Liaisons:Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano has been described as a landmark commissioning project that brought together thirty-six of the world’s foremost contemporary composers from across the musical spectrum in order to “re-imagine” Sondheim’s songs as solo piano pieces. Lorenz's The Worst in London is one of re-imaginations included in a 3-CD box set released by the record label ECM featuring pianist, and Liaisons...
Ricardo Lorenz traveled to South Korea on two different occasions as Composer-in-Residence. In 2013, he was the featured guest composer of that Seoul's Pan Music Festival, the longest running contemporary music festival in South Korea. That year he attended the performance of his work Compass Points by the Seoul Modern Ensemble and offered talks on his music at the universities of Sangmyung and Gachon. The following year (2014), he was the...
Lorenz with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Rene Hinojosa in Havana Four years ahead of the renewed diplomatic relations between former archenemies U.S. and Cuba, Lorenz and his MSU colleague Rene Hinojosa have taken students on a study abroad program to Havana in order to experience the culture of a rapidly changing socialist nation. Initiated in May 2012 and titled Culture and Sustainable Development, this program studies Cuba’s dramatic history,...
Commissioned by the Young-Nam Composers' Association (YNCA), Daegu, South Korea, for premiere at the 16th YNCA International Contemporary Music Festival on November 7, 2014. Text by Constantine P. Cavafy. Approx. duration: 5:30 minutes.
First scene of Symphonic Scenes of Chacumbele. Premiered by the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Raphael Jiménez on September 27, 2014. Approx. duration: 9:00 minutes. Instrumentation: 3233 (sop. sax) -4221- timp, 2 perc., harp, pn – strings **
Commissioned by the Dali Quartet Summer Camp and Festival. Premiered by the Festival's Pre-College Orchestra conducted by Raphael Jiménez on August 10, 2014 at Irving Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Approx. duration: 6:00 minutes.
Commissioned and premiered by Pamela Smitter and Bill Baxtresser on November 19, 2013 at Cook Recital Hall, Michigan State University. Approx. duration: 7 minutes.
07.08.15 Puente Trans-Arábico. John Kilkenny, percussion; Sewannee Music Festival Faculty, Sewannee, TN 08.23.15 Fronteras Abiertas. Horacio Contreras, cello. Bienal de Música Contemporánea, Radio Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina 08.27.15 Fronteras Abiertas. Horacio Contreras, cello. Auditorio Olav Roots, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia 09.30.15 Vanishing Borders. Soundtrack for the documentary "Vanishing Borders" by...
