Lied ohne Worte
for cello soloistHomage to the Semantist Angelika Kratzer for her FestSchrift
- Violoncello: Clara Groba
- Premiered on: 1 September 2018
- Venue: High Conservatory of Music of A Coruña
King Lear's Lament
Homage to ShakespeareThis composition maps into the voice of a cello the moving lament of King Lear expressed though the words of Shakespeare’s King Lear, act 5, scene 3:
- Violoncello: Clara Groba
- Premiered on: 1 December 2017
- Venue: High Conservatory of Music of A Coruña
The Descent of Man
Homage to Charles DarwinElectroacoustic composition for violin soloist, live electronics, and voice.
- Violin: Florian Vlashi
- Voice: Juan Rey
- Premiered on: 27 May, 2009
- Venue: Santiago de Compostela, USC, Paranymph
Voice Prints
VP is a homage to our ancestors and the languages they used as tools to create and expand over large locations powerful civilisations.
- Baritone: Alfredo Garcia
- Violin: Florian Vlashi
- Premiered on: May, 2017
- Venue UDC, Paranynph, A Coruña
La selva sumergida
“The submerged forest” tells the story of people living in the mangrove and flooded forests of the south coast of Irian Jaya by the Arafura Sea. It describes their use of art in collective spiritual rites. In particular, in animist ceremonies used to accompanying the soul of the dead in its transit to the world of the ancestors.
- Violin: Hayk Manukyan
- Cello: Clara Groba
- Clarinet: Mariola Gil
- Premiered on: 12 November, 2011
- Venue: Nova Caixa Galicia, A Coruña
Kovkas
“Kovkas” (‘Caucasus’) is a sonic poem that tells the story of the Armenian people, starting with their ancestors — traced to have inhabited today’s Armenia from Lower Palaeolithic onwards, as supported by findings of obsidian lithic tools dated ca. 1 million years-old — until their present descendants, who faced persecution and genocide armed with the force of their hope for survival.
- Violin: Hayk Manukian
- Premiered on: 12 November, 2011
- Venue Fundacion Nova Gaixa Galicia, A Coruña
Lines
Homage to KandinskyThis work aims at transcribing in the acoustic domain the basic point and line shapes and some complex ones built from those simple shapes, as defined by Kandinsky in his Bauhaus writings. Kandinsky defines a point as a minimal visual unit. Its shape can be minimal and irregular or perfectly round. He defines a line as the footprint of a moving point. Therefore, a line results from the dynamic composition of a point moving towards a goal. A curve is built by means of the simultaneous action of two forces acting upon a point.
- Violin: Hayk Manukyan
- Premiered on: 12 November, 2011
- Venue: Fundacion Nova Caixa Galicia, A Coruña