Pablo González wins the Cadaqués Orchestra Conducting Competition

Posted by Marcel Soleda on May 31, 2006  |  Leave a comment

By unanimous decision of the jury presided by Mr. Gennady Rozhdestvensky, the Spanish conductor Pablo González (Oviedo, 1975) has been awarded the first prize in the 8th Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition. Second prize went to the Briton Justin Doyle

.As winner, Mr. González will receive 6,000 euros and the invitation to conduct 28 orchestras over the next three years. In the final round, which was held at L’Auditori de Barcelona, Messrs. González and Doyle each conducted works by Mozart and Beethoven plus a score commissioned for the competition, Ttakun, by Ramón Lazkano.

The Cadaqués Orchestra Conducting Competition, which is open to conductors under the age of 35, is held every two years. Since its founding, it has grown steadily in prestige and quality. This has also led to an increase in the number of applicants, which this year reached 182.

Tritó to publish Arriaga’s major scores

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

Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Basque composer Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (Bilbao, 1806), over the coming months Tritó will be publishing the composer’s most important scores. Slated for release are new editions of Symphony in re, his Nonet, and Overture opus 20.

Likewise, we will soon be re-releasing the Cadaqués Orchestra’s recording of the Symphony, stocks of which had run out.

The Cadaqués Orchestra travel to Japan

Posted by Marcel Soleda on March 21, 2006  |  Leave a comment

The Cadaqués Orchestra goes on a concert tour of several Japanese cities, including Yokohama and Tokyo, from 24 March to 2 April. The programme features the Overture Il Barbiere de Siviglia by Ramon Carnicer, Beethoven’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 ‘Emperor’ – with Fujiko Hemming as the soloist – and Mozart’s Symphony no. 41 ‘Jupiter’. The Hungarian Tamás Vásáry will be conducting the orchestra on this tour.

The Cadaqués Orchestra takes the music of the Pla brothers on tour

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

The Cadaqués Orchestra embarks this Saturday on a concert tour bringing the music of the Pla brothers to Zaragoza, Barcelona and Madrid. The programme features Concert for Two Flutes and Orchestra in D Major by Joan and Josep Pla and Concert for Flute, Strings and Continuo in B flat Major by Manuel Pla, plus Mozart’s Requiem.

The dates are the 4th and 5th March at the Zaragoza Auditorium, the 6th at Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and 8th the Iglesia de Los Jerónimos in Madrid. Sir Neville Marriner conducts and Jaime Martín and Júlia Gállego are the solo flautists.

Success for Jesús Torres’s ‘Movimiento’

Posted by Marcel Soleda on January 21, 2006  |  Leave a comment

This January, the Cadaqués Orchestra travelled to Madrid and Zaragoza to perform, among other pieces, Movimiento by Jesús Torres. A sample of what the press had to say:

A score with a strong rhythmic profile, with an appealing interplay of colours and a rich polyphonic fabric, as sensational as it is effective, which gives it great vitality. Torres has established himself as one of the great names among contemporary Spanish composers.

Jorge de Persia, La Vanguardia

The second part began with a diaphanous reproduction of Movimiento by Jesús Torres, a remarkably flexible piece.

Arturo Reverter, La Razón

It came like a breath of fresh air amid the concert, with a soundscape of powerful beauty in pitch and rhythm and an aesthetic concept that is easily accessible for the public (…) Torres stood in acknowledgement of the applause.

Luis Alfonso Bes, Heraldo de Aragón

Jesús Torres, as he has matured, has become one of our most interesting composers, especially in conceptual terms. His Movimiento serves well the purpose for which he wrote it, a conducting competition, thanks to the richness of pitch and the interplay of rhythms and contrasts. The composer was applauded.

Carlos Gómez Amat, El Mundo

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.

Cadaqués Orchestra Conducting Competition repertoire now available

Posted by Marcel Soleda on December 7, 2005  |  Leave a comment

Tritó is now offering the complete repertoire of works for the 8th Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition.

This competition is held every two years and since its founding has become one of the most prestigious events of its kind in the world. The 2006 competition will be held between 20 and 30 May and presided by the conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

The last competition received 250 applications from 45 countries. The eleven scores chosen for this year can be purchased as a packet at the Tritó website with a 15% discount.

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.

Cadaqués Orchestra Tour

Posted by Marcel Soleda on December 1, 2003  |  Leave a comment

The Cadaqués Orchestra will be going on tour in January 2004. Under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner, the Orchestra will perform in several Spanish cities, including Zaragoza and Pamplona.

The featured soloist on this occasion will be the soprano Ainhoa Arteta, in addition to the Orchestra’s habitual soloists. The tour comprises two programmes, centring on the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.