Categoria: Composições

Composed for the Gropius Quartet , Germany

I Movement – Dança de Chão (premiered by the Gropius Quartet in October 2022 at the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin)

II Movement – Frevo

III Movement – Ijexá

IV Movement – Forró

Electronics: Vinicius Giusti

Upaapitsi means soul in the language of Wauja, an Indigenous people inhabitant of the upper Xingu, central Brazil. Literally, the word means “another self”, referring to a part of the self during his life. “Soul” in the sense of afterlife is another concept, it is designated by another word. Upaapitsi designates the soul of the living self. In this piece, the C flute represents the living self, while in the fixed electronic part a bass flute represents the Other, Upaapitsi. This pre-recorded flute uses the same materials as the C flute, only it is played in a slower tempo and undergoes timbral transformations. At certain moments, both flutes are in sync. The C flute part has 5 parts, interspersed by electronic sections.

Bass flute: Cassia Carrascoza

Commissioned by Via Nova Ensemble, Germany. Premiered by Marianna Schürmann in 02.10.2022 (Herbstfrequenzen Sondershausen)

hear the premiere

(virtual instruments)

After Ernst Mahle’s Concerto for Trombone (1984).

This work was composed as part of the doctoral dissertation of Diego Leite Ramires and combines a composer-performer collaborative approach and intertextuality.

A version with piano reduction was premiered at Diego’s doctoral dissertation’s defense in 27/10/22.

Version with orchestra (virtual instruments)

Piano Improvisation I and II (Covid-19 pandemic)

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic I thought I would have time enough to compose and therefore to conclude several until then unfinished works, as well as new works. At the time of these two improvisations, I realized that having time enough is not the main point for being productive in composing. I had plenty of time at home and however something was empty: there was a lack of human stuff. Meeting friends, chatting about any subject with any people, going to common places and doing common human things, small talk at a bus stop, looking at stupid little things in a street market, I missed all this. All these things that were cut off due to distancing during the pandemic are sources for the human stuff needed for composition. Not only the time for composing at home, but the time for being with people and living the little small things of life. These improvisations are extremely solitary and were done with this idea in my spirit.

piano: Acacio Piedade
Recorded at 19/10/2020, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil

Saxophone Octet (2 Soprano, 2 Alto, 2 Tenor, 2 Bariotone)

Duration: 7′ 20

Kagapa Onapa means “music of Kagapa“, name of a spirit among the Wauja people of the upper Xingu River, Amazonia, Brazil. During the ritual of Kagapa, two singers sing in unisson. While one stands up behind the other and plays maracas, the other remains seated and plays a rhythmic stick beating it on a trunk. Both singers are surrounded by dancers who also sing their high onomatopoeic cries. The origin myth of Kagapa tells that Kagapa Onapa was learned by a boy when he visited the village of the fishes, where he was invited to marry the chief’s daughter. Since then the Wauja can play Kagapa’s very powerful, energetic and pulsive music for the healing of people and all society.

This piece is inspired in the Kagapa ritual music, which I experienced, recorded, transcribed and analysed during fieldwork among the Wauja for my doctoral dissertation, an ethnography of the their flute music. I used some rhythmic, motivic and textural materials, and some principles such as constant pulse, nucleus-periphery and alternating style. However these materials are deeply transformed to enact another ritual provided by the flexibility and colors of the saxophones at stage.

Kagapa was still not premiered, but you can hear a version here with virtual instruments.

solo cello

8’45

still not premiered

Danças para Violoncelo (Dança em Vermelho; Dança em Azul-Cobalto; Dança em verde musgo com poeira violeta)

(Cloudy Figures)

5 miniatures for piano

not premiered

I.             bustos

formas antigas, uma valsa, uma fugato fugaz, segredo de escuros, tempo cinza

(“busts: ancient forms, a waltz, a fleeting fugato, secret of darks, grey weather”)

II.              autômato

vida de madeira, mecanismo que caminha, coração de bronze tem um devaneio

(“automaton: wooden life, walking mechanism, brass heart has a daydream”)

III.       folhas

riscos, farfalhar, tapete seco sob as pedras, escorregando grota adentro

( “leaves: scratches, rustles, dry carpet under the stones, slipping into the grotto”)

IV.             eurídice

esguia, feminina, olhar altivo, esboços de tempo, espirais de memória, vai-se

(“eurydice: slender, feminine, haughty look, time sketches, memory spirals, it goes”)

V.             corvos

sombras de pássaros negros histriões, gritos na névoa, rasantes, ondulações

(“crows: histrion black birds shadows, screams in the mist, swoops, ripples”)

                  Duration:  5′

for solo guitar – 6′

Based on Indigenous music materials. Composed for guitarist Marcelo Brombilla.

Interview about this piece and Indigenous music:

based on the homonymous Cantiga #1 by Dom Dinis (King of Portugal, XIII Century)

for Bariton, Alto Flt., Medieval Harp, Viola de Arama, Brazilian Fiddle, Organetto

for the ensemble ANIMA (Brazil)

CD Mar Anterior: As Gentes (2020), Selo Sesc – Brazil

Lamento for G , for 2 Flt., Hpsd., 2 Vln., Vla., Vc., Cb.

The note G is absent from this work (except for the last seconds). This Lamento develops this absence in various forms. From the beginning on, G is attracted and surrounded but it does not appear. At the last 3 measures, G is played in harmonics by the first violin.

Lamento for G refers to the note G and G stands for Geo, Earth, symbolizing our planet. G(eo) is imprisoned inside a constant cloud of 11 notes, like a precious jewel locked inside a plastic package. Only in the last seconds, G(eo) weakly manifests itself; a proof of its survival.

1. Intrada Pesante
2. Ciaccona Cromatica
3. Corale
4. Fuga
5. Corale Finale

Premiered in Weimar, 19.12. 2019, Mon Ami, Weimar, Germany

Dedicated to Pachamama
Composed for the Camerata Temporalis

(revision of 2009’s Alternating Duets)

3.3.3.3./4.3.3.1./Perc/Hp/Cel/Str

Linhagens (Linneages) was composed in 2016 and revised in 2019

Premiered at the Tinta Fresca Festival 2019 – Belo Horizonte, 18.06.2019, by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Minas Gerais.

Awarded with Honorable Mention

This work was written for symphonic orchestra and is based on a board of seventeen chords. The idea of Linhagens points to two meanings of this term (in portuguese: “Lines”and “Lineages”): on the one hand, the lines that seam the succession of these chords through motivic materials that come from themselves; On the other hand, the work does not hide its intimate relationship with the tonal harmonic system through the use of intervals of Third and, thus, it puts itself in a lineage: the historical descent of the great “tertial” theory that is the very foundation of tonal music. The ordered chord board is exposed in three sections of lineages and, at each moment, the chords are presented in blocks of textures and varied timbres, concatenated by elements that originate in their own structure. This succession of scenes, sometimes dark, sometimes playful, aims to provoke the senses of the listener through the orchestral timbres. These sections are intercalated by interludes that are constructed from an ordered set of successive Thirds, a material which is also used in the initial section and at the end of Linhagens.

The recording of the premiere cannot be published because it is under the right of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic.

Listen here to a MIDI version

Score of Linhagens

2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/Tmp., Perc., Str.

Prize: I Internationaler Eisenacher Kompositionspreis – Eisenach, Germany August 2019

A Countersubject appears as a shadow of its main theme, the Subject. It accompanies the Subject in all his travels, crossing several landscapes, carrying his suitcases, preparing his soil. However, when appreciated in itself, Countersubjects may possess great beauty and potential independently of their masters. This orchestral work uses countersubjects created by J. S. Bach for some of his famous fugues from The Art of Fugue and The Musical Offering. As the respective Subjects are absent, Countersubjects have here a free space of their own where they can amuse themselves and show all their power.

Premiere: Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach conducted by Alexei Kornienko, at Eisenach, Germany, on 16 August 2019.

Press release: https://www.pressreader.com/germany/thuringer-allgemeine-eisenach/20190819/282432760801549

“Hochspannung herrscht, als die Uraufführung für das Stück ” Divertimento für Kontrasubjekte” durch die Thüringen-Philharmonie unter Leitung von Alexej Kornienko beginnt, und für Hochspannung sorgt das Werk durchgängig. Divertimento heißt übersetzt Vergnügen, und das Zuhören ist tatsächlich ein Vergnügen. Der Komponist hat nach dem Vorbild von Johann Sebastian Bach Fugenthemen im Hintergrund platziert und darüber die Kontrasubjekt-Melodien gelegt. Dadurch wird ein spannungsreiches Klangbild erzeugt, verstärkt durch die außergewöhnliche Instrumentierung und Rhythmisierung. Sowohl die orchestralen als auch die Gruppen- und Solo-Passagen sorgen für feinsinnige Klänge, dank des Mutes zu Pausen und Rhythmik erweitert sich der Spannungsbogen.
Der renommierte russische Dirigent Alexei Kornienko setzt diese potenzialreiche Vorlage mit Hingabe, Sorgfalt und Leidenschaft um, sodass ein Gesamtklang mit berauschend-atmosphärischer Sogwirkung entsteht. Ein Auf und Ab, Hin und Her, Ausatmen und Einatmen bestimmt das Stück. Wogenartige Melodiebögen wechseln sich mit Solo-Akzenten; auf
meditativ-sanfte Passagen folgen expressiv-gewaltige; Düster-Wuchtiges wird durch Strahlend-Schillerndes abgelöst.
Ein Stück wie das Leben mit Höhe und Tiefen, Bergen und Tälern, mit unbewusst im Hintergrund mitschwingenden Beeinflussungen und den vordergründigen Lebensmelodien. Kornienko dirigiert mit dem offensichtlichen Bewusstsein für die Tiefe des Stücks, und die Musiker und Musikerinnen lassen sich ebenso voll darauf ein”

Susanne Sobko – Thüringische Landeszeitung – Eisenach vom 19.08.2019, Seite 22

Personal recording:

https://soundcloud.com/acaciopiedade/divertimento-fur-kontrasubjekte-for-orchestra-2019

for Ensemble:

• Flute
• Clarinet in Bb
• Alto Saxophone
• Trumpet in Bb
• Trombone
• Accordion
• Piano
• Violin
• Double Bass
• Percussion (Snare Drum, Suspended Tambourine, 2 Tom-tom, Bass drum, Suspended Triangle, Suspended Cymbals)

1. March 3:00
2. Interlude Jongleur 1:00
3. Interlude Wood Trio 1:00
4. Interlude Sextet 1:00
5. Interlude Piano 1:00
6. Interlude Canon 1:00
7. Interlude Romantique 1:00
8. Interlude 12 Ton 1:00
9. Interlude Jazzy 1:00
10. Interlude Soldier’s Dance 1:00
11. Burlesque Episode 1:50
12. Finale 1:50

Cycle of pieces inspired by the modernist aesthetic linked to the Bauhaus movement – especially the work L’Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinsky – Commission of the Bauhaus Universität and Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt.

Commissioned by the Bauhaus University and the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar – Germany; for the immersive Music Theater show Cirque du Bauhaus http://www.cirquedubauhaus.de/index.php/contents.html

Premiere: 22.05.2019, Zeiss-Planetarium, Jena, Germany

A MIDI Version:

Score:

News from the press (in German): ttps://jena.otz.de/web/jena/startseite/detail/-/specific/Jena-Eine-Zirkus-Dimension-fuer-das-Bauhaus-1952962783?fbclid=IwAR255mXSR3K7A4Ssv4LBD1ci_nD5Q96Mm4lP4He-J2mtPAbkSNPr7rF2taA

Video disclosure (from 2:17 on)

ps://www.salve.tv/videos/de/2019/190412_Beitrag_RomanMoebiusBauhausfestival_INET.mp4

Video: The dome is the maestro (March)

2.2.2.2./2.2.2.0/perc/str.

Program Note:

The Wauja Indians from the upper Xingu River (Amazon – Brazil) tell the story of a mythic time when the world was dark and cold, and they were still not human, they lived like termites under the earth. A powerful being called Kwamutú happened to appear, bringing them light which he had taken from the Fox. This light was fire and this fire was light. It was such a tremendous event that the world was completely transformed and the Wauja emerged to the surface becoming human. This power of fire and light is called Kwamutú Omonawana. The first section of this work portrays the dark under-earthly world, presenting its voices and dialogues. During the middle section, the emergence of Kwamutú generates a transmutation of the Wauja and their world. The eclosion of fire and light and the humanizing dance as the result of Omonawana constitute the dramaturgy of the third and last section.

Premiered by the Jenaer Philharmonie

Conductor: Markus L. Frank

28.04.2019, Weimar, Germany

recording of the premiere:

Variations is a work for Wind Quintet (Fl, Ob, Cl, Hr, Bs) with a tonal and expressive theme that is transformed by variations and then re-exposed. The piece was selected for the XXIX Panorama of Contemporary Brazilian Music in Rio de Janeiro, and it was debuted by the Quinteto Lorenzo Fernandez at 06.11.2018.

Concert at 20.07. 2019. Teatro de Câmara da Cidade das Artes – Rio de Janeiro – Quinteto Lorenzo Fernandez

 

 

Watch the premiere Concert at http://acaciopiedade.com/en/video/

Onapapitsi (“Tribute Music”) is a composition for two Alto Flutes based on musical techniques employed in rituals by Amazonian Indigenous peoples, particularly the alternating style and multiphonic sounds. Commission for the delivery of the Goethe Medaille 2018. Dedicated to Claudia Andujar and Davi Kopenawa. Premiere at Weimar, Germany.

Onapapitsi was premiered in Brazil in December 2021 by the ABSTRAI ensemble. Flute: Pauxy Gentil-Nunes and Andrea Ernest Dias (starts at 1:20:00)

Listen to an excerpt from the world première ; flute Alto: Fabian Franco Ramirez and Anne Baumbach. Stadtschloss Weimar, 28/08/2018.

score:

https://issuu.com/acaciopiedade/docs/onapapitsi_for_two_alto_flutes_-_ac

Reverences IV – for Claude Debussy

dedicated to Mauricio Zamith

Piano, Violin, Cello

 

Encantamentos (Spells) is an experimental composition for violin, cello and piano that brings excerpts with open writing, with gestures and improvisations. The work seeks to bring the listener to moments of magical suspension and to cause changes in the temporal perception.

Piano: Acácio Piedade; Violin: Deborah Remor; Cello: Eric Miranda Schmitt.

International Festival of art and culture José Luiz Kinceler, Florianópolis, 06/02/2018 (Premiere)

Solitude is a song for piano and soprano with the eponymous poem by Cecilia Meireles, published in the book Viagem (Trip) (1939). 3′ 40

Premiere 08/03/2018

Alicia Cupani, soprano; Luis Claudio Barros, piano

Dedicated to Maria Ignez Mello (In memoriam)

Program Note

Part of the Caderno II (Notebook II) of Bruxólicas (a collection of pieces inspired by witch stories), the part Nr. 4 is the sister of Nrs. 2 and 3 because they have a common material: resonance of sostenuto pedal, symmetric chords, a short gesture in arabesque, among other materials. Here the piano is divided into 4 regions separated by octaves that are suspended by the pedal and create by sympathy a cloud of resonance. The first part goes like a first exposure of a four-voice fugue, but paradoxically without counterpoint, the countersubject being the very cloud of resonance. There is a twelve-tone theme in the subject which will be developed throughout the piece. This witch of Bruxólicas Nr. 4 is a multivocal being that speaks in four voices with very different registers.

Acácio Piedade

Premiere: 8. Concert Musical Mosaic, Teatro alvares de Carvalho, Florianópolis, 12/10/2017. Piano: Acácio Piedade

Hear the premiere of Bruxólicas Nr. 4 – Caderno II

(Euphemic Scenes)

for Flute, Cello, Piano

debuted at the Festival music Nova 2017 – Ribeirão Preto, SP

Ensemble Gilberto Mendes

(Clarinet Sextet)

4 Bb Clarinets

2 Bb Bass Clarinets

The clarinets sextet was composed in 1985 during my studies at UNICAMP for a group of Clarinetists from the university: four BB clarinets and two bass clarinets in BB. The composition was unfinished, so it wasn’t touched. In 2017 I decided to complete this project by preserving the language in which it was written. The work follows a traditional pattern of writing, using many alternations of phrases between sub groups of clarinets.

The three guitar studies were composed as part of my research project at the University. I counted with the collaboration of student guitarist Reginaldo Pereira de Almeida. The study I is traversed by a rhythmic figure in ostinato over which a polyphonic dialogue to two chromatic voices is developed. Study II works the sustain of voices in a polyphonic chromatic material, having a central section that articulates resonances and sounds through campanella technique. The main theme of the study III is based on a left hand fixed position that moves on and produces octatonic sounds, and it has a central section with campanella resonances.

Acácio Piedade

Premiere: 8. Concert Mosaico Musical, Teatro Álvares de Carvalho, Florianópolis, 12/10/2017. Guitar: Marcello Brombilla

Linhagens II (Linneages II) has its the material generated from a seventeen ordered groups of chords. The work encompasses the two-folded meanings of the word “linhagem” in portuguese: on the one hand, “linhagem” refers to lines (for weaving) and this sense appears through the sewing of these chords by internal lines; on the other, “linhagem” refers to lineages, kinship, and here there is an heritage of the tonal harmonic system through the use of triads. Linhagens II is divided in four parts I. 2 ′, II.  2 ′, III.  Two, IV. 3 ′.

Acácio Piedade

(unpremiered)

Performance Alinhavos (Threads) – Linhagens II, piano and electronics, 25 ′

Debuted in November at the XIV national Meeting of Creativity Sound (ENCUN 2016) in Porto Alegre, the performance Alinhavos– Linhagens II It is approximately twenty-five minutes and proposes crossovers and interactions that align music, spoken poetry and audiovisual. The idea is tack lines of nature, restoring known shapes, unfolding them, recreating them through music, image and Word. Multiplicity of languages that interpenetrate, which extend into a continuous deviance of traces in mobile plasticity, which draws the visual and audible space.

 Alinhavos– Linhagens II It is part of a series of work by Silvana Leal entitled Alinhavos. These are plastic, visual, performance and sound works using the lines as a basis for a compositional material – the line as research in the construction of unusual shapes and actions. The video is a collage of three previous works of Silvana that, alinhavados in this work, are recreated in another conception.

The musical work created by Acácio Piedade for this performance action, conceived for piano and electronics, is based on the work for piano solo Linhagens II. The electronic part of Alinhavos– Linhagens II  It was elaborated from sound objects created with musical instruments (such as vibraphone, marimba, eardrum, bomb, dishes), water sounds, wood squeaks and other materials, altered by manipulation and digital modulation.

Silvana Leal

Listen here three excerpts from the premiere of Alinhavos/Linhagens II

(Three Reliefs)

Woodwind Orchestra

Picc., 3Fl, 3Ob., 3Bn., Eb cl., 2Bb CL. Bs. Cl., 2Alt. Sax. Ten. Sax, Bar. Sax., 4Hn., 3Tpt., 3Tbn., Tba., Db., Timp., Vib., 3Perc.

I.Escarpas ; II. Colinas; III. Plains

10’

Work selected by the XVIII Panorama da Música Brasileira Atual and debuted in 27/11/2016 by the Woodwind Orchestra of UFRJ, regency of Marcelo Jardim, Sala Cecilia Meireles, Rio de Janeiro.

Program note:

Três Relevos (three landscapes) are inspired by three different geographical formations and the expressive contents associated to them. The movements are executed without stop. Escarpments are repetitive, full of slopes and edges that limit them. In the Hills there end the sharp tips, and the elevations are more linear and gradually ascending. The Plains where we arrive are flat but swept by winds, hence the static agitation. The work is a kind of painting of these landscapes.

Acácio Piedade

Audio: recording of the premiere

Listen also  Escarpments A version of the first movement of Três Relevos, written for wind ensemble. Escarpas was premiered by the Mogiana band (Festival Music Nova, 2016). Conductor: José Gustavo Julio de Camargo.

(Daydream)

Work for solo guitar composed in 2016 at the Ateliê Casa das Idéias, Campeche, Florianópolis. Dedicated to Silvana Leal.

performance by Leonardo Müller (III Festival Edino Krieger, 2021)

Program note

Reverências (2009-2016)

Reverências is a cycle of pieces written in reference to the compositional languages of composers who have marked my formation years. The cycle counts today with three piano pieces in four hands, but it is continuous. The first piece is Abertura Soviet – for Dmitri Shostakovich, composed and premiered in 2009. The first theme is grandiose ouverture and the second is more intimate, this duality representing two historical facets of the life of this composer: on the one hand, the artist subject to the aesthetic rules of the State, compelled to express grandeur and vigor, but sounding somehow a little grotesque; On the other, the composer with his deepest free inspiration, composing secretly. The second piece, Adagio Misterioso – for Gustav Mahler, begins with variations on the motive I’ve called “magic chariot”, which is present in some works of the composer, as in the beginning of the Fourth Symphony. The language here refers to the late Romanticism and the transition to the twentieth Century, with the first steps towards atonality. The work unfolds as a fantasy, combining the pastoral and the mysterious, as well as some allusions to Wagner’s Tristan motif and Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and at the very end there is a brief quotation from the beginning of Mahler’s First Symphony. The third piece is entitled Dança do Menino Tuhú – for Heitor Villa-Lobos, and it has a playful, dancing and popular spirit, representing the tricks of the boy Tuhú, nickname of Heitor Villa-Lobos as a child. In the central part of the piece the spirit goes more emotional and is construed as quotation of the known piano piece “Brazilian Soul”. The whole cycle is impregnated with a tonal aesthetic with some touches of free atonality. The second and third pieces, composed from February to April 2016, which debut in this concert, have cyclic elements, absent in the first. These three pieces have a traditional formal structure, the musical language being purposefully more tonal and conservative, in order to establish an open dialogue with these three pillars of concert music of the twentieth Century. They are reverences to these masters, and references to my formation.

Premiere 03/05/2017

Duo Castelan & Barros

Music Department Auditorium- UDESC

Listen to the three pieces

(Dance in Red), 2015, solo cello, 6 ′. This piece explores shades of red showing the dark and warm qualities of the cello’s breath. Excerpts from this piece were part of the original track of the contemporary dance show Rec(L)Usadax, dancer-choreographer Elke Siedler.

Premiered on 21/01/2018 at Konzertsaal der Musikhochschule Münster, Germany, by cellist Fabio Presgrave.

Listen here a studio recording made by Fabio Presgrave (2017).

To those who hesitate – a poem by Bertolt Brecht

Original name of the poem: “To a Wavarer”

Part of the Svendborg Poems (1938-1941)

Aos que Hesitam, for Soprano, Alto Recorder, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion

Portuguese Translation: Paulo Cesar Souza

AOS QUE HESITAM – Bertolt Brecht

Você diz: Nossa causa vai mal. A escuridão aumenta. As forças diminuem. Agora, depois que trabalhamos por tanto tempo,

Estamos em situação pior que no início. Mas o inimigo está aí, mais forte do que nunca. Sua força parece ter crescido. Ficou com aparência de invencível. Mas nós cometemos erros, não há como negar.

Nosso número se reduz. Nossas palavras de ordem Estão em desordem. O inimigo

Distorceu muitas de nossas palavras Até ficarem irreconhecíveis. Daquilo que dissemos, o que é agora falso: Tudo ou alguma coisa? Com quem contamos ainda? Somos o que restou, lançados fora

Da corrente viva? Ficaremos para trás Por ninguém compreendidos e a ninguém compreendendo? Precisamos ter sorte? Isto você pergunta. Não espere Nenhuma resposta senão a sua.

Premiere

Toccata, 2 violas, 7 ‘

This Toccata has the subtitle Chamamé (South American Rhythm) and was composed especially for the II national meeting of Violistas, which took place in Florianópolis in 2016.

Executed by Alexandre Razera and Jairo Chaves, 21/10/2016, Teatro alvares de Carvalho, Florianópolis.

Bruxólicas Nr. 3 – Caderno II

Premiere: Teatro Alvares de Carvalho (TAC) Florianópolis, November 2015.

The second piece of Caderno II (notebook II) of the Bruxólicas series, for piano solo.

(Curiosities from the Microverse)

Partitura  (Score)

Links: Soundcloud

Audio: I. flagrante: beijo de deuses (Flagrant: Kiss of gods)

II. also war es gehört

III. sonho de borboleta (Butterfly’s dream)

IV. f(r)estas

Flute, Oboe, Bassoon

Ghost Joke, Divertimento for flute, oboe and bassoon (2012). Selected and premiered in the XXV Panorama da Música Brasileira Atual, in the Salão Leopoldo Miguez (Rio de Janeiro, RJ) in 26/5/12. Selected and executed at the London New Wind Festival in 2017.

“Marine”  (2012)

Poem by Cecilia Meireles

Premiered in Florianópolis in 2013

Fl. , Ob. , Cl. , Hp. , Mand. , Gtr. , Vl., Vla. , Vcl., Bs., Pf., Perc.

Premiered in 2010

Selected for the Encontro Internacional de Cordas, June 2021

Paraboles

3 Violas, 3 Cellos

I. La lumière de l’obscure, II. Les ondes du temps

FUNARTE 2010 Award, performed at the XIX Contemporary Music Biennial, RJ, October 2011

Deserts (2009), for mezzo soprano, two guitars and cello

I. Opening, II, III, IV, V. Interlude, VI, VII, VIII, IX. End

Work dedicated to Maria Ignez Mello (In memoriam)

Poems chosen from the book Désert, Déserts, by Jean-Yves Leloup (Albin Michel, 1996). Translation: Acácio Piedade.

Voice: Beatriz Sanson; Guitars: Luiz Mantovani and Igor Ishikawa; Cello: Hans Twitchell.

Recomposition of an old French song

Premiered in the Teatro Alvares de Carvalho in 01/11/2013

Piano: Acácio Piedade; Cello: Tacio César Vieira

em video

Bruxólicas – Book I, is a cycle of 7 pieces for solo piano inspired by the narratives about witches in Santa Catarina Island, Southern Brazil, as compiled by folklorist Franklin Cascaes and published in the two volumes of the work “O Fantástico na Ilha de Santa Catarina” (see below).

Each of the stories contained in these books inspires one of the pieces, which carry the same title. The composition, however, is not thought of as programmatic, for the narrative does not provide a plot for the music, but rather inspires the sonic imagination of the fantastic universe of the island described in the books.

The Bruxólicas Book I  contains pieces with a medium level of technical difficulty.

1. Vassoura Bruxólica (Witch’s broom)
2. Bruxas Gêmeas (Twin witches)
3. Congresso Bruxólico (Witch Congress)
4. Velha Bruxa Chefe (Old Chief Witch)
5. Orquestra Selenita Bruxólica (Selenite Witch Orchestra)
6. Balanço Bruxólico (Witch’s Swing)
7. O Estado Fadórico das Bruxas (The fairy state of Witches)

CASCAES, Franklin. The Fantastic on the Island of Santa Catarina, Vol. I. Florianópolis: Ed. Da UFSC, 1989.
—– The Fantastic on Santa Catarina Island, Vol. II. Florianópolis: Ed. Da UFSC, 1992.

Listen to all 7 pieces of Bruxólicas Book I, played by Mauricio Zamith

Bruxólicas Nr.1

 

Bruxólicas Nr.2

 

Bruxólicas Nr.3

 

Bruxólicas Nr.4

 

Bruxólicas Nr.5

 

Bruxólicas Nr. 6

 

Bruxólicas Nr.7