Year: 2013 | Type: Single-movement work for orchestra and optional choir | Duration: ca. 12'
In 1997, I took master classes with Russian composer Vladislav Uspensky, a former student of Shostakovich. Under his guidance, I wrote a piece named Kocmoc (Cosmos), inspired by a fantastic starry sky I witnessed at a local beach, south of Lima. After Professor Uspensky's passing, I reused the materials from that piece to create a new one in his memory. As the original had a choir, I included one as well, using an excerpt of the poem Urania, by Fyodor Tyutchev.
Notes:
This work premiered in 2018 by the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru and the National Choir of Peru at Gran Teatro Nacional, under the direction of Fernando Valcárcel (orchestra) and Javier Sunico (choir).
Since this work has been recently revised, the individual parts for the new version have not yet been prepared. If you purchase the full score and are interested in performing the piece, please contact me and I will prepare the parts at no extra cost. (I don't rent out orchestral parts.)