Images of the Peruvian Coast

Commissioned in 2015 by Peruvian trumpet player Franco Carranza, Images of the Peruvian Coast is a piece based on three airs of Peruvian music: the Vals, the Triste con fuga de Tondero and the Marinera. As all these are coastal airs, I decided to write a triptych in which each movement would be dedicated to a place in the coast of Peru that had some significance in my life:  i) Villapampa, an estate once owned by my paternal grandfather between the 50s and 80s; ii) Talara, a city where my brother and I spent a few weeks in the summer of 1984; and iii) Totoritas, a beach to south of Lima, where my parents had a house in the 90s.