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Oltra, Manuel
Manuel Oltra was born in Valencia on 8th February 1922, but moved to Barcelona that same year. He started his musical education at the age of 14 with the maestro Josep Font Sabaté studying intensely despite the difficulties inherent to the Civil War. On joining the army in 1943, he was forced to move to Ceuta where he very soon got a job as a teacher at the Hispanic-Moroccan Conservatory in Tetuán. Three years later he returned to Barcelona, where he embarked on his full musical career as a pianist, conductor and composer.
In 1957 he took the official course at the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Música in Barcelona and immediately afterwards became an assistant professor and, later, already a professor of harmony, counterpoint and musical forms, he was appointed as the centre's assistant director.
His output as a composer is extensive and varied, ranging from chamber work for several ensembles, symphonic works, a cappella choral or instrumental accompaniment works, children's cantatas, works for cobla (Catalan orchestra) including the extraordinary Rapsòdia per a Piano i Cobla (1953), the first ever work for this instrumental formation. The harmonisation of traditional songs and ballets also constitutes a considerable corpus in Manuel Oltra's work.
In 1994 he was awarded the National Music Prize in the Composition section and National Popular and Tradicional Culture Prize in the Music section by the Generalitat de Catalunya. -
Ortega, Miquel
Miquel Ortega was born in Barcelona in 1963 into a family without any musical background. His musical education was at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu. In 1979 he was appointed as one of the maestros at the Gran Teatre del Liceu thanks to the baritone Vicente Sardinero.
He continued his education with the maestro Ernest Xancó (Violin), Manuel Oltra (Counterpoint, Instrumentation and Composition) and with Antoni Ros Marbà (Orchestral Conducting).
In 1990 he moved to Madrid as concertmaster of the National Lyrical Theatre, La Zarzuela, where he started his work as an orchestral conductor under the encouragement of Miquel Roa and Emilio Sagi.
He is a member of the Catalan Composers Society and several of his works have been performed both in Spain and abroad.
His work can be classified as part of the neo-Classical tonal style nature with sporadic, very Mediterranean, atonal incursions. -
Padrós, David
David Padrós born in Igualada (Barcelona) in 1942, Studied music with Jordi Albareda (piano) and Jordi Torra (Harmony, counterpoint and composition). Furtheren his musical studies in Germany and Switzerland with Paul Baumgartner and Sava Savoff (piano), Hans Ulrich Lehemann and Klaus Hubert (composition), and Jürg Wyttenbach (contemporary music interpretation). In Germany he was awarded the Konzertdiplom with the highest distinction on completing his studies in 1969, and in Switzerland he was awarded the Solistendiplom in 1974, both for piano. Since 1982 he has lived in Basle where he works very actively as a composer, pianist and educator.
Since 1971, when Styx was premiered at the Barcelona International Music Festival, his works have been performed all over Europe at International Festivals such as Lucerne (Switzerland), Gaudeamus Musikwoche (Holand), Europalia-85 (Belgium) and the Barcelona International Music Festival in 1987, where Confluències was premiered with great public success and critical acclaim.
He won the Hans Lentz 1969 prize for artistic merit (Germany) and the Composition prize from the Landis & Gyr Foundation in 1976 (Switzerland).David Padrós passed on 12th February 2016.
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Pardo, Miquel
Born in Barcelona on November 18, 1959, he began his academic studies in music at the age of 11 at the Advanced City Conservatory of Music of Barcelona.
Even though Pardo has a solid academic foundation, he has maintained a self-taught spirit and sense of investigation that has defined him as an artist of aesthetic independence. His creativity is divided into two aspects: 1) the invention of language as a tool of expression and 2) his own musical creations. As a result, the works in his repertoire go from simple forms to works based on complex techniques - and all of them joined together by a very personal style.
Throughout his artistic career, he has received many awards and prizes: in 1986, the Ministry of Culture Grant; in 1988, the 5th Contest of Young Composers Prize of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia; also in 1988, the Cristobal Halffter National Composition Prize for Organ; in 1994, the JJMM Young Composers of Barcelona Second Prize; in 1996, the International Catalonia Prize for Choral Composition and the Second Prize in the National Composition Pelegrín of Xunta de Galicia.
He is a member of SGAE and the Association of Catalonian Composers. In 1993, he successfully won the seat of Professor of Theoretical Matters at the Municipal Conservatory of Music at Sabadell. He also serves as a music critic for Catalonian Music Magazine.
His catalog comprises over 45 diverse works including symphonies, chamber music, instrumental ensembles, and solo pieces. -
Paulís i Vila, Narcís
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Pérez-Villegas Morey, Joan
I started studying percussion at the age of eight at the Conservatory of Palma. Pulled by the cultural attractions of Barcelona, I decided to study classical and contemporary percussion at the Esmuc. It is in this center where I discover and become interested in other music such as jazz and traditional music, as well as disciplines such as composition and improvisation. So much so that, at the end of the degree, I start and finish the Barcelona Jazz Master in composition under the guidance of Lluís Vidal. My career has led me to take part in numerous and diverse projects ranging from chamber to symphonic music, jazz orchestras, music for dance or theatre, pop, traditional music, etc. My compositions have been performed in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and the United States.
As a composer I was awarded with the 1st prize of the KUG Jazz Comp 2021 (Austria) for my piece The Properties of Rubber and with the Núvol’s Ruta del Jazz price (Spain) for the album Blau Salvatge (2020). In 2019 I presented Blau Salvatge, my first project as a composer and band leader. Thanks to a crowdfunding campaign involving over 150 sponsors, we were able to record the album, which was released in 2020, while I continued my studies in composition at the HKB in Bern, with Martin Streule, Django Bates and Stefan Schultze. I have written commissioned works for Staatstheater Braunschweig (2023), Kebyart Ensemble (2022), among others. I have had the opportunity to be academician of the Balearic Symphony Orchestra (2016-2017), as a guest artist at the SICMF 16’ (South Africa) and Cistermusica 16’ (Portugal) with the percussion duo Face two Phase, with which we won the first prize at the 4th edition of CIMCA (International Chamber Music Competition Cidade Alcobaça, Portugal).
I currently work as a freelance composer, musician and producer while continuing to develop my own projects such as Blau Salvatge and Alanaire. I am also performing and composing for the dance company GN|MC and with the theater company Atzar.
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Puertas, David
David Puertas Esteve, son and brother of musicians, was born in Barcelona in the year 1969. He studied flute, tabor pipe and composition at the Council’s Superior Conservatory of Music of Barcelona and also the Superior Conservatory of the Opera House El Liceu. He has also a BA in Information Science by the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
He has been awarded several times as a composer, in different competitions to do with traditional and popular music: the Mollet award for Sardana Modal, the Pallars award for Ball de Gegants de La Pobla de Segur, the Figueres award for Ball dels Gegants Dalí i Gala, etc. One has to mention, among his many commissions, the harmonization for El Cant dels ocells for string quartet for the presentation of the Forum of Cultures 2004 for Barcelona’s Town Hall, piece which has been edited by Clivis Publicacions.
He has been producer for the Ràdio 4 programme Fes ta Festa and has been responsible for musical documentation for the Symphonic Orchestra of Barcelona as well as the National Orchestral of Catalonia. Today he teaches music at the Institute of Can Puig in Sant Pere de Ribes.
He is the author of the book Música encreuada. Els enigmes musicals and 5 Sidoku books (musical Sudoku) together with his brother Bernat. Three of these books have been published by Clivis Publicacions and the other two have been published in German by Schott Musik Verlag.
