Discography & Upcoming Projects / Discografía y Próximos Proyectos

Festivus

by Prague Quiet Music Collective and asamisimasa

(2024)

Several Composers

Enclosed: Un lenguaje hecho de células (Mvts. 1 & 2)

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

 

Bestiario: cinco (single, 2024)

This work for viola and electronics serves at the single of my second monographic album to be released in 2025

Performer: Annegret Mayer-Lindberg

Protomaterial Records

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

 

Cortahojas (2023)

Monographic album including works for solo instrument and duos with and without electronics

Protomaterial Records

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

Reviews:

“Cortahojas is revelatory, showing Amaya’s incredible range and talent. I can’t wait to hear more” from Brad Rose’s review in Foxy Digitalis

“deeply imaginative and rigorous in his practice” from “The Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp: February 2023” by Peter Margasak

“inventive and always fascinating” from “Bandcamp Navigator, April 2023” by Robert Newsome

“te deja una experiencia que va más allá de lo convencional” from Rubén Ortega’s review in Indie Rocks

 

Ten x Ten 2020/2022

Several Composers

Enclosed: cosa verde para descansar los ojos for chamber orchestra, percussion quartet, and electronics / para orquesta de cámara, cuarteto de percusión y electrónica

Performers: Chicago Composers’ Orchestra + Beyond This Point

Sound sculptures by Rodrigo Lara Zendejas

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

 

Tinker Tailor

by Shepherdess

(2022)

Several composers

Enclosed: Pregunta no.3: Fonón for mezzo-soprano, violin, and electronics / para mezzo-sproano, violín y electrónica

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

 

Axis Mundi: New Workds for Bassoon

by Ben Roidl-Ward

(2022)

Sideband Records

Several Composers

Enclosed: Pregunta no.4: Quimera for solo bassoon/para fagot solo

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

Included in “The Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp: November 2022” by Peter Margasak

 

hotchpotch - Miúin Selection Vol. 1 (2022)

Miúin Records

Several Composers

Enclosed: quebrada for fixed media

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

 

New Music by Living Composers Vol. 2 (2022)

Petrichor Records

Several Composers

Enclosed: La mano izquierda es la que escribe las mentiras chiquitas for tenor saxophone and electronics / para saxofón tenor y electrónica

Performer: Brandon Quarles

NOW AVAILABLE via Spotify

 

New Music by Living Composers Vol. 6 (2022)

Petrichor Records

Several Composers

Enclosed: que (no) te cubras de sombra for fixed media/para medios electrónicos

NOW AVAILABLE via Spotify

 

FANG POET I

by Fat Pigeon (2020)

Gilded Records

Performer: Fat Pigeon

All music co-composed by Emily Beisel, Craig Davis Pinson, and Luis Fernando Amaya

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp and streaming on all major platforms

 

The Same Old Wonder

by Hasco Duo (2020)

New Focus Recordings

Several Composers

Enclosed: Tinta Roja, Tinta Negra/Red Ink, Black Ink for soprano, electric guitar, and electronics

NOW AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

“Tinta Roja/Tinta Negra (Red Ink/Black Ink) by Luis Fernando Amaya is an especially compelling work.” from Lauren Ishida’s review in I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

 

Gather 2017 Mixtape

Gather

Several Composers

Enclosed: Objeto/Espacio no.3 - Variación 3 for prepared/flawed string instrument

Performer: Eli Namay

AVAILABLE via Bandcamp

 

Cuerdas Sin Cordura

(2015)

Urtext Contemporary Classics

Several Composers

Enclosed: Navío al Garete for string quartet

Performer: Cuarteto Arcano

AVAILABLE in all streaming platforms

 

Upcoming Albums

  • nacen en silencio (“are born in silence”) — second monographic album with works for solo instruments and ensembles (with and without electronics).

Upcoming Works/Premieres

  • New piece for ensemble and electronics for the project “Sustainable Composition and Sound Practices” commissioned by Ultima Festival, Nordic Music Days, and hcmf (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival)

  • Bestiario: siete for solo violin and speakers attached to the performer’s body. Commissioned by Jennifer Gersten

  • un leve trueno Commissioned by Madalena Rato

  • melipona becheii for trombone and piano commissioned by the Norsjø Kammermusikkfest 2025 and nyMusikk Komponistgruppe, Telemark, Norway

  • New piece for solo percussion. Commissioned by David Cariano TImme

  • Dialecto de Árbol no.5 with New Art/New Media. Visuals by Alex McLeod

  • Árbol de Bocas (2018 - 2022)—an opera for 24 voices, saxophone quartet, percussion, electronics, and amplified violin and bassoon as sectional soloists / ópera para 24 voces, cuarteto de saxofones, percusión, electrónica y violín + fagot como solistas seccionales.