Commissioned by Cuarteto Q-Arte and Colombia’s Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo. Premiered by Cuarteto Q-Arte and Cuarteto Kunst on December 8, 2020. Approx. duration: 10:00 minutes.
Commissioned by the Wind Ensembles at Vanderbilt University, Thomas Verrier, Director, along with 31 other co-commissioners assisted by the College Band Directors National Association. Premiered on November 03, 2019 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Approx. duration: 8:30 minutes. Instrumentation: 3 (picc) 2 4 (Bass cl) 2 – 4 sax- 43312 – timp, 3 perc., pn. **
Commissioned by Apothix Trio with funds provided by Michigan State University Running Start Entrepreneurship Program. Premiered by Apothix Trio on December 06, 2019, Cook Recital Hall, College of Music, East Lansing, MI. Approx. duration: 6:30 minutes.
Composed by request of euphonium player Robert Benton, who premiered it on July 20, 2018 with pianist Omar Sánchez at Festival AETYB, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música, Madrid, Spain. Approx. duration: 4:30 minutes.
Commissioned by the Peachtree String Quartet. After the original soundtrack for the 2013 documentary Vanishing Borders. Premiered by clarinetist Alcides Rodriguez and Peachtree String Quartet on October 17, 2018, Atlanta, GA. Approx. duration: 4:30 minutes.
Commissioned by The University of South Carolina. Premiered at the 2018 CBDNA Southeastern Conference held in Tampa, FL by the University of South Carolina Symphonic Winds under the direction of Cormac Cannon, February 24, 2018. Approx. duration: 23 minutes. Instrumentation: 3 (picc) 3 (E.H) 4 (Eb & Bass cl) 3 (C bn) – 4 sax – 43321-timp, 3 perc., harp, pn, double bass. **
Commissioned by the Wagner Trio. Poem in Spanish by Alfredo Pérez. Premiered on February 13, 2018. Approx. duration: 7:30 minutes.
Commissioned by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra who premiered it with soloist Andrés Cárdenes on February 24-25, 2016 oin Houston, Texas. Approx. duration: 16 minutes. Instrumentation: 2222-2210-timp, 2 perc., pn, vln solo – strings **
Composed by request of Marissa Olin and Jon Holden for premiere at ClarinetFest 2016 held in Lawrence, Kansas. Approx. duration: 6 minutes.
Commissioned by the Asian Cultural Institute to celebrate the first anniversary of the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea. Premiered at the Asia Culture Center by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble conducted by Andrea Choa on November 26, 2016. Approx. duration: 7 minutes.
Commissioned by The University of Chicago with funds provided by the Leona Bachrach Gerard Endowment Funs for Music. Premiered at The University of Chicago Mandel Hall by the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Barbara Schubert, June 2, 2016. Approx. duration: 28 minutes. Instrumentation: 3343-4331-timp, 4 perc., harp, pn – strings
Commissioned by Anthony de Mare with funds provided by Music in the Loft, Chicago, for the collective Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano. Approx. duration: 5 minutes.
11.09.20Virtual Panel discussion on Composition Process & Collaboration with composers Chen Yi and Roshanne Etezady. UMCK Bands at the Conservatory Online during COVID-19 11.14.20Migration, Music, and Psychoanalysis. Panel discussion organized by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society. Presenters: Jorgelina Corbatta, Mohammad Elbashir, and Ricardo Lorenz. 12.05.20FestiviQ-Artetos. Session with composers who competed in the composition contest for string quartet. Jury members: Gustavo Leone (Argentina/USA); Gustavo Parra (Colombia); Ricardo Lorenz (Venezuela/USA). Zoom session. Bogotá, Colombia. 12.07.20FestiviQ-Artetos. Session with winning composers of the composition contest for string quartet. Jury members: Gustavo Leone (Argentina/USA); Gustavo Parra (Colombia); Ricardo Lorenz (Venezuela/USA). Zoom session. Bogotá, Colombia. 12.08.20…la partícula
10.04.19Jaromiluna. Fangye Sun, violin; Chen-Yu Huang. Cook Recital Hall, College of Music, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 10.16.19Pataruco: Concerto for Venezuelan Maracas & Wind Symphony. Manuel Rangel, maracas. University of Kentucky Wind Symphony; John Cody Birdwell, cond.; Singletary Center for the Arts, Lexington, KY 10.17.19El Muro. University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory Wind Symphony; Joseph Parisi, Folly Theater, UMKC, Kansas City, MO 10.18.19Tendril Rapture (PREMIERE). Apothic Trio. Burcham Hills Senior Living, East Lansing, MI 10.27.19El Muro. University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble; Cormac Cannon, cond. Koger Center, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 11.03.19Pataruco: Concerto for Venezuelan Maracas & Wind
10.05.18Historia Tropical. Unitas Ensemble; Carlos Botero, cond. Wayland Concert Series, Wayland, MA 10.06.18Historia Tropical. Unitas Ensemble; Carlos Botero, cond. Old South Church, Boston, MA 10.09.18Historia Tropical. Unitas Ensemble; Carlos Botero, cond. Nakamichi Concert Series, Easton, MA 10.7.18Rochela for nine cellos. Lawrence University Cello Studio; Horacio Contreras, cond. Lawrence University. Appleton, WI 10.16.18Vanishing Borders, for clarinet quintet (PREMIERE). Alcides Rodriguez, clarinet; Peachtree String Quartet. Atlanta, GA. 10.25.18King Mangoberry: Five Allegories for Wind Symphony. Michigan State University Wind Symphony; Kevin Sedatole, cond. Wharton Center, East Lansing, MI 10.26.18Unshaken. Robert Benton, euphonium; Jayoung Hong, piano. University of Nebraska-Kearney, NE 10.26.18Monkey to the Sky.
08.12.17Fluteball. Marissa Olin, flute; Jonathan Holden, clarinet. 45th Annual National Flute Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN 10.15.17Puente Trans-Arábico. Orlando Cotto, percussion; Dali String Quartet. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 11.04.17El Muro. Shenandoah Conservatory Wind Symphony, Timothy Robblee, cond.; Armstrong Concert Hall, Winchester, VA 11.16.17El Muro. Shenandoah Conservatory Wind Symphony; Timothy Robblee, cond.; Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) Conference, Warm Springs, VA 02.07.18Volar en Tu Canto (PREMIERE). Jenna Buck, soprano voice; Corbin Wagner, French horn; Young Hyun Cho, piano. Cook Recital Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 02.09.18King Mangoberry: Five Allegories for Wind Symphony (Pre-Premiere). University of South Carolina Symphonic
08.06.16Fluteball (PREMIERE). Marissa Olin, flute. Jonathan Holden, clarinet. ClarinetFest2016, Lawrence, KS 09.19.16Fluteball. Ashley Stanley, flute; Thiago Ancelmo, clarinet. Distler Performance Center, Tuft University, Medford, MA 11.04.16Pataruco: Concerto for Maracas & Orchestra (chamber version). Andy Miller, percussion. Indiana University student ensemble. Auer Hall, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, IN 11.22.16Monkey to the Sky. Contemporary Chamber Players, Kamran Ince, cond. Scheidt School of Music, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 11.26.16Come Back (Again). Eom Yun Suk, gayageum. Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Sharon Andrea Choa, cond. Symphony for Asia Festival. Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea. 01.20.17Monkey to the Sky, Graig Hughes,
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 [Empanadas] in London is one of re-imaginations included in a 3-CD box set released by the record label ECM featuring pianist, and Liaisons co-producer, Anthony de Mare. Other composers included are Pulitzer, Grammy and Academy Award winners like Steve Reich, Wynton Marsalis, Thomas Newman, Frederic Rzewski, William Bolcom, David Rakowski, and many others.
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 Composer-in-Residence of the 16th Young-Nam International Contemporary Music Festival held in Daegu, serving as adjudicator of the 31st Young-Nam Composition Competition along with colleagues from South Korea and Japan.
Continue reading…Lorenz travels to South Korea as Composer-in-Residence
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, diverse genres of music, and its wide gamut of Afro-Cuban religions against the backdrop of this country’s long affiliation with the United States.The program draws connections between Cuban music and some of the country’s major historical events as they shine a
Continue reading…Ahead of the tide, Ricardo Lorenz bridges U.S./Cuba divide
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 director Alexandra Hidalgo, Sabana Grande Productions. Film screening at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. 09.30.15 Vanishing Borders. Soundtrack for the documentary “Vanishing Borders” by director Alexandra Hidalgo, Sabana Grande Productions. Film screening at Commfest 2015 10th Annual Film and Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada. 10.20.15 Puente Trans-Arabico. Orlando Cotto,
