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Rosa Gollan of New Sounds said about Australian pianist Lisa Moore's album, De La Chica's Preludes, Op. 8: “It’s one of those works and one of those performances that invites you to listen to the space in between the notes.” Meanwhile, Steve Smith for The New Yorker described De La Chica as a composer who "emphasizes meditative simplicity."

● Read more: Preludes Op. 8, album notes by Susan Campos—Fonseca

Today, we celebrate the remarkable journey of the past six years since the release of Lisa Moore's album, Preludes Op. 8. Moore, described as "brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned… lustrous at the keyboard" by The New York Times and crowned “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” and “visionary” by The New Yorker, has been a true partner in bringing these Preludes to life.

Listen to Prelude Op. 8, No. 5

In celebration, we are excited to share a video of the of Prelude No. 13 for piano and synth, performed live at the Greene Space WQXR (New York's Classical Music Radio Station), during the cycle Beginner’s Ear, hosted and moderated by New York Times contributing critic Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim.

Listen now on your favorite platform to Julián De La Chica, “An extraordinarily deep thinker… able to take a listener into mysterious by-ways using very slender means” (Stephen Moul), and his work, the Preludes Op. 8, masterfully interpreted and recorded by the incredible and visionary Lisa Moore.