Works

To Audrey Riley

Instrumentation (detailed)

Soloists

Cello

Performer(s)

The concert Kepler's Vestiges was composed in 2007 and it is dedicated to Audrey Riley. I met Audrey Riley for the first time in 2004, in Lyon, France, when we both performed concerts with Merce Cunningham, at the Maison de la Danse. Audrey Riley is an amazing person and has the music in her soul. The structure of the piece was based on visual information from NASA's Chandra X-ray Obervatory on the youngest supernova remnants in our galaxy. Johannes Kepler, who lived between 1571 and 1630, before the telescope, was surprised by the strange presence of that supernova. The musical piece is devoted to interpreter's creativity and freedom. Divided in ten sections of one minute, the piece covers all tessitura of the instrument. Each sector of one minute is a complete piece. Kepler's Vestiges ask for a total intgration between the musician and the instrument, as if they were in a different world.

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Vestígios de Kepler	Premiere	2007/Jun/23	Art and Science International Meeting . The Spirit of Discovery 2	Santa Luzia Romanesque Church	Trancoso	Portugal	Audrey Riley (cello)	Notes