Kirsten Broberg

Title: Inward
Commission: 2009
Completed: 2010
Instrumentation: string quartet
Premiere Location: The Cetre del Carme Sala Refectoro
Premiere Ensemble: Kronos
Notes:

​Ranging in style from cinematic to spectral, Kirsten Soriano Broberg composes for orchestra, choir, symphonic winds, chamber ensembles, chamber voices, dance, multimedia and film. Her music spans from extremely expressive and lyrical to highly colorful, evocative and textural. She explores concepts of time and space while highlighting transformations of timbre, texture, ornamentation and gestures on the surface and within the structure of the music. Her sound world ranges from the fragility of barely audible and whispering colors to pure, resonant and complex timbres, which she treats as states through which sound evolves over time. Further, the modulation each parameter undergoes​, is paramount to the resulting form, sequence and proportional duration of musical events. As a result, form is generated through process with domains organically evolving, spawned by the intersection of one or more permutations. Through this, shapes and creates an effective and emotive dramatic profile for each piece she composes.