Temazcal by Javier Alvarez
New performance video of Temezcal - by Javier Alvarez.
Recording of Temazcal I did a year ago. Filmed by Maria Franco Fernandes and Edited by Henry Wandover. Thank you guys!
Performance/Composition
First Compositions
First Compositions - Iced Trees for Solo Clarinet.
Some of my first compositions were for Joan Tower's 'Composition for Performers' class. This is one of them. Score Here.
Iced Trees - For Solo Clarinet
This Mind Made War
This Mind Made War by by Suzanne Farrin. Performed by Cristian Zavala and me.
By Suzanne Farrin, performed by Cristian Zavala and me.
This Mind Made War
Now
Now - Performed by Taylor Adams and Yi-Hsuan Hsia, text from a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Performed by Taylor Adams and Yi-Hsuan Hsia, text from a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Score Here.
Now by Juan Diego Mora
Amethyst
Performance of Amethyst by Andy Akiho from my Third Year Recital at Bard.
Performance of Amethyst by Andy Akiho from my Third Year Recital at Bard.
Amethyst
Credo In Us
Performance of Credo In Us by John Cage at the Fisher Center at Bard, with live orchestra conducted by Tan Dun. Performed by Rodney Clark, Jaelyn Quilizapa, João Melo and me.
Performance of Credo In Us by John Cage at the Fisher Center at Bard, with live orchestra conducted by Tan Dun. Performed by Rodney Clark, Jaelyn Quilizapa, João Melo and me.
Credo In Us
Inner
Performance of Inner, For Viola (or Violin) and Percussion. Performed by Joy Terentiev and me.
For Viola (or Violin) and Percussion. Performed by Joy Terentiev and me. Score Here.
Inner by Juan Diego Mora
A Man With a Gun Lives Here
A Man with a Gun Lives Here, Performed by Jonathan Collazo, Jaelyn Quilizapa and me
Performed by Jonathan Collazo, Jaelyn Quilizapa and me.
A Man With a Gun Lives Here - By Steve Snowden
Prepared Piano Recital
Prepared Piano recital Fall 2023
In the Fall of 2023, I organized a concert for Prepared Piano at the John Cage Trust at Bard. I have not been able to find the full recording of this concert... but I found a recording of Vick(i/y) by Andy Akiho and a piece of mine titled Prayer for Sleep written for this program. Thank you Zizi Zhong and Cherry Wu for premiering my work! This concert was inspired by Prof. Sarah Hennies and her class about percussion as an experimental practice.
Prayer for Sleep (2023)
Vick(i/y) by Andy Akiho
Graduation Recital
Graduation Recital Spring 2025
2 extracts from my Senior Recital last year at Bard.
El Diablo Suelto ft. Yilmer Vivas
Ending
Freedom for Oneself
Freedom for Oneself, performed by Rodney Clark
This is a piece I wrote last semester for my friend Rodney Clark. First premiered at Overdrive 5. Thank you Rodney for being such a great friend and collaborator!.
Freedom for Oneself
Maracas Etude
Maracas Etude, performed by me.
I started writing this piece during the summer of 2024 as part of a bigger collaboration of pieces all recorded at the Sō Percussion Summer Institute for a project run by Clara Warnaar (NA4NA Vol. 7). At the time, I was focusing on learning Venezuelan maraca playing and also had just started to use SuperCollider. So I decided to combine both and wrote this piece as an exploration for myself. Here's a nicer video I made of the pieces. (Score Here)
Maracas Etude
New Works for Maracas
Maracas Recital Fall 2024
Around the Fall of 2024 I found myself doing a lot of maraca playing, I had never really played the instrument growing up but I had always wanted to learn how. I also thought that it would be fun to have people write music for me and to put a concert together, so we did. I commissioned 2 new pieces for Maracas, 'Meredith's Words' by Drew Frankenberg and 'An Exercise in Constraint' by Logan Settle Rishard. I also wrote a piece for myself. Here's the full concert.
New Works for Maracas (Full Recital)
Vibraphone Solos
These are some solos I recorded a while back...
Vibraphone Solos