About

Our project:

Objectives:

To collect, organize and promote Chilean recorder music, facilitating its access.

To disseminate the cultural heritage generated by composers and performers of recent Chilean music around the recorder.

To testify the instrument’s presence in Chilean music’s scene.

The research project that gives rise to this website begins in 2003, through my work as a performer in learning, performing, collecting, commissioning and promoting new works for recorder in diverse instrumental forces. In 2012, the collection of music from the 20th and 21st centuries composed by Chilean composers both in Chile and abroad is systematized as part of my MA thesis, guided by the Chilean musicologist Alejandro Vera. After this project, it seems necessary to share the 130 works I found through my research and in 2015 this website is materialized.

This project was funded by Fondo de la Música from Chilean Government. We extend our deepest gratitude to all the individuals and institutions involved in this project.

Paola Muñoz Manuguián, is a Chilean recorder player. She holds a BA in Music at Universidad de la Serena in Chile and an MA in Performance of 20th century Latin American Music at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. Paola studied recorder under Victor Rondón, continuing her studied in Barcelona under María Jesús Udina and in France under Frédérique Thouvenot. Subsequently, she focuses on contemporary performance under the guidance of Antonio Politano in Switzerland. Paola premieres several works in Chile and abroad, both as a soloist as well as a member of diverse ensembles, highlighting her work with new prototypes of Helder and Paetzold recorders. She releases the CD Al aire interrogado in 2004, with works for recorders and electronics. The same year she publishes the book Nueva Música para flautas dulces I (New music for recorders), with six pedagogical micro-pieces for recorder ensembles developed in collaboration with the composer Cristian Morales Ossio. Between 2014- 6 she records Matters of fact, a CD with works for recorders alongside Diego Castro in guitar and Cecilia Barrientos in voice. In 2019, Paola releases the CD Movimiento paralelo, with works for recorder and flute alongside Karina Fischer.