Poética, by Jesus Torres, winner of the “Millenium Chamber Players” prize

Posted by Leticia Martin on February 5, 2009  |  1 Comment

Poética (2007), a work for a trio with piano and clarinet, by Jesús Torres, has won the “Millenium Chamber Players” prize awarded every year by the musicians of the Chicago ensemble.

This year there were over 300 competition entries and the jury, formed by Augusta Read Thomas, Kyung Mee Choi, Bernard Rands and George Flynn, admitted it had had difficulty in choosing a winner when it announced its decision.

As a prize Jesús Torres will receive a commission for a chamber work to be performed by the musicians of the “Millenium Chamber Players”. David Adamcyk and Miguel Villanueva received special mentions from the jury and Clifton Callender, Amos Elkana, Massimo Lauricella, Ned McGowan and Todd Tarantino received honourable mentions.

Poética is a work in five movements based on different texts by German poets: Novalis, Hölderlin, Rilke, Trakl and Celan. It was premiered by the Trío Arbós with the clarinettist José Luis Estellés.

Further information in Victor Rebullida’s blog.

Jesús Torres premieres Poética

Posted by Redacción on July 25, 2007  |  Leave a comment

With the premiere of Manantial de luz, a work we spoke of here at the time, this June was already an eventful month for Jesús Torres, one of Tritó’s leading composers. In the words of critic Alberto González Lapuente, “it is surprising to discover that there are still audiences who get excited about a new score. Jesús Torres will have every reason to be happy (…) The enthusiasm with which his work was greeted is unusual. In a way, a real feat in an era that strives so to enhance the ‘communication’ with the public (ABC, 18-06-07).

Now in July, on the 28th to be precise, Torres premieres another piece: Poética. The venue is the Santiago de Compostela Auditorium and the occasion the recently founded Festival Cameralia, who commissioned the work. Poética is a composition for solo clarinet and piano trio made up of five movements based on readings of poems by five German-language poets: Novalis, Hölderlin, Rilke, Georg Trakl and Paul Celan. The premiere features José Luis Estellés, to whom the work is dedicated, with the young Italian ensemble DavidTrio.