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The Debut album of SOLI Chamber Ensemble features four works commissioned by the Ensemble. Cycles & Myths by Timothy Kramer, Catching Updrafts by David Heuser, Crows by Alexandra Gardner, and finally Music for un Tiempo by Robert Xavier Rodriguez.

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This is the album is a collaboration with three composers and SOLI Chamber Ensemble. Peter Farmer, Erich Stem, and Elliott Miles McKinley wrote original works for a set of concerts in Texas, Kentucky, and Indiana followed by a recording session for the New Dynamic Records in Indiana. SOLI was asked to add an additional piece and the Ensemble unanimously picked Colombian composer Diego Vega’s Divertimento for the album.

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Composer Peter Lieuwen’s Overland Dream was a commission by the Texas Music Teachers Association, and was written for and premiered by SOLI Chamber Ensemble at TMTA’s annual conference in Arlington Texas. The work was recorded in Houston by the Grammy-winning recording engineer Brad Sayles.

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Schimmel’s “Roadshow for Thora” was written for his children, one for his daughter Thora. Schimmel was inspired by the hit PBS show “Antiques Roadshow,” and each miniature movement is a musical imagining of how she might play with toys he saw featured on the show. The first track of the recording, “Silver Atom Ray Gun” from Roadshow for Otto, with its bravura opening and maudlin asides, encapsulates Schimmel’s occasionally cartoonish presentation.

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“The idea for the QUAD Concerto was hatched in 2011 at an after-concert dinner with the SOLI Chamber Ensemble in San Antonio.  SOLI had just performed my composition Overland Dream which was written for the ensemble.  As many of my compositions are orchestral, I couldn’t help but envision a new concerto for their colorful instrumental combination.”

–Peter Lieuwen

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On his Navona release INFINITE LANDSCAPES, composer Elliot McKinley presents Three Portraits and his String Quartet No. 7 – two adventurous works commissioned by renowned chamber ensembles. Three Portraits was commissioned by the San Antonio Texas based SOLI Chamber Ensemble and is scored for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. 

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Miguel del Aguila music draws from a wide range of influences and may be some of the most immediately appealing classical music being written today. Aguila's Latin American roots are apparent in this high energy ostinato-driven music, but there are also touches of the avant-garde, as well as a tongue in cheek approach that sends up South American culture. This is music that is fun to listen to and simply defies categorization, played with infectious high spirits by Camerata San Antonio.

– Bridge Records

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 Dahl was a former student of Nadia Boulanger, and close to Igor Stravinsky, and both of these influences, and more, are apparent in Dahl's music which is solidly scored, brightly rhythmic, and serious in intent, but packed with attractive and occasionally off-kilter harmonies. 

The Tower of Saint Barbara is the only purely orchestral work Dahl created; it is dramatic, quite sober, and was intended as a ballet, though it also has strong cinematic overtones.

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