Benet Casablancas, Catalan National Music Prize 2007

Posted by Redacción on July 18, 2007  |  Leave a comment

Benet Casablancas was born in Sabadell in 1956 and studied in Barcelona under Josep Soler and Antoni Ros-Marbà and later in Vienna under Friedrich Cerha and K.H. Füssl. Although he devotes a great deal of his time to working as a music educator, theorist and critic, it is accomplishments as a composer that have brought him his international reputation. His works have won awards in competitions around the world and are performed regularly by the most prestigious specialized orchestras and ensembles. Now his long career as a composer has been rewarded with the highest distinction conceded by the Catalan government in the field: the Premi Nacional de Música. Tritó has published five of Mr Casablancas’ most recent works and will soon be releasing others, including the symphonic works The Dark Backward of Time, Intrada sobre el nom de Dalí and the impromptu for orchestra Alter Klang.

Benet Casablancas finalist for the Prince Pierre of Monaco Prize.

Posted by Redacción on July 4, 2007  |  Leave a comment

The Musical Council of the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation, presided by Mme. Henri Dutilleux and Betsy Colas, with Julian Anderson, Narcís Bonet, Charles Chaynes, Ahmed Essyad, Ivan Fedele, Cristóbal Halffter, Arvo Pärt, Aribert Reimann and Gilles Tremblay, has chosen the 14 works which will be competing for the 2007 composition prize. The list includes The Dark Backward of Time, by Benet Casablancas, published by Tritó Edicions. The winner of the competition will be announced this 9 October.

Jordi Masó premieres a work by Jesús Torres

Posted by Marcel Soleda on March 15, 2007  |  Leave a comment

As part of the season Nous Sons at the Auditori de Barcelona, the young pianist from Granollers (Barcelona) premiered …i l’infant dorm by the Spanish composer Jesús Torres, in a programme of small-format works in tribute to the late Joaquim Homs. The concert included, among other works Tombeau by Benet Casablancas, and Instants by David Padrós.

Also within the Nous Sons season, on Saturday 17 March, the Ensemble Proxima Centauri performed Ciel rouillé by Héctor Parra, and on 24 March the Arditti String Quartet will be performing String Quartet No. 2 by Benet Casablancas, and String Quartet No. 1 by Joan Guinjoan, all published by Tritó.

Benet Casablancas performed in Madrid

Posted by Marcel Soleda on January 15, 2007  |  Leave a comment

The Dark Backward of Time, a piece by Benet Casablancas which the OBC premiered in 2006, will enjoy repeat performances by the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE) conducted by Vasily Petrenko on the 18th January at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid.

Concert with music by Casablancas in Madrid

Posted by Marcel Soleda on March 20, 2006  |  Leave a comment

The Auditorium of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid presents on the evening of 27 March a concert solely of works by the composer Benet Casablancas. The event is organized by the CDMC (Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea). Among other pieces, the programme features New Epigrams, Celebració Scherzino and Petita música nocturna, performed by the ensemble Modus Novus conducted by Santiago Serrate.

Acclaim for Casablancas’s premiere

Posted by Marcel Soleda on January 25, 2006  |  Leave a comment

This past 14 January saw the premiere of The Dark Backward of Time by Benet Casablancas, at the Barcelona Auditorium, performed by the OBC under the direction of E. Martínez Izquierdo. The piece earned the acclaim of the audience and critics alike:

From the outset, Casablancas remains true to his own personality as a composer, and brings out a more poetic, more evocative side to it, producing a level of tension and interest which is sustained throughout.

Jorge de Persia, La Vanguardia

An excellent score in terms of compositional technique, virtuoso in the interplay of colours and textures.

Manuel Cereijo, El Periódico

A de luxe orchestration and an admirable palette of sounds are the strong points in this difficult and appealing piece which once again confirms Casablancas’s place among the pantheon of contemporary Spanish composers.

Pablo Meléndez-Haddad, ABC

The premiere (…) saw one of our best contemporary composers in intense dialogue with the tradition whence he emerges and off which he feeds.

Àlex Susanna, El Mundo

A score which serves to confirm Casablancas as one of the leading composers of our day.

David Ramón, Diari de Sabadell

The OBC premiere Casablancas’s orchestral work

Posted by Marcel Soleda on January 4, 2006  |  Leave a comment

These coming 14 and 15 January, 2006, the Auditori de Barcelona hosts the premiere of the latest composition by the Catalan composer Benet Casablancas, The Dark Backward of Time, a title which quotes from Prospero in The Tempest by Shakespeare.

The piece will be performed by the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC), who commissioned the work, conducted by Ernest Martínez Izquierdo. The work is sixteen minutes long and is conceived for a broad orchestral effect.

Last quarter news from Tritó

Posted by Marcel Soleda on September 30, 2005  |  Leave a comment

At Tritó, we have returned from the summer holidays anxious to embark on new projects: projects that are aimed at further enriching our catalogue with new and interesting scores. In addition to the previously unpublished Tres Impromptus by Montsalvatge, we should also mention the arrangement of Ramon Carnicer’s Overture to the Barber of Seville by an anonymous contemporary of the composer, 6 diferències per a un tema mallorquí by David Padrós and 7 epigrames per a piano by Benet Casablancas.