With this project, linked to her Bachelor's thesis, Paula combined her two specialties and composed 18 preparatory studies with gradually increasing difficulty for solo oboe. Each piece is based on the musical application of extended techniques such as frullato, timbre fingering, sing and play simultaneously and circular breathing, among others. 

These studies are complemented by two chamber works for oboe and piano: Acuarela sobre un trigal and Nebulosa jade, calma, which allow the practice of extended techniques in a more complex musical context from a conceptual and interpretative point of view. This project has an educational propose: to bring new music and techniques to the younger generations of oboists in Cuba.

Duration: 5'56''

This is the first of two chamber music works inspired by paintings of the Filipino-Spanish painter Fernando Zóbel: “Jardín seco” (1969) and “Pequeña primavera para Claudio Monteverdi” (1966). The composer aims to recreate the atmosphere they suggest, the color palette and its different densities, as well as translate structural and characteristic elements of the strokes and spatial order of the elements that make them up to music. However, the works are not intended to be purely descriptive, as the music maintains a high level of abstraction.

Performed by: Paula Piñeiro, oboe/Daniela Rodríguez, piano.

Recorded with ADC Produktions in PM Records, Havana, Cuba, 2023. 

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Duration: 5'51''

This is the second of two chamber music works inspired by paintings of the Filipino-Spanish painter Fernando Zóbel: “Jardín seco” (1969) and “Pequeña primavera para Claudio Monteverdi” (1966). The composer aims to recreate the atmosphere they suggest, the color palette and its different densities, as well as translate structural and characteristic elements of the strokes and spatial order of the elements that make them up to music. However, the works are not intended to be purely descriptive, as the music maintains a high level of abstraction.

Performed by: Paula Piñeiro, oboe/Daniela Rodríguez, piano.

Recorded with ADC Produktions in PM Records, Havana, Cuba, 2023. 

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Duration: 6'32''

First performance as part of the International Summer Academy 2023 of the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna. 

This piece is based on the image of clouds: their lights and shadows, their movement and stillness, the sensation of peacefulness that comes from experiencing a landscape that resembles Heaven. But it also develops into a passing storm, as a reflection on hard moments in life that every human being has experienced and how it always have a resolution, when it comes the feeling of a void, of eternal rest.

Performed by: Ensemble Fractales

Premiered and recorded at Reichenau an der Rax, Schloss Reichenau, Austria. August 25th, 2023.

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Duration: 6'50''

This work was commissioned for the "Cuba 2023" project in collaboration with students of University of Arts (ISA), from Cuba and TonWerk Orchestra, from Germany. 

Orandi is part of a cycle of sacred works that Paula has based on the psalms of the Bible. This work is based on Psalm #3: Prayer asking for the Lord's help. Following the dramaturgy of the text, the music constantly seeks to recreate the internal conflict of a subject, the violence and hopelessness that surrounds him, and his search for salvation in the hands of the Lord.

Premiered and recorded: at Teatro Nacional de Cuba, Havana, Cuba on March 31st, 2023. 

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Duration: 6'30''

First performance as part of the International Summer Academy 2022 of the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna. With this work the composer was awarded with the composition prize of this Festival.  

Desolatione is part of a cycle of sacred works that Paula has based on the psalms of the Bible. This piece is based on Psalm 79: a prayer for Jerusalem. The music seeks to recreate its sterile atmospheres, the stark emotions, the dark and desperate conflict the text of this Psalm suggests, as well as those moments of hope in which the hope of the people and their faith comes to light.

Performed by: 

Joshua Owens, Oboe /Benjamin Maneyrol, Bb Clarinet 

Sophia Goidinger Koch, Viola /Gian Ponte, Piano 

Premiered and recorded at Südbahnhotel, Semmering, Austria.

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Duration: 6'

The title of this piece 'Elle' in French means She. This work is an ode to femininity, to the poetic curves of the body, to the smile, to the lightness of movements and the contagious happiness; infinite creativity that emanates.

Performed by: Leandro Larrea

Recorded at University of Arts, ISA, Havana, Cuba.

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Duration: 7'50''

This work is the first one of a cycle of sacred works that Paula has based on the psalms of the Bible. Based on Psalm 8: The Glory of God and the Dignity of Man. This piece was composed for the 9th Semana de Música Sacra de La Habana 2022, and with it Paula was awarded the Musicalia Contest Composition Prize in 2022.

Performed by: 

Mariolys Rivas, Clarinet 

Janet Rodrígue, Percussion 

Paula Piñeiro, Piano

Recorded at University of Arts (ISA), Havana, Cuba.

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These eleven short pieces are based on different genres of Cuban music, and constitute the musical background for the different episodes of the Volume III of the Audiovisual Catalog of Agroecological Technologies (CATA). This is an initiative to share agroecological practices by the Cuban photographer and documentalist Alejandro Ramírez Anderson.

Watch an episode here.

Duration: 4'

Premiered and recorded as part of Semana de Música Sacra Festival at Iglesia de San Francisco, Havana, Cuba, on 2019.

Performed by: Paula Piñeiro

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