My speech floating in veils features pieces by the composers Akari Komura, Estefanía Lambuley, Wilfrido Terrazas, Juliana Ortigoza, and Natalia Merlano Gómez. All the pieces are written for voice and electronics and explore different voice approaches, allowing the performer to improvise and experiment. These compositions touch on various topics, including meanings and metaphors behind everyday observations, women's resilience, and the power of voice to create, express, and heal.  

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Natalia Merlano Gomez, voice - DMA Recital

University of California San Diego

Our final concert of the Voices Festival is dedicated to the music of the late Kaija Saariaho, one of contemporary music's most extraordinary and original voices, with works rarely heard in Southern California, including Quatre Instantes and Leino Songs for voice and piano, instrumental works Folia and Ciel Etoile and more.    

A Tribute to Kaija Saariaho

The works selected for tonight’s concert result from the research and conversations in the voice class. They are chamber music pieces, mainly from the last 20 years, created by women composers. Also, writing these notes, I realized that most composers you will listen to emigrated from their countries.

An hour long opera for voices and piano that only uses four pitches, and is full of variety, expression and hilarious to boot - too good to be true, right?  Not at all!  Tom Johnson’s The Four Note Opera  has been an underground favorite since its premiere in 1972.  Supremely well-crafted for the vocalists and written in the minimalist style,  Johnson’s tale is a joyous and bouyant look at idosyncracies (!) of beloved genre of opera, as well as  the charming foibles of those who perform it.  

Natalia Merlano Gomez

Events

Past events

May 17, 2024

Natalia Merlano Gomez, voice - DMA Recital · University of California, San Diego Department of Music

May 3, 2024

A Tribute to Kaija Saariaho · University of California, San Diego Department of Music

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