Discidium (Sacred cantata) 
Movements I and II
Author: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Live recording by Orfeón San Juan Bautista (2019)

Discidium

Invocación (Invocation)
Art song
Lyrics: Yamil Maldonado-Pérez
Music: Guarionex Morales-Matos
GabrielleTimofeeva-López, alto
Ernesto Busigó Montero, piano
2019

Invocation

Antífona del silencio
Art song
Lyrics: Alberto Prieto
Music: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Joel Prieto, tenor
2019

Antiphon of Silence

Traditional Spanish Christmas song
Orfeon San Juan Bautista
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
SATB a cappella
CD "Pura Navidad"
2006

Pura Navidad

Campana sobre campana

Puerto Rican Christmas song
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Music: Braulio Dueño-Colón (1854-1934) 
Lyrics: Manuel Fernández-Juncos (1846-1928)
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
CD "Pura Navidad"
2006

Los Reyes Magos

Puerto Rico   
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Composer: Rafael Hernández 
CD “El Orfeón”
2005

El Orfeón

Ahora seremos felices

Psalm 129:1-2 
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Composer: Guarionex Morales-Matos
CD “El Orfeón”
2005

De profundis

Ave Maria
SATB a cappella version 
Orfeon San Juan Bautista
Composer: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Demo recording
2001

Grabación de demostración

Ave Maria

Puerto Rican children’s song 
Composer: María Cadilla de Martínez
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

Puerto Rico a capella

Bella es mi tierra

Puerto Rican rumba  
Music: Rafael Hernández 
Lyrics: Bernardo Sancristóbal 
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

Cachita

Puerto Rico  
Composer: Rafael Hernández 
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

Capullito de alelí

Puerto Rican guaracha
Composer: Rafael Hernández 
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Virgilio Brunet-Rodríguez, baritone
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

El buen borincano

Puerto Rican rumba
Composer: Rafael Hernández
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

El cumbanchero

Puerto Rican children’s song
Music: Braulio Dueño-Colón (1854-1934) 
Lyrics: Virgilio Dávila (1869-1943)
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

El mangó

Puerto Rican children’s song
Music: Braulio Dueño-Colón (1854-1934) 
Lyrics: Antonio Fernández-Grillo (1845-1905)
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

El platanar

Puerto Rican Cha-cha-chá
Composer: Bobby Capó 
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

Luna de miel en Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico
Composer: Carlos Suárez 
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Wilfred Serrano-Negrón, tenor
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

Mi negrita me espera

Puerto Rican plena
Composer: Manuel Jiménez 
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Kelvin Cabrera-Cuevas, tenor
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

Santa María

Puerto Rican bolero
Composer: Sylvia Rexach 
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
CD "Puerto Rico a capella"
2002

Y entonces

Alma Mater
Anthem of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo 
Composer: Pedro Rivera
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Cantoría Coro de Concierto
Coro de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo
2017

Unknown album (12/24/2017 11:01:56 AM)

Alma Mater

Argentina
Music: Luis Gurevich   
Lyrics: León Gieco 
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Life performance
2016

Cinco siglos igual

Puerto Rican plena
Composer: Rafael Ortiz-Escuté
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Kelvin Cabrera-Cuevas, tenor
CD Cronología en música 2001-2012 
2012

Cronología en música 2001-2012 CD 2

Perfume de rosas

Version for SAAB soloists, string orchestra and organ 
Composer: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Magda Rodríguez-Lupeschi, soprano
Fabiana B. González-Cobos, alto
Michael Wisdom, countertenor
Dashon Burton, bass
CD Cantos sagrados 
2011

CANTOS SAGRADOS

Unless the Lord Builds the House
Psalms 127:1; 128:1 and 3
Composer: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Magda Rodríguez-Lupeschi, soprano
CD Cronología en música 2001-2012
2012

Unless the Lord Builds the House

Mass to Saint Francis of Assisi
Composer: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Orfeón San Juan Bautista
Joel Prieto, tenor
CD Glorificamus te
2014

Mass to Saint Francis of Assisi: II. Gloria

Mass to Saint Francis of Assisi: I. Kyrie

Composers: Claudio Ferrer and Paul Márquez
Arrangement: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Recorded by Pachangá
2019

El eco y el carretero (Puerto Rican jíbaro folksong)

Author: Guarionex Morales-Matos
Live recording by Orfeón San Juan Bautista (2014)

Padre Nuestro

Guarionex Morales-Matos is a Puerto Rican composer, as well as founder and co-director of Orfeón San Juan Bautista, a professional secular choral ensemble. His catalog spans numerous works, focusing primarily on the a cappella medium. He has also written art songs, choral-instrumental works, film music, a ballet and a symphonic piece. Morales-Matos’s music has been performed in Spain, Italy, France, Austria, Poland, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Canada and the United States of America. Other collaborations include endeavors and commissions with the Vassar College Women’s Chorale, the Elm City Girls’ Choir, Seraphic Fire (U.S.A.), Exaudi (Cuba), the Central University of Venezuela Chorus, and the plastic artists Allora & Calzadilla.

In 2015 he published "La influencia de la música popular en Ernesto Cordero, músico puertorriqueño, caribeñista y latinoamericanista: obras compuestas entre 1967 y 2015", a catalog that encompasses the composer’s complete works alongside a historical and stylistic analysis of his pieces. Also in 2015, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture published "Música popular puertorriqueña: adaptaciones corales" and "Composiciones corales originales (1994-2014)", an edition in two volumes that compiles fifty-nine choral arrangements and original compositions.

Guarionex Morales-Matos

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