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Two Short Piano Pieces: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 5'; Instruments: Piano; Year of Composition: 2000; Comments: Two miniatures inpired by Janacek's piano music.

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Judas Mercator Pessimus: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 4'; Instruments: Violin, cello; Year of Composition: 2000; Comments: Duet inspired by the Biblical episode of the betrayal, and by T. L. de Victoria responsory of the same title.

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Suite: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 12'; Instruments: Wind Quintet: flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon, horn.; Year of Composition: 2002; Comments: A collection of miniatures of Neo-Classical inspiration: arietta, recitativo, fuguetta, etc. Of a clearly distinguishable Bartókian and early Ligetian character.

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Song Cycle: Genre: Vocal/Choir; Duration: 8'; Instruments: High mezzo, piano; Year of Composition: 2002; Comments: Song cycle on W. Blake flower poems.

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Anthem: Genre: Vocal/Choir; Duration: 4'; Instruments: SATB, organ; Year of Composition: 2002; Comments: Finalist of the Barclays-St. Paul's Cathedral Composition Competition 2002.

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Piano Variations: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 12'; Instruments: Piano; Year of Composition: 2003; Comments: A set of variations inspired by the four elements: Earth, Fire, Water and Air. Live recording by Bojana Dimkovic, London 2009.

The Labyrinth: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 15'; Instruments: String quartet; Year of Composition: 2003; Comments: A piece built in a modular structure which gives the performers the freedom of choosing 'their way out' of the Labyrinth. Premiered in Manchester QuartetFest 2004, it also received performances at the Wigmore Hall and the City of London Festival by the Set-là Quartet. Oscar gave a pre-concert talk at LSO’s St. Luke’s Church, followed by a performance of ‘The Labyrinth’ (March, 2004), as part of the LSO Discovery Series: 'Discovering New Music'.

La Casa Tomada/The Taken House: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 5'; Instruments: Solo violin; Year of Composition: 2003; Comments: A piece inspired by a short tale by Julio Cortázar.

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Ensalada: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 4'; Instruments: Flute, Bb clarinet, violin, double-bass; Year of Composition: 2003; Comments: The piece is modelled after the 'ensalada' collections of Renaissance Spain.

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Gel, Foc, Temps: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 4'; Instruments: Organ; Year of Composition: 2003; Comments: A piece that explores temporality from opposed perspectives.

The Ruinous Circles: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 4'; Instruments: Oboe (or flute), and string quartet (2 violins, viola, cello); Year of Composition: 2003; Comments: Inpired by the narrative of Julio Cortázar. Premiered in the Congress of European Conservatoires in Birmigham, 'The Ruinous Circles' (2003) has been included in the cd Ítaca - Contemporanis de la Mediterrània, published by the Area of Acoustic Creation Foundation. The cd is a live recording of the concert given by the Grup Instrumental de València for the 2006 Encontre Internacional de Compositors, Mallorca.

Cantus: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 12'; Instruments: Solo violin, flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, celesta, 2 vlns, viola, cello, double bass.; Year of Composition: 2004; Comments: A chamber violin concerto inspired by the writings of Ortega y Gasset and the poetry of Miguel Hernández. Premiered at the Wigmore Hall the 7th of June, 2005.

Abandoned Bedroom with Moon: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 4'; Instruments: Soprano sax., 2 violins; Year of Composition: 2004; Comments: A miniature written for the Composer's Workshop at the Canford Summer School, and inspired by the poetry of Pablo Neruda.

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Saturn Devouring his Children: Genre: Orchestral; Duration: 12'; Instruments: 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/hp/timp/1perc/strings; Year of Composition: 2004; Comments: A passacaglia for orchestra inspired by Goya's painting of the same name. Winner of the Musicians Company Dr. Alfred Prindl Memorial Prize at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2005.

The Fall of Babel: Genre: Vocal/Choir; Duration: 9'; Instruments: A capella chamber choir; Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: Piece based in the Biblical episode of Babel and the breaking off tongues. It features a solo tenor part as narrator. Text in Latin.

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Don Quixote: Genre: Stage/Dance; Duration: 8'; Instruments: 2 sopranos, mezzo, tenor, baritone, horn, guitar, violin, cello, double-bass; Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: Short opera scene after Cervantes and Aristophanes.

The Blue Flask: Genre: Orchestral; Duration: 4'; Instruments: Flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, strings; Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: Nocturne for chamber orchestra inpired by the poetry of Pablo Neruda. Winner of the Guildhall School/Orchestra of the Swann Composition Prize.

Dues Mesures: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 7'; Instruments: Organ; Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: Commissioned by the Institut Valencià de la Música, and premiered in the Ensems Festival, May 2005.

A White Shell: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 3'; Instruments: Guitar; Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: Commissioned by guitarist Jens Franke for his final recital at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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Touch: Genre: Vocal/Choir; Duration: 2'; Instruments: Soprano or mezzo and piano; Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: Text by Octavio Paz.

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Open the Curtains: Genre: Orchestral; Duration: 14'; Instruments: String Orchestra; Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: Commissioned by the Orchestra of the Swann for the opening of their 10th Anniversary Series, in November 2005.

Conversation with J. Beuys (in a wardrobe): Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 8'; Instruments: Flute, clarinet, piano (also available for flute, viola and harp); Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: A piece inspired by the work of German artist Joseph Beuys. Winner of the 2008 Music of Today Festival in València, Spain. Published by Ed. Piles.

The Betrayal of Images: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 10'; Instruments: String quartet; Year of Composition: 2005; Comments: Inspired by Magritte's painting of the same name.

Cançons Elementals: Genre: Vocal/Choir; Duration: 10'; Instruments: Soprano and piano; Year of Composition: 2006; Comments: Songs to poems by V. A. Estellés. Lyrics in Catalan.

Dis-: Genre: Stage/Dance; Duration: 8'; Instruments: Flute, oboe, cello, double-bass and hand-held percussion.; Year of Composition: 2006; Comments: Dance piece with original choreography by Giorgia Minisini.

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Yellow Light: Genre: Vocal/Choir; Duration: 11'; Instruments: Soprano, violin, viola, oboe (c.anglais), bassoon (contrabassoon), and 2 harps.; Year of Composition: 2006; Comments: Written for the Philharmonia Orchestra series Music of Our Time to poems by Emily Dickinson. Premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, June 2006, by soprano Elizabeth Atherton, Philharmonia Orchestra Musicians and conducted by Robin O'Neill.

Brief History of Sand: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 7'; Instruments: Violin, cello, double-bass and piano; Year of Composition: 2006; Comments: Commissioned by Sounds Underground Ensemble and premiered at the Warehouse, Waterloo in March 2006.

Funeral Music for a Meat Market: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 6'; Instruments: Wind, brass and percussion ensemble.; Year of Composition: 2006; Comments: Modelled after Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary. Premiered at the City of London Festival by the Guildhall New Music Ensemble.

La Muerte y la Donzella: Genre: Vocal/Choir; Duration: 4'; Instruments: Soprano, oboe, cello and guitar.; Year of Composition: 2006; Comments: Set to a traditional Spanish text (The Death and the Maiden).

MicroSuite Nº2: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 5'; Instruments: Solo cello; Year of Composition: 2006; Comments: Companion piece to Bach's 2nd Cello Suite, and modelled after it.The piece was the first completed Microsuite of an ongoing cycle intending to mirror those of Bach, reinterpreting the musical gestures and condensing them into a contemporary language and format, its movements then being interpersed with those of the original Bach for the performance.

Les Pleurs: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 4'; Instruments: Violin, viola, cello.; Year of Composition: 2006; Comments: Bagatelle for string trio. Commissioned by violinist Vicente Huerta and premiered at the Palau de la Música de València, the 6th of November, 2006 by the Rebec Trio.

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Le Vitrail Englouti: Genre: Orchestral; Duration: 11'; Instruments: 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/2perc/timp/harp/strings; Year of Composition: 2007; Comments: A piece for large orchestra commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music and inspired by the parallels between late Mediaeval and Contemporary societies, and an exploration of Romanesque and Gothic aesthetics through contemporary composition. The piece was premiered the 2nd of February, 2007 at the Royal Academy of Music by its Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Cohen. The French conductor Yan-Pascal Tortelier mentored the project.

I Have to Talk to Broken Things: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 7'; Instruments: Flute/piccolo, oboe/c.anglais, Bb clarinet, Bb clarinet/Bass clarinet, horn, trombone, 2 keyboard players (1.harmonium/harpsichord, 2. piano/celesta), 2 violins, viola, cello, double-bass.; Year of Composition: 2007; Comments: Òscar was one of the three Royal Academy of Music students selected by Yale University to participate in a collaborative project between the two institutions: the 'Cross-Atlantic Partnership', intended to foster understanding and creative exchange between the two sides of the Atlantic. 'I Have to Talk to Broken Things', an hommage to Giotto, was premiered in London the 24th of April, at the Royal Academy of Music, conducted by Simon Bainbridge, receiving its American premiere a week later at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).

Une Poupée en Flammes: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 8'; Instruments: Percussion Quartet; Year of Composition: 2007; Comments: Commissioned by Kontakte Percussió, it was premiered in Spring 2007, and subsequently recorded in a CD edited by the Valencian Music Institute.

The Thinking Machine: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 13'; Instruments: String sextet (2 vlns, 2 vlas, 2 vcs); Year of Composition: 2008; Comments: This piece is inspired by the work of the Mallorcan monk Ramon Llull and the writings of Borges. Its modular structure and the multiple cross-references try to move away from a closed-linear conception of musical time to a liquid one.

Clothes crying slow, dirty tears: Genre: Orchestral; Duration: 7'; Instruments: Flute (alto fl.), oboe (c.anglais), clarinet (bass cl.), bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, 1 perc., piano, strings; Year of Composition: 2008; Comments: An Aldeburgh Festival commission, this is the second of a series of nocturnes for chamber orchestra inspired by the collection of poems 'Residency on Earth' by Latinamerican author Pablo Neruda. 'Clothes crying slow, dirty tears' takes its name from the last verse of Neruda’s poem 'Walking around'.

Litanies On the Collapse of One's Reality: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 11'; Instruments: Solo Guitar; Year of Composition: 2008; Comments: An exercise of actualisation of the Litanic form, incorporating a simultaneity of traditional guitar sound worlds.

Crime (from 'Conversing Memories of Worn-Out Wood'): Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 4'30''; Instruments: Piano Trio (violin, cello, piano); Year of Composition: 2009; Comments: The first of a book of nocturnes for piano trio ('Conversing Memories of Won-Out Wood'), this particular one is based on Valencian poet Vicent Andrés Estellés' 'Crim'.

Through the Wound (from 'Conversing Memories of Worn-Out Wood'): Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 8'; Instruments: Piano Trio (violin, cello, piano); Year of Composition: 2009; Comments: The second of a book of nocturnes for piano trio ('Conversing Memories of Won-Out Wood'), this nocturne is based on the poetry of Miguel Hernández and particularly on his poem 'Through the Wound'. Premiered by the Lakeside Trio in The Menuhin Hall, on the 12th of June, 2011.

Echo and Narcissus (orchestral interludes): Genre: Orchestral; Duration: 11'; Instruments: String Orchestra (minimum 6.6.4.4.2); Year of Composition: 2009; Comments: An set of orchestral interludes for a yet non-existing operatic work, and designed as to work interspersed with H. Purcell's incidental music for 'Abdelazar', 'Echo and Narcissus' was commissioned by Eduardo Portal and Rafael Frübeck de Burgos for the 10th edition of the Burgos Summer Festival.

Five Words, Three Phrases: Genre: Chamber/Ensemble; Duration: 3'; Instruments: Piano Quartet (violin, viola, cello, piano); Year of Composition: 2009; Comments: Short piece for young performers based on the changing meaning of a fixed number of elements depending on their ordering. Commissioned by the Schubert Ensemble for the 10th anniversary of their ChamberMusic2000 initiative. Premiered in the Purcell Room, London, in February 2010.

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Nothing That We Know: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 3'; Instruments: Cor Anglais; Year of Composition: 2010; Comments: The piece is a postcard work commissioned by Danish oboist Mette Termansen and explores the lyrical, but also the more rhythmical and rough possibilities of the cor. The premiere had a follow-up recital in Copenhagen and was broadcast by the Danish Radio in July 2010.

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MicroSuite Nº5: Genre: Solo/Duet; Duration: 8'; Instruments: Solo Cello with scordatura (A string tuned a tone down to G).; Year of Composition: 2010; Comments: Commissioned by Vladimir Waltham, the piece is the second completed Microsuite of an ongoing cycle intending to mirror those of Bach, reinterpreting the musical gestures and condensing them into a contemporary language and format, its movements then being interpersed with those of the original Bach for the performance.