Many of Cergio Prudencio's melodies are constructed with parallel voices moving at strict, different intervals, inspired by Bolivian music traditions like tarkas and sikus.
Performer Biography
Daniel Áñez, the pianist on this recording, is a Colombian pianist based in Montreal, Canada, specializing in contemporary Latin-American repertoire.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Cergio Prudencio deliberately embraced melody in his compositions, contrasting with his teachers' 'amelodic' generation, which he felt was a new alternative rather than a regression.
Composer Biography
Cergio Prudencio, born in La Paz in 1955, is considered one of the most important composers in Latin America.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Cergio Prudencio's piano works explore a personal language, drawing on procedures and forms from his larger orchestral works and incidental music for cinema.
Composer Biography
Cergio Prudencio founded the Experimental Orchestra of Native Instruments (OEIN) in 1980 and directed it for 36 years, until March 2016.
Compositional Technique
Cergio Prudencio's piano pieces often use static musical materials that appear identically each time, creating harmonic and textural accumulations through oscillation and gradual appearance of new blocks.
