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Salvat, Joaquim
Joaquim Salvat was born in Barcelona in 1900, he studied at the Escola Municipal de Música de Barcelona under the teachers Tomàs Buxó (piano), Enric Morera and Joan Manén (composition). He was later appointed teacher of Sol-fa at the same school.
His work is considered to be the heir of the aesthetics postulated by Modernism and Noucentism, and is distinguished by an exquisite elegance imbuing it with an unmistakable personality, most particularly in his extensive production of songs.
He died in March 1938 and, despite his short life, his work now enables us to catch a glimpse of his great knowledge of compositional elements and the beginnings of the maturity in his creativity which could have borne great fruit.
We would like to highlight some twenty lieder from among his work with lyrics by renowned poets, including Apel·les Mestres, Joan Maragall, Josep Carner and Tomàs Garcés. However, his most interpreted work is the Quartet en Do, dedicated to the “Quartet de Corda de Barcelona” which premiered it in 1935 as the closure to the season of concerts of the Associació de Cultura Musical. There are also several works for piano, from among which we would like to highlight the Suite Lírica, a Preludi and a Sonata; for violin and piano we would emphasise the Quatro canzonette, among other smaller pieces, as well as the Cinc cançons populars harmonised for wind and string quintets. The only work he composed for orchestra, Prélude et chanson, was presented at the “Concours Kursaal d’Ostende” in 1930. -
Sardà, Albert
Albert Sardà was born in 1943. Studied counterpoint and composition under J. Soler, studies which he completed with those of industrial engineer. Earned a degree in History of Art from the University of Barcelona. Given a grant from the city of Darmstadt, he attended the International Contemporary Music Competition in 1972, dictated by Ligeti, Stockhausen, Kagel and Xenakis. Since 1991 he has directed the ‘Music oh 2oth Century Course' then held in Ditges (Barcelona) and from 2007 in Terrassa. His works have been performed and registered by various orchestras and music groups nationally and internationally, and edited by Southern-Music and Seesaw Music Corp., both of New York; Simrock of Hamburg; Catalana d’Edicions Musicals I Colvis – ACC of Barcelona. Hes ballet, L’Ombra, won the Ferran Sors Prize in 1984. Has been awarded with the Composition Prize of Barcelona (1986) for his piece, Concert per a violoncel i orquestra. Worthy of mention among his latest works is the opera L’any de gràcia (The year of grace) represented in Alicante, Palma de mallorca, Perpignan, Barcelona y Madrid. In 2000 he finished the second chamber opera Selima, based on a text by Miquel de Palol, which was represented in Lleida, Santiago de Compostela and Barcelona. During the period of 1979-85, was a professor of harmony, counterpoint, and histories of music and art, in the conservatories of Badalona and Manresa. Was director during this final year. He is professor of History and Esthetics of Music in the Masters Music Conservatory in Barcelona. Is one of the founders of the Association of Catalan Composers and from 1981-92, was the president. Since 1992, is the founder and director of the Contemporary Music Foundation. Worthy of mention among his latest compositions of staged works.
For the motive of the Dali year and commissioned by the town council of Figueres the creation of the work Cantata al gran masturbador (Cantata to the great masturbator) with text by Salvador Dalí, represented i8n Figueres and Albacete. Between 2005 and 206 the creation and representation in Terrassa in 2007 of the opera Un futur esplèndid (A splendid future), with notes by Miquel de Palol. Between 2008 and 2010 he has composed different chamber works for lead instruments and the second version of his concert for soprano saxophone and orchestra. -
Sardó, Adrià
Adrià Sardó studied at the Barcelona Municipal School of Music (Higher Music Conservatory).
His teachers included Joaquim Salvat, Frederic Alfonso, Enric Morera, Joaquín Zamacois, Francesc Costa (violin) and Eduard Toldrà (conducting). He also received advice from the maestro Napoleone Annovazzi (musical director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona).
When the Barcelona Municipal Orchestra (Symphonic Orchestra of Barcelona and National of Catalonia) was created he won a first violin position.
He has conducted the following companies: Ballet of Barcelona, Ballet of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Ballet of Pilar López, Chamber Opera of Barcelona, Opera of Barcelona. -
Serra, Joaquim
Joaquim Serra i Corominas was born in Peralada (Alt Empordà) in 1907 and died fifty years later in Barcelona. The son of Josep Serra i Bonal, he studied with his father, Lluís Millet and Enric Morera and he wrote his first sardana (a typical Catalan dance) in 1923. He won two Concepció Rabell awards, for Trio en mi (1926) and Variacions per a orquestra i piano (1928), in addition to various prizes at the Sant Jordi competitions, specifically for Impressions Camperoles (1926), La Fira, Glossa del ball de gitanes and La presó de Lleida.
He wrote approximately fifty outstanding sardanas, such as La primera volada (1921), Infantívola (1922), Tendresa, Joiosa, Rocaborba and Apassionada (all in 1936). Serra’s posthumous piece of work, Puigsoliu was the best of his symphonic poems.
In 1934, he was appointed artistic director of the Associació de Barcelona radio station. He gave a course on orchestration for brass bands in 1948, which he summarised in his book, Tractat d’Instrumentació per a cobla (Instrumentation for brass bands) in 1957. -
Setó, Conrad
Conrad Setó was born in 1958 in Montblanc (Tarragona). In 1967 he began his activity as a professional musician and established the contemporary chamber music group Tanit. He has served as a member of several instrumental groups as a pianist and has held numerous concerts in Spain and abroat, accompanied by such performers as Àngel Pereira (vibraphone), Quim Soler (percussion), Víctor Valls i Joan Garrobé (guitars), Quim Ollé (flute), Iwona Burzynska (violin), Rafael Esteva (double bass) o Daniel Levy (drums), among others.
He has recorded more than ten discs of his own music. The double LP titled Joc de Dames (Game of Draughts) won him first prize for best original recording awarded by the Government of Catalonia. He has participated in the European Festival Jazz of Lemans (France) and in the 1st New Age Exhibition of León alongside such international musicians as H. J. Roedhelius and Wim Mertens.
In 1983 he accomplished his first interdisciplinary spectacle at the Barcelona festival Grec'83 with the work Impressions Cromàtiques (Chromatic Impressions). Ultimately he developed a pictorial-musical project with the painter from Reus, Lluís Sànchez Abelló.
He has worked with the country's best musicians, including, for example, Lluís Llach, Jordi Sabatés, Toti Soler, Núria Feliu, Marina Rossell or the late Ovidi Montllor.
His some 500 compositions are heterogeneous as much in terms of style as in terms of the instrumental formations for which they have been written.
Currently he divides his energy between pedagogy, concerts, and composition. -
Soler, Josep
Josep Soler i Sardà was born in Vilafranca del Penedès in 1935. His musical apprenticeship began here with Rosa Lara, and would continue in Paris with René Leibowitz (1960), and in Barcelona with Cristòfol Taltabull (1960-1964). He has received the “Montecarlo’s Opera Award” (1964), the “Ciutat de Barcelona Award”, twice (1962 and 1978), and the “13rd. Òscar Esplà Award”. His opera Edip and Yocasta premiered in the Gran Teatre del Liceu, in 1986.
In his works, very influenced by the music of Schönberg and Alban Berg, he generally uses the dodecaphonic technique in an expressionistic and impressionistic style, while at the same time becoming more austere and simple.
In the bibliographic world, Josep Soler has written numerous articles and books. From 1977 until 1982, he was a professor of History and Aesthetics at the Barcelona City’s Superior Music Conservatory, and until 1985, a music professor at the same institution. He is currently Director of the Badalona’s Professional Music Conservatory, and Numerary Academician of the Sant Jordi’s Royal Catalonian Academy of the Arts, in Barcelona.
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Soto, Pere
Is a guitarist and composer born in Badalona(Barcelona) in 1958. He is a self-taught musician and has shown greatinterest in all the musical genres. He made his first steps in the world ofRock and Blues and later turned towards Jazz, collaborating and makinga name for himself both in groups and as a soloist, as well as makingseveral recordings in the United States and in Holland.
In 1983, he discovered the music of J. S. Bach, whose spiritualstrength and enormous musical power had a huge impact on him. Fromthat moment on, he moved into the world of the classics, making in-depthstudies of the great masters of every period, right through to renownedcomposers of the 20th century. We should make a special mention ofthree of this century’s great masters: Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen andAlfred Schnittke, who have had a significant aesthetic influence on hiswork.
In 2000 his String quartet no. 2 was first performed in Mexico City,which is where he then spent a long time teaching and giving seminarsthroughout the country.
In his role as lead performer, he has ten commercial CDs, as wellas a vast number of collaborations in international jazz ensembles.
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Taverna-Bech, Francesc
Born in Barcelona on April 16, 1932. In his hometown, between 1952 and 1954, he attends musical studies and learns to play the piano, the violin, and musical composition.
In 1973 begins his dedication to music reviews at the same time that his career as a composer intensifies. His catalog today has eighty musical compositions, most of which have been programmed and played for the first time in the Catalonian music scene as well as Spain’s, and in other cities of Europe, Asia, and America. He has also been a judge in musical composition and interpretation competitions.
His articles have been published in Serra d’Or, Revista de Catalunya, Revista Musical Catalana, El Correo Catalán, Destino, Barcelona Metrópolis, and Barcelona Creació (Yokohama, 1990). He has also collaborated in the activities of the Universitat Catalana d’Estiu from Prada de Conflent (France).
After an evolutionary period that goes from neoclassical postulates (Suite Catalana) to proposals of an atonal and serial character (Calidoscopi, Díptic, Climes, Gèminis), he gathers the experiences extracted from these two forms, mixes them, and turns them into a new style with a markedly expressive content (Temperaments, Proses disperses), although on certain occasions he returns to the original styles (Camins Somorts, Auguris, etc.).
Francesc Taverna-Bech died 16 April 2010.
