written by Conrado del Rosario originally for a vocal number (Lass Mich) in a Berlin Cabaret Show in 2000. Now arranged for string orchestra on Staffpad with the Spitfire Chamber Orchestra and earlier  for string quartet using the Staffpad edtion of the Berlin First Chairs Solo Strings. Original piano version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTfecgJbqKI​
Copyright © 2000, 2020 by Conrado del Rosario - All rights reserved

Romanze für Streicher

See score at https://youtu.be/mzCZ0Nx5fSc
composed by Conrado del Rosario
Another pastiche work with an expansion of a theme from my College of Music days at UP. I was on a hyper romantic Tristan trip then, haha. Written on Staffpad and rendered with Cinestrings, Tina G. Cello and the First chair solo Cello and solo Bass.
Copyright © 2021 by Conrado del Rosario - All rights reserved

Tris(te)tan-esque

composed by Conrado del Rosario. Based on an older piece called "Mahal" written in 1992 in Berlin. People often say that Filipinos are over sentimental.....so....na bitte (here we go). 
Written on Staffpad and rendered by its Staffpad Spitfire Symphonic Strings library. 
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Malugud (Loving) for String Orchestra

KINALUGARÁN. Composed 2021-2022.

For eight flutes (doubling percussion) and quadraphonic fixed media

Haiku poetry by the composer.
Additional recordings by Jayson Palolan ("Idaw", "Dayaw") on Philippine indigenous instruments. Used with permission.

Commissioned by New Music Concerts. The creation of this project is made possible with the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

Performers:
Tristan Durie (flutes, percussion)
Sophie Lanthier (flutes, percussion)
Stephen Tam (flutes, percussion)
Sarah Moon (flutes, percussion)
Alheli Pimienta (flutes, percussion)
Leslie Alt (flutes, percussion)
Maria Pelletier (flutes, percussion)
Dianne Aitken (flutes, percussion)
Juro Kim Feliz (electronics)
Brian Current (conductor)

Premiere performance on 30 April 2022 at The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Recorded by Paul Hodge. Fixed media rendered in stereo for this recording.

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Derived from the root word “lugar” (Filipino/Spanish: “place”), “kinalugaran” [kee-nah-loo-gah- RAN] refers to the site or place where a thing is set in position, a place where someone placed an object. A common context surrounding this word implies that one should know their place in society, reflecting the emphasis on social harmony prevalent among many Asian communities. As a result of this consciousness, peoples are marginalized by way of being othered and rendered invisible, as the loudest assertive voices among “Western” first-world societies are most heard and valued.

Kinalugarán highlights this condition at the forefront. An audio essay mimics a documentary that features the voices of Filipino artists based in first-world diasporic communities: violinist Ramon Alfonso “Chino” Soberano in Tempe, Arizona, United States; film composer Marie-Luise Calvero in Freiburg, Germany; and theatre creator Riley Palanca in Montreal, Canada. An ensemble of flutes and percussion plays live music over the audio essay as the three artists narrate their recorded perspectives and lived experiences surrounding invisibility, assimilation/integration, and homelands over soundscapes of found objects and musical instruments. Flute quotations from Filipino composer Jose Maceda’s work “Suling-suling” (10 flutes, 10 bamboo buzzers, 10 gongs; 1985) mesh with recordings of Jayson Palolan (“Idaw,” “Dayaw”) on Philippine indigenous instruments. Manifesting overlapping multiplicities surrounding experiences of invisibility, Kinalugarán bears the form of a modular work where both audio essay and flute ensemble music can exist either independently from each other or simultaneously on top of each other.

Kinalugarán is the third installment of a series of musical works that reflects on idealizing while also disentangling oneself from one’s place of origin. While detachments from homelands happen in complex layers of uprooting and unraveling, memories need not undergo processes of distillation or deconstruction in order to weave new normalities or subjectivities.

Special acknowledgments to individuals who made the creation of this work possible: Ramon Alfonso Soberano, Marie-Luise Calvero, Riley Palanca, Jayson Palolan, Kat Estacio.

I. Buka (00:00)
II. Part 1: Invisibility (01:01)
III. Part 2: Language, Assimilation (05:14)
IV. Part 3: Catching Up (08:31)
V. Selah (14:09)
VI. Part 4: In-Between Worlds (15:09)

Kinalugarán (for eight flutes and quad fixed media) [2022] - premiere

Composition by Michael Levy
Piano performed by Michael Levy
Orchestration by JanKun

Michael Levy is a very prolific jazz and classical composer who kindly let me orchestrate this track. 

Monet’s Lunch (Michael Levy & JanKun)

composed by Conrado del Rosario
For several years, because of numerous reasons, I wasn’t really keen on the Christmas season.
This changed this summer of 2022 when I started to look forward to it. As Christmas approached I was more excited and wrote a simple Christmas piece for chamber orchestra. The piece quotes some portions of traditional Christmas songs. 
Thank you for listening and I hope you like it!
Written and rendered with Staffpad and its libraries. #staffpad 
Copyright ©2022 by Conrado del Rosario - All rights reserved

That Christmas Feeling Again (Ang Ganda Muli Ng Pasko)for chamber orchestra 2022

Philips PH-7501|02 - Nov-Dec. 1970 - Fukui Prefecture of Sotoshu Daihonzan Eiheiji [Soto zen monks of Eiheiji Temple]. 

"Zen: Shikantaza - Sotoshu Daihonzan Eiheiji" | Soto zen Eiheiji Temple atmospheres

Ulap, Uran (Cloud, Rain)by Conrado del Rosario

Sway

Ding Dong Higher and Higher (2020)
This is a re-working of an earlier arrangement from 2017 with the StaffPad app on an iPad Pro and various sound libraries.
The piece is titled in this manner because it seems to climb into a extreme tessitura of the strings, winds and French horns towards the end.
This piece was premiered in an earlier version on Expressivo's YouTube channel for the Festive Winter Composition Challenge highlighting 9 other composers' works available from the URL in the caption.

Ding Dong Higher And Higher

"What Comes Around"   Joey Marshall * 2022

For my more serious works, pls visit https://soundcloud.com/user-164345555 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Djy93CsVs&list=PLzkLHn8QrAqGjOCiOkYoAO7nLCv_PBUtT

That Christmas Feeling Again (Ang Ganda Muli Ng Pasko)for chamber orchestra 2022

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