This International open call for works for the Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble was initiated as part of Sonorities Festival plans for April 2020. It was not possible to perform the works at that time due to the Covid pandemic. After another aborted attempt to programme the concert in April 2021, we are now, as you can imagine, delighted to be able to offer this concert, which features 5 composers, chosen through anonymous submission who hail from Chile, Brazil, Columbia, Argentina and N. Ireland.

Marcos Stuardo
Fortis is about expansive melodic lines intertwined with pointillistic textures and sudden violent changes in dynamics and speeds. Here, I tried to create a piece that is always going forward, avoiding evident developmental processes and any sense of return.

Levy Oliveira
Resilio is composed for 5 performers (flute – piccolo, Bb Clarinet, percussion – vibraphone and glockenspiel, violin and cello. Often, the Bb clarinet plays almost as a soloist. The piece was inspired by a poem entitled A ideia (The idea), written by the Brazilian poet Augusto dos Anjos. According to him, our ideas endure a hard process of cognition to be created and often it is interrupted by the weakness of our tongue, that is not capable to express its content. From this principle, the piece also suggests something that is trying to move forward but it is always somehow interrupted.

Pedro Sarmiento
Mockus. I wrote this piece in 2019 to Pierrot Ensamble. It is named after Colombian profesor and politician Antanas Mockus, whose eccentric personality inspired me to create this musical portrait. Every section gives a particular emotional state that the audience can give a free interpretation. I used a special form to combination notes inspired in an Andean braiding technique.

Omar Zatriqi
The Scrying: Scrying is the occult practice of using reflective surfaces to discern advantageous prophesies. However, the reflections may also communicate foreboding prognostications. This potential for a diverse array of outcomes inspired the conception of my work The Scrying. Violent gestures evoke the ominous transmission of unwelcome messages, while sustained textures offer serene respites that elicit the divination of pleasant visions. These opposing musical identities interact continuously, implying a scryer’s emotional conflict between hopeful anticipation and cautious apprehension.

Matías Padellaro
Los desvelos idos.
for flute, clarinet in B, piano, violin and cello.
Born from introspection, reflection and the tensions of what we were, what we are, what we will be, and what we could be and not be, it is an attempt to shed and try to understand the sleeplessness that surrounds us.
It was composed for the international call TACEC Generation and performed with the Ensemble GEAM (Arg) under the mentorship of the composer Simon Steen-Andersen (Denmark) and the Trio Cath (Germany) in Teatro Argentino de La Plata (Centre for Experimentation and Creation) (La Plata, Arg. Sept. 2018).