Beyond Borders (2025) - Hub New Music

Composition premiered on June 13, 2025, at the Timucua Foundation in partnership with the ICEBERG Institute, held in Orlando, Florida, from June 2 to 13, 2025.

HUB NEW MUSIC: Hub New Music is Michael Avitabile (flutes), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinets), Magnolia Rohrer (violin/viola), and Jesse Christeson (cello). Currently based in Detroit, the ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston’s reputation as a hub of  innovation.

About the Work: 

“Beyond Borders” is a composition about my personal journey — a work that crosses geographical boundaries through my sonic and emotional references. It is about living in a new country, encountering an unfamiliar culture, and still realizing that it is possible to integrate into this new reality, full of peculiarities, by relating it to my previous life experiences. Languages, cuisines, ways of being — everything overlaps, blends, and transforms. The piece weaves together folk songs from the United States and Brazil, while also evoking a North American compositional style that shaped my listening during adolescence: minimalism. This style overlaps and alternates with the rasgueado strumming of Spanish guitars, creating a hybrid texture rich in contrast. Among these layers, the songs of imaginary birds emerge — a musical object I have been developing within my personal language, strongly influenced by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. The piece also incorporates rhythmic elements from the Río de la Plata region — where, in the triangle formed by Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina, rhythms such as Argentine tango and Uruguayan candombe flow, along with the waters, into the Atlantic Ocean. These rhythms intersect with the samba styles of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, each with their own distinct features, as well as influences from cordão de ouro and maracatu. These sonorities are deeply inspired by the work of Brazilian composers and arrangers such as Letieres Leite, Maestro Branco, and Moacir Santos. Finally, the piece also integrates traces of the twelve-tone language, particularly influenced by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Luigi Dallapiccola. “Beyond Borders” is, above all, a clear expression of freedom in musical creation — a conscious refusal to confine music within fixed boxes of style or genre. It is about rejecting aesthetic and cultural boundaries, and celebrating the meeting of different sonic worlds in a respectful, creative, and deeply cosmopolitan way.

Revoada dos Pássaros de Porcelana (2023) - for flute sextet - UNESP Flute Ensemble

UNESP Flute Ensemble (Sextet): Laura Heldt Tranche - Piccolo, Gabriela Grande - Flute I, Dimitri Rezende - Flute II, Larissa Pires - Flute III. Julia Monteiro - Alto Flute and Renan Vincent Maia - Bass Flute

About the Work: 

Revoada dos Pássaros de Porcelana - " Flight of the Porcelain Birds" (2023) is a composition that envisions a flock of imagined songs for the porcelain birds that once decorated my home in Brazil — a place I no longer live. The idea is that each bird has its own song, symbolizing the freedom of each one of these objects. However, at opportune or even unexpected moments, these birds may begin to "steal" or incorporate the songs of others, whether they are imaginary or real. Each bird is assigned to a flutist, and although their songs don't exist in reality, they are imagined and created by me for each bird. At the end of the flight, as the songs meet and intertwine, the birds finally rest and fall asleep together after

performing a collective choir.

Água de Beber - Water to Drink | Tom Jobim | University of Alabama Jazz Ensemble - Arr. Gabriel DUARTE

October 29, 2024 - Moody Concert Hall - Tuscaloosa, AL - EUA 

Conductor: Gabriel DUARTE 

Saxophones: Jackson Smythe, Alto I - Megan Amrine, Alto II - Ben Tippett, Tenor I - Logan Bentley, Tenor II - Alex Batts, Bari

Trumpets: John Scott Jackson, Lead - Christian Wilson - Nick Katulka - Jesse Park

Trombones: Torren Kasper - Nick Tran - Parker Hayen - Murphy Branch, Bass Tbne

Rhythm Section: Guitar: Jackson Doyle - Piano/Keyboards: Arthur Jordan - Double Bass/Electric Bass: Liam Gallagher - DrumSet: Landen Blackburn - Louis Bercaw

Modinha | Tom Jobim | University of Alabama Jazz Ensemble - Arr. Gabriel DUARTE

October 29, 2024 - Moody Concert Hall - Tuscaloosa, AL - EUA 

Conductor: Gabriel DUARTE 

Saxophones: Jackson Smythe, Alto I - Megan Amrine, Alto II - Ben Tippett, Tenor I - Logan Bentley, Tenor II - Alex Batts, Bari

Trumpets: John Scott Jackson, Lead - Christian Wilson - Nick Katulka - Jesse Park

Trombones: Torren Kasper - Nick Tran - Parker Hayen - Murphy Branch, Bass Tbne

Rhythm Section: Guitar: Jackson Doyle - Piano/Keyboards: Arthur Jordan - Double Bass/Electric Bass: Liam Gallagher - DrumSet: Landen Blackburn - Louis Bercaw

The Brothers Go To Mothers | Henry Mancini | Brasil Jazz Sinfônica - Arr. Gabriel DUARTE

Teatro B23, São Paulo, Brazil

Conductor: João Maurício Galindo

A Segunda Valsa para Jobim (2021) 

Composer: Gabriel DUARTE

Performer: Horácio Gouvea

Mix: Adonias Jr.

PEARL (2020) - Woodwind Quintet

Composer: Gabriel DUARTE 

3rd Prize Call for Scores Pure Winds Quintet - 2020

Performance: Pure Winds Quintet, Michigan, USA

Michigan - EUA

Awarded composition in the 2nd Eduardo Álvares Composition Competition, organized by EMESP Tom Jobim, 2018.

Composer: Gabriel DUARTE

Performers: Clarinet – Giuliano Rosas · Trombone – Carlos Freitas · Double Bass – Pedro Gadelha · Piano – Horácio Gouvea

Conductor: Rodrigo Lima · Audio Engineer: Adonias Jr. · Mixing: Arsis Studio

Recording made on April 19, 2017, at the auditorium of the Department of Music at the University of São Paulo.

Composer: Gabriel DUARTE

Performer: Rodrigo Prado

Winner of the 1st Prize in the 4th Composition Competition of the Academia de Flautas de Verão – Porto, Portugal.

Premiered on July 29, 2017, at the Helena Sá e Costa Theater, at ESMAE – Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto, performed by flutist Stephanie Wagner.

Composed in May 2018 and revisited in April/May 2019, br[asas] n.3 aims to explore timbres and idiomatic rhythmic combinations from the language of the Brazilian pandeiro, placing it in a soloistic role. To achieve this, a collaborative research process was undertaken with the performer regarding notation and performance techniques, enabling the integration of these elements throughout the musical discourse. Following this, I compositionally organized the alternation of pre-selected rhythmic cells across the five sections into which the piece is divided, seeking to create a work in which traditional elements of the Brazilian pandeiro idiom can be heard while simultaneously positioning the instrument within the context of contemporary concert music.

Composer: Gabriel DUARTE
Performer: Daniel Alfaro

Concert held at Atemporánea I – Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea del CSMCBA Astor Piazzolla, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019.

br[asas] N.4 - for french horn solo

Composer: Gabriel DUARTE  | Performer: Alexandria Frank

World Premiere
CME - Contemporary Music Ensemble - The University of Alabama - 3.25.27 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

br[asas] N.5 - Vibrafone Solo (2020) 

Composer: Gabriel DUARTE  | Performer: George Ferreira