JDLCH by ANYELO TROYA“An extraordinarily deep thinker… able to take a listener into mysterious by—ways using very slender means.”
— Stephen Moul [Music Trust]
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ROSARIO ARMAS
11.01.24
De La Chica: ARIAS FLORENTINAS &
CANCIONES DE LA MUERTE
Irreverence Group Music [IGM] presents the debut studio album of Mexican mezzo-soprano Rosario Armas, accompanied by her husband, Cuban pianist Ahmed Alom, set to be released on November 1st (Día de los Muertos).
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“Armas employs the full breadth of her vocal register, skillfully transitioning from lower, Verdian mezzo tones to the gentleness of bel canto legato. Her mastery echoes the golden—age singers…”
— Juan Lázaro
Spanish coach and assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera of New York
Listening to Canciones de la Muerte, Op. 20, No. 4: Quietud
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BRIANA HUNTER
11.17.23
De La Chica: DISPERSED AND
TRANSCENDENTAL CHANTS
Praised as a “Mesmerizing mezzo-soprano with a fiery theatrical presence and dynamic vocalism” Opera News, Briana Hunter is set to release her latest album, Dispersed and Transcendental Chants, with pianist Eric Sedgwick on November 17, 2023.
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“The deeply EMOTIONAL album forges bridges between this world and ancestral veneration, African spirituality, personal confession, grief, and strength.”
— I Care If You Listen
Listening to Chant 8: The Word
NEWS
Agatha, now available on Amazon Prime
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Mezzo Briana Hunter Unveils Debut Studio Album:
A New Song Cycle by Julián De La Chica
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Julián De La Chica wins Best Historical Fiction Novel
at ILBA 25th Edition
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Julián De La Chica: Revering the Irreverent.
Interview by WildKat
De La Chica: Symphony 1
“The results are dark and hypnotic, evocative, sometimes cinematic. The four cycles (De La Chica avoids the term “movements”) work as a whole, but there’s no apparent narrative through line. Oddly, the one redemptive moment comes in the second cycle, which creates a fascinatingly discomfiting false promise. As music for a time of isolation, it works spectacularly well. As a musical offering of hope, somewhat less so.” — Kurt Gottschalk
De La Chica: Poemas de Bar
“Poemas de Bar is at the same time a cycle of deceptive simplicity. Each song suggests the bare outlines of a complex scenario of relationships, layers of memory filtered through the straightforward poetry. Musically, De La Chica knows how to use space and the weight of silence to load the most commonplace chords with aching resonance. Preconceived musical entities like “dissonance” or a jazz riff become sealed in a kind of sonic amber—objects in themselves. — Thomas May
FILMS
AGATHA
10.10.20
IGM presents Agatha, the first film made by Brooklyn-based, Colombian-born composer, pianist, and filmmaker Julián De La Chica. The film debuted at the Festival de Cine de Bogotá (Bogocine) in its 37th Year and since its completion in spring 2020, Agatha has circulated through nearly three dozen international film festivals, and has received numerous accolades for its outstanding cinematography, acting, LGBTQUIA+ and experimental significance, and haunting film score.
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“De La Chica exhibits directorial competency in creating a fully-realised canvas; through his melancholic score, long takes and unkempt man and cave surrounded by alcohol and drugs, Agatha evokes isolation and loneliness, unfulfilled sexual desire and repression, and depression to the point of self-termination.”
— Adrian Perez Lonely Wolf Festival
VIDEO
ON SET | YANA MANN
9.19.21
Brooklyn record label Irreverence Group Music (IGM) takes us behind the scenes with the eclectic classical singer, whom they film for her Carnegie Hall debut.
A Film by Julián De La Chica
EVENTS
Leonardo Gell (Piano) & Jonathan Cáceres (Piano)
De La Chica: Duet No. 1 | Spanish Premiere
January 15, 2025, 12:00 PM
Real Academia de Bellas Artes, Madrid
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Leonardo Gell (Piano) & Jonathan Cáceres (Piano)
De La Chica: Duet No. 1 | World Premiere
January 11, 2025, 08:00 PM
Paliesiaus dvaras, Mielagėnai
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Rosario Armas & the WSMF Chamber Orchestra
De La Chica: Canciones de la Muerte, Op. 20 | World Premiere
December 08, 2024, 4:00 PM
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, NY.
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Yana Mann (Mezzo) & Arseniy Chubachin (Cello)
De La Chica: Poemas de Bar, Op. 12 | German Premiere
December 04, 2024, 8:00 PM
Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin
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BOOKS
GOD’S PUNISHMENT
06.29.22
Since 2000, composer Julián De La Chica has been researching Agua de Dios, Colombia, and its history as a town forcibly confining leprosy patients and those suspected of having leprosy. For his research, De La Chica visited the community and interviewed persons with information about those who crossed the Puente de Los Suspiros (Bridge of Sighs) over the Río Bogotá and into the concentration camps.
Those inmates, who were forced by the Colombian government to relinquish their rights as citizens—their identities, possessions, and families—numbered into the tens of thousands until the leprosarium was closed in 1961.
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“God’s Punishment is not just about a painful past. Even now, people often suffer not as much from the health conditions they have as from the public health measures that are supposed to manage those conditions. The fate of people affected by leprosy, and its impact on entire generations, is one of those sad stories. With powerful language, author Julián De La Chica reminds and warns us of what can happen when human rights are taken away from people.”
— Professor Dainius Pūras, MD | Psychiatrist and human rights advocate. Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health
* God's Punishment won the AWA (Award-Winning Author) award for Best Novel - Historical Fiction - English, and it has also received an Honorable Mention for Best LGBTQ+ Theme Book at the 25th edition of the International Latino Book Awards 2023 (ILBA). During the award ceremony at Los Angeles City College in LA, the book received the Silver Medal under its category.
Julián De La Chica by Stan Ptisin
ABOUT ME
Praised for his "meditative simplicity" [The New Yorker Magazine] described as "an extraordinarily deep thinker... able to take a listener into mysterious byways using very slender means" [Music Trust], and noted for his "spare and pensive" music [NewSounds], Julián De La Chica is an award—winning Colombian multidisciplinary artist and author (AWA), based in Brooklyn, NY. His influences range from minimalism and post—minimalism to the alternative electronic scene. His work often juxtaposes spiritual reflection with an exploration of humanity’s inner darkness, drawing inspiration from everyday images. His music mixes piano, strings, and classical voices with electronic keyboards and controllers, crossing genres from classical to ambient and electronic music. With a discography that includes six solo albums and over eighteen collaborative projects (between singles and albums), De La Chica’s music has been recorded and performed by artists worldwide and has been featured on Spotify’s Classical New Releases playlist. His work has also premiered at prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid.