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Voces de mi tierra for flute, cello and piano
Performance at Bargemusic in New York
neoLIT Ensemble
November 4, 2009

Voces de mi tierra was written for the Meininger-Trio and was premiered at the 15th International Bodensee Festival in Meersburg, Germany, on May 24, 2003.

Voces de mi tierra has received many performances in the US and Europe and has become a repertoire piece with several groups in Europe such as the Meninger-Trio (Germany), Trio Murali (Belgium), NeoArs Sonora (Spain) and in the U.S. by All Season Chamber Players, Toki Ensemble, neoLit Ensemble, Terzetta Trio, Davanti Trio and Terra Voce. The All Seasons Chamber Players performed Voces de mi tierra seven times around the Northeast including the Caldwell College 2007-08 Concert Series.
Published by Hofmeister Musik Verlag.

I. El Cortejo (Courtship)
II. Noche en la Alhambra (Night in the Alhambra)
III. La moza y el gitano (Scherzando) (The peasant and the gypsy)
IV. Gigue.

Performance History
Full PROGRAM NOTES

Meininger-Trio's recording of Voces de mi tierra for flute, cello & piano is available on the PROFIL EDITION Guenter Haenssler label distributed by Naxos.

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Spanish Premiere!
Homenaje a Mompou (2006) for piano
Marcel Worms, piano
Auditori de La Pedrera de Caixa Catalunya.
Sponsored by the Fundacio Frederic Mompou
July 6, 2009

Homenaje a Mompou (2006) was commissioned by Marcel Worms. He has performed this work in Europe and in the U.S.

See PROGRAM NOTES and Concert Brochure.

Published by Hidden Oaks Music Co. Available for sale.

Additional information on Catalan composer Federico Mompou.

World Premiere!
Gacelas de Amor (2009) for soprano, flute and piano
(poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca)
Jörg Waschinski and the Meininger-Trio
Center for International Light Art in Unna (Germany)
June 18, 2009

Gacelas de amor (2009) is based on three poems by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca (from the collection Gacelas, from Diwan del Tamarit (1931-1934). In his Gacelas, the passionate and sensual voice of Lorca burns with maximum intensity. The Gacelas are amorous and erotic in nature and portray metaphorically both the suffering and ecstasy brought by love. Musically this work is set in an evocative but subtle Spanish musical atmosphere with modal overtones.

This work was written for Jörg Waschinski, male soprano; Christiane Meininger, flute; and Rainer Gepp, piano. See full concert program.
Read Concert review (in German) -(in English).

Rainer Gepp, Elisenda Fabregas, Jorg Waschinski and Christiane Meininger after the premiere of Gacelas de Amor on June 18, 2009.

This concert was sponsored by the American Embassy, the Zentrum for Information und Bildung in Unna, the Center for International Light Art in Unna (Germany) and a travel grant from the Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University

World Premiere!
Goyescas (2009) for flute, viola and piano
Ensemble GAUDI
Festival Internacional de Musica (Concerts de Mitjanit) de Sitges (Spain)
June 28, 2009

Goyescas (2009) for flute, viola & piano is an arrangement of the original flute & guitar piece of the same title for the Ensemble GAUDI of Barcelona (Sofia Martinez, flute, Joan Felix,viola, and Isabel Felix, piano.)

This work is based on five paintings by Francisco Goya.

I.     Pregón
II.    La familia de Carlos IV (The family of Charles IV)
III.   Las majas en el balcón (The maiden on the balcony)
IV. El sueño (The dream)
V.    La fragua (The foundry)
VI.   Toque
VII. La gallina ciega (Blind man's bluff)

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Joan Felix, Isabel Felix, Elisenda Fabregas, and Sofia Martinez after the Spanish premiere of Goyescas for flute, viola and piano on June 28, 2009 at the Sala d'Or of the Palau Maricel (Concerts de Mitjanit) in Sitges.

Voices of the Rainforest for flute, cello and piano
is now published!

Voices of the Rainforest for flute (alto), cello and piano is now published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag in Germany.

Available for purchase

PROGRAM NOTES

Meininger-Trio with Elisenda Fabregas
after the premiere of Voices of the rainforest at WDR Concert Hall in Cologne, Germany, on March 15, 2008. This concert was broadcasted on April 26, 2008, on WDR's program Nachtmusik

The pre-premiere took place at the Ibero American Institute in Berlin on March 14, 2008. This concert was sponsored by the Spanish Embassy in Berlin and the Oro Verde (Tropical Rainforest Foundation)

Voices of the rainforest for flute (alto flute), cello and piano (2007) was written for the Meininger-Trio.

Voices of the rainforest is a loose representation of a day in the life of the rainforest. This work came about as a result of my life-long fascination and love for nature and a request from Christiane Meininger. A recording of actual sounds of insects, barking frogs, birds, and the singing of natives of the Papua New Guinea rainforest was the final inspiration for this work.

It consists of five movements:

I. Awakening
II. Sago gatherers
III. Evening rainstorm
IV. Voices of 'inside' night
V. Night spirits.

The slow movement (Voices of the night) uses the alto flute and the regular flute. However there is a version for regular flute only.