Joan Guinjoan wins the 5th Tomás Luis de Victoria Iber-american prize

Posted by Marcel Soleda on October 8, 2004  |  Leave a comment

Joan Guinjoan has won this award, regarded as one of the most important career awards in Iber-American music. Mr Guinjoan was selected from among 56 composers from 17 countries.

From Tritó, our most sincere congratulations. In 2004, this Catalan composer (born in Riudoms, Tarragona) has composed two works, both published by Tritó. His Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra was premiered a few months ago by Joan Enric Lluna and the OBC at the Auditori in Barcelona, and was widely acclaimed by the audience and critics alike. The other work, Verbum, will be staged by the National Ballet of Cuba with choreography by Alicia Alonso

Seven Looks by Agustí Charles

Posted by Marcel Soleda on October 4, 2004  |  Leave a comment

Last July Tritó published Agustí Charles’s work Seven Looks, marking the start of a publishing relationship with the composer. The work took first prize at the second annual conducting competition organized by AEOS (Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras) and sponsored by the Valparaíso Foundation. Seven Looks will be performed by the association’s 27 member orchestras.

The premiere is scheduled for February 2005 at the Auditori in Barcelona in a concert by the OBC conducted by the maestro Vasily Petrenko.

Jesús Torres and his Variations for cello and piano

Posted by Marcel Soleda on October 3, 2004  |  Leave a comment

David Apellániz (cello) and Alberto Rosado (piano) will play the work by Jesús Torres’s “Variations for cello and piano” at the Cervantes Institute in London. The work will be performed again at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid.

(Cervantes Institute, London, 29 October 2004 and Thyssen Museum, Madrid, 14 November 2004)

Proteus will be premiered at the “7èmes Journées de la Percussion” by Juanjo Guillén and the “Nou Percussion” ensemble in Paris. (Salle Olivier Alain, Conservatoire Supérieur, Paris, 20 November 2004, 11:30)”

Premiere of Concert for piano by Xavier Benguerel

Posted by Marcel Soleda on October 2, 2004  |  Leave a comment

This coming 26 November Xavier Benguerel’s Concerto for Piano will premiere at the Auditori in Barcelona. Commissioned by the OBC, the work will be performed by the same orchestra conducted by Josep Caballé Domenech and with the soloist Albert Attenelle. There will be further performances on the 27th and the 28th.

(L’Auditori, Barcelona, 26 November 2004, 9pm; 27 November, 7pm; and 28 November, 11am)

Review from Movimiento, by Jesús Torres

Posted by Marcel Soleda on September 28, 2004  |  Leave a comment

A very wise decision to commission the work Movimiento from Jesús Torres, as the Zaragozan composer responded with a highly attractive and lively score, with passages recalling the 20th-century tradition, but with a language that shows many personal traits, lovely revelations in translucent orchestration, skilled play of contrasts and textures, sparkle without insisting on effect.

Jorge de Persia (La Vanguardia)

Barcelona première of Guinjoan’s, Concerto for clarinet and orchestra

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

“This past 16 April, the Auditori de Barcelona hosts the premier of Concerto for Clarinet and orchestra by Joan Guinjoan. The clarinet soloist is Lluna, who will be accompanied by the OBC conducted by first conductor Martínez-Izquierdo.

Tritó has already published his Symphony nº 2, “Ciutat de Tarragona” and Pantonal for orchestra. We will soon be publishing Verbum for piano. Guinjoan composed the opera Gaudí, which will premier at the Liceu in 2005.”

Torres La Tumba de Antígona draws acclaim

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

“This past 13 February, the National Orchestra of Spain, conducted by the first conductor Pons, premiered to great acclaim La tumba de Antígona by the Spanish composer Torres, at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid.

Tritó has recently published his String Trio , Itzal for accordion, Preludios I-IV for piano. Soon to be published: Cadenza for piano, and “ Crepuscular and “La Tumba de Antígona” for orchestra. Torres also composed Concerto for piano , recently recorded for the RTVE-Música label.Jesús Torres has also been chosen to compose the commissioned work for the 7th Competition, which will be held in Barcelona on 29 July 2004.”

Babel 46 at the Liceu – Barcelona

Posted by Marcel Soleda on February 13, 2004  |  Leave a comment

This 16 February, the new production of Xavier Montsalvatge’s opera Babel 46 premieres at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The Liceu and the Teatro Real de Madrid co-produce.

The opera, first performed in 1994 at the Festival del Castillo de Peralada, is playing through 28 February with a total of 9 performances featuring the Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu conducted by Antoni Ros Marbà.

Première of La tumba de Antígona, from Jesús Torres

Posted by Marcel Soleda on February 12, 2004  |  Leave a comment

The Spanish National Orchestra conducted by Josep Pons premieres La tumba de Antígona by Jesús Torres. The performance takes place on 13 February at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid.

This work, one of those which the orchestra commissions annually from young Spanish composers, will be performed again on the 14th and 15th.