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Bertrand, Álvaro
Álvaro Bertrand was born in Barcelona where he studied piano and flute at the Alicia de Larrocha Music Academy. He later went to the United States to further his musical education.
His composition teachers include Vincent Persichetti at the Juilliard School and Hugo Weisgall at Manhattan School of Music, where he was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
Since the completion of his academic training, Mr. Bertrand has been teaching Composition and Electronic Music Technology at the University of Minnesota at St. Cloud, Long Island University in New York and at Miami International university of Arts and Design in Miami, Florida. Upon his recent return to Spain he has been teaching courses of Musical Composition applied to the Audiovisual and Scenic Media in the Conservatori Superior del Liceu de Barcelona.
His catalog includes choral music and chamber works, many compositions for solo instruments, band, orchestra and also ballets.
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Bofill, Anna
Born in Barcelona in 1944. A composer and an architect. From 1950 until 1961, she studied the piano, musical theory, and musical composition, with J. Albareda, J. Cercós, and X. Montsalvatge. Between 1968 and 1971, she studied harmony, counterpoint, and the fugue, with Josep M. Mestres-Quadreny. Until 1977, she continued studying with him the development ofmusical structures throughout history, until arriving at the modern concepts on the application of mathematical probabilities in music. She has studied electroacoustics music with Lluís Callejo and Gabriel Brncic, at the Phonos Laboratory, and later, computer music with Xavier Serra. She has also studied musical composition with Luigi Nono. In 1985, she obtained a grant from the Catalonian Commission on Research and Technological Innovation (CIRIT), to work in Paris at the Centre d’Études de Mathématique etAutomates Musicales (CEMAMU), or the Center for the Study of Mathematicsand Automated Music, directed by Iannis Xenakis. She has translated, tothe Catalan, his work Música y Arquitectura (Music and Architecture).
At the same time, she continued to study at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (Barcelona’s Superior Technical School of Architecture), where she earned, in 1974, her architecture doctorate. Anna Bofill Levi is a practicing Architect.
She has written works for diverse solo instruments, for chamber orchestra, for voice, and for electroacoustics. Some of them have been performed all around the Spanish territory, and also in cities like Paris, Berlin, New York, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, etc., and in numerous festivals andcongresses of contemporary music.
She is a member of the Associació Catalana de Compositors (Catalonian Composers Association), Asociación de Mujeres en la Música (Women in Music association), Asociación Española de Música Electroacústica (Spanish Electroacoustic Music Association), the International Computer Music Association, and of the International Alliance for Women in Music.
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Bonastre, Francesc
Francesc Bonastre i Bertran was born in Montblanc in 1944. Educated at the Escolania de Santa Maria choir school with the priest Ramon Boqueras (1950-1955) and at Tarragona Seminary with the priest Francesc Tàpies (1955-1962). An arts graduate (1967) and Doctor (1970) in Romance Philology from the UB (University of Barcelona), he attained the 1st Outstanding Achievement Award in both degrees under the guidance of Martí de Rique. He undertook studies in baroque musicology under the guidance of Miquel Querol at the IEM of the CSIC of Barcelona (1969-1972). He was the Head of the Musicology Department at the UAB, director of the “Josep Ricart i Matas” Musicology Institute from 1979, and director of the Recerca Musicològica magazine since 1981.
He is the author of over 150 national and international scientific publications, amongst which we should note his critical essays on the first two Hispanic oratorios: Historia de Joseph (Story of Joseph) and Aquí de la fe (About the faith), by L.V. Gargallo, (c.1636-1682) and the earliest preserved Spanish opera: Celos aun del Ayre matan (Jealousy, even of air, kills), music by Juan Hidalgo (c. 1618-1685) and text by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1680).
Director of the Schola Cantorum of the UB; the Gaudium Musicæ of the UAB; and of the old music groups Seconda prattica and Mapa Harmónico. Director-at Large of the International Musicological Society (1992-1997), Permanent Academic of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de St. Jordi and President of the Music Department; Academic Correspondent of the San Fernando Academy in Madrid; co-founder of the Catalan Society of Musicology in 1973 and member of the Societat Catalana d’Estudis Litúrgics (Catalan Society of Liturgical Studies), both of which belong to the Institute of Catalan Studies since 1969.
As a composer, he has a catalogue of over 70 works from Lieder, choral music, chamber to symphonic music, cantatas and oratorios. -
Borgunyó, Agustí
Born in Sabadell in1894, he began his musical studies at the city’s Escola Municipal de Música (Municipal Music School) under Josep Plans and Cebrià Cabané. He later furthered his studies of composition and harmony in Barcelona under Manuel Burgués. By the age of sixteen he had already mastered anumber of instruments and had joined Barcelona’s MunicipalBand.
In 1915, at the age of 21, he left for the United States,where he began by writing light music for a dance orchestra,of which he was also a member. Between 1922 and 1929, when he lived in Washington DC, he wrote a great number of ballets, suites and operettas in an American style,which were premiered and which received vary favorable reviews in the Washington Times and the Washington Herald, which noted his ability to capture fashionable popular rhythms. It was during this time that he was Artistic Directorof the Meyer Davis Orchestra, which was extremely popular in the city in the twenties. In the early thirties, he orchestrated on an exclusive basis for the famous singer Kate Smith, at the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) radiostation in New York. Next, he produced scores for the city’s Wor Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Alfred Wallenstein. The director commissioned him to write workswith a Spanish air, which is how they were broadcast by the station.
Between 1941 and 1960 he was Musical and Artistic Director of the National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra under a programme sponsored by Firestone. He orchestrated a number of singers, including Mario del Mónaco and Renata Tebaldi. After his return to Catalonia in 1963, he continued to receive commissions for informational documentaries from the US Department of Agriculture until his death in July 1967. He is author a an extremely wide range of works, including 150 sardanes and other compositions for the cobla, more than 50 works for voice and piano, and some thirty choral works, most of which are based of the works of poets and other writers from Sabadell: a great number of pieces for piano, two string quartets, a trio and works for string andsymphonic orchestras, amongst which we would highlight "L’aplec", premiered in 1956 by the Orquestra Municipal de Barcelona under the baton of Eduard Toldrà, "Emporion", "Nocturno Sevillano", "Danza Ibérica núm. 1" and the "Suite Ibérica"; the three-act operetta "Maryana" and the ballets "La festa de carrer" and "The Damask Rose".
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Borràs, Teresa
Teresa Borras i Fornell was born in Manresa on 30th July, 1923. Her musical education began at the age of 8 at the Liceo Conservatory in Barcelona: piano, arrangement and then guitar. She went on to perfect her studies with masters Molinari and Cervera. She later studied arrangement, counterpoint and composition with Cristòfor Taltabull. She attended classes given by the master Agosti at Chigiana Academy in Sienna (Italy) and subsequently was awarded a grant by that institution for composition classes given by the master Frazzi. She then studied the clavicembalo for two academic years at the Higher Municipal Conservatory in Barcelona. In 1979 she was awarded a composition grant for a summer course in Compostela with R. Halffter. She won Second Prize of the award: Caterina Albert i Paradis; in 1997. Between the years 1947 and 1953, she gave numerous piano concerts. She was a piano and guitar teacher for six years at the Municipal Music School in Manresa and a piano and arrangement teacher at the Music School in Mataró (branch of the Liceo). She has taught music to first year secondary education pupils at Satorras School in Mataró. She is a piano soloist and particularly promotes her own work. She died in 2010
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Bosch, Lluís M.
Lluís M. Bosch i Daniel was born in Barcelona in 1966. He studied piano, harmony, composition and ethno-musicology at the Municipal Conservatory of Music in this city. In 1991 he won first prize in the Composition of Sant Joan de Vilatorrada with the work Rondalla. He is a professor of harmony at the Conservatory of the city of Manresa.
The fascinating power of music as a means of expression has been one of the most notable influences of his creative impulse. His work combines communication, sensitivity and imagination in a cocktail that surprises with its simplicity and ease of synthesis.
He says: “The colors, smells, and the perception of all sensations is an obsession for me to compose music. The magic of being able to describe the sound allows me to go beyond the meaning of words. Music is the most subtle and universal language". -
Bozzo, David
David Bozzo was born in September 1980 to a family in which music had always played a very important role.
His first contact with music was through his father, who took him to his first music lessons at the age of six with pianist andcomposer Carme Talleda.
In 2000 he started intermediate studies, specialising in the violin, at the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory, having had theopportunity to study with composers Xavier Boliart, Carles Guinovart and Albert Sardà. During this period he was also a member of theconservatory’s orchestra under the direction of maestro Albert Argudo. In 2006 he started his higher education in composition at theHigher Conservatory of Music in Castelló, where he was taught by maestro Ferrer Ferran as well as César Cano, Claudia Montero and Emilio Calandín, amongst others. He also took advantage of his four years of higher education to further his violin studies with maestroEduardo Arnau, to whom he dedicated the work for a solo violin, Recitatiu i Fuga (EAG).
Today he is professor of violin at the Carme Talleda School of Music and works with the youth orchestra Arts Musicals de Castelló, as both assistant to the concertino at various concerts and as concertino at the premiere of a work by maestro Ferrer Ferran. Despite his youth he boasts a full repertoire of works for duets, quartets, quintets, soloists and string orchestras, and Stabat Mater for solo mezzosoprano and symphony orchestra commissioned by the youth orchestra of Arts Musicals de Castelló. He was afinalist in the composition competition Hui, hui música in Valencia in 2007 with the work Elegia a Gregorio Samsa for a wind quintet. The Quartet de Corda nº1 A la muerte de un ángel (String Quartet No.1 “On the Death of an Angel”) was commissioned by The Billroth String Quartet who also premiered it. -
Brncic, Gabriel
Director of the Arts for the Phonos Foundation of Barcelona, Associate Professor in the Cabinet of Electroacoustic Music (1989- ), Director of the ‘Music and Computers’ seminars at the Menéndez Pelayo University (1991-95) and Director of the Eines courses on Musical Creation at CCCB in Barcelona. Ha worked since 1960 on the newest musical disciplines related to 21st century technology.
He has worked on several compositions at the University of Chile, as well as the Di Tella Institute in Buenos Aries. He continued his work at the Phonos Foundation in Barcelona, the GME in Cuenca, the Experimental Music Group of Bourges, among other labs. His works covers several genres, searching for audiences of all sorts of tastes. In 1996 the Center for Contemporary Culture presented an event in homage to Brncic for his music that connected intimately with its audiences. The concert included works performed with traditional instruments with added electroacoustic effects. -
Brotons, Salvador
Dr. Salvador Brotons was born in Barcelona into a family of musicians. He studied flute with his father and continued his studies at the Barcelona Conservatory of Music, obtaining superior titles in flute, composition and orchestra conducting. His professors include, among others, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conducting), Xavier Montsalvatge (composition) and Manuel Oltra (instrumentation). In 1985 he was awarded with a Fullbright scholarship and moved to the United States where he obtained his Doctorate in Music from the Florida State University.
From 1977 to 1985 he was principal flute in the Orchestra of the Liceu in Barcelona, and also a member of the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona (1981-1985).
As a composer, he has written more than 125 works, mainly for orchestra and chamber ensembles. He has received 16 composition awards. Brotons has received many commissions and many of his pieces have been published and recorded in CDs in Europe and the USA under labels such as EMI, Auvidis, Albany Records, Naxos, Claves, RNE, etc.
Salvador Brotons was Assistant Conductor of the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra (1986-1987), and Music Director and Conductor of the Oregon Sinfonietta (1990-1993), the Mittleman Jewish Community Orchestra (1989-91), and the Portland State University Symphony Orchestra (1987-1997). He also taught counterpoint, orchestra conducting, music history and music literature at Portland State University.
He has been the Conductor and Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (WA) since 1991. He has also been the Conductor and Music Director of the Vallès Symphony Orchestra (1997-2002) in his native Barcelona and the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra in Palma de Mallorca (1998-2001, 2009-2013). He is on the faculty of the Escola Superior de Música de Barcelona, where he teaches orchestra conducting and composition. In 2002, he received the “Florida State University Alumni Award” for his professional achievements. Since 2008 he is the conductor of the Banda Simfònica de Barcelona.
Brotons has been invited to guest-conduct many orchestras around the world
Currently he is combining an intense schedule as orchestra conductor with composition commissions.
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Capdevila, Mercè
Mercè Capdevila, born in Barcelona, began her musical training at the Marshall Academy, the Conservatori del Liceu and, later, the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory of Music. She studied Plastic Arts at the Massana school of art and design (Barcelona) and at the Kunshand Werk Schule in Pforzheim (Germany), taught by Edward Mosny. She later trained in electroacoustic music under Gabriel Brncic at Laboratori Phonos in Barcelona and attended composition courses with Luigi Nono, J.M. Mestres-Quadreny, Corian Aharionan, Carmelo Bernaola and Luís de Pablo.
Her works have been performed at several music centres across Europe, Canada and the Americas. She has received commissions from the Associació Catalana de Compositors (Barcelona) and from the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea (CDMC) (Centre for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music). She spent a year (1993-1994) working at the studios at NYU’s Aaron Copland School of Music, as well as at Queens College as guest composer.
She is currently working on multidisciplinary montages with sound, light, laser beam and poetry in various spaces with diverse characteristics. She also collaborates with other plastic artists and poets such as Eloi Puig, Gabriela Vargas, Ester Xargay, Eva Hibernia, Carles Hac Mor, Glòria Rognoni, Javi Palma and Egill Friedlaison.
She has released two monographic CDs of her works, with other works recorded on group CDs. She has recorded works for Radio Nacional de España, for Catalunya Música, Radio France, Radio Kolomna, Radio Moscow and St Petersburg’s Radio Neva-3. Several of her works have been published by Clivis, Dinsic, Periferia and Musica Studio.
She is a member of the Associació Catalana de Compositors and a founding member of the Asociación de Música Electroacústica de España. For ethical reasons, she has never participated in any competition, contest or award.
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Casablancas, Benet
Musically trained in Barcelona and Vienna (F. Cerha and K-H. Füssel), he also graduated in philosophy and earned a doctorate in musicology at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. His works have received recognition on the international level (City of Barcelona Prize, New York’s Musician’s Accord, Spain’s National Album Award, Amsterdam’s Composer’s Arena, finalist for the Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco, among others) and have been performed throughout Europe, and in the United States, Canada, Japan, Latin America and Egypt by prestigious ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the national orchestras of Spain and Belgium, Arditti Cuarteto, Deutsches Kammerphilharmonie and the London Philharmonic; at venues such as the Musikverein Wien, London Barbican, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Hall and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
He made his debut in 2008 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and his New Epigrams represented Spain at the ISCM World Music Days in Vilnius. He has been invited to the 2011 Music Biennale Zagreb and as visiting composer to the 2011 Cairo Contemporary Music Days. In 2007 he was awarded the Generalitat of Catalonia’s National Music Prize. Author of the book “Humour in Music” (Reichenberger) and numerous articles on musicology (published in New Grove, Arietta, Quodlibet), he has acted as head of musical theory at various teaching centres, head of curriculum at JONC and as a lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also invited regularly as guest judge and lecturer at many international events. In 2002 he took the reins of the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. His extensive musical production is the fruit of a search for radical personal and aesthetic independence, and has been widely acclaimed for the balance achieved between structural integrity, on the one hand, and expressive strength, dramatic character and playful register, on the other; all as part of a musical discourse made up of brilliant harmonic language, rhythmic intensity, increasing tonal differentiation and instrumental virtuosity. Recently, he has released six new albums (with Naxos, Stradivarius, Tritó and Anemos). His latest endeavours include commissions from the Miller Theatre in New York (Composers Portrait), Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Maastricht´s Ensemble 88, Ensemble Cantus Zagreb and Tokyo Sinfonietta.
