Música Presente. Perspectivas para la música del siglo XXI

Posted by Marcel Soleda on May 23, 2006  |  Leave a comment

MÚSICA PRESENTE, perspectivas para la música del siglo XXI, written by Andrew Ford and José Luis Téllez, focuses on the group Música Presente and their work in contemporary music.

Composers and performers like Jesús Rueda, David del Puerto, Santiago Lanchares, Ananda Sukarlan and Ángel Luis Castaño began this project in Madrid in 2003; their purpose is the promotion and diffusion of contemporary music and specially their own works.

Jesús Rueda premieres Pocket Paradise in Lisbon

Posted by Marcel Soleda on May 22, 2006  |  Leave a comment

This Tuesday, 30 May, the Auditorium of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon hosts the premiere of the latest score by the composer Jesús Rueda. Mr Rueda wrote he piece, Pocket Paradise, on commission from the foundation and it is for percussion instruments.

It will be performied by the ensemble Drumming, directed by Miquel Bernat. Pocket Paradise is not the only of Rueda’s scores on the programme: the concert opens with his Perpetuum Mobile.

Jesús Rueda premieres Hyperión II in Valladolid

Posted by Marcel Soleda on May 1, 2006  |  Leave a comment

The Symphony Orchestra of Castile and Leon, conducted by their principal Alejandro Posada, premiere Hyperión II, the latest composition by Jesús Rueda. The work, a commission from the Orchestra, will be performed on 5 and 6 May at the Teatro Calderón in Valladolid. The Orchestra will be touring Colombia later in May, including a performance of Hyperión II in Bogota (Colombia) on the 17th. Jesús Rueda’s Hyperion is from 2001.

Rueda opera premieres at the Venice Biennalle

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

This 2 and 3 October mark the premiere of a fragment from the opera Orfeo by Jesús Rueda. This work, is commisioned by The Biennalle and the Madrid composer’s first incursion into the genre, will be performed in it entirety in 2007 on the 400th anniversary of what is considered to the first great opera in the history of music, La favola d’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi. Rueda confesses his concern for achieving “an introspective approach to the vocal line, to the singing, to the melody”.

The premiere takes place at the 49th Contemporary Music Festival, part of the Venice Biennalle. The performers include: Antoni Comas, Orfeo; Pilar Jurado, Euridice; Julián Elvira, flutes; with the Community of Madrid Orchestra and Choir conducted by Beat Ferrer. Rueda continues the exploration of the possibilities of the human voice that he started with El viaje múltiple.

Jesús Rueda spanish National music prize 2004

Posted by Marcel Soleda on November 25, 2004  |  Leave a comment

OUR CONGRATULATIONS

The Madrid composer Jesus Rueda has won the 2004 Spanish National Music Prize. The jury, presided by José Antonio Campos, director-general of the Institute for Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), gave Mr Rueda the award for the overall excellence of his music, with special recognition for his recently premiered symphonic and chamber works.

Tritó wishes to extend its warmest congratulations to Mr Rueda for this honour, something which also obliges us to work even harder towards the diffusion and projection of his music. To our friend and composer Jesús Rueda, congratulations.

New CD of Jesús Rueda – Sinfonías

Posted by Marcel Soleda on November 24, 2004  |  Leave a comment

Tritó just has been published the first CD devoted entirely to the music of our award-winning composer. The recordings include Viaje imaginario, performed by the Symphonieorchester Concierto München, conducted by Carlos Domínguez-Nieto, Symphony no. 1 “Laberinto” with the Spanish National Youth Orchestra conducted by Ernest Martínez-Izquierdo, and Symphony no. 2 “Acerca del límite” as performed by the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra under the baton of James MacMillan.

Works

Posted by Marcel Soleda on November 23, 2004  |  Leave a comment

Tritó has recently published the scores of some of Mr Rueda’s most outstanding works, including Viaje imaginario, Chamber Concerto no. 2, Elephant Skin and above all the soon-to-be-published Symphony no. 1. In addition to these works, the Tritó catalogues includes the following scores: Sinfonía II “Acerca del límite”, Estudios expresivos, Obsesión, 3 Love songs, Cuarteto de cuerda I, Cuarteto de cuerda II “Desde las sombras”, Cuarteto de cuerda III “Islas”, 24 Interludios, Memoria del laberinto, Hiperión, Bitácora, Perpetuum mobile, Estacionario, Triana de “Iberia”, Lavapiés de “Iberia”

Successfull career

Posted by Marcel Soleda on November 21, 2004  |  Leave a comment

Lauded by the critics as “one of the top composers of our day” and “an artist who appears to be following the path of the great masters”, over the course of his career he has been honoured with several major international awards, including from the IRCAM Reading Panel (1995), Forum Junger Komponisten of Cologne (1992) and the Spanish Society of Authors (SGAE) in 1990, for his Chamber Concerto no. 1 and in 1991 for Mas la Noche. He has been resident composer with the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE) and represented Spain at the Symphonic Variations of Europe organized by the EFNYO (Amsterdam) with his Symphony no. 1 “Laberinto” and the International Composers’ Tribune (UNESCO, Rostrum) with Symphony no. 2 “Acerca del Límite”. He is a founding member of “Música Presente”. At present he is resident composer with the Cadaqués Orchestra.”

A year to remember

Posted by Marcel Soleda on November 20, 2004  |  Leave a comment

Over the course of the year 2004 there have been numerous performances of Jesús Rueda’s works, several of which merit special mention. Last May James MacMillan conducted the Spanish Radio and Television (RTVE) Orchestra in a performance of Rueda’s 1st Symphonies and 2nd Symphonie.

The prestigious Arditti String Quartet also honoured him with a concert consisting entirely of his quartets in September at the Alicante Contemporary Music Festival. Finally, the Cadaqués Orchestra, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, performed his work Elephant Skin during their tour of Spain this past October. The main concert was held at the Madrid Auditorio as part of the Ibermúsica concert season.

The Arditti Quartet perform Jesús Rueda

Posted by Marcel Soleda on October 19, 2004  |  Leave a comment

“Britain’s Arditti Quartet played a monographic programme of Rueda’s works at the 20th Alicante International Contemporary Music Festival. The Quartet interpreted Quartet Nº 1, Quartet Nº 2 Desde las sombras, el Quartet Nº 3 Islas (world premiere) and, accompanied by the pianist Ananda Sukarlan, the quintet with piano Bitácora.

(Teatro Arniches, Alicante, 29 September 2004).

Meanwhile, Rueda dedicated an arrangement of his Quartet No. 3 “Islas” to the Reina Sofía Chamber Orchestra on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the ensemble’s founding , with the premiere slated for the near future.”