Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Flute, Bass Clarinet
Percussion	Percussion
Keyboards	Piano
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Violin, Cello, Harp

Performer(s)

Separo, for ensemble, is a piece dedicated to the novelist Milan Kundera, written in the year of his death. The discursive premise of the piece centred on one of the author's most developed ideas, the fragmentation of identity. The search for the expression of this idea lies in an initial rhythmic motif which, cohabiting with different sound nuances, is cancelled and transfigured. Through this journey, textural layers also emerge that expand, contract and agglomerate, musically paraphrasing Kundera's idea of identity composition. More than anything, this piece is an open letter of gratitude to one of the writers who has most influenced me to this day.

Rodrigo Cardoso

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Separo	Premiere	2024/Mar/22		Cine-Teatro do Colégio São Teotónio	Coimbrapor	Portugal	GMCL – Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa Rui Pinheiro (conductor)	Notes