Vertixe Sonora. Another twist

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Vertixe Sonora.

Another twist Works for instrumental and electronic group by Bernal, Calderón, Miralles and Torá VANG VI.

Music in the vanguard

CentroCentro produces the sixth edition of the VANG cycle. Music in the vanguard, curated by Sergio Luque and Victor Barceló.

15.06.2023

Vertixe Sonora. Another twist

Ensemble Vertixe Sonora. Works for instrumental and electronic group by Bernal, Calderón, Miralles and Torá

Pilar Fontalba oboe | Pablo Coello saxophone | Alfonso Noriega violates | David Duran piano | Iván Ferrer electronic media

In recent years, international contemporary music has undergone such a profound transformation of procedures and aesthetics, interests and motivations, organics and technologies that it is hard to believe that we are talking about the same type of sensitive experience capable of welcoming with such flexibility interventions that are so far apart, if not exclusive. . This proposal accounts for this transformation in Spain, confronting the work of two established masters whose music is always a pleasure to hear live again, and the fresh voice of two young composers making their way in Europe.

Program:

José Luis Torá wq.132 with lost creux (2017) tenor saxophone prepared and amplified

Alberto Bernal (neo)liberal systems #2 "crescendo" (2019) oboe, saxophone, viola, piano, live electronics

Esther Calderón new work (2023) oboe, saxophone, viola, piano, live electronics

Pilar Miralles I no longer feel the slide, the friction of time (2023) flashing lights, two radios, tape, viola and piano

Vertixe Sonora

Since its presentation in 2011 in Santiago de Compostela until the end of 2022, Vertixe Sonora has performed 244 concerts and made 290 world premieres by 220 composers from 46 countries. A decade of own productions and concerts at different festivals and cycles in Spain. His international recognition has allowed him to perform on stages in Germany, the United States, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. Martín Codax Award 2016 for Contemporary Classical Music, his work was included in the documentaries Sonutopias (campUSCulturae of the University of Santiago de Compostela, 2014), Correspondencias Sonoras (Manuel de él Río, 2013) and La lira del desierto (Manuel de él Río 2020) the latter in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the birth of the composer Enrique X. Macías.

In addition to the CD with the finalist works for the XXVI SGAE-CNDM Foundation Young Composers Award, he recorded for WERGO the cycle Die Wanderung by the composer Lula Romero, and for the NEOS label The Dimension of the Fragile, a monograph on the composer Víctor Ibarra. Also for NEOS, a monograph by the Colombian composer Camilo Méndez was registered during 2022 and will be published in 2023.

Composers

Jose Luis Tora. Madrid He was born in Madrid in 1966. He studied music by free call at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid. He receives composition classes from, among others, Mauricio Sotelo. He attends numerous courses and seminars given by composers such as: Luis de Pablo, Emmanuel Nunes, Salvatore Sciarrino, Brian Ferneyhough, Gerard Grisey, Tristan Murail, etc; he also participates in the Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt. In 1994 he is selected by Brian Ferneyhough to receive the scholarship-commission granted by the CDMC and the University of Alcalá de Henares. This same year he is a finalist in the SGAE Composition Contest. In 1995 he moved to Stuttgart, with a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, to carry out postgraduate studies in composition with Helmut Lachenmann at the Musikhochschule in that city, graduating in 1998; he simultaneously he works in the electroacoustic music laboratory with Reiner Wehinger. In 1998 he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau, receiving a scholarship as a composer from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation, a city where he attended Mathias Spahlinger's composition seminars until 1999.

His works have been performed at, and commissioned by, festivals such as: Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (Witten), Tage für neue Musik (Zürich), Festival Smash (Salamanca), ISCM World Music Days, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemässer Musik (Austria), ULTIMA Festival (Oslo), SOUND Festival (Aberdeen), Internationale Ferienkurse (Darmstadt), Contempuls (Prague), Musiikin aika (Finland), IRTIJAL (Beirut), Alicante International Festival, Ensems, New Music Forum Mexico City, Musik im XX. Jahrhundert Saarbrücken (Germany), Sound Visions (Morelia), Susa Festival (Denmark), etc; in cities like Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Graz, Basel, Malmö, Madrid, Barcelona, among others; by groups such as: ensemble recherche, Ensemble Contrechamps, Trio Accanto, SMASH Ensemble, Remix Ensemble, Trio de Magia TdM, Sigma Project, Ensemble Cattrall, Trio Nexus, etc; and soloists such as: Teodoro Anzellotti, Eric-Maria Couturier, Mats Scheidegger, Bertrand Chavarría, Richard Craig, Sisco Aparici, Carola Schlüter, etc. Recordings and productions of his works have been made for RNE, WDR, SR, ORF, DRS2, YLE, etc.

He has given courses, conferences and seminars in Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Mexico. He has been visiting professor of composition at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMuC, Barcelona) during the 2004-2005 academic year. He is currently co-director of the Master of Contemporary Instrumental Composition (CSKG, Madrid).

Alberto Bernal. Madrid

Composer and sound artist of classical origin and varied influences, with works framed near the turning point between concert situations and other disciplines such as installation, performance or video art. His work is, above all, a search for and deconstruction of the boundary between the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, as well as between the different traditional perceptive spheres (sound, image, word, everyday perception). His work has been presented in various places in Europe, America and Asia, and recognized through various awards and scholarships: Darmstadt International Festival, Humboldt Foundation, DAAD/La Caixa Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Goethe Institute, Community of Madrid, SWR Stuttgart, European Academy, Student Residence, Casa Velázquez or Matadero de Madrid.

Along with his activity as a composer, he maintains an intense job as a popularizer, regularly publishing articles in various media and giving courses and conferences on composition, aesthetics, analysis, and new media at various institutions. He is currently co-director of the Master's Degree in Composition with New Media at the CSKG (Madrid) and professor of Composition at the Conservatory of Music of Aragon. From 2017 to 2021 he was curator of the VANG cycle at CentroCentro.

Esther Calderon Morales. Ontinyent, Valencia

He studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Granada and is currently studying a Master's Degree in Music Technology at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he develops his style through a wide variety of musical techniques, including composition in time real, algorithmic music, live electronics and multi-channel music. Her work has been heard at festivals such as Musica Nova, VocalEspoo and Flow Festival in Helsinki.

The sounds that she uses in the different pieces of hers arise as a representation of images of an intimate nature and as a reflection of visions of the natural world and of the human body and her gestures. This aesthetic is reflected in her interest in composition for different media, in the creation of interactive sound installations, and in multidisciplinary practice, with a special interest in dance. In her work, she seeks to explore new forms of sensory communication and the creation of immersive experiences that connect the viewer with her environment in a deeper way.

Pilar Miralles. Almeria

Composer, sound artist and writer currently residing in Helsinki, Finland. He completed his higher studies in composition at the Conservatory of Granada (2019), his master's degree in electroacoustic composition at the Katarina Gurska Center in Madrid (2020), and his master's degree in composition and music theory at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts from Helsinki (2022), receiving the Martin Wegelius merit scholarship in March 2022. He has received composition master classes from Augusta Read Thomas (2022), Kalevi Aho (2021) or Guillaume Connesson (2019) among others.

Her instrumental work has been performed by orchestras and instrumental ensembles from Europe and the US such as the Île-de-France National Orchestra, the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra or the Defunensemble ensemble. Her electroacoustic work has been developed at the “Nordplus intensive course IMMEDIA 2021” (Lithuania), the MuteFest ’20 and ’22 Festival (Finland) or the FACBA Festival of the University of Granada. Her current focus of interest is on the creation of favorable conditions that allow the liberation of perception and consciousness as bases for human dignity through artistic expression. Pilar dreams of dedicating her career to the development of artistic projects related to the conservation and dissemination of the sound heritage of rural areas of Spain.

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