, like a fragile and childish swaying that oddly resembles a music box. The flow of ink pursues, randomly and minutely, insinuating candid and playful images. It will not take long to brush it away until it's blurred, or even erased. And finally, as if displeased with the result, one throws one last sauvage burst of ink on the totality of the canvas until it's entirely covered…

The piece is conceived in one continuous mouvement, constituted of short sceneries, like “windows” that reflect the variations and transformations of the ink, its different mouvements, flows, its smudges."

Simon Proust(conductor, Sophie Cherrier (flute), Martin Adàmek (bass clarinet), Nicolas Arsenijevic (saxophone), Lucas Lipari-Mayer (trompet), Hidéki Nagano (piano), Hae-Sun Kang (violin), John Stultz (viola), Pierre Strauch (cello), Sulivan Loiseau (double bass)

Smudges over dripping ink

Based in the Urbana-Champaign area, the Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective is a group of musicians that love to explore and perform Latin Jazz music.  Our repertoire is consists of a wide range from traditional Cuban music such as cha-cha and guaguanco to the modern styles of groups such as Timbalaye and Irakere.

Love For Sale Clip

Cognitive Dissonance

My arrangement of Eric Whitacre's gorgeous choral work for bass clarinets.
Performed and recorded by Jonathan Russell.

“Lux Aurumque” by Eric Whitacre, arr. Jonathan Russell
Copyright © 2001 and this arrangement © Walton Music Corp.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Love For Sale Clip

José Guzmán Music

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