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solos | ensembles | electroacoustic | music for drama
O Piano sem Lítio (The Piano Without
Lithium) (1999, rev. 2003)
15 min |
piano
Première: Elaine Foltran, piano
Auditorium Tasso Corrêa, Porto Alegre, 2003
Frjöpjófurs/Aurora Borealis (2001)
14 min |
sopranino recorder, alto recorder, and bass recorder for one
performer
Première: Luciane Cuervo, recorders
Museu da UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 2003
Construction I (2001)
5 min | piano and electronics
Première: Celso Loureiro Chaves, piano
Multiple-X 2002 − Music, Technology, Visual Arts
Goethe Institut, Porto Alegre, 2002
Construction II (2002)
6 min 45 s | piano and electronics
Première: Celso Loureiro Chaves, piano
Multiple-X 2002 − Music, Technology, Visual Arts
Goethe Institut, Porto Alegre, 2002
Construction III (2002)
3 min | piano and electronics
Première: Celso Loureiro Chaves, piano
Multiple-X 2002 − Music, Technology, Visual Arts
Goethe Institut, Porto Alegre, 2002
Construction IV (2003)
5 min | vibraphone and electronics
Première: Thiago Lopes, vibraphone
Multiple-X 2003 − Music, Technology, Visual Arts
Goethe Institut, Porto Alegre, 2003
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Rapsódia Dromológica à Guerra Pura (Dromological
Rhapsody To The Pure War) (1998)
11 min | flute, bassoon, trombone, piano, percussion, 3 violins, double
bass, tape
Première: Ensemble Cantus Firmus: Ayres Potthoff, flute; Adolfo
Almeida Jr., bassoon; Júlio Rizzo, trombone; Paulo Bergmann,
piano; Guinter Leyen, percussion; Rafael Loro, violin; Wagner
Cunha, violin; Carlos Sell, violin; Antônio Carlos Borges Cunha,
conductor
VI Encompor – Auditorium Tasso Corrêa, Porto Alegre, 1998
[excerpt]
Pecado e Desejo (Sin and
Lust) (music for drama, revised for concert version 2003)
16 min | mezzo-soprano, flute, violin, cello
Première: Marlene Hofmann Goidanich, voice; Júlia da Rosa Simões,
flute; Camilo da Rosa Simões, violin; Diego Schuck Biasibetti,
cello
Auditorium Tasso Corrêa, Porto Alegre, 2003
Izutsu (2004)
5 min | clarinet, viola, sampler
Première: Elaine Foltran, sampler; Elimar Blazina,
clarinet; Martinêz Nunes, viola
Auditorium Tasso Corrêa, Porto Alegre, 2005
introjutsu (2005)
6 min 30 s |
xylophone, vibraphone, marimba
Première: Carlos Contreras, vibraphone; Diego Silveira,
xylophone; Samuel Vieira, marimba
Auditorium Tasso Corrêa, Porto Alegre, 2005
[excerpt]
String Quartet I (2005)
14 min
Première: Márcio Cecconello, violin;
Carlos Sell, violin; Martinêz Nunes, viola; Diego Schuck
Biasibetti, cello
Auditorium Tasso Corrêa, Porto Alegre, 2005
[1st
movement]
[excerpt
4th movement]
O Jardim do Kamikaze (The Garden of The
Kamikaze) (2005)
17 min 30 s | percussion trio
Première: Carlos Contreras, Diego Silveira, Samuel Vieira
Auditorium Tasso Corrêa, Porto Alegre, 2005
[excerpt
1st movement]
[excerpt
3rd movement]
Florid Winter (2007)
6 min | bass clarinet, violin,
piano
Première: Gemini Ensemble - Ian Mitchell, bass clarinet;
Caroline Balding, violin; Huw Watkins, piano
Work selected for David Lovatt Prize concert
PATS Studio, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2007
Diversas Vias (2007)
9 min |
SATB choir
(unpremièred)
Fantasmas de la Memoria (2007)
7 min | guitar and cello
Première: Guy Traviss, guitar; Emma Louise Pask, cello
Park Lane Group Young Composers Symposium – Royal Festival Hall,
South Bank Centre, London, 2007
Unturning (2008)
3 min | violin and piano
Première: Lontano Ensemble - Caroline Balding, violin; Dominic Saunders, piano
St Davis Room,
King's College London, 2009
Yellow Eagle on Red Sky (2009)
6 min 20 s | mezzo-soprano, bass clarinet, viola, piano
Première: Gemini Ensemble - Ian Mitchell, bass clarinet; Alison Wells,
mezzo-soprano; Caroline Balding, violin; Huw Watkins, piano
Winner of the David Lovatt Prize
PATS Studio, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2009
Light Trails into the Flickering Landscape
(2009)
8 min 30 s | string quartet and video
(Unpremièred)
Mnesterophonia - cantata for baritone and
chamber ensemble (2010)
16 min | baritone, sopranino/alto/bass
recorders, 3 percussionists, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass
Winner of the Prêmio Funarte de Composição Clássica awarded by the
National Art Foundation of Brazil
Première: XIX Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea - Sala Sidney Miller,
Rio de Janeiro, October 2011
Fabrizio Claussen, baritone; Helder Parente, recorders; João Vidal, piano;
Fernando Pereira, violin; Dhyan Tofollo, viola; Cláudia Grosso, cello; Alexandre
Brasil, contrabass; Janaína Sá, Pedro Moita and Daniel Serale, percussion;
Ubiratã Rodrigues, conductor
Cidade Invisível (Invisible City) (2004)
9 min 45 s |
Four-channel electronics
Première: Auditorium Tasso Corrêa, Porto Alegre, 2005
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music for drama and other collaborative
work
Original music for "Pecado e
Desejo" (Sin and Lust) (1999)
soprano, flute, violin, cello
Première: Júlia da Rosa Simões, flute; Camilo da Rosa Simões,
violin; Marina Kleine, cello; Viviane Juguero, voice
Teatro do DAD, Porto Alegre, 1999
A collaborative work with director Viviane Juguero on texts by
author Nelson Rodrigues
Original music for "Desencontros"
(2004)
electronics, voice
Première: Adriana Deffenti, voice
Basttidores, Porto Alegre, 2005
A collaborative work with director and author Viviane Juguero on
three of her plays: Desencontros, Interfaces, and
Heresia
["L'Ordinateur",
performed by Adriana Deffenti]
Ego-Alien (2006)
10 min | clarinet, trumpet, percussion,
piano
Première: Victoria Louise Spinks, clarinet; Peter Medland,
trumpet; Jonathan Fairey, drums; Caroline Brown, piano;
Christian Benvenuti, conductor
Dance Studio, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2006
A collaborative work with choreographers Lindsay Beale, Theresa
Hawkins, musicians, and dancers for the Composers and
Choreographers Weekend 2006
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