Luis Guillermo Pérez: Moments Musicaux for unaccompanied double bass

About the Composition

Dedicated to the memory of František Pošta

Composed in 2018, these five short and engaging miniatures are overflowing with character and imagination and were composed to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of František Pošta (1919-2019) the following year. Playable in any order, there are musical and technical challenges for the intermediate bassist, primarily in bass clef, and are ideal for both study and recital use.

These pieces, lasting one minute each, were composed as technical and musical studies (Chromatic Moment, Spiccato Moment), always thinking about my students and playing exercises for both hands that can, at the same time, have some musical melodic interest. Romantic Moment and Happy Moment reflect different emotions or moods, and Pizzicato Moment is a rhythmic study contrasting the the style and sound worlds of the other pieces. The suite uses a register of just over three octaves, including natural and false harmonics. [Luis Guillermo Pérez]

About the Composer

Luis Guillermo Pérez was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1954. He graduated as a classical guitarist from the “Vicente Emilio Sojo” Conservatory in 1980 and began his double bass studies with Volmar Laubach in 1978, and later with Joel Novoa at the “Simón Bolívar” Conservatory in Caracas, in 1984.

He has been Principal Bass with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Lara, from 1989 until the present day, and has participated as a guest double bassist with the Orquesta Simón Bolivar in their tour in France “Festival Radio France” in 1986. He was the Assistant Principal Bass with the Orquesta de los X Juegos Panamericanos (Indianapolis, 1987), in the 50th anniversary of the Orquesta Sinfónica (1992), with the Bach Academy from Stuttgart conducted by Helmuth Rilling (1994), and in the premiere of the piece “A flowering tree” by John Adams in Vienna (2006).

Luis has worked as professor of double bass in Venezuela and in other Latin American countries, and now teaches at the Universidad Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado UCLA and in the “Vicente Emilio Sojo” Conservatory.