SOME COMPOSITIONS

Score: http://bit.ly/1FyYDcS

Pedro Alvarez 
Two Surfaces (2013)
Ensemble Hand Werk:
--Daniel Agi, alto flute
--Heather Roche, clarinet
--Stefanie van Backlé, violin
--Niklas Seidl, cello
--Jens Ruland, percussion
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
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'Two Surfaces', like many of my recent endeavours, attempts to present a static, 'objectified' aesthetic situation. It points at the utopian idea of time standing still, avoiding a 'processual' unfolding of music, and thus rebelling against inherited ideals of narrative fluency. Here we find two rich textural situations that do not evolve: a music of 'being' rather than 'becoming'.

Two Surfaces

Pedro Alvarez
'De Mares Imaginados' (2009) for solo flute
Klaasje Nieuwhof, flute
Impuls 2011
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De Mares Imaginados

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/ver/1

Pedro Alvarez
Ver (2013)
Mark Knoop, piano
Premiere at St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK on 5th Dec 2013.
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The various musical situations that constitute this work are pervaded by a sense of ephemeral plenitude. By simply 'being themselves' instead of representing functional stages in ongoing processes, these situations question the idea of 'organic development' as an aesthetic model. What remains is a kind of brutal formal construction; the abrupt juxtaposition of self-enclosed blocks of dissimilar proportions. 'Ver' was written in Vienna/London in the summer/autumn of 2013.

"‘Instead’ explores four textural situations recurrently; a sort of collage of fragments from surfaces designed independently from each other. It makes use of extremely limited material, making the clarinet devoid of its characteristic refined sophistication and flexibility, treating it as a ‘found object’, as it were. Both material and form are thus approached in a brutal, ‘primitive’ way." (Alvarez)

Pedro Alvarez - Instead

Pedro Alvarez
'Untitled on Canvas' (2011) for two baritone saxophones
Alejandro Rivas & Karem Ruiz, saxophones
Utrecht 2011
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Untitled on Canvas

Score: http://bit.ly/1dQvc0n

Pedro Alvarez 
Plasmares (2014) 
commissioned by hcmf// 
Ensemble CrossingLines: 
--Laia Bobi, alto flute 
--Victor de la Rosa, clarinet 
--Tere Gómez, tenor saxophone 
--Cassiel Anton, alto trombone 
--Feliu Ribera, percussion 
--Mireia Vendrell, piano 
--Luis Codera Puzo, sine waves 
--Pedro Alvarez, e-guitar (guest) 
--Lorenzo Ferrándiz, conductor 
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2014 
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Plasmares

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/interalia/1

Pedro Alvarez
'Interalia' (2010) for ensemble
Ensemble of the Orchestre National de Lorraine, cond. Jean Deroyer
Metz, France 2010
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Interalia

Score: bit.ly/1LlKKFB

Pedro Alvarez
Margin (2015)
-Heather Roche, bass clarinet
-Marco Fusi, viola d'amore
-Rafał Łuc, accordion
The Riot Ensemble's 'Portfolio' concert
London, 06 June 2015
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Margin

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

Pedro Alvarez: 'Debris' (2012) for 1/4-tone flugelhorn, alto trombone, e-guitar, percussion and electronics. ELISION Ensemble. St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, 8/2/2013.

Debris (excerpt)

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/alvarez_eo1_score/1

Pedro Alvarez 
Étude Oblique I (2006) for string quartet 
Arditti String Quartet
Institute of Music Research
London 2012
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Étude Oblique I

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/fragments/1

Pedro Alvarez 
Fragments after Cioran (2011-2012)
Ensemble Interface:
--Bettina Berger, bass flute
--Andrea Nagy, clarinet
--Maiko Matsuoka, violin
--Christophe Mathias, cello
--Agnieszka Koprowska-Born, percussion
--Anna D'Errico, piano
--Scott Voules, conductor
Dampfzentrale Bern, Switzerland, March 2012
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