orchestral works

MOSAICO MEXICANO

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Duration: 11:20

I composed Mosaico Mexicano while I was still an undergraduate student in college at Texas Christian University. This is officially my first orchestral work and with it I wanted to share a little bit of my culture to my college friends and perhaps also use it as a cure for homesickness.
I conducted the TCU Symphony Orchestra for the world premiere performance in March 2000 at Ed Landreth Auditorium in Fort Wort, Texas. My conducting teacher at the time, Germán Gutiérrez, conducted the Dallas Symphony premiere in May 2000.

Love Theme - for an imaginary film (2023)

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Duration: 4:30

I grew up in during the 70's and 80's going to music school in the afternoons and listening to the great orchestral movie soundtracks during the weekends. As a result my music is a combination of my concert music training and the movie soundtracks I listened while growing up. In this work in particular, a love tone poem, or a love theme for an imaginary film, I write in the tradition of those wonderful love themes that one would encounter in movies a few decades ago. This music was not composed for any film but for the film each one of the listeners will create in his or her own mind when listening.

Amor y Libertad (2014)

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Duration: 5:00

Music inspired by the 1920 silent film “The Mark of Zorro”

In the year 2014 I composed a score for the 1920 silent film "Mark of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks. Drawing from the main thematic material I composed for that project I created a three movement suite. Amor y Libertad is the romantic second movement of the suite and it is based in the music I composed for the love scenes between the two main characters in the film and inspired by the love for each other and their shared ideals of peace, justice and liberty.

Amor y Libertad was premiered in San Luis Potosi?, Me?xico on June 10th, 2022 at Teatro de la Paz with the San Luis Potosi? Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.