MUSICAL LANGUAGE

JULIÁN FUEYO

Composition

"[...] the piece blazes into a cosmic

tempest until it has no more room to

grow and is finally consumed in

an explosion of silence."

-- CoolCleveland.com, Lisa deBenedictis

Compositions

"[...] the piece blazes into a cosmic tempest until it has no more room to grow and is finally consumed in an explosion of silence—a noiselessness which did not last long due to the roar of the enthusiastic crowd which leapt to its feet for ovation after ovation."

— CoolCleveland.com, Lisa DeBenedictis

MUSICAL LANGUAGE

Fueyo's music fundamentally explores ancient aesthetics and their place in our rapid-changing, contemporary culture. Referencing ancient art and literature (pre-hispanic and Roman), his works investigate idealization, historicism, memory, and transcendence by juxtaposing current and ancient understandings.

The Eleventh Heaven / El Onceavo Cielo

explores the Nahua myth of creation. Recipient of the 68th BMI Student Composer Award and the 2020 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, The Eleventh Heaven gets its title from the eleventh strata (level) in Nahua (pre--Hispanic) cosmogony.

Serpiente de Turquesas

The turquoise snake is a symbol that permeates pre-Hispanic art and religion. Serpiente de Turquesas is inspired by the turquoise-colored rivers in the 'Huasteca' — a region in Mexico nicknamed 'turquoise snake.'

Zafiro

for violin & piano explores asterism, light, and reflection in sound, melody, and harmony.

Projections & Time Sculptures

is a topological exploration of melody and counterpoint in relation semiotic theory of meaning.

Hurakán

explores the symbolic associations hurricanes have had since pre-hispanic times — as depicted in pre-Hispanic myth and visual art.

These subjects often take the form of extensive, vectorial phrases that puzzle together to create overarching structures akin to processional architecture (mausoleums, temples, pyramids). With an emphasis in line, melody often lingers in the form of harmony etching vertical sound-masses into relief.

Although distant from the ‘minimalist’ tradition, repetition takes a special significance in his music, both as a cyclical device and as a symbol reminiscent of epic literature, ritual, and prayer.

Cantica Gelidæ

explores the ephemeral nature of 'the voice' (the figurative voice and the literal voice) and the human desire to perpetuate it in time.

At the individual level, Fueyo's music is most concerned with our need to communicate through emotion and intuition in order to connect with greater truths: that is, to connect with each other".

OEUVRE

Fueyo's oeuvre is broad and diverse; he creates symphonic, chamber and electro-acoustic music, as well as music for film, installation, and performance art. Besides accumulating 10+ million streams on music streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc...), Fueyo's music works and various projects have been presented at Severance Hall, the Linton Chamber Music Series, DiMenna Center for Classical Music (NYC), Lee Foundation Hall (Singapore), Houston Museum of Fine Arts (TX), Woolsey Hall, Cleveland Museum of Natural History (OH), Mixon Hall at CIM (OH), Belvedere Chamber Music Festival (TN), Kimball Recital Hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (NE), Christ & St Stephen's Church (NYC), and Rocky Ridge Music Center (CO). He has collaborated with such musicians and collectives including the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, CIM Orchestra, Shannon Lee, Peter Otto, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Yale Philharmonia, Arseniy Gusev, Isabelle Durenberger, North/South Consonance New Music Ensemble, Si-Yan Li and members of the Chiara String Quartet,Luna Nova New Music Ensemble, The Playground Ensemble, Face The Music, Robert Avalon Ensemble (members of the Houston Symphony).

"He is truly a shining example [...]

I predict a bright future for him."

—CIM Newsroom, Keith Fitch

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