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Julian De La Chica: Revering the Irreverent

One year after the making of the film, Julian De La Chica has won more than 17 awards and was officially selected by more than 30 festivals. His film’s official premiere took place at the 37th Festival de Cine de Bogota, and has been recognized for its austere soundtrack, unapologetically raw subject matter, and experimental cinematography.

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Yana Mann: Poemas de Bar

Russian Mezzo-Soprano Yana Mann will release at the beginning of 2021, her first studio album, 10 Poemas de Bar Op. 12. The music, composed by minimalist composer Julián De La Chica explores conversations that take place at 5am in a neighborhood bar.

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Lisa Moore and Julian De La Chica

Described as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned… lustrous at the keyboard” by The New York Times and Crowned “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” and “visionary” by The New Yorker, the celebrated pianist Lisa Moore, releases a new album: DE LA CHICA: PRELUDES OP. 8 on March 1st 2018

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Tribute to Pauline Oliveros

On September 13, 1970, a young composer named Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) published in The New York Times an article entitled "And Don't Call Them 'Lady' Composers", Ms. Oliveros addressed an unasked yet (tellingly so) critical question: “Why have there been no ‘great’ women composers?”

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Soprano Rachel Hippert and Silence

Experimentelle und unbestimmte Lieder Op. 9 (Experiential and Indeterminate Songs, op. 9) is a Cycle for soprano, piano and synthesizer composed by Julián De La Chica. The music narrates a spiritual experience through the five pillars of internal transit that the composer suggests are the fundamental basis of meditation.

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Who is Julian De La Chica?

When I was a young boy I remember reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and finding myself profoundly surprised by the first lines of the novel as if it was a prophecy, asking for who would later become the most legendary character, a paradigm of the world that she dreamed: “Who is John Galt?” Without a doubt and with the same confidence that he can distinguish between talent and improvisation, natural and artificial, I must start these lines asking: Who is Julián De La Chica?

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