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Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Compositions

1977
Espejismos (10')
(Flute, oboe, clar., vib., perc., piano, harpsichord, vlin., vla., cello, tape)
Premiere: Grup Instrumental Catalá, Festival Internacional de Barcelona, 1977
Recording: Grupo Koan (Movieplay). Publisher: EMEC.

1978
Suite Apócrifa (12')   listen
(Piano)
Premiere: Pedro Espinosa, Ibiza, 1980

1979
Quasi Variazioni (9')
(Fl., ob., clar., horn, bassoon, vlin., vla., cello, bass, piano, 4 female voices)
Premiere: Grupo Koan, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 1979

Concierto en Do (10' 40")
(Double quintet and piano)
Premiere: Koan, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 1982
Recording and publication: F. Juan March

1980
Rondó, op. 5 (12')
Orchestra and chorus

Cinco Piezas para Orquesta (17')    listen
Commissioned by Spanish National Radio
Premiere: Orchestra of the Spanish Radio and TV (Odón Alonso), Teatro Real, Madrid, 1982
Publisher: EMEC

1981
Conductus (12' 30")
Orchestra
Premiere: Orquesta Ciudad de Palma (Julio Ribelles), Palma de Mallorca, 1981

1982
Playtime, for three young violinists (3')
Premiere: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982

1983
Cantata on Dante's Vita Nuova (30')
Baritone, chorus, orchestra
Commissioned by National Orchestra and Chorus of Spain
Premiere: National Orchestra and Chorus of Spain (Manuel Galduf), Teatro Real, Madrid, 1984

Partita for eight instruments (14')   listen
(fl., ob., clar., marimba, vlin., vla., cello, bass)
Premiere: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1984
Publisher: EMEC

1984
Sonata for violoncello and piano (12')   listen
Premiere: Indiana University, 1985
Publisher: Editorial Piles

Tres Cantigas d'Amigo (9')
(Soprano, percussion quintet)
Premiere: Indiana University, 1985

Concerto grosso (14')
(Orchestra)

1987
Diferencias y Fugas (12')
(String quartet)
Commissioned, recorded, and published by Fundación Juan March
Premiere: Cuarteto Arcana, F. Juan March, Madrid, 1988

2004
Easter Toccata (5' 40")    Listen
(organ)
Premiere: Blake Callahan, Cincinnati Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains, Easter, 2005
Recording: Arnau Reynes, organ, Priory Records PRCD 1014
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2005
Dona eis requiem (In memory of the innocent victims     listen           
of war and terror)
(11')
(chamber orchestra and chamber chorus)
Premiere: Orquesta Sinfónica de Baleares and Coral Cármina (Philippe Bender), Auditorium, Palma de Mallorca, 2006
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Antiphon and Psalms for the Victims of Genocide (17')   listen
(chamber orchestra and optional chamber chorus)
Premiere: Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid (Jordi Casas), Auditorio Nacional de la Música, Madrid, Spain, 2008
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2006
Canticles for a Sacred Earth (16' 50")
(double quintet and two percussionists)
Premiere: CCM Chamber Players (Rodney Winther), University of Cincinnati, 2007
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2006-07
Canticles for a Sacred Earth (18' 20")
(orchestra)
Premiere: Orquesta Sinfónica de Baleares (Philippe Bender), Auditorium, Palma de Mallorca, 2008
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2007
Missa pro pace (23')   listen
(mixed chorus and strings)
Premiere: Orquesta y Coro Ciudad de Ibiza (Adolfo Villalonga), Ibiza, Spain, 2008
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Improvisation for Jennifer     listen
(violin solo)
Premiere: Jennifer Roig-Francolí, Ibiza, Spain, 2008

2008
Himne a Santa Agnès
Commissioned by the village of Santa Agnès (Ibiza, Spain)
(chorus and piano)
Premiere: Church of Santa Agnès, Ibiza, January 21, 2009

2009
Five Gothic Miniatures (10')   listen
(chorus a cappella)
Premiere: Xavier University Chorale (Tom Merril), Cincinnati, 2010
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Songs of the Infinite (18' 30")   listen
Commissioned by the Foundation for Iberian Music, New York
(violin and piano)
Premiere: Jennifer Roig-Francolí and Adam Kent, Weill Hall (Carnegie Hall), New York, 2010
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Songs of the Infinite (18'30")   listen
(version for violin and orchestra)
Premiere: Jennifer Roig-Francolí, violin, and Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Ibiza (Adolfo Villalonga), Ibiza, Spain, 2011.
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Missa Pro Pace (23')   listen
(version for mixed chorus and organ)
Premiere: CCM Chorale (Brett Scott, cond., and Matt Phelps, organ), CCM Corbett Auditorium, Cincinnati, 2014.
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2011
Orion (12')   listen
(Three Astral Poems, no. 1)
(orchestra)
Premiere: Orquesta Sinfónica de Baleares (Salvador Brotons), Castell de Bellver, Palma de Mallorca, 2012
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Songs of Light and Darkness (16')   listen
Commissioned by the Rawlins Piano Trio, University of South Dakota
(piano trio)
Premiere: Rawlins Piano Trio, Vermillion, South Dakota, 2012
Recording: Rawlins Piano Trio, Azica ACD-71282, 2012.
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Cinco canciones con los ojos cerrados (12')   listen
On poems by Antonio Colinas
(soprano and piano)
Premiere: Abigail Santos, soprano, and Hyo Jung Song, piano, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2013
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2012

Desconhort (7')   
On a poem by Ramon Llull
Commissioned by the Institut Ramon Llull
(tenor and string quartet)
Premiere: Antoni Aragón, tenor, and String Quartet of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, 2012
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Andromeda (12')   listen
(Three Astral Poems, no. 2)
(orchestra)
Premiere: Orquesta Sinfónica de Baleares (Sergio Alapont), Auditorium, Palma de Mallorca, 2015
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2014
Perseus (11')   listen
(Three Astral Poems, no. 3)
(orchestra)
Premiere: Orquesta Sinfónica de Baleares (Sergio Alapont), Auditorium, Palma de Mallorca, 2015
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Three Astral Poems (35')   listen
I. Orion, II. Andromeda, III. Perseus
(orchestra)
Premiere: Orquesta Sinónica de Baleares (Sergio Alapont), Auditorium, Palma de Mallorca, 2015
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Chaconne: Of Loss and Hope (5')   listen
(string orchestra)
Premiere: Cincinnati Junior Strings (Rachel Bierken, cond.), Muntz Hall (UC Blue Ash, Cincinnati), 2015
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Un piccolo concerto grosso (3')   listen
(three solo violins and youth string ensemble)
Premiere: Peraza Music Workshop Ensemble, Orchestra Hall (Chicago), 2015
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Perseus (11')   listen
(version for symphonic band)
Premiere: CCM Wind Ensemble (Angela Holt, cond.), Corbett Auditorium, Cincinnati, 2015
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

American Prize

2015
Songs of Light and Darkness (16')   listen
(version for chamber orchestra)
Premiere: Orquestra Simfónica Ciutat d'Eivissa, Adolfo Villalonga, cond., 2016, Ibiza, Spain
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Six Preludes after Chopin (6' 30")   listen
(piano)
Premiere: Soyeon Kate Lee, piano, Greene Space, New York City, 2016
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Dances and Laments (14' 15")
(two violoncellos)
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Dances and Laments (10' 45")
(version for two bassoons)
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

The Star Spangled Banner   listen
(version for 50 violoncellos)
Premiere: Cellists from Cincinnati Young Artists and CCM Philharmonia (Mark Gibson, cond.), Corbett Auditorium, Cincinnati, 2015
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Un piccolo concerto grosso (11')
(three solo violins and string orchestra)
Premiere: Pittsburgh Tuesday Musical Club String Ensemble, Pittsburgh, PA, 2015
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Sonata, for two guitars (16')   listen
(two guitars)
Premiere: Duo Melis, Guitar Foundation of America International Conference, Denver, CO, 2016
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Kyrie for Humanity (11' 30")
(8-voice chorus a capella)
(also version for 8-voice chorus and saxophone octet)
Premiere: CCM Chorale and CCM Wind Ensemble Saxophone Octet (Landon Scriber, cond.), Corbett Auditorium, Cincinnati, 2023
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Orion (12')
(version for Symphonic Band)
Premiere: Banda Municipal de Barcelona, Spain (Salvador Brotons, cond.), 2016
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Two Astral Poems (Orion and Perseus) (23')   listen
(version for Symphonic Band)
Premiere: Banda Municipal de Barcelona, Spain (Salvador Brotons, cond.), 2016
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2016
A Tale of Madness (3' 12")   listen
(for chamber wind ensemble (13 instruments))
Premiere: CCM Chamber Players, Terence Milligan, cond., CCM, University of Cincinnati, 2016
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

Sinfonía, "De profundis" (31')   listen
(orchestra)
Premiere: Orchestra Simfónica des les Illes Balears (Álvaro Albiach, cond.), Auditorium, Palma de Mallorca, January 2019.
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

O Canada (2' 40")   
(version for 14 cellos, commissioned by the University of British Columbia)
Premiere: University of British Columbia Cello Ensemble, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, UBC, Vancouver, 2016
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2017
A Tale of Madness (Folía) (4' 50")   listen
(version for symphonic band)
Premiere: Banda Simfónica Ciutat d'Evissa (Adolfo Villalonga, cond.), Ibiza, Spain, 2017
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2019
Dos cançons populars eivissenques (Two Ibiza Folk Songs)
(children's choir and piano)
1. "Sa serena cau menuda"
2. "Jo tenc una enamorada"
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)

2023
Five Preludes for solo violin
(solo violin)
Publisher: Perennis Music Publishing (Contact: roigfrma@uc.edu)


© Paintings: Vicente Pascual. In Illo Tempore XIX and V, 2003. Acrylic on canvas, 48" x 14". Private and Fundación Beulas Art Collection, Huesca.