Pedro Alvarez 
New Forms of Asymmetry (2015) 
for guitar and ensemble 
Diego Castro Magas, guitar 
Ensemble Interface 
Leeds, UK, 18/11/2015 
www.pedroalvarez.info

New Forms of Asymmetry

A Sense of Space (2015/16)
for flute, guitar, and soprano with percussion – 10′

Premiere: 5 March 2016, Alba Bru Carci (flute), Diego Castro Magaš (guitar), Peyee Chen (soprano/percussion)
St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK.

View score -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NQqjQV-aYBRUJvi413yqjfr0LyHRS_u-/view?usp=sharing

A Sense Of Space

Tarhu Connections: Rapturous, by Ros Bandt @ros.bandt

For tarhu, air slide whistle, ancient bronze cymbals, recorder head joints, field recordings from Arizona from the Listen N biosphere reserve database, recorded by Leah Barclay.
A remix from a longer 8 channel work Raptor commissioned for the Listen N festival, USA.

'Rapturous is a fast ride with the Golden eagle Acquilla Chrysaetos  making its way from Joshua Tree Biosphere reserve to Beaver Creek, Arizona, USA where it was recorded.  The granulated eagle calls are stretched to represent the psycho-perceptual orientation of the eagle, solitary, looking down over the land. The tarhu is the eagle’s eye, a moving point through which we experience its strength, subtlety and economy in controlling the aerodynamic ride.  Listen with headphones. The eagle is a long way up.' - Ros Bandt

Tarhu Connections: Rapturous, by Ros Bandt

Commissioned and performed by English pianist Grace Francis in February 2015, Solo Gratia is part of a collection of piano miniatures performed by Grace on an album entitled 'Sacred'. The album received digital release on Launch Music International and iTunes in early March 2015. Solo Gratia was also commissioned by BBC Radio 3 in celebration of International Women's Day, broadcast live on the 8th of March, 2015.

Though the original latin translation for ‘Grace Alone’ is ‘Sola Gratia’, the title of the work is in fact a word play on the piece being a solo piano work for Grace Francis. Solo Gratia was inspired by the following excerpt from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians in the New Testament:
"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved."
Ephesians 2: 4-5 (NIV translation)

SOLO GRATIA for solo piano, performed by Grace Francis (2015)

Texture No. 1 for Orchestra
by Connor D'Netto

University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Warwick Potter

watch the film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vhVNFbRorRE 

recorded live @ QPAC, 16 October 2016

Texture No. 1 for Orchestra – UQSO live @ QPAC

Lunchtime Concert 2012

...of sorrow, joy, and dancing

This piece was inspired by the rescue in July 2008 of Columbian/French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, and fourteen other hostages, from captivity in the Columbian jungle, where they had been held by FARC members for six years.  Performed by the Southern Cross Philharmonia orchestra, conductor Gerald Gentry.  Free! © Christina Green 2008.  Posted with kind permission of Bianca Rooman, SCPO.

Free!

Performed by Unassisted Fold; Flavio Virizi (Electric Guitar) and Sonja Horlacher (Alto Flute).

Not Long But Suspended explores the concept of drowning. The use of electronics in this composition operate as a musical metaphor for this concept as the sounds of the alto flute and guitar are suspended and distorted, cascading upon one another resulting in the blending of each instrument's sonorities.

Not Long But Suspended_Live Recording

For solo electric guitar and pliers. Performed live at Future Creatives Festival. Live recording and mix by Kevan Atkins

Bloodlines

Performed by Flinders Quartet. Concert footage filmed by 5stream; audio recorded, mixed and mastered by Ana Paula Gargantini, APGMproductions. June 22, 2019. Library at the Dock, Melbourne.

Video of performance can be found here - https://vimeo.com/345175559 

If you're interested in seeing the score, please get in touch.


PROGRAM NOTES

The String Quartet Project is the beginning of a journey that will never be completed. I will continue to add new movements to the piece indefinitely. This suite of music will grow and grow, each movement informing the next. The compositional approach of each movement is informed by the context in which it is written, and the ensemble who performs it: with each string quartet leaving their mark on the work as a whole.


I - The Slow Unfolding of the Self

These are the first marks made for the work. I wanted each note to have gravitas, hence the slow, austere mood. It is almost without pulse and utilises frequent dove-tailing. Harmonically, I've been inspired by the work of the American composer Elliott Carter.

II - Foreign Gravity

The second movement oscillates between soloist and the ensemble in a call and response-like fashion. Instructions to play freely, steady and aggressively are given. It consists of hocket-like sections, all-interval tetrachords and an absence of extended techniques.

The String Quartet Project (I) The Slow Unfolding of the Self [2019]

A piece on the subject of finding clarity as the immediate surrounds continue to blur. Composed for the Gildas Quartet and Lucy Humphris - written at Dartington while studying with Sir Harrison Birtwistle.

Duets

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Tarhu Connections: Rapturous, by Ros Bandt

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