Works
A "letter" for Mich (2011)
for solo clarinet
Duration: ad libitum
American birds (2020)
for horn quartet
Duration: 7'
Ania jest... (2015)
for solo clarinet
Duration: 5'
Music Text
Juan Manuel Abras
World Premiere
22/09/2016
BarStudio, Warsaw (International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn")
Michał Górczyński, clarinet
Astor in Astorga (2017)
for violin and accordion
Duration: 4'
World Premiere
18/05/2017
Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra, Auditorio Guelbenzu, Pamplona (Ciclo Piazzolleando - Astor in memoriam)
Irati Sanz, violin / Itsaso Mungia, accordion
Institutional commission
Work commissioned by Aula de Acordeón del Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra, Spain
Bandoneon concerto "Sedekte" (orchestral version) (2000/2001)
for solo bandoneon and string orchestra
Duration: 21'
Awards
Gold Medal Award in Composition 2001, CSMMF
TRINAC Mention 2002, EIMC - International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) - CAMU - International Music Council (IMC) - UNESCO
Bandoneon concerto "Sedekte" (ensemble version) (2000/2001)
for solo bandoneon and string quartet
Duration: 21'
Awards
Gold Medal Award in Composition 2001, CSMMF
TRINAC Mention 2002, EIMC - International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) - CAMU - International Music Council (IMC) - UNESCO
Blutgletscherstück (2013)
for ensemble
Duration: 4'
Scoring
asax.bn-trbn.ttuba-perc-vln.vla.vlc.db
Bossa nova scriabinosa (2014)
for solo viola
Duration: 6'
Bossa nova scriabinosa (cello version) (2014)
for solo cello
Duration: 6'
Chacarera beatboxera (2008)
for beatboxer and ensemble
Duration: 6'
Scoring
beatboxer-cl-perc:tam-t/bongos/susp.cym/SD/tom-t/vib-pft-vln
World Premiere
25/09/2008
Ochota Sports Centre, Warsaw (International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn")
Patryk "TikTak" Matela, beatboxing / Kwartludium Ensemble
Institutional commission
Work commissioned by 51. International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn", Poland
Recommended Recording
Patryk "TikTak" Matela / Kwartludium Ensemble ("Sound Chronicle of the Warsaw Autumn 2008 No. 5")
Polish Music Information Centre Polmic 045 (Poland, 2008)
Chacarera endebussyada (2010)
for solo piano
Duration: 5'
World Premiere
16/05/2011
Consejo Profesional de Ciencias Económicas de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Natalia González Figueroa, piano
Recommended Recording
Natalia González Figueroa, piano ("Homeland: Piano Music from Argentina, Vol. 1")
Natalia González Figueroa (Argentina, 2008)
Chacarera meets the Puna (2005)
for solo violin
Duration: 5'
World Premiere
20/09/2013
Szilády Áron Református Gimnázium, Kiskunhalas
Édua Zádory, violin
Recommended Recording
Alejandro Drago, violin ("Obras para Violín Solo de Compositores Argentinos Vol. II")
Tradition TR060427 (Argentina. 2007)
Conceptio, gestatio et partus (2005)
for symphony orchestra
Duration: 20'
Scoring
2.afl.2.corA.2.Ebcl.2.dbn-2.2.2.1-perc(2):BD/tam-t/crystal glass/crot/vib-pft-strings
Cueca wagneroide (2015)
for solo viola
Duration: 5'
Cueca wagneroide (cello version) (2015)
for solo cello
Duration: 5'
De Coelesti Hierarchia (2002)
for male choir, ensemble and soundtrack
Duration: 4'
Scoring
vib-org-vc-soundtrack
Music Text
Sacred texts
Dialogues between Moses, Demosthenes, Virgil and Turing (2004)
for string quartet
Duration: 15'
Dialogues between Moses, Demosthenes, Virgil and Turing (mixed ensemble version) (2004, arr. 2005)
arranged for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
Duration: 15'
Diálogos franciscano(n)s (Saint François d’Assise) (2012)
for bass flute and soundtrack
Duration: 7'
Discursos argentinos (2011)
for solo oboe
Duration: 5'
World Premiere
24/06/2015
Circolo Italiano, Buenos Aires
Marcelo Baus, oboe
Drunken fugue (1999)
for saxophone trio
Duration: 4'
Scoring
ssax.tsax.barsax
World Premiere
28/07/2002
La Scala de San Telmo, Buenos Aires
Carolina Cervetto, soprano sax / Diana Magalí Carballo, tenor sax / Sabina Egea Sobral, bariton sax
Estelango (2002/2003)
for solo piano
Duration: 4'
World Premiere
09/02/2003
York University, Ontario
Estela Telerman, piano
Estelango (bandoneon and piano version) (2002/2003, arr. 2012)
arranged for bandoneon and piano
Duration: 4'
Estelango (piano four hands version) (2002/2003, arr. 2004)
arranged for piano four hands
Duration: 4'
World Premiere
21/05/2005
Casal de Catalunya, Buenos Aires
Estela Telerman & Guillermo Carro, piano
Recommended Recording
Estela Telerman & Guillermo Carro, piano ("Los compositores académicos argentinos y el Tango II")
Pretal PRCD 138 (Argentina, 2007)
Estelango (percussion ensemble version) (2002/2003, arr. 2008)
arranged for percussion ensemble
Duration: 4'
Scoring
timp.perc(4):I=glsp; II=xyl; III=marimba; IV=vib
World Premiere
25/10/2010
Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Salón de Actos, Buenos Aires
Ensamble de Percusión del Conservatorio Superior de Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires "Astor Piazzolla" / Marina Calzado Linage
Euskal oroipenak (2018)
for txistu with tamboril, marimba and accordion
Duration: 10'
World Premiere
04/06/2018
Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra, Auditorio Fernando Remacha, Pamplona
Ainara Martínez, txistu / Isaac Irimia, marimba / Itsaso Mungia, accordion
Institutional commission
Work commissioned by Aula de Acordeón del Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra, Spain
Five rivers (2019)
for orchestra
Duration: 11'
Scoring
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(2):t.bells/anvil/cyms/BD/tam-t-strings
Flumen Dei, ager arkanus (2003/2004)
for orchestra
Duration: 20'
Scoring
2.2.0.0-2.2.0.0-perc(2):BD/tam-t/crystal glass/crot/vib-pft-strings
Harmonie - Alpha et Omega (2001/2002)
for soprano and piano
Duration: 5'
Music Text
Otto Vicenzi
World Premiere
25/04/2002
Palais-Pálffy, Vienna
Marika Ottitsch, soprano / Lourenço César Finatti, piano
Recommended Recording
Marika Ottisch, soprano / Lourenço César Finatti, piano ("Harmonie heute?!")
Harmonia Classica Records HCR 022 (Austria, 2002)
Huayno meets the milonga (2009)
for vibraphone and five-octave marimba
Duration: 6'
World Premiere
10/06/2011
Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gonzalo Pérez, vibraphone / Martín Diez, marimba
Innandöme (2020)
for orchestra
Duration: 12'
Scoring
2.2.2.2-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(2):vib/anvil/susp.cym/vibraslap/tpl.bl/BD/tam-t-pft-strings
In purgatorium (De profundis) (2008)
for mixed choir, percussion and strings
Duration: 6'
Music Text
Sacred texts
Scoring
perc(2):susp.cym/BD/tam-t-strings(1.1.1.1.1)
Interiörer (2020)
for ensemble
Duration: 7'
Scoring
1.1.1.1-0.0.0.0-perc(1):anvil/susp.cym/vibraslap/tpl.bl/BD/tam-t-pft-vln.vla.vlc
Kinderlachen (2015)
for soprano or tenor recorder
Duration: 7'
World Premiere
18/09/2016
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
Sylvia Hinz, recorder
Kleriodapsis - A butterfly’s life (2002)
for symphony orchestra
Duration: 20'
solo violin-solo cello-2.2.0.0-2.2.0.0-perc(2):BD/tam-t/crystal glass/crot/vib-pft-strings
La chacayalera (1999)
for children’s choir
Duration: 5'40"
Music Text
Miguel A. Camino
La fuga de Valentino (1999)
for piano six hands
Duration: 8'15"
World Premiere
17/11/2000
Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires
Juan Manuel Abras (electroacoustic version)
La fuga de Valentino (symphony orchestra version) (1999)
for symphony orchestra
Duration: 8'15"
Scoring
2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.2.3.1-timp-harp-strings
Libertas? - 47 (1999)
for instrument(s) and/or voice(s)
Duration: 4'
World Premiere
22/06/2011
Arte Gallery, Sofia
Music students from the New Bulgarian University
Awards
Grafimuse Prize, Brussels
Milonga meets malambo (2011)
for cello and piano
Duration: 6'
World Premiere
18/06/2012
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (Foro Internacional de Música Nueva "Manuel Enríquez")
Juan Hermida, cello / Misa Ito, piano
Milonga meets malambo (violin and piano version) (2011, arr. 2014)
arranged for violin and piano
Duration: 6'
Missa (2000)
for solo voices, mixed choir and orchestra
Duration: 30'
Music Text
Sacred texts
Scoring
SATB-mixed choir-2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(2):t.bells/BD/SD/anvil-harp-cel-strings
Moment musical sur un thème de P. et M. Hill (2012)
for soprano and ensemble
Duration: 30"
Music Text
Juan Manuel Abras
Scoring
S-cl-tpt-marimba-pft-vln.vlc
World Premiere
04/06/2013
Théâtre Dunois, Paris
Ensemble Aleph
Muchos rostros, una Madre (Homilía del Santo Padre Juan Pablo II) (2006)
for solo voices, mixed choir and chamber orchestra
Duration: 13'
Music Text
Pope John Paul II and sacred texts
Scoring
SATB-mixed choir-hn-harp-1.1.1.1.0
World Premiere
07/05/2006
Parafia p.w. Ofiarowania Pańskiego w Warszawie, Warsaw
Barbara Wnuk, soprano / Bożenna Jurkiewicz, alto / Piotr Szmyt, tenor / Ryszard Morka, bass / Chór "Cantate Domino" / Zuzanna Sawicka, harp / Natolińska Orkiestra Kameralna / Adrianna Róża Szmyt
Institutional commission
Work commissioned by Fundacja Argentyńska, Poland
Munda me (Miserere) (2006/2008)
for mixed choir a cappella
Duration: 6'
Music Text
Sacred texts
Musik für "In 3 Tagen bist du tot (Filmsequenz)" (2010)
for ensemble
Duration: 4'
Scoring
bcl(2)-hn-perc:BD/tam-t/t.bells/vib-vln.vlc.db
World Premiere
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Vienna (International Film Music Symposium Vienna)
Awards
2nd Wiener Filmmusik Preis 2010, Vienna
Noches para olvidar (2002)
chamber opera in one act
Duration: 14'
Music Text
Libretto by Juan Manuel Abras, based on the story by Neli Marche
Scoring
S,T,B-fl.cl-hn-timp.perc:susp.cym/wdbl-pft-strings(1.1.1.1.1)
Only one note (2014)
for solo piano
Duration: 1'
World Premiere
24/06/2014
Universität Bremen, Bremen
Juan María Solare, piano
Österreichische Reden (2011)
for solo oboe
Duration: 2'
Pentecostés (Veni Sancte Spiritus) (2007)
for mixed choir and soundtrack
Duration: 7'
Music Text
Sacred texts
World Premiere
26/05/2007
Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie. Krakow (19. Międzynarodowe Dni Muzyki Kompozytorów Krakowskich)
Chór Kameralny "Pogratulujmy Mrówkom" / Grzegorz Brajner
Awards
TRINAC Mention 2014, EIMC - International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)
Perpetuum tanguile (2013)
for solo violin
Duration: 5'
World Premiere
26/07/2014
Klang im Bild. Brick-5 Verein zur Förderung der multimedialen Kunst und Technik, Vienna
Édua Zádory, violin
Recommended Recording
Édua Zádory, violin ("Heavy")
GENUIN classics GEN17473 (Germany, 2017)
Pésame (Actus contritionis) (2006)
for narrator, mixed choir, ensemble and soundtrack
Duration: 6'
Music Text
Juan Manuel Abras and sacred texts
Scoring
narrator-mixed choir-perc:t.bells/vib-pft-db-tape
World Premiere
13/01/2007
Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie, Krakow
Warsztat kompozytorsko-wykonawczy. Wojciech Leonowicz, narrator / Chór Kameralny Muzyki Współczesnej / Wiktoria Chrobak, percussion / Piotr Grodecki, double bass / Michał Pawełek, piano / Grzegorz Brajner
Awards
TRINAC Prize 2008, EIMC - International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)
Piano concerto "Telesiadas" (Variations on a theme by Chazarreta) (2002/2009)
for piano and symphony orchestra
Duration: 10'
Scoring
solo piano-2.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.perc(2):harp-cel-strings(14.12.10.8.6)
Awards
TRINAC Prize 2017, EIMC - International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)
Ploratus acerbos infantem edere (2013)
for solo clarinet
Duration: 3'
World Premiere
20/08/2014
Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte, Buenos Aires
Griselda Giannini, clarinet
Pomeranian rhapsody (2017)
for oboe d'amore and harpsichord
Duration: 8'
Music Text
Latin phrases
World Premiere
14/10/2017
Pałac Biskupa Erazma Ciołka, Krakow (Pianoforte Fundacja - "Między Bachem a Abrasem")
Katarzyna Pilipiuk, oboe d'amore / Anna Huszczo, harpsichord
Przemówienia polskie (2011)
for solo oboe
Duration: 3'
World Premiere
22/06/2016
Circolo Italiano, Buenos Aires
Andrés Spiller, oboe
Quatuor pour un petit soldat de plomb (1999)
for string quartet
Duration: 11'
Awards
Special Mention - Concurso de Composición Orquesta de Cámara Sibelius "Bicentenario", Banfield
Quatuor pour un petit soldat de plomb (string orchestra version) (1999)
for string orchestra
Duration: 11'
Awards
Special Mention - Concurso de Composición Orquesta de Cámara Sibelius "Bicentenario", Banfield
Recuerdos de un 11-M (2006/2007)
for solo piano
Duration: 5'
Ricercare (1999)
for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
Duration: 8'
World Premiere
19/06/1999
Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, Wiener Saal, Salzburg
Son Youn Hwa, flute / Víctor Estarelles, clarinet / Samuli Tuomikoski, violin / Pejman Memarzadeh, cello
Recommended Recording
Son Youn Hwa, flute / Víctor Estarelles, clarinet / Samuli Tuomikoski, violin / Pejman Memarzadeh, cello ("Argentina - Música de Cámara Vol. 1") AAC–2705 (Argentina, 2006)
Ricercare (string quartet version) (1999)
for string quartet
Duration: 8
Seriallemande (1997)
for piano 4 hands
Duration: 3'
World Premiere
04/12/1997
Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires (Conciertos del Caracol 1997)
Alicia Clausi & Ping-Hui Ho, piano
Sitwa Raymi (Oración primera al Hacedor) (2014)
for mixed choir and soundtrack
Duration: 9'
Music Text
Sacred texts
World Premiere
14/06/2015
Basílica de María Auxiliadora y San Carlos, Buenos Aires
Ensamble Vocal Cámara XXI / Miguel Pesce
Institutional commission
Work commissioned by Ensamble Vocal Cámara XXI, Argentina
Recommended Recording
Ensamble Vocal Cámara XXI / Miguel Pesce ("Bavel - Obras Corales Contemporáneas")
Ensamble Vocal Cámara XXI (Argentina, 2006)
Sonata "Medina" (1997)
for solo piano
Duration: 6'
World Premiere
03/12/1999
La Casa de San Telmo, Buenos Aires (Mudrub-Mudrus)
Sergio Elena, piano
Sueño y chacarera (2001)
for flute and clarinet
Duration: 8'
World Premiere
08/08/2001
Auditorio de Radio Nacional, Buenos Aires
Javier Blanco, flute / Alfredo Gómez, clarinet
Awards
TRIMARG Mention 2002, EIMC - International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) - CAMU - International Music Council (IMC) - UNESCO
Suite argentina (chamber orchestra version) (2000/2001)
for chamber orchestra
Duration: 13'
Scoring
2.2.2.2-timp.perc:t.bells/wdbl-strings
World Premiere
07/06/2002
Franz Josef Reinl-Stiftung. Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Vienna
Tonkünstler Ensemble / Werner Hackl
Awards
2nd Reinl-Preis 2002, Vienna
Suite argentina (symphony orchestra version) (2000/2001)
for symphony orchestra
Duration: 13'
Scoring
2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(2):t.bells/BD/SD/wdbl/anvil-harp-cel-strings
Awards
2nd Reinl-Preis 2002, Vienna
The Dante sketches (Divina Commedia) (2006/2007)
for narrator, mixed choir and symphony orchestra
Duration: 40'
Music Text
Dante Alighieri
Gustave Doré's illustrations for "La Divina Commedia" by Dante Alighieri and texts from the same work
Scoring
narrator-2.picc.2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.3.2.1-timp.perc(2):anvil/BD/susp.cym/tam-t/thunder sheet/cricket-guiro/crot/vib-strings(16.14.12.10.8.6)
The hermit (Der Einsiedler) (2015)
for violin and dancer
Duration: 16'
World Premiere
09/03/2016
Nádasdy Ferenc Múzeum, Sárvár
Édua Zádory, violin / Beatrix Simkó, dance
The hermit (Der Einsiedler) (revised version) (2015, rev.2016)
for solo violin and optional dancer
Duration: 16'
World Premiere
09/03/2016
Nádasdy Ferenc Múzeum, Sárvár
Édua Zádory, violin / Beatrix Simkó, dance
Recommended Recording
Édua Zádory, violin ("Heavy")
GENUIN classics GEN17473 (Germany, 2017)
The song of Anna O. (2005)
for soprano and ensemble
Duration: 7'
Music Text
Josef Breuer
Scoring
soprano(=tam-t)-Ebcl-tpt(=didgeridoo,train whistle)-perc:marimba-pft-vln.vlc
World Premiere
06/09/2006
Bimhuis-Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam (Gaudeamus Muziekweek)
Ensemble Aleph
Awards
Selected Work - Ensemble Aleph (Paris) - 4th International Forum for Young Composers 2006 (Program "Culture 2000" - European Union)
Recommended Recording
Ensemble Aleph ("4e Forum International des Jeunes Compositeurs - Oeuvres sélectionnées")
Ensemble Aleph - Cdmc (France, 2006)
Toccata argentina (2020)
for organ
Duration: 4'
Un réquiem lorquiano (Balada de la placeta) (2009)
for soundtrack
Duration: 5'
World Premiere
04/01/2014
Associazione Cultura e Musica G. Curci, Barletta (Soundiff - Diffrazioni Sonore)
Nicola Monopoli, interactive sound diffusion
Recommended Recording
Juan Manuel Abras ("Electroacoustic & Beyond Vol. 2")
RMN Classical CLS170901 (United Kingdom, 2017)
Your kisses break the silence of the hours (2020)
for soundtrack
Duration: 3'
Yubarta Yakarta (2015)
for solo cello
Duration: 5'
N.B. This work list is currently under revision.