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A Verdure is a type of tapestry decorated with a design based on plant forms and woodlands. It is also called Garden Tapestry. This short orchestral work presents the musical impressions and representations of the shapes, textures, modulating colors and moods from the designs in these tapestries.
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Conrado "Titus" del Rosario was born in Angeles City, Pampanga. He won a scholarship to study composition, conducting and flute at the University of the Philippines College of Music with Lucio San Pedro, Francisco Feliciano, Ramon Santos, Eric Barcelo and Sonny Yangco. He worked as a professional musician , composer and arranger for studio and film in Manila as well as teach Music Theory at the Asian Institute for Liturgy and Music. He won 3rd prize in solo instrument category (flute) in the National Competitions for Young Artists.He conducted the Young Artists' Chamber Orchestra and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

In 1982 he won the first prize in the League of Filipino Composers Chamber Music Composition Competition with his String Quartet No.1 and received a Young Artists of the Philippines Foundation Scholarship for further studies at the Berlin Hochschule der Kuenste (now Berlin University of the Arts) where he studied composition with Isang Yun and Witold Szalonek. He won the 1985 Hambacher International Composition Competition Prize. 2nd prize at the 1988 Hitzacker International Composition Competition. He also won Work-Scholarships from the Berlin Cultural Senate in 1988, 1991 , 1992 and 1997 which provided funds to create a composition and have it performed. His chamber music piece "pine whispers“ was chosen as one of the four finalists in the 1995 IRINO International Composition Competition in Japan. He was invited for a Concert-Lecture tour in the 1997 Pacific Music Festival in Canada. In 1998 he was the Berlin representative for a half year Working-Scholarship at the Cite International des Arts in Paris, France.

His comprehensive list of works include works for orchestra, chamber music, pieces for improvising ensembles, electronic music, music for radio and a chamber opera. Performances and broadcasts of his chamber music and opera in different European, Asian and American cities and festivals.

Conrado del Rosario taught piano and composition privately and was a Instructor in Piano and Improvisation at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Musikschule as well as the Piano Instructor in the Show and Musical Department of his alma mater, the Berlin University of the Arts.

He was a member of the Gamelan-Ensemble, Banjar Gruppe Berlin. In 1989 he founded B I C E -The Berlin Improvising Composers Ensemble and has performed with with this group in various european and american cities. Since 2007 he has returned to forming, playing and writing for Berlin jazz groups like Understatement, The BeCool Jazz Quartet, Sowat von Funk and OhrJazzMus. In November 2013 he returned to his hometown, Angeles City, Pampanga and founded KAPAMU (Kapampangan Musicians’) Jazz Collective and built the Jazz Grill, founded the bamboo instrument ensemble SUNLAG. He was in the Philippine delegation of composers in the 2017 China Asean Music Festival in Nanning. Guest speaker and performer at the Maceda100 Symposium. Conrado del Rosario was the 2017 Most Outstanding Kapampangan Awardee in the field of Arts and received the 2018 Pupul ning Banua Award for Music. He was nominated as Aliw Award Best Solo Instrumentalist in 2018. He will continue his various musical activities in his country.

Conrado del Rosario: "Verdures" for Orchestra (2021)

This rendition of Black Magic Woman is different than any other. It is different than Santana or Fleetwood Mac or any version you may have heard.  It breathes the passion and obsession that the words convey.

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Black Magic Woman   *
Butch O’Brien (Drums)
Carlos Barbera (Guitar)
Tom Rucktenwald (Vocals, Bass, Alto Saxophone)

 * Mixed and Mastered at Tom’s House Recording Studios.

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Black Magic Woman

for orchestra and amplified percussion

Premiered by Orchestre Symphonique du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under the direction of Louis Lavigueur (March 28, 2015)/ Thierry Jacques-Soudin (March 29, 2015) at Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

A huge thanks to Loïc Guilloux for his recording and mastering work.

noli me tangere | 29.03.2015 | Orchestre Symphonique du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal

Notice for the premiere of Der Seismograph Leo Collin, July 2016. Written within the framework Manifeste, IRCAM.

Recipe to built a seismograph

#Ingredients# (5-6 min of music) 
for 5 persons + sampler
- ascendant and descendant lines (sawtooth)
- exponential crescendi
- horizontal and vertical lines. (switch on/off)
- reference pitches : do/sol
- a long siren
- A sentence about volcan, if possible poetic.


My suggestion : Avec entêtement je poursuivais mon forage vers le noyau de feu que je croyais sentir, comme un volcan, sous le rocher de son silence. from Verwirrung der Gefühle (1927) Stefan Zweig
#Directions#
This piece sounds like an eruption report, done by an imaginary seismograph. Enjoy! 
Preparation : first part (before the eruption)
Pre-warning : second part (the eruption)
Pause : third part (transmission of the eruption to the security siren)
Cooking : fourth part (suite of the eruption, volcanic bombs)
Leave to cool : coda (end of the eruption, problem of communication )

music for seismograph (for 5 musicians )

Ensemble Intercontemporain
cond. by Julien Leroy

premiere recording from ManiFeste 2016
Paris, France

dimINNUENDO for 9 performers (2016)

dimINNUENDO for 9 performers

OM (2016)
Bass Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Piano

BlauerReiter Ensemble
Conductor: Armando Merino
Bass Flute: Zinajda Kodrič
Bass Clarinet: Miao Zhao
Violin: Cristian Roibu
Viola: Alexa Beattie
Violoncello: Graham Waterhouse
Piano: Marco Riccelli

17.11.2016 Johannissaal, Nymphenburg Palace, München

Revised version performed by Ensemble mdi (Elena Gabbrielli, Paolo Casiraghi, Lorenzo Gentili-Tedeschi, Paolo Fumagalli, Giorgio Casati, Luca Ieracitano), conducted by Armando Merino on December 20, 2017 at Auditorium Lattuada, Milano.

OM (2016)

Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra  {o}  sept.2017  {o}  w/ Brad Lubman

T h r i f t   &   S h a m b l e d    N u a n c e [BrusselsPhilharmonic - 2017]

Widerklang for bass-clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello
l'instant donné

premiere recording from Festival Musica
Strasbourg, France

Widerklang for 5 performers (2

Widerklang for 5 performers

www.quatuortana.net

Shrink, for string quartet and electronics
Performed and recorded by Quatuor Tana 
Hertz Hall, Berkeley, California
12 November 2018

Quatuor Tana:

Antoine Maisonhaute
Ivan Lebrun
Maxime Desert
Jeanne Maisonhaute

www.quatuortana.net

Shrink (2018)- for string quartet and electronics

Scowle, 2018,
For amplified ensemble, 8-ch electronics and spotlights.
World premiere by ensemble hand werk | International contemporary music festival CROSSROADS | Salzburg, Austria, December 6, 2018

*** Please use headphones ***
* This is a live stereo recording.

Scowle, for ensemble, electronics and spotlights (live recording)

Acousmatique 4, Quadriphonie | 2019 • mix stereo

Fondali (for 8 instruments with electronics, 2019 - Casa Ricordi)
19.03.2019 @ Freies Atelier Schaumbad, Graz
Schallfeld Ensemble, Leonhard Garms (cond.) - WP
Live recording / Sound director: Davide Gagliardi
Mix & master: Francesco Ambrosini

commissioned by Schallfeld Ensemble
with the financial support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Fondali (2019)

String Quartet No. 3 "Shadows" by Yann Robin (2016)
Premiered by the Tana Quartet at Philharmonie de Paris

Commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris, Concertgebouw Brugge &  Wigmore Hall London with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, and Collectif Tana.

String Quartet No. 3 "Shadows" - Yann Robin (2016) LIVE

Blue Oni (Art Is Personal)

Original song
https://soundcloud.com/loveles_0/exotica-tex-ft-yokot
Vo [YOKO.T]
@yoko-t-201142980
mastering [rjnk]
@rjnk-1

Exotica tex(ryu remix)

Loving Life and Sharing what I am able to share.

Shrink (2018)- for string quartet and electronics

Oren Boneh

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