Works

To Luís Gomes and the GMCL

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Clarinet (Bass Clarinet)
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Violin, Viola, Cello

“Canto Solar” is a piece dedicated to the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group and its excellent clarinet player Luís Gomes. I finished it in June 2010 in order for it to be performed at an International Clarinet Congress in Spain.
The piece has been structured in the way to emphasise the performer’s virtuosity, who at various times expresses himself within a lyricism. The technical difficulties revolve around it, emphasising the performer’s highest level.
These programme notes give evidence to my extraordinary admiration for Luís Gomes, performer of choice, thanks to whom I got to know better the admirable timbre of the bass clarinet, for which I hadn’t composed before. For this I’m really thankful.

Algés (Portugal), June 2, 2016
Clotilde Rosa

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Scores	Clotilde Rosa / Canto Solar  Canto Solar,		canto solar Clotilde Rosa	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2011 2010