Alba
L. Potes
Catalog of Compositions
English/Spanish
Orchestral Music
Tukanos (2011) for guitar and chamber orchestra. Work in process commissioned by Nilko Andreas Guarín. World Premiere scheduled at the Weill Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, 11/11/2011
Duration: approx. 13:00
Cantares para Orquesta (Songs for Orchestra) (2000)
Selected by The Women's Philharmonic New Music Reading
Sessions. Mary Chun, conductor. Cowell Theatre
at Fort Mason Center,
San Francisco, 6/15/02
Premiered by the National Philarmonic Orchestra of Venezuela, XVI Festival Internacional de Música Latinoamericana. Germán Cáceres, Conductor, Asociación Cultural Humboldt, Caracas. 5/29/10
Duration: 12:00
De Las Travesuras y Percances del Amor (Pleasures and Misfortunes of Love) (1999) cantata
for soprano, tenor, chorus and chamber orchestra; texts by
Colombian poet León de Greiff. Commissioned by the
Ministry of Culture of Colombia.
Duration: 20:00
Las Palabras (Words) (1997) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra; texts by Octavio Paz.
Duration: 15:00
Reflexiones (Reflections) (1991) for vl., vla., vlc. and string
orchestra. Winner of the 1994 Riverside Symphony's First International Composers Reading Project in New York. George Rothman, conductor. Miller Theater, Columbia University, NYC.
Premiered by the National Symphony of Colombia. Luis Biava, conductor. Teatro Colón, Bogotá, 7/10/92
Duration: 9:00
Chamber Music
Conversaciones Nocturnas (Evening Conversations) (2011) for two bass flutes. Commissioned by Sue Ann Kahn. Tentative premiere, Flute Convention 2012, Las Vegas.
Duración: approx. 7:00
Todavía (Still) (2011) for or tenor, mixed chorus, and 10 players (SSAATTBB) (16 voices) Text by Aurelio Arturo. (Version available for mixed chorus a capella).
Duración: approx. 10:00
Tres instrumentos para un tema obstinado (Three Instruments for Insistent Theme) (2010) for flute, Guitar/Colombian tiple and double bass. Commissioned by Sue Ann Kahn.
Duration: approx. 9:00
¿Qué puede ser ?
(What could that be?) (2004) for baritone or mezzo-soprano,
double bass and percussion. Texts by early Spanish American
writers from México and Colombia Sor Juana Inés de
la Cruz and Madre Francisca Josefa del Castillo.
Duration: approx. 9:00
Oleajes (Waves) (2003) for string quartet. Dedicated to Momenta Quartet. Commissioned by the Independence Fellowship
for the Arts. Premiered by Momenta Quartet, New Castle University, England, 7/10/08
Duration: approx. 18:00
The City Visited (2003) for viola and piano. Premiered by Stephanie
Griffin (viola), The New York Wolpe Festival, the League of
Composers/ISCM and the Americas Society.
New
York City, 4/10/03
Duration: 21:00
Y la brisa trae aromas de cadmias....
(and the breeze carries a scent of cadmias…)
(2002) for fl., vl., vlc., piano and percussion. Commissioned
and premiered by Music of Changes. Herbert Zipper Recital
Hall, Los Angeles, 4/3/02
Duration: 9:00
Tres Miniaturas para las Mariposas Ausentes
(Three Miniatures for the Absent Butterflies) (1998)
for cl., bn. and piano. Version available for fl., bass cl.
and piano. Published by the Hildegard Publishing Company.
Premiered by Trío Neos, XI Foro de Música Nueva,
México City, 5/24/99
Duration: 7:00
Cánticos para Cinco (Canticos
for five players) (1998) for ob., hn., vl., vlc. and piano.
Premiered by Parnassus 25th Anniversary. Merkin
Concert Hall, New York, 11/23/98
Duration: 10:00
Cantos Escondidos (Hidden Songs) (1995) for alto sax. or Eng.
hrn., vlc. and piano. Commissioned and premiered by Marshall
Taylor, Rock Hall, Philadelphia,
1/28/97
Duration: 12:00
Aprisa (Swiftness) (1994) for fl., vlc. and piano. Premiered
by Temple University Faculty
Trio, Temple
University, Philadelphia,
3/4/94
Duration: 6:00
Noneto
(1991) for fl, ob., cl., hn., vl., vc., piano and two
percussion players. Premiered by Contemporary Players,
Temple University,
5/2/91
Duration: 6:00
Solo Instrumental Music
Entornos II (Glances II) (2010) for alto sax. Commissioned by Edwin Ricardo Aguillón Pachón. World Premiere scheduled for the Fall 2011 at the Universidad Autónoma de México, México City.
Duration: 4:00
Epigrama triste para T. Clementi (Sad Epigram for T. Clementi) (2010) for solo violin. Written for Miranda Cuckson.
Duration: approx. 5:00
Desde el Aire: Seis Instantes (From the Air: Six Instants) (2010). Commissioned by Ana Cervantes for her upcoming CD Cantos de la Monarca/Mujeres de México. Premiered at the Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, México, 10/18/10
Duration: approx. 5:00
Traces/Homage to Bach (2010) for bass flute. Commissioned and premiered by Sue Ann Kahn, Mannes College of Music. New York City, 3/20/10
Duration: approx. 5:22
El Jardín de Tomás (Tomas' garden) (2007) for solo piano.
Duration: approx. 12:00
Apacible (2004) for
solo viola. Commissioned and premiered by Stephanie Griffin. Mannes College of Music, New
York City, 2/19/05
Duration: 7:00
Entornos I (Glances II) (2005) for
solo alto sax. Commissioned and premiered by Marshall Taylor. Mannes College of Music, New
York City, 2/19/05
Duration: 4:00
Piezas para Espantar los Demonios de la Noche (2005) (Pieces to Disperse the Demons of the Night) for solo piano. Commissioned and premiered by Blanca Uribe, Weill
Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, 5/26/05
Duration: 16:00
Toques
de Arrullos (Touches) (2001) for solo cello. Commissioned
and premiered by Charles Forbes. Trinity Center for
Urban Life, Philadelphia,
10/28/01
Duration: 14:00
Everyone
Sings a Song of Peace at Least Once (1999) for solo percussion. Premiered by Raúl Vergara, Concierto
de Primavera, Church of St. Luke & the Epiphany, Philadelphia,
4/12/99
Duration: 7:00
Tres Piezas Breves para Piano (1994-1997)
Premiered by Charles Abramovic, Rock Hall, Philadelphia, 3/15/01
Duration: 12:00
Ternura de las Grullas
(Tenderness of Cranes) (1995) for solo flute. Commissioned
by María Elena Tobón. Premiered by Cynthia Folio.
Rock Hall, Philadelphia. 2/21/97
Duration: 6:00
Vocal Music
Todavía (Still) (2011) for mixed chorus a capella (SSAATTBB) (16 voices) Text by Aurelio Arturo. (Version available for tenor, mixed choir, and 10 players).
Duración: aprox. 4:00
Coplas Andinas (Andean Couplets) (2008) for soprano and harp. Commissioned by Angelique Zuluaga.
Duration: 7:00
Dulzuras (2004) for soprano
and guitar. Commissioned by the Office of Academic Affairs
of Hostos Community College, CUNY for the opening ceremony
of the Sixth Conference of Caribbean Hispanic Writers.
Texts by Cuban writer Dulce Maria Loinaz. Premiered by Thelma
Ithier-Sterling, soprano and William Anderson, guitar.
Hostos
Community College,
New
York City, 4/28, 04
Duration: 6:00
Entre Arrullos y Madrigales (Between Madrigals and Lullabies) (2002) for soprano,
fl. cl., vlc., piano and percussion. Texts by Colombian
poet Aurelio Arturo. Commissioned by the Sala Luis Angel
Arango/Banco de la República. Premiered by Susan Narucki
and The New York New Music Ensemble. Sala Luis Angel
Arango, Bogotá, 9/9/02
Duration: 15:00
Tregua Infinita (Boundless
Truce) (2002) for reciter, alto sax. and harpsichord (or piano).
Commissioned by Marshall Taylor. Texts by Alba L. Potes.
Premiered by Marshal Taylor, Joyce Lindorff and Stella Potes. Rock Hall, Philadelphia, 4/21/02
Duration: 16:30
At 50 (1999) for contratenor
and archlute. Text by Derek van der Tak. Dedicated to Matthew Greenbaum. Premiered by Mark Rimple.
Duration: 4:00
Canciones Nocturnas (Nocturnal
Songs) (1993) for soprano, fl., cl. and vlc.; texts by Spanish
poet Jorge Guillén. Premiered by soprano Guynne
Cushing and the Network for New Music, Institute for Contemporary
Art, Philadelphia,
3/17/93
Duration: 9:00
Canciones a lo Ausente
(Songs of Absence) (1993) for baritone and piano; texts
by Jorge Luis Borges. Premiered by Steve Kalm and the
League of Composers/ISCM. Merkin Concert Hall, 2/11/94
Duration: 8:00
A los Pájaros (To the Birds) (1995) for mixed chorus based on texts
by Octavio Paz. Published by the Ministerio de Cultura
of Colombia
Duration: 5:00
Siete Haiku (1992) for soprano
or tenor and piano; texts by Jorge L. Borges. Premiered by
soprano Julieanne Klein and Music of Changes, Herbert Zipper
Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 4/3/02
Duration: 6:00
Canciones a la Madre Tierra (Songs for Mother Earth) (1989) for
voice, cl. and piano. Texts by Alba L. Potes and Hernando
Potes. Premiered by III Festival de Música Contemporánea
de Colombia, Bogotá, 1993
Duration: 5 :00
Film Score
Between the Edges (2001) Documentary on the Colombian exiled artist/muralist
Ana Uribe directed by Joseph M. Ruscitto
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