Lisa Moore Live in NYC | Music by Philip Glass & Julián De La Chica
Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 8:00 PM @ The DiMenna Center in New York City, Lisa Moore will World Premiere her new CD: Julián De La Chica's Preludes Op. 8 (For piano and synthesizer) produced and published by Brooklyn based, independent record label, Irreverence Group Music (IGM).
Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 8:00 PM @ The DiMenna Center in New York City, Celebrated pianist Lisa Moore will World Premiere her new CD: Julián De La Chica's Preludes Op. 8 (for piano and synthesizer) produced and published by Brooklyn based, independent record label Irreverence Group Music (IGM). For the first part of the concert, Ms. Moore chose works by American composer Philip Glass: Etude No. 2, Metamorphosis II and Satyagraha Act III, Conclusion. Australian pianist Lisa Moore has been described as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned… lustrous at the keyboard” (The New York Times), “visionary” and "New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” (The New Yorker).
Ms. Moore will perform with composer De La Chica on synthesizer.
Lisa Moore
De La Chica: Prelude Op. 8 No. 13
Julián De La Chica Live at ShapeShifter Lab
On 16 August 2018 (Thu), at 8:15 pm, Composer and pianist Julián De La Chica will release his second solo album Psychosis a cycle for piano, synth and electronic at Brooklyn's ShapeShifter Lab. In this work, De La Chica will play for the first time a set of electronic music ranging from Modern Classical to Ambient and Minimal electronic music.
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Thursday, 16 August, 2018, at 8:15 PM, Composer and pianist Julián De La Chica will release his second solo album Psychosis a cycle for piano, synth and electronic at Brooklyn's ShapeShifter Lab. In this work, De La Chica will play for the first time a set of electronic music ranging from Modern Classical to Ambient and Minimal electronic music.
Since always, the mind has been an intriguing world for us. The relationship between the so-called soul, the conscience, the mind and the spirit, proposes questions that we can hardly answer. "Psychosis", as a mental illness, is defined as the difficulty in determining what is real and what is not. Some of its most well known symptoms may include false beliefs and seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear. This Cycle, for Synth, electronic and piano explores the "Psychosis"of today's virtual existence where the internet inexorably changes our reality. It explores our false beliefs, the nakedness of the obvious, the nakedness of perception.
Album Trailer:
In a world dominated by the "Social Media", the images that we create of ourselves become a parallel world in which we inhabit daily. Always waiting for a "like", waiting for acceptance, waiting for validation of our actions. It's the vanity of our other self and we become slaves of that pseudo reality. Perhaps that's how we think we're happy... we want forget that we're going to die. We all have a "psychosis", and in this album, I explore my own... — JDLCH
About Julian De La Chica:
De La Chica is a Colombian composer, pianist and record producer based in Brooklyn, NY, whose influences range from American minimalism to the alternative and electronic scene. His work, most of the time inspired by everyday images, the search of personal spiritual reflection and the inner darkness, mixes piano, strings, and classical singers, with electronic keyboards and controllers, crossing over from classical to ambient/electronic music.
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Celebrated pianist Lisa Moore releases her new album with music by Julian De La Chica
Described as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned… lustrous at the keyboard” by The New York Times and crowned “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” and “visionary” by The New Yorker, the celebrated pianist Lisa Moore released her new album DE LA CHICA: PRELUDES OP. 8 on March 1st 2018. The album - produced and published by independent record label Irreverence Group Music - is the Premiere Recording of the New York based Colombian composer Julián de la Chica's Preludes Op. 8 for piano and synthesizer.
Described as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned… lustrous at the keyboard” by The New York Times and crowned “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” and “visionary” by The New Yorker, the celebrated pianist Lisa Moore released her new album DE LA CHICA: PRELUDES OP. 8 on March 1st 2018. The album - produced and published by independent record label Irreverence Group Music - is the Premiere Recording of the New York based Colombian composer Julián De La Chica's Preludes Op. 8 for piano and synthesizer.
Album Notes
Lisa Moore's repertoire and discography include a wide range of piano literature, from baroque to modern - where experimental music, minimalism, and post-minimalism play a important role. Her oeuvre continues to grow with the addition of this album, dedicated to New York-based Colombian composer Julián de la Chica’s Preludes Op. 8 for piano and synthesizer.
These 14 preludes are an example of “sensorial-minimalism” and perhaps they are a continuation of the composer's exploration in his two recent cycles: Nocturnal & Circular Images Op. 5 for piano (performed by the composer himself), and Experimentelle und Unbestimmte Lieder Op. 9 for soprano, piano and synthesizer (recorded by American soprano Rachel Hippert). In these works, and his piano Preludes, Mr. De La Chica organically oscillates between post-minimal and ambient music. With the constant evolution of music, each epoch engenders new bodies of both performers and audience. In this album, Ms. Moore presents a form of piano art that challenges itself and views virtuosity as a technical practice guided by the search for sound. The repertoire ultimately becomes a way to forge the pianist’s body and way of listening, and it evolves side by side with the creation of sound in time.
“Open, warm, inviting, beguiling -Julian’s music is unique and beautiful. He stretches time. Clear, simple, tender melodies line the air, sculpting edges across open harmonic spaces. His gentle blend of piano and synthesizer creates cushioned swirling textures, coaxing memory and imagery, soothing and consoling. I was really touched when Julian asked me to record his piano music. For me, the moment seemed just right to do this album. I feel a strong visceral connection.I hope listeners do too.”
— Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore&
Julián De La Chica
Photo by Hassan Malik
Julián De La Chica’s Preludes Op. 8 for piano and synthesizer were composed in New York City between 2015 and 2017. About these works, the author says: “The Op. 8 cycle is a process that improvises the image that is absent. The hidden image creates emotion, truth and reality… The Preludes are an exploration of another kind of virtuosity... the virtue of sound. What lies behind, what we do not see.”
Every new school exists because it engages in a dialogue with tradition. Italian pianist and musicologist Luca Chiantore reminds us, for instance, that “what is modern about Beethoven’s research is that which the music score does not say: a reflection of the physiological components of the performance, the equilibrium of forces that the performer establishes with the keyboards, something that can also be produced in pages of great simplicity” (Beethoven al piano, 2010). I daresay, without a trace of historiographical reserve, that Lisa Moore’s work exemplifies that dialogue between exploration and the rigorous development of traditional performance practice. The composer proposes ideas, then Lisa Moore’s performance creates a dialogue between those ideas and her performance and sound development. Essentially, what the score does not say exists in Lisa Moore’s unique sound as a pianist, and is what invites us to listen to these Preludes within our living time.
Susan Campos - Fonseca, PhD
Musicologist and composer
Behind the Scenes
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“When I think about the preludes, I think of Lisa. She narrated the story with elegant inventiveness. Sophistication. She was seductive and indomitable. She thought continuously of the sound, she explored the piano as a stage, the concept as a scene. Lisa was transfigured in that image that is not there, that we do not see, but that exists ... she has the maturity and the vision to do it.”
— Julián De La Chica
the artists
Lisa Moore
Photo by Hassan Malik
The New York Times writes ‘Lisa Moore has always been a natural, compelling storyteller’ while TimeOut New York describes her as ‘the wonderfully lyrical pianist’. Lisa Moore has released 10 solo albums (Cantaloupe, Orange Mountain, IGM, Tall Poppies, Bandcamp) ranging from Leoš Janáçek to Philip Glass. Her 2016 album The Stone People (Cantaloupe), featuring music by John Luther Adams, Martin Bresnick, Missy Mazzoli, Kate Moore, Frederic Rzewski, and Julia Wolfe, made both The New York Times Top Classical Albums of 2016 list and Naxos’ 2017 Critics’ Choice.
Ms. Moore has recorded more than thirty collaborative discs (Sony, Nonesuch, DG, BMG, New World, ABC Classics, Albany, New Albion, Starkland, Harmonia Mundi, Bandcamp). She has worked with over 200 composers and performed globally as both a soloist and a collaborator with a large and diverse range of musicians and artists including the London Sinfonietta, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet, Steve Reich Ensemble, American Composers Orchestra, Bang On A Can All-Stars (founding member ‘92-’08), Paul Dresher Double Duo, So Percussion, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Grand Band, TwoSense, and Ensemble Signal. Festival highlights include Lincoln Center, BAM Next Wave, Tanglewood, Aspen, Chautauqua, Gilmore, Huddersfield, Holland, Graz, Paris d'Automne, Rome, Milan, Turin, Hong Kong, BBC Proms, Southbank, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne Metropolis, Israel, and Warsaw - in venues - Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, La Scala, Musikverein, and the Sydney Opera House.
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Julián De La Chica is a Colombian composer, pianist and record producer based in Brooklyn, NY, whose influences range from American minimalism to the alternative and electronic scene. His work, most of the time inspired by everyday images, the search of personal spiritual reflection and the inner darkness, mixes piano, strings, and classical singers, with electronic keyboards and controllers, crossing over from classical to ambient/electronic music.
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Nocturnal & Circular Images Op. 5, the "Behind the Scenes"
Independent record label, Irreverence Group Music - IGM presents: Nocturnal and circular images Op. 5 - The behind the Scenes. Exclusive and raw images about the album's recording and some intimate moments with composer and pianist Julián De La Chica. Featuring tracks like Fado, introspective, Etude and others, De La Chica gives us his thoughts on minimalism, being a composer today and some of his inspirations in life and in music.
Independent record label, Irreverence Group Music - IGM presents: Nocturnal and circular images Op. 5 - The behind the Scenes. Exclusive and raw images about the album's recording and some intimate moments with composer and pianist Julián De La Chica. Featuring tracks like Fado, introspective, Etude and others, De La Chica gives us his thoughts on minimalism, being a composer today and some of his inspirations in life and in music.
The Music
New York based, Colombian pianist and composer Julián De La Chica wrote the Nocturnal & Circular images Op. 5 in 2014 which premiered in December 2014 a the Saint Joseph’s Brooklyn Cathedral. The Cycle Op. 5 is a group of 10 pieces written for the piano, inspired by different night scenes, situations and/or characters. The work suggests a direct relationship between everyday sound and inner images that we create or concoct. The work contains a simple and clean composition form, notes that repeat indefinitely, raw and free textures and static harmonic cycles. In this work, Mr. De La Chica continues the series that began in 2011 with the cycle Op. 4, in which he experimented with genres such as Latin, hip hop, techno and pop, creating 11 night-time images based on situations that happened in New York City.
Julián De La Chica
Photo by Hassan Malik
In the Cycle Op. 5, Mr. De La Chica seeks to strip the piano bare, reaching a sound that is void of interpretative recourse. Musicologist, composer and writer Susan Campos - Fonseca refers to the work as "ascetic" in her musings on "musical excess" and, in discussing the music of De La Chica, speaks of a "Trans-minimal aggression". According to Ms. Campos - Fonseca: “Listening from this perspective can be daunting to the contemporary ear; the idea of complexity as synonymous with quality, the saturation of the sound landscape and productions that represent the so-called post-post-symphonic great culture deafen us ... why? The reason lies in our need for saturation, rational self-complacency in excess, in the spectacle where nudity is not enough, where open flesh and blood, even death, do not sate us. No, we will not find that in the music of Julián De La Chica. It is writ large across the works that make up this experience: the aggression of the minimum lies there"...
Composer Julián de la Chica & Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, NY
Photo by Hassan Malik
Album Notes
Julián De La Chica considers himself to be an "experimenter”, not a "composer". However, he composes a micro-universe from naked atomic sound. The skin is a set of pores traversed by particles of world. The music De La Chica explores the liminal atomic spaces between these pores and the world.
The Cycle Op. 5 shown in this album does not speak of the Colombian composer living in New York city; It is a pilgrimage. The piano is the only trace of this journey of identity which is, in short, destruction. The inner sound, is the deepest for those who create from the musical abyss. Sound culture around us weaves nets like mermaid songs and Penelope mantles ... he who seeks his sound needs to choose; and home is not always Ithaca.
Julián De La Chica, as Samuel Beckett, knows that companionship is being "alone" and, as in the nighttime images of William Blake, speaks of the unfathomable path with the smallest gesture of a human hand. In his Cycle Op. 5, De La Chica opens the "metaphysical box" called piano, which imagined Oteiza, like a beloved body, sole companion, minimum.
Susan Campos - Fonseca, PhD
Musicologist and composer.
the artist
Julián De La Chica is a Colombian composer, pianist and record producer based in Brooklyn, NY, whose influences range from American minimalism to the alternative and electronic scene. His work, most of the time inspired by everyday images, the search of personal spiritual reflection and the inner darkness, mixes piano, strings, and classical singers, with electronic keyboards and controllers, crossing over from classical to ambient/electronic music.
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Julian De La Chica debuts at Carnegie Hall
Monday, March 28, 2016, 7:30 pm, @ Carnegie Hall in New York City, Irreverence Group Music - IGM celebrates the album's release of alternative singer Radmila Lolly. The concert premieres works by New York based Colombian composer Julián De La Chica: String Quartet No.1 Op. 7 performed by the cutting edge Scorchio Quartet and Four Short Stories at the Standard Hotel Op. 6 performed by Tenor José Heredia. De La Chica, a post minimalist, takes on the challenge of exploring different ways of listening to the world.
Monday, March 28, 2016, 7:30 pm, @ Carnegie Hall in New York City, Irreverence Group Music - IGM celebrates the album's release of alternative singer Radmila Lolly. The concert premieres works by New York based Colombian composer Julián De La Chica: String Quartet No.1 Op. 7 performed by the cutting edge Scorchio Quartet and Four Short Stories at the Standard Hotel Op. 6 performed by Tenor José Heredia. De La Chica, a post minimalist, takes on the challenge of exploring different ways of listening to the world.
Program
Preludes Op. 8 (*)
No. 1Nocturnal & Circular Images Op. 5
No. 1 Illumination
No. 6 Retrospective
String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 (*)
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
No. 5
Intermission
Four Short Stories at the Standard Hotel Op. 6 (*)
No. 1 Jengibre
No. 2 Libertad
No. 3 Eros
No. 4 Autodestrucción
Präludium: (Aufruf) Gesegnete Dunkelheit (*)
Ave Maria (*)
(*) World Premiere
Program Notes
The modern age is all about saturation. The music of Julián De La Chica takes on the challenge of exploring different ways of listening to the world. Listening to this perspective can be daunting to the contemporary ear. The notion of complexity as synonymous with quality, the saturation of the sound landscape and productions that represent the so-called post-post-symphonic great culture deafens us ... why? The reason lies in our need for saturation, rational self-complacency in excess, in the spectacle where nudity is not enough; where open flesh and blood, even death, do not sate us …
The works gathered in this concert tie a sole string. They are the anatomy of a knot, as in the Japanese art of shibari literally "bind" the saturated body, and this bond, releasing the possibility of sensuality and sophisticated listening. In the first half of the concert, a selection of Mr. De La Chica's works for piano: Prelude Op. 8 No. 1 (Premiere) and Nocturnal & Circular Images Op. 5, No.1 Illumination and No. 6, Retrospective (Included in his latest album: Nocturnal & Circular Images Op. 5 - IGM, 2015) accompany the premiere of his String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 (V Cycles) performer by the Scorchio Quartet, known by its versatility and sound in music ranging from Philip Glass to David Bowie.
Mr. De La Chica composed a piece for a string quartet that communes with his Cycle Op. 5. This work does not speak of the Colombian composer living in New York City; it is a pilgrimage. The piano and the string quartet are traces of this journey of identity which is, in short, destruction. The inner sound, is the deepest for those who create from the musical abyss. Sound culture around us weaves nets like mermaid songs and Penelope mantles ... he who seeks his sound needs to choose; and home is not always Ithaca. Mr. De La Chica, as Samuel Beckett, knows that companionship is being "alone" and, as in the nighttime images of William Blake, speaks of the unfathomable path with the smallest gesture of a human hand.
The Four Short Stories at the Standard Hotel Op.6, written for string quartet, two singers and Soprano/tenor soloist, are based on short stories written by the composer during his first months living in New York. The Scorchio Quartet and tenor José Heredia explore the possibility of the stories as fractures where light eventually enters. Anthony Majewski and Elisa Nikoloulias from the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus perform voices making "noise", evoking the soundscape of everyday repetition. The set is a look at this meeting place where everyone is alone. The big city gives them a break when they simply sit and listen as ephemeral flowers on a table at the Standard Hotel.
Präludium: (Aufruf) Gesegnete Dunkelheit and Ave Maria, as in Mr. De La Chica's Mandala cycle (Album Minimal Aggression - IGM, 2015) the ascetic exercise to which the composer is subjected, imposes the maximum restriction of means, looking for a minimum that is full of possibility, concludes as it initiates, taking the aegis of cycles Op. 5, 6 and 7. The image of a room in the middle of nowhere, and absolute self-awareness in that one room, are the essence of these works.
The concert is based on a single principle: think saturation from the possibility of a "Trans-minimal-aggression". Mr. De La Chica considers himself to be an "experimenter", not a "composer". However, he creates a micro-universe from atomic naked sound. The skin is a set of pores traversed by particles of world. The music of Mr. De La Chica explores the liminal atomic spaces between these pores and the world.
Susan Campos - Fonseca, PhD
Musicologist and composer
Radmila Lolly
Scorchio Quartet &
Julián De La Chica
Photo by Hassan Malik
Leonardo Gell, estrenará "El Retorno"
El pianista Cubano Leonardo Gell, estrenará el proximo 9 de febrero en la Sala de conciertos "Ignacio Cervantes" del Antiguo Casino Español de La Habana, la obra para piano "The Return" dentro de su gira "Estrenos Latinoamericanos". Participa también Sofía Zumbado (Saxofón - Costa Rica).
El pianista Cubano Leonardo Gell, estrenará el proximo 9 de febrero en la Sala de conciertos "Ignacio Cervantes" del Antiguo Casino Español de La Habana, la obra para piano The Return dentro de su gira "Estrenos Latinoamericanos". Participa también Sofía Zumbado (Saxofón - Costa Rica)
Gobierno de la ciudad de Mendoza, Argentina.
Dos ocasiones bastaron para decidir regresar a La Habana. Gell y Zumbado intervinieron juntos en la inauguración del I Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Saxofonistas en el Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica; y luego, en la presentación del fonograma “Disparate y Locura”, de Zumbado, en la Sala María Clara Cullell de la Escuela de Artes Musicales de la Universidad de Costa Rica.
Integrado en su mayoría por obras que tendrán su primera audición en Cuba y otras de manera mundial, el programa se denomina Estrenos latinoamericanos. Así, escucharemos Disparate y Locura, del compositor costarricense Marvin Camacho, quien además escribió especialmente para este concierto en la capital cubana Suite número 1, dedicada a estos jóvenes talentos. Mientras, recibiremos, igualmente, de sus actuaciones como solistas.
Para Leonardo Gell es un honor ser el primero en dar a conocer de manera internacional dos títulos que sus autores le dedicaron el pasado año: Nocturnal & Circular images Op.5 No. 2 “El retorno”, compuesta por el colombiano radicado en New York, Julián de la Chica; y Tocata, del cubano residente en California, Yalil Guerra.
“De La Chica es un pianista y compositor que trabaja en su música "El Minimalismo", siendo un ferviente defensor de esta corriente. Nocturnal & Circular images Op. 5, es un ciclo de Imagenes que él viene trabajando hace algún tiempo y en este caso, “El Retorno”, cuenta una historia basada en nuestra amistad - Según palabras del propio compositor” Comenta el Maestro Leonardo Gell.
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