Periferia

A day, that I was looking some poetry books in a bookstore, I found the poem Nocturno III from the colombian poet Jose Asuncion Silva (1885-1896). This poem greatly impressed me and I was sure that so...

This piece is the overture or instrumental introduction of my chamber opera 'First Light (2005)'. The text is by Edgardo Dobry and its premiere was in the Pocket Opera Festival of Barcelona '05. The m...

Simple piece of easy performance for flute and violin. Addressed to children and teenagers, it is mainly didactic. It helps the acquisition of technical capacities. The piece combines melodies in coun...

This Trio for flute, violin and bass clarinet was composed in 1953. Homs adopted the dodecaphonic system in order to get some self control and opposite to the anxiety provoked by his previous 'all is...

Amnesia is the first of a work series with the generic title 'Five sad pieces'. From concern and reflection, each of this works try to capture different feelings. Nino Diaz.

Birthday Piece has a clearly minimalist character and a little rhythmic obsessive formula that from time to time changes allowing little melodic silhouettes in constant expansion to appear. The piece...

'Seattle Quartet' was commissioned by the Seattle Chamber Players to perform at the the Seattle Symphony Festival 'Viva la Musica' in May 2003. The central, generating idea of the piece is the combina...

Commissioned by Arts Trio, 'Acuarelas' is an ensemble of pictures with an independent form and content that are closely related to the development of the production of sound. These pictures are not re...

Four Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and String Quartet: Elegia, Pierrot (a una coreografia de 'Accion Colectiva'), Espacio liquido, Retrato (-a tientas)

'A very beautiful and original work where you can appreciate clearly how the composer admires the writer Josep Carner, prince of Catalan poets. The score was written in 1935 for piano and voice. Two y...

The work is a tribute to Arvo Pärt, a piece with a certain ritual character. The material is accumulated to build a texture in which the percussion is the dominant voice. The use of the varied repetit...