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Jorge Torres, associate professor of music, and collaborator Rebecca Stuhr have been named finalists in the National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music category for their arrangement of Six Gnossiennes by French composer Erik Satie.
Torres transcribed Satie’s original piano composition for guitar and flute with the help of Stuhr, who plays modern and baroque flute and serves as a collection development librarian at Grinnell College.
The arrangement’s publisher, Trillenium Music Company, calls the work “totally unique, yet accessible.” The piece had never been arranged for guitar or flute, nor had all of Satie’s individual gnossiennes been published simultaneously.
Professor Torres chose to arrange Satie’s music specifically for guitar and flute because it is a standard chamber ensemble, and by arranging the piece, he expanded the repertoire that he and Stuhr can perform on stage. The arrangement was well received when Torres and Stuhr appeared at numerous colleges in the Midwest, as well as local venues, including Lafayette, Muhlenberg College, and Shippensburg University.
Torres and Stuhr have also collaborated on a CD entitled Music for Flute and Guitar. The album focuses on French and Latin American music by Napoleon Coste, Emile Desportes, Radames Gnattali, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.