Jorge Díaz Composer

Venezuelan composer based in Madrid, he has written works for orchestra, chamber music and solo instruments premiered in the United States, Greece, Spain and Venezuela, some of them have been published by Cayambis Music Press, Copistas Acuario and Babel Scores.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Music (Composition), Experimental University of Arts, Caracas. 2014 - 2019
Degree in Music Composition, Simon Bolivar Music Conservatory, Caracas. 2012 - 2019

Projects

Prizes / Scholarships

3rd place in the composition contest organized by El Sistema and the UN Composing your Future, with the symphonic choral work Amalivaca. 2020
3rd place in the 1st International Composition Contest of the Cayambis Institute for Latin American Studies in Music (CILASiM). 2020
Participation in the artistic scholarship of residence in the XX promotion of the Antonio Gala Foundation for young creators of Cordoba (Spain). 2021 - 2022

Collaboration as composer with the Venezuelan pianist Laura Silva, organizer of the Diaspora Project. September 2020 - December 2020
Professor in the 1st and 2nd Creative Writing Workshops, organized by The Latin American Festival of Music and the French Embassy in Venezuela. 2020 - 2021
Participation as composer in the Lullaby Project Greece 2021, concert presented at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's Cultural Center, in collaboration with El Sistema Greece and Carnegie Hall. March 2020 – June 2020

In the search for his own language as a composer, he has been interested in mathematical logical elements as part of the creative process. In addition to exploring the relationship between music and concepts of the visual arts in recently created works such as Vitrales (For string quartet, composed and premiered at the Artistic Residence of the Antonio Gala Foundation in 2022) or Implosión (For symphony orchestra, selected for the Composition Workshop of the Galicia's Real Filharmonía in 2024) approaching ideas such as light, color, texture or space and its relationship with sound

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Implosión

World premiere of my work "Implosion" for symphony orchestra, selected for the Composition Workshop of the Galicia's Real Filharmonía in 2024

Conductor: Baldur Brönnimann

May 3rd 2024

Santiago de Compostela

Amalivaca (2020), symphony orchestra and choir. Third place in the UN and El Sistema Composition Contest “Composing your future”. 4:40 min
Concertino para violín y orquesta de cuerdas (2020), string orchestra and violin soloist. 15:30 min

I. Tocata

II. Interludio

III. Final

Estudio sobre Luz (2022), symphony orchestra. 5:40 min
Implosión (2024), symphony orchestra. 8:10 min (PDF) (VIDEO)

Works for orchestra

Cantos ceremoniales de los pingüinos (2019), Oboe and marimba. 5:40 min

I. El emperador perdido

II. Antífonas submarinas

III. Espectro sonoro de la aurora

Cuatro piezas para insectos (2020), Wind Quintet. Third place in the first International competition of the Cayambis Institute for Latin American Studies in Music. (CILASiM). 13:00 min

I. Hormigas

II. Chicharras

III. Crisálidas

IV. Abejas

Vitrales (2022), string quartet. Work composed in the XX promotion of the Antonio Gala Foundation. Córdoba 2021 – 2022. 17:30 min

I. Dispersión

II. Reflejos

III. Luz Azul

IV. Murmullos

V. Distorsión

Alma (2023), for sextet and soprano soloist. Text from the poem “Cántara” by Miguel Sánchez Santamaría. 8:15 min (PDF) (VIDEO)
Estudio sobre Inercia (2024), Pierrot ensemble. 8:40 min
Gravitaciones (2024), Guit elect, sax t, vib, vln, vc. 7:00 min

Chamber music

Estudio politonal 1 “Diásporas” (2019), piano. 5:10 min.
Escape de Ogigia (2019), saxofón tenor. 5:30 min (PDF) (VIDEO)
Prismas (2019), piano. 2:00 min
Prismas (2019), duo de marimbas. 2:00 min
Escultura 1 “La muerte de Ícaro” (2021), violonchelo. 9:00 min

I. Libertad

II. Vacío

III. Lamento

Mosaicos (2023), piano. 2:40 min

Solo works

Murmullos

World premiere of the 4th movement of my work Vitrales, composed during the Artistic Residence of the XX Promotion of the Antonio Gala Foundation 2021 - 2022 in Córdoba, Spain.

Ensemble: Camerata Gala

Conductor: Alejandro Muñoz

May 15th 2022. Version for string orchestra