Volemos by Francisco Perez © 2025 Tapspace Publications, LLC (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
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Dedicated to my alma mater, Hendrickson High School, Volemos is a musical reflection on the formative years that shaped my career. The title, translating to “let’s fly,” is a nod to the school’s mascot, the Hendrickson Hawks, and serves as both a tribute and an invitation to take flight and embrace the journey ahead with energy and passion.
In composing Volemos, I found myself revisiting the music that filled my early years, particularly the AfroCuban and Latin rhythms that have increasingly become a defining element of my musical voice. The piece is infused with the syncopation, drive, and vitality of these styles, capturing their vibrant energy and relentless momentum while evoking the soaring motion of flight—at times weightless and gliding, at others propulsive and rhythmic, like the steady wing beats of a hawk in ascent.
Volemos was commissioned by Nathan Zamora for the Hendrickson High School Percussion Ensemble and premiered in March 2025.
Note about vibraphone pedaling: Pedaling is indicated using slurs and staccatos. If no slur or articulation is present, pedal the full value of the note.
—Francisco Perez
Volemos requires 9 players with the following instrumentation:
1. Glockenspiel
2. Vibraphone 1
3. Vibraphone 2 + suspended cymbal
4. Marimba 1 (low A)
5. Marimba 2 (low A)
6. Marimba 3 (low A)
7. Marimba 4 (5-octave)
8. Cajon + suspended cymbal
9. Percussion — mounted kick drum, shaker, sizzle cymbal, ride cymbal
