Album Presentation: Chilean Music for Voice and Piano at GAM Cultural Center

On Saturday, May 27, at the GAM Cultural Center, the album will be presented Chilean music for voice and piano, by the professors of the UC Music Institute Claudia Godoy and Eun Seong Hong. This production was financed by the Music Fund and includes creations by four national composers.

“This project arises from the need to create a new current repertoire for this configuration of the voice with the piano, which comes from the German tradition of the song. The idea is to refresh the current repertoire a bit, especially Chilean and in our own language , in order to generate new material for young singers”, highlights mezzo-soprano Claudia Godoy, who began teaching classes at the UC Music Institute this semester. “I am very happy that they have summoned me to the Catholic University,” she admits.

It also stands out that the album was recorded in the San Mateo de Música UC Hall, on the East Campus. The production is already available on digital platforms such as Spotify, but it was also published as physical CDs, which can be purchased at launch.

Eun Seong Hong, pianist and professor at the UC Institute of Music.

Chilean music for voice and piano includes Four songs with Pizarnik by Juan Manuel Quinteros, Three Lyrical Songs by Leni Alexander, Five fragments of Altazor by Jorge Pepi-Alós and false sky song y Immersed Garden Song by Sebastian Vergara.

The presentation will take place at 7:00 p.m., at Citylab (Alameda 227), with free registration here. A conversation will take place with the composers Juan Manuel Quinteros, Jorge Pepi-Alós and Sebastián Vergara, and the designer in charge of the album art, Leo Rocha. In addition, Claudia Godoy will perform some songs with the pianist Felipe Muñoz, a student at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Chile, where she has taught the mezzo-soprano for 16 years.

will be heard There is no time to lose by Jorge Pepi-Alós; fake sky song by Sebastian Vergara; of the bodies by Juan Manuel Quinteros and Behind the blameless trees by Leni Alexander.