Héctor Parra premieres Tentatives de réalité in Paris

Posted by Redacción on June 13, 2007  |  Leave a comment

As part of the festival-agora “Utopia Exotica”, organized by IRCAM at the Pompidou Centre in París, on 14 June Hèctor Parra premieres his latest work Tentatives de Réalité, commissioned by IRCAM. The work is for cello and electronic music controlled by gesture capture, featuring the cellist Pierre Strauch, with the digital support of Thomas Goepfer and Benoît Meudic. Tentatives de Réalité forms part of one of Ircam’s most important current projects which seeks a change of paradigm in the interaction between the interpreter and electronics in live performance, with the aim of attained a more organic, rich and stimulating relation for the musician.  More information at: http://www.ircam.fr/82.html?date=20070614&event=536

Meanwhile, on Tuesday 12 June, Le Jeune Ballet of the CNSMD of Lyon stages the ballet L’Aube Assaillie, with music by Hèctor Parra also for cello and electronics, at IRCAM’s Espace de Projection in Paris. This is the third season that the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon has collaborated with IRCAM, an arrangement that has proved very fruitful. The choreography of L’Aube Assaillie is by Frédéric Lescure. The cellist Amandine Lefèvre performs. More information at: http://www.ircam.fr/82.html?event=535

Héctor Parra wins applause and recognition with Strata-Antigone II and Karst-Chroma II

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

The former work by the young Paris-based Catalan composer Héctor Parra won plaudits in its premiere by the Ensemble Laboratorium this past 12 March at the Auditorio Reina Sofía in Madrid. The same work will be performed again on 31 March in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Meanwhile, his work Karst-Chroma II, premiered a few months ago in Strasbourg, has earned the composer a major commission from the French government.

Héctor Parra in Strasbourg and Berlin

Posted by Marcel Soleda on October 5, 2006  |  Leave a comment

Under the direction of Pascal Rophé – debuting as musical director of the Orchestre Philarmonique de Liège – this 7 October at 8pm at the Palais des Fêtes the Festival Musica de Strasbourg closes with concert featuring works by Héctor Parra, Stockhausen and Schöllhorn. Parra, a young Catalan composer whose works are published by the Tritó, was commissioned to write a piece for the festival.

The result is Karst – Chroma II, according to the festival organizers, ‘an exploration of geo-harmonic strata, in which homogeneous matter is dissolved by infiltrations in the form of instrumental stridencies’. In other news, this 25 November the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin will be the scene of the world premiere of String Trio or Nouvelle Pièce pour trio à cordes et dispositif électronique by Héctor Parra (Barcelona 1976), performed by Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin.

Orchestre de l’Ile-de-France premiere Hèctor Parra’s work

Posted by Marcel Soleda on April 18, 2006  |  Leave a comment

The Catalan composer Hèctor Parra, who lives in Paris, will premiere this 23 April his work Lumières Abyssales – Chroma I. The score was written on commission from the Orchestre Nationale d’Ile de France, and is based on another Parra work, Chroma, which premiered in Palma de Mallorca in 2004.

The premiere of the new composition will be conducted by David PorcelijnHèctor Parra has premiered music in France: Just a few months ago the Centre Pompidou in Paris hosted, to great critical acclaim, the premiere of the Chamber Symphony – Quasikristall, in a performance by the Ensemble Intercontemporain. at the Espace Jacques Prévert during the Festival Ile de Découvertes de Aulnay sous Bois. This is not the first time that

Le Monde acclaims Parra’s latest premiere

Posted by Marcel Soleda on December 20, 2005  |  Leave a comment

This past 16 December the Pompidou Centre in Paris hosted the premiere of Chamber Symphony Quasikristall, a chamber symphony with electronics by the Barcelona composer Hèctor Parra. Here is a comment from the press:

The Ensemble Intercontemporain and the IRCAM present the result of the commissions for ensemble with or without electronics. [...] Written for sixteen instruments and electronics, Chamber Symphony-Quasikristall, by the Spaniard Hèctor Parra (born 1976), advances through sequences of impeccably drawn lines and lively content. A stunning achievement.

LE MONDE | 18.12.2005

Ensemble Intercontemporain premiere a piece by Hèctor Parra

Posted by Marcel Soleda on November 25, 2005  |  Leave a comment

Chamber Symphony – Quasikristall, composed for 16 instruments and electronics by the Barcelona composer Hèctor Parra, premieres this 16 December at the prestigious Pompidou Centre in Paris. The performance will be conducted by Daniel Kawka.