Soliloquy
Award winning at chor.com Composer’s Competition “Nocturne” 2024
“True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” Thus begins Edgar Allan Poe’s psychological portrait of a murderer in the short story The Tell-Tale Heart, as does Martín Letelier’s musical setting. In his composition, the focus is clearly on the text: Letelier presents a narrator to guide us through the action and ensure that the story is experienced as directly as possible. The choir/vocal ensemble comments on, illustrates and underlines the narrative – in a sense, you could say that a choral melodrama unfolds. With this captivating composition, Letelier has possibly created a new genre for the choral world, one that ought to be developed further.
Musically and dramatically, the composer shows great sensitivity and audacious creativity. He has already won numerous prizes for his work. Soliloquy was awarded 2nd prize and the audience award at the “Nocturne” competition run by Voktett Hannover as part of the chor.com congress.
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Composer
Martín Letelier
| 1987Martín Letelier (b.1987) is a Chilean composer based in Cologne, Germany. Active in the field of contemporary music, his works have received numerous recognitions, such as the first prize and the audience award at the Composition Competition of Regensburg 2022 for his composition “Gedicht”, for soprano and string orchestra. In 2020, he was nominated for a Pulsar Award in the category “Best Classical Artist” for the work “Ya no van a haber robots”, premiered by Ensemble Musikfabrik. He is also winner of the Concurso de Composición Luis Advis, Chile’s most prestigious composition award, for his orchestral piece "El Laberinto del Minotauro".
Particularly outstanding in vocal writing, Letelier was recently awarded in the composition competition Nocturne 2024, organized by the German Association of Choirs (Deutscher Chorverband), the Carus-Verlag and the ensemble Voktett Hannover. On this occasion, he received the second prize of the jury, the audience award, and the Carus-Verlag award for his composition “Soliloquy” for narrator and vocal ensemble.
At the moment, he is working on an opera commissioned by the Chilean opera company Lírica Disidente, and is a finalist in the composition competition of the the International Biennial of Contemporary Vocal Music Festyvocal in Firminy (France), where he will premiere in 2025 a new work for choir at the Le Corbusier Church.
Besides his work as a composer, Martín teaches theory, piano and composition in the cities of Cologne and Hennef, and has been invited to give lectures in institutions such as the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe or the Universidad Austral de Chile. As an arranger, he has worked among others with the latin band El Chibano, who received a Pulsar Award 2022 on their debut album “Salsa Consciente” including four of his arrangements. Martín holds a Master in Composition from the University of Music and Dance of Cologne (HfMT Köln) where he studied with Markus Hechtle. Prior to this, he studied composition at the Universidad de Chile, where he graduated with highest distinction. He has attended masterclasses of musicians such as Carola Bauckholt, Alexander Schubert, Iris ter Schiphorst, Marko Nikodijevic and Sarah Maria Sun.
Being an enthusiastic lover of vocal music, he actively participates as a baritone of LeChör.
We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/6-questions-for-martin-letelier/
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Songwriter / Librettist
Edgar Allan Poe
| 1809-1849
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