David Virelles

For David Virelles, tradition and modernity are not opposing forces but a single continuum, where ancestral knowledge shapes new creative possibilities and where past and present exist as one. Commissioned by the Pierre Boulez Saal, he has created Vaivén, a cycle of Cuban-­inspired sones that explore the rhythmic, timbral, and harmonic resonances of his trio, in which he is joined by Eric McPherson and Vicente Archer. Gilbert Nouno’s electronic sound design will further blur the boundaries between tradition and abstraction.