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Lamote de Grignon, Ricard
Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas was born in Barcelona in 1899. Son of Joan Lamote de Grignon i Bocquet, the conductor and composer of international renown, who influenced the vocation and education of his only child. He completed his musical education at the Conservatorio del Liceo and the Academia Marshall, both in Barcelona. At the age of 20, he joined the Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona and Orquesta del Gran Teatro del Liceo as a cellist. His first composition was the collection of pieces for piano, Engrunes. In 1930 he became the conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Girona and two years later he successfully applied for a post as assistant conductor of the Banda Municipal de Barcelona. The vicissitudes of the Civil War prompted him to move to Valencia where he worked as assistant conductor of the city’s orchestra alongside his father, the orchestra’s founder and conductor. On his return to his hometown, after continuing to compose, he received several music commissions for over twenty films, and a large number of collaborations on radio programmes. Finally, in 1957, he was appointed as assistant conductor of the Orquesta Municipal de Barcelona alongside his good friend, Eduard Toldrà.
His work consists basically of symphonic works like Facècia (1936) which was awarded the Juli Garreta prize in 1938, Dos Petits Poemes, Cartell Simfònic (1936), Tres Sonates del Pare Soler or Simfonia Catalana (1950), among others, and Concierto Mágico, music for the film of the same name and Tríptico de la Piel de Toro, for both piano and orchestra. Ballets like El Rusc, first performed at the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Somnis (1929) or Un Prat, dedicated to his “father and maestro” and Divertiment (1936) for symphonic jazz orchestra. Large-scale operas like La Cabeza del Dragón (1939), first performed in 1959, with libretto by Valle-Inclán, and chamber operas like Le Petit Chaperon Vert, with French text by Marià Camí, or Màgia, whose libretto he wrote himself, first performed in 1952, and a children’s opera, La Flor, which premiered in 1934 and was performed again on several occasions. The symphonic poem Enigmes won the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona in 1950, as did his posthumous work El Càntic dels Càntics, completed before his death in 1962. His vocal music included works for voice and piano on poems by Carner and Maragall, among others, and choral pieces like Romance del Caballero, and the harmonisation of traditional songs. He also wrote small works for piano and several pieces for different instrumental ensembles like Toccata, which was awarded the Premio Santa Llúcia, 1957 de Juventudes Musicales, the work Goya, Six unpleasant pieces for ten soloists, and a series of pieces for different wind ensembles entitled Miniatures, designed as pre-rehearsal exercises for the instrumentalists of the Orquesta de Valencia. -
Larios, Oscar
Oscar Larios Perea was born in Barcelona in 1969. He showed an early aptitude for piano and a good musical ear which led him to discover music in an autodidactic way. This early self-learning stage influenced and accompanied him throughout his training. At the age of nine he began his musical studies at the Institut Joan LLongueres, and soon afterwards continued at the Orfeó Gracienc. He followed his studies at the Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona and he completed them at the Conservatori del Liceu. His father, a jazz lover, introduced him to the harmonic richness of this genre and his mother, originally from Córdoba, to flamenco with all its rhythmic amalgam. For these reasons he decided to extend his musical studies at the Aula de Música Moderna i Jazz de Barcelona.
Currently he is the Head of music theory at the Aula de Música 7, where he has been teaching music theory, harmony and piano since 1995, together with conducting the school´s orchestral ensembles.
A great deal of his work is addressed to children and young adults and is the fruit of these teaching activities, with works adapted to the different technical levels and preferences of his students. His catalog comprises works for orchestral ensemble, such as La Rosa dels Vents (The Rose of the Winds) and Suite Alexandra, commissioned by Camerata XXI foundation for the child and youth music camps. It also consists of chamber works for different levels and groups of instruments, progressive studies with swing for piano and Cançó de Nadal, cantata for children choir based on the popular A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
At present he combines his teaching activity with musical production as a composer and arranger for theatre, cinema animation, audiovisual and advertising. As an arranger he worked on the production of the collection of CD’s Supermúsics, edited by the Club Súper 3. In 2006, his children´s musical La Magia dels Ki-kids was premiered in the Theatre Condal of Barcelona to great public and critical acclaim. -
Mestres Quadreny, Josep M.
Josep M. Mestres Quadreny was born in Manresa (Barcelona) in 1929. He studied sciences at Barcelona University and music with Cristofor Taltabull. He soon felt committed to the music of his time and put a great deal of effort into promoting and diffusing new music. With this in mind, he has been the co-founder of different institutions and instrumental groups such as Música Oberta in the bosom of CLUB 49, of the Conjunt Català de Música Contemporània, the Laboratori de Música Electroacústica Phonos and the Grup Instrumental Català (GIC). In 1952 he joined the Cercle Manuel de Falla, and from 1977 until 1979 he was president of the Catalan Association of Composers.
His music has developed, as he has constantly renewed ideas and progressively incorporated new techniques, often taken from other fields of artistic creation and present-day scientific knowledge. Not dogmatic by nature, his field of exploration is very extensive and ranges from works performed only for the public, such as Self service, to computer-composed works, covering a wide range of works for orchestra, chamber groups such as Vara per Quatre for eight-hand piano, solo pieces such as Tres peces per guitarra, and stage music. He has collaborated with the poet Joan Brossa on several works such as Acció Musical per a Joan Miró, Suite Bufa, L’armari en el mar, and the opera Cap de mirar. -
Montsalvatge, Xavier
Xavier Montsalvatge was born in Girona in 1912, but at the age of nine he moved to Barcelona for family reasons. At the Municipal School of Music he studied the violin with Francesc Costa and composition with Enric Morera and Jaume Pahissa.
He became interested in the ideas of the French school (Milhaud and Poulenc) at the same time as he first came into contact with the intellectual and artistic milieu of Barcelona. From 1933 onwards he was active as a composer and was awarded the Fundació Patxot Prize for the work Tres Impromptus for piano.
His work is extensive and as Francesc Taverna-Bech says, Montsalvatge created a personal world of sounds where foreigh styles and new compositional tendencies are only incorporated where they help him to express his ideas more efficiently.
He attaches great importance to vocal and piano music in which he uses texts by the best poets of all time. In 1945 he composed the extremely well-known Cinco Canciones Negras which have won international recognition.
He has won various prizes and awards and in 1989 the Xavier Montsalvatge International Piano Prize was established in Girona. Was death in Barcelona in 2002. -
Nuix, Jep
Jep Nuix (Barcelona 1955-1998). A composer and flautist, Jep Nuix carried out flute, harmony and counterpoint studies at the Conservatorio Superior Municipal de Música (Higher Municipal School of Music) in Barcelona, and studied composition and instrumentation with Gabriel Brncic. His contacts with composers such as Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi Nono, Thomas Kessler, Gerald Bennett, Heinz Holliger, Luis de Pablo and Joan Guinjoan, among others, led him to write for all kinds of formations, from solo instrumentalists to symphony orchestras, embracing electroacoustic music in all its guises.
He wrote around seventy pieces of music as a composer, and was regularly commissioned by performers and institutions to pen works for them. He received a grant enabling him to act as resident composer at an electronic music studies course at the Conservatoire de Basilea (Basilea Music School) in Switzerland. He became part of a regular group of composers at the Laboratorio de Música Electroacústica Phonos (Phonos Electroacoustic Music Laboratory) in Barcelona, and it was here that he developed his love of electroacoustic music. He was invited to participate in the 33rd Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt, Germany).
He was chosen as Spain’s representative at the Sociedad Internacional de Música Contemporánea (International Society for Contemporary Music) in Warsaw, Poland (1992).
“Intervals” and “jenji” are the highlights of his discography, together with various other pieces of work recorded in conjunction with other composers.
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Oltra, Manuel
Manuel Oltra was born in Valencia on 8th February 1922, but moved to Barcelona that same year. He started his musical education at the age of 14 with the maestro Josep Font Sabaté studying intensely despite the difficulties inherent to the Civil War. On joining the army in 1943, he was forced to move to Ceuta where he very soon got a job as a teacher at the Hispanic-Moroccan Conservatory in Tetuán. Three years later he returned to Barcelona, where he embarked on his full musical career as a pianist, conductor and composer.
In 1957 he took the official course at the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Música in Barcelona and immediately afterwards became an assistant professor and, later, already a professor of harmony, counterpoint and musical forms, he was appointed as the centre's assistant director.
His output as a composer is extensive and varied, ranging from chamber work for several ensembles, symphonic works, a cappella choral or instrumental accompaniment works, children's cantatas, works for cobla (Catalan orchestra) including the extraordinary Rapsòdia per a Piano i Cobla (1953), the first ever work for this instrumental formation. The harmonisation of traditional songs and ballets also constitutes a considerable corpus in Manuel Oltra's work.
In 1994 he was awarded the National Music Prize in the Composition section and National Popular and Tradicional Culture Prize in the Music section by the Generalitat de Catalunya. -
Ortega, Miquel
Miquel Ortega was born in Barcelona in 1963 into a family without any musical background. His musical education was at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu. In 1979 he was appointed as one of the maestros at the Gran Teatre del Liceu thanks to the baritone Vicente Sardinero.
He continued his education with the maestro Ernest Xancó (Violin), Manuel Oltra (Counterpoint, Instrumentation and Composition) and with Antoni Ros Marbà (Orchestral Conducting).
In 1990 he moved to Madrid as concertmaster of the National Lyrical Theatre, La Zarzuela, where he started his work as an orchestral conductor under the encouragement of Miquel Roa and Emilio Sagi.
He is a member of the Catalan Composers Society and several of his works have been performed both in Spain and abroad.
His work can be classified as part of the neo-Classical tonal style nature with sporadic, very Mediterranean, atonal incursions. -
Padrós, David
David Padrós born in Igualada (Barcelona) in 1942, Studied music with Jordi Albareda (piano) and Jordi Torra (Harmony, counterpoint and composition). Furtheren his musical studies in Germany and Switzerland with Paul Baumgartner and Sava Savoff (piano), Hans Ulrich Lehemann and Klaus Hubert (composition), and Jürg Wyttenbach (contemporary music interpretation). In Germany he was awarded the Konzertdiplom with the highest distinction on completing his studies in 1969, and in Switzerland he was awarded the Solistendiplom in 1974, both for piano. Since 1982 he has lived in Basle where he works very actively as a composer, pianist and educator.
Since 1971, when Styx was premiered at the Barcelona International Music Festival, his works have been performed all over Europe at International Festivals such as Lucerne (Switzerland), Gaudeamus Musikwoche (Holand), Europalia-85 (Belgium) and the Barcelona International Music Festival in 1987, where Confluències was premiered with great public success and critical acclaim.
He won the Hans Lentz 1969 prize for artistic merit (Germany) and the Composition prize from the Landis & Gyr Foundation in 1976 (Switzerland).David Padrós passed on 12th February 2016.
