Ecos oníricos de la Basílica de San Marcos (2021)
Homenaje a Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli y Andrea Gabrieli
for amplified solo horn (with effects) and prerecorded and processed horns

Kevin Newton, horn

Ecos oníricos de la Basílica de San Marcos (2021)

Benjamin Fingland, bass clarinet 
Adrian Morejon, bassoon 
Patrick Pridemore, horn 
Matthew Gold, percussion 
Louise Schulman, viola 
Tristan Kasten-Krause, contrabass

Michael Lewanski, guest conductor

Composers Conference Ensemble 2021

Ruiseñor en el reflejo (2021)

Retratos de al-Fayyūm (2021)
for amplified bass flute, prerecorded flutes and electronics
Richard Craig, bass flute

Premiere. Live recording at Music Current (Ireland, 2021)

Retratos de al-Fayyūm (2021)

Pinturas negras (2011)
for amplified and prepared piano
Performed and premiered by Bruno Mesz (Argentina)
Centro Cultural Cuerda Mecánica
Live performance

Pinturas negras (2011)

Rosa de Paracelso (2014)
para flauta (bajo y picc.)y cuarteto de cuerdas

Matteo Cesari (Italia), flauta
Quartetto Prometeo (Italia)

Rosa de Paracelso (2014)

Allí donde la nada mece un racimo marchito de acanto (2023)
for violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion

Ensemble Platypus (Austria)
Jaime Wolfson, dirección
Live recording at Suena Festival (Vienna, 2023)

Allí donde la nada mece un racimo marchito de acanto (2023)

Acanto marchito (2023)
for bass flute, cello, guitar and theorbo

live performance at Brunel University of London, 8/11/2024

Richard Craig, flute
Sam Cave, guitar
Louise McMonagle, cello
Johan Lofving, theorbo

Acanto marchito (2023)

Cenizas blancas (2017 re. 2024)
version for two bass clarinets and viola
Live version at Biblioteca Popular Nicolás Avellaneda of Choele Choel, Feb 2024

Duo Stump-Linshalm, bass clarinets
Daniel Oliver Moser, viola

Cenizas blancas (2017 re. 2024)

for bassoon and electronics

Wolfgang Rüdiger, bassoon
Beltrán Gonzalez, electronics

Live performance, EU Premiere
Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
Nov 20th, 2025

Ecos y cenizas, homenaje a Antonello da Caserta (2025)

Pálido fuego (2020)
for bass clarinet and electronics

Griselda Giannini, bass clarinet

Live recording

Pálido fuego (2020) bass clarinet and electronics

Cenizas (2010 re. 2014)
for violoncello solo

Michele Marco Rossi, violoncello

Live recording at the Sala del Commendatore, Complesso del Santo Spirito, Rome (29/6/14)

Cenizas (2010 Re. 2014) for violoncello solo

Bilis Negra (2016)
for voice and baroque ensemble
Text fragments by Théophile Gautier, Heinrich Heine and Rainer Maria Rilke.

to Mariano Etkin

Molly Netter (USA) and Antico Moderno Ensemble (USA)
First Lutheran Church
Boston, USA

Bilis negra (2016) for voice and baroque ensemble

Le regret d'Heraclite (2015)
for viola and cello

Performed by Daniel Oliver Moser (viola) and Stefanie Prenn (cello)

Le regret d'Heraclite (2015)

Smultronstället (2015 re. 2017)
Ensemble Zeitfluss (Austria)
Edo Mičić, conductor

20/03/2017
Minoritensaal
Graz, Austria

Smultronstället (2015 re. 2017)

Crystal tears (2016)
for bass flute, bass clarinet, voice (mezzo-soprano), piano, violin, viola y cello.

Premiered at the Wiener Konzerthaus on 18/01/2017 by Ensemble Platypus. Jaime Wolfson, cond.

Commissioned by Ensemble Platypus, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Ilust.: Giovanni Battista Bracelli (from  "Bizzarie di Varie Figure")

Crystal Tears (2016)

for bass clarinet, percussion, contrabass and piano

Breve (2011)

for bass clarinet, voice, percussion, violin, cello and piano

Ensemble Aleph (France)

Velado (2010)

Cenizas blancas (2017)
for english horn, bass clarinet and bassoon
Dedicated to (and performed by) Trio Aventure (Freiburg, Germany)
Alexander Ott, english horn
Walter Ifrim, bass clarinet
Wolfgang Ruediger, bassoon

Cenizas blancas (2017)

Sub rosa (2018)
for flute (bass, picc. and sp), clarinet (and bass), percussion (one player), piano and cello

Performed and premiered by the Chromoson Ensemble at the Gustav Mahler Music Weeks 2018 (Italy)

Sub rosa (2018)

for 24 divisi voices

Latvian Radio Choir
Kaspars Putniņš, conductor

Amour m'a le cuer mis en tel martyre (2012)

Sistro Impar (2010)
for violin, viola and cello

Ensemble Aventure (Germany)

Friedemann Amadeus Treiber, violin
Horst Hildebrandt, viola
Beverley Ellis, cello

Sistro impar (2010)

Balbulus (2020)
for amplified contrabass solo and prerecorded and processed contrabasses
Chad Wesselkamper, contrabass
Thanks to the Fromm Foundation Fellowship

Balbulus (2020) for amplified contrabass solo and prerecorded and processed contrabasses

His music has been played internationally by several ensembles and soloists, including: The Riot Ensemble (UK), Quartetto Prometeo (Italy),  Latvian Radio Choir, Zeitfluss Ensemble (Austria), Platypus Ensemble (Austria), Ensemble Aleph (France), Ensemble Aventure (Germany), Ensemble Chromoson (Austria/Italia), Ensemble XX Jahrhundert (Austria), East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (USA), Duo Dillon-Torquati (Italy), Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), Rhythm Method Quartet (USA), Mise-En Ensemble (USA), L’arsenale Ensemble (Italy), Ensemble Reconsil (Austria), Antico Moderno Ensemble (USA), Richard Craig (UK), Haydée Schvartz (Argentina), Satoko Inoue (Japan), Nuntempe Ensamble (Argentina) and Ensamble Tropi (Argentina).
Also his music has been played at international music series and festivals like Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich, 2012); Wiener Konzerthaus (2017); MATA Festival (NYC, 2016), Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston, 2017); Gustav Mahler Music Weeks (Dobbiaco, 2018); New Directions Festival (Sweden, 2014); Dark Music Days (Iceland, 2018); music@villaromana (Firenze, 2018); Musica in Prossimità (Pinerolo, 2022); Mise-en Festival (NYC, 2018); Forum Wallis (Switzerland, 2019); “XXIII Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de la Habana” (Cuba, 2009); musica aperta series (Winterthur, 2011); L’Imaginaire Festival (Strasbourg, 2013); Music Current (Ireland, 2021); Teatro Argentino de La Plata (2012); Bahia Actual (Argentina, 2016); Pu Joa Jornadas de Música Nueva (Paraguay, 2017); Teatro SODRE concert series (Montevideo, 2009);  Mínimo un Lunes (Buenos Aires, 2022); Festival Guitarras del Mundo (Argentina, 2017), among others.
Selected ‘Composer in Residence’ at the Artists in Residence Programm organized by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt Österreich) in cooperation with the KKA (Kultur Kontakt Austria) for 2016.

Awarded with the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (for 2022, Italy) and the Fromm Foundation Composers Fellowship (USA, 2020).

He was selected Composer in Residence by The Riot Ensemble (UK) for the year 2015.

From 2007 to 2014 he worked as Assistant in Composition with Mariano Etkin at the National University of La Plata.

He received the “Diploma di Merito“ at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in 2014, award given by Salvatore Sciarrino.

Invited as guest professor and composer at the festival Pu Joa (Paraguay) on years 2016 and 2017.

Born in Argentina, growing up in Choele Choel.
Composition studies with Mariano Etkin, María Cecilia Villanueva and Salvatore Sciarrino. 

In the framework of different workshops, fellowships, residences and festivals for composers he attended classes with Salvatore Sciarrino, Georg Friedrich Haas, Linda Catlin Smith, Stefano Gervasoni, Tristan Murail, Michael Jarrell, David Lang, Joshua Fineberg, Lee Hyla, Michaël Lévinas, -and Toivo Tulev, among others.

José Manuel Serrano

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