Erupciones

Erupciones
Erupciones was commissioned by Schlagquartett Köln, a percussion quartet based in Cologne, Germany. This piece is divided in nine sections, and each one explores the possibilities of different subsets of the chosen restricted set of instruments, most of them non-pitched. Erupciones was premiered on January 2004 by Schlagquartett Köln, in the "Pulsos del Sur" concert, organized by the Chilean composer Ramón Gorigoitía. I was able to attend the premiere of Erupciones thanks to a grant from the Wyatt Fund for student composers of the School of Music of Northwestern University. This piece also received the first prize in the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation composition competition in 2004, together with TransParenCias. Erupciones received its Chilean premiere in November 2007 by Cuarteto de Percusiones UC at the XVII Chilean Contemporary Music Festival.