Audio/ Listening

                         ILEANA PEREZ VELAZQUEZ, Composer

                                        Selected Recordings:

Columnas de Luz for 2 vl, vla, cello, db, and piano. Performed by the LA Philharmonic musicians at the La Phil Panamerican Green Concert Series, 2024.

 

Vuelo for soprano, 2vl, vla, cello, db, and piano. Performed at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, 2024.  Soprano: Emily Rocha, conductor: Molly Turner. Lyrics from fragments of the poem Vuelo by Miguel Hernandez.

 

Hope is the thing with feathers, for vln, cello, and pno. Performed by Counter)induction ensemble.

 

Light echoes (2009) for piano and percussion. Piano: Doris Stevenson, Percussion: Matthew Gold

 

Marejadas, for orchestra. (2023)

 

 

ZUNZUN  for Eb clarinet and two percussionists. (2011) Live performance by members of the Talea Ensemble at the I/O Festival, Williams College

 

Lights of lives flowing from your eyes, (2018) for vl, cello, fl, cl, and piano. Violin: Miranda Cuckson.

 

The Window that opens your Soul (2017) for Bb clarinet and piano (2017). Piano Sally Pinkas, Clarinet: Patricia Shands.

Lightning whelks (2016) for violin solo, clarinet, cello, bassoon, piano, and percussion.  Recording, violin solo Miranda Cuckson; cello: Christopher Gross; clarinet: Nuno Antunes; bassoon: Adrian Morejon;  piano: Molly Morkowsky; and percussion: Bill Solomon

 

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2014). Live Performance by Joanna Kurkowicz (violin) and the Berkshires Symphony Orchestra.

I. Viaje a la semilla (the journey back to the source)

II.   Les Voix Intérieures  (Inner voice)  (after Rodin’s sculpture)

III. Eliofania alta (homage to Caribbean light, and life)

 

Night Songs (2014). Adrian Morejon, bassoon;  Molly Morkowsky: piano, Nuno Antunes:clarinet; and Jacqueline Kerrod, harp:

  1. Moon Tides (clarinet, bassoon, and harp)

2. Bassooneando (bassoon and piano)

3. The moon, the inconstant moon... (clarinet, bassoon, harp, and piano)

 

Del Falso amor impuro. For soprano and vl, saxophone, piano, and percussion.  Recording by DalNiente Ensemble from Chicago.

http://ileanaperezvelazquez.com/del_falso_amor_impuro

 

   Viaje for male choir. Live Performance by Seraphic Fire choir.

 

Idolos del sueño for soprano voice, violin, cello, clarinet, and piano (2008)   Poems by by Carlos Pintado.    Live Performance by CONTINUUM, at their 45th Anniversary Celebration Concert at Merkin Hall, New York City.

I.  “Viendo como las cosas permanecen”(The way things disappear or stay)

II.  “Taubeschlag”

III.  “Idolos del sueño”

 

Alma de guije (Guije’s soul) (20)’ (2012) for string quartet. Live Performance by the Momenta String Quartet at the Americas Society, NYC.

 

Auroras for two pianos (2012) by the Hammond piano duo. Recording at Indiana University, Bloomington.

 

Constelaciones extraviadas entre luciernagas (Constellations lost among fireflies)  (1997 rev. 2002) for saxophone alto and piano. Saxophone: John Sampen, piano: Marilyn Shrude, performance at the 24th Annual New Music and Art Festival at Bowling Green State University.

 

Entre la ternura y el intenso azul  (between tenderness and an intense blue) for cello solo. (2008)

 

 Encantamiento for piano solo. Live Recording by Pola Baytelman.

 

                                           Electronic Music with Instruments

Un ser con unas alas enormes (1996) (a being with enormous wings) for violin and fixed media