Periferia

This quintet is like a sonorous excursion. In fact, it is inspired in the memories of a school visit to Añavingo's gully in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The orography and the singing of the birds...

'The title of the piece is taken from a picture by Piet Mondrian. Like the artwork, the instrumentation is very expressive: two woodwind, two brass, and two string instruments, all mixed by a deep, ex...

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...

This piece is dedicated to the victims of the tragedy in Jakarta, Indonesia, in May 1998.

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.

GENESIS 1.3-8 was originally conceived as a work for string quartet in 2003. During the composition, however, I gradually left the strings to a more 'keyboard' formation. The sensation of lights and c...

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...