Unpublished works
ARRANGEMENTS
A los bosques yo me interno (South American folk song)
SATB a cappella
2000
Aguinaldo (Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Unison children’s choir and string quartet
2009
Aguinaldo jíbaro (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Composer: Rafael Hernández
SA children’s choir and string quartet
2009
Aguinaldo jíbaro (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Composer: Rafael Hernández
SATB a cappella
2014
Alegre vengo (Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Unison children’s choir, violin, viola and piano
2007
Alegre vengo (Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas song)
SAATB a cappella
2004
Alegría, alegría, alegría (Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Unison children’s choir, violin, viola and piano
2007
Alegría, alegría, alegría (Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas song)
SATB a cappella
1994
Alma Mater
Anthem of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
SATB with piano accompaniment
SATB with orchestra
2017
Araní (Puerto Rico)
Composer: Alberto Vals
SAATBB a cappella
2004
Ave María
Composer: Ernesto Cordero
SATB choir with guitar accompaniment
Guitar part from the original composer’s score
Campana sobre campana (Traditional Spanish Christmas song)
SATB a cappella
1998
Cantares de Navidad (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Composer: Benito de Jesús
SATB a cappella
2016
Cinco siglos igual (Argentina)
Music: Luis Gurevich
Lyrics: León Gieco
SATB a cappella
1998
Concordi lætitia (Gregorian chant)
Composer: Pierre de Corbeil (d. 1222)
SATB and organ
2006
Corcovado (Brazil)
Composer: Antônio Carlos Jobim
SATB and guitar
1998
De lejanas tierras (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Composer: Cristino “Piní” Maldonado-Muriel
SATB a cappella
2013
El ángel y los pastores(from El evangelio según San Lucas)
Puerto Rico
Composer: Pedro “Papo” Gely (b. 1955)
SATBB and cello
2003
El telegrama (Spain)
Composer: Gregorio García-Segura
Arranged for SSAA a cappella
by Enid Ortega-Rivera and Guarionex Morales Matos
1994
If You Come to Have Church (Traditional African-American Spiritual)
SATB with piano accompaniment
2012
La empalizá (Dominican merengue)
Composer: Luis Kalaff-Pérez
SATB a cappella
2011
Las madreselvas (Puerto Rican Children’s song)
Traditional Neapolitan tune with Spanish lyrics
Unison children’s choir, violin, viola and guitar
2006
Las Navidades (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Music: Jaime Pericás
Lyrics: María Cabrera-Lierta
SAATB a cappella
1994
Los pollitos (Puerto Rican children’s song)
Music: Traditional
Lyrics: Monserrate Deliz
SSATB a cappella
1999
Los Reyes Magos (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Music: Braulio Dueño-Colón (1854-1934)
Lyrics: Manuel Fernández-Juncos (1846-1928)
SAATB with piano or harp accompaniment
1994
Manuelita la tortuga (Argentinian children’s song)
Composer: María Elena Walsh
SATB, baritone solo and guitar
2007
Miles de pastores (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Composer: Monserrate Ferrer-Otero
SATB and soprano solo a cappella
2017
Nochecita de Navidad (Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Composer: Rafael Hernández
Unison children’s choir and string quartet
2009
O pato (Brazil)
Composers: Jayme Silva and Neuza Teixera
SSAATB a cappella
2007
Pastores a Belén (Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas song)
SATB a cappella
2015
Pastores y zagalas (Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas song)
SA children’s choir and string quartet
2009
Sabor a mí (Mexican bolero)
Composer: Álvaro Carrillo
SATB a cappella
1992
Salve de los cielos (Traditional Fiestas de Cruz Puerto Rican folk music)
From Rosarios Cantados a la Santísima Cruz de Mayo
SATB a cappella
2002
Salve rociera (Andalusia, Spain)
Music: Manuel Pareja-Obregón and Guardo del Valle
Lyrics: Rafael de León and Manuel Llavero
SATB a cappella
Also arranged for SATB with string orchestra, organ and guitar
2002
Samba de uma nota só (Brazil)
Composer: Antônio Carlos Jobim
TTTBBB a cappella
2004
Silencio (Puerto Rican bolero)
Composer: Rafael Hernández
SATB a cappella
2017
Venid pastores (Traditional Spanish Christmas song)
Unison children’s choir, violin, viola and piano
2006
Verde luz (Puerto Rican danza)
Composer: Antonio Cabán-Vale
TTBB a cappella
2017
Vicentillo (Traditional Puerto Rican Christmas song)
Unison children’s choir and string quartet
2009
Were you there? / I’ve Just Come from the Fountain
(Traditional African-American Spirituals)
SATB a cappella
2016
ORIGINAL WORKS
Ave Maria
Version for SAAB soloists, string orchestra and organ
2010
Version for soprano, string orchestra and organ
2011
Catá, Maruco y Cheché (Güembé)
Lyrics: Fortunato Vizcarrondo (1895-1977)
Excerpts from the poem Tango, tarango, té
Published in Dinga y mandinga (1942)
Version for SATB choir and bomba drums
2012
Cecilia virgo
Anthem for Saint Cecilia
SATB choir, soprano solo, flute and organ
2017
El girasol (The Sunflower)
Lyrics: María Juanita Caro
Children’s song
Unison Children’s choir with piano accompaniment
2006
Fault Lines
Lyrics: Allora & Calzadilla
Duet for boy sopranos (or sopranos) a cappella
or with piano accompaniment
2013
Misa a San Francisco de Asís (Mass to Saint Francis of Assisi)
SATB choir and tenor soloist with oboe, cello, harp,
harpsichord or organ accompaniment
2014
Portal de niebla y aliento (Portal of Haze and Breath)
Gloria in altissimis Deo
Baja un presagio desde la montaña
Allí desde lo alto de la braña
Esta tierra mía, ya sin sosiego
Gloria in altissimis Deo (reprise)
Lyrics: Alberto Prieto (n. 1962)
Christmas cantata for double choir (SATB/SSAT children’s choir),
tenor soloist, and orchestra (strings, two flutes, oboe, clarinet in A, bassoon,
two trumpets in C and organ)
2017
Requiem: muerte y renacimiento de la Patria
(Requiem: Death and Rebirth of Our Homeland)
Kyrie
Dies irae
Confutatis
Sanctus-Benedictus
Pie Jesu-Agnus Dei
Lux aeterna
Lyrics: José María Lima (1934-2009), Angelamaría Dávila (1944-2003),
Hugo Margenat (1933-1957), Víctor Fragoso (1944-1982) and
Juan Antonio Corretjer (1908-1985)
Requiem for double choir (SATB/SAB), soprano and two mezzosoprano soloists, twelve cellos, Puerto Rican cuatro, organ, clarinet in A and handbell
2016
Version for full orchestra
2017
Topografía (Topography)
Lyrics: Carlos Vázquez-Cruz
Madrigal for SSATBB choir with piano accompaniment
2016
Ubi caritas
SAATB a cappella choir
2017
VII (Ballet)
Envidia (Envy)
Soberbia (Pride)
Codicia (Greed)
Lujuria (Lust)
Gula (Gluttony)
Pereza (Sloth)
Ira – anteDante / Coda (Wrath)
Lyrics: Nydia Fernández-Toledo
Scenic cantata based on the Seven Deadly Sins for SATB choir,
two soprano soloists, strings, guitar, piano, trumpet in C
and percussion (zills, cymbal, snare drum, tumbas and djembe)
2015
