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Romaní, Raimon
Raimon Romaní (Barcelona 1974) is composer, conductor and music teacher.
He holds a degree in Composition from the conservatories of Terrassa and Badalona, as well as a degree in Orchestra Conducting from the ESMUC. He teaches harmony, choral singing, orchestra, musical analysis and french horn at Conservatory of Sant Cugat and at Escola de Música i Dansa Fusió in Sant Cugat.
He took his first steeps in choral conducting under the guidance of Manuel Cabero and he furthered his training and knowledge following the courses organized by the FCEC and Europa Cantat. He has been conducting choirs since 1994. Under his direction some choirs of the Conservatory has won some prizes at choral contests by Ejea de los Caballeros in 2016, 2017, 2019 i 2022; Villena 2018, Villa de Avilés 2018 i 2022; Cocentaina 2019).
As a composer, the following choral symphonic works are worth highlighting: La llegenda de Sant Jordi, Magnificat, the hymn Veni, creator spiritus the Christmas cantata Pastors a Betlem and the sacred cantata Vacuum monumentum (The Resurrection); as well as the motets Quam dilecta, Caelus novus et terra nova, Quam pulchra es and Ave Maria.
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Rövenstrunck, Bernat
Bernhard Rövenstrunck was born on 10 March, 1920 in Essen-Altendorf (Germany).
After working as a master bookbinder, he studied music at the Witte Conservatory in Essen and the Folkwang school of music and dance in the same city. He exercised as Chapel Master in Buchau am Federsee and in Wrngen Church in Ulm. He also worked as a teacher at an elementary school in Ulm and was a guitar and composition teacher at the State Music College in Trossingen.
His musical training comprised mastering a number of instruments, including the viola, oboe, organ and guitar, as well as conducting choirs and orchestras and mastering forms of composition. He was also gifted in the fields of literature, humanism, philosophy and theology. As well as his native language of German, he was fluent in Latin, French, English and Castilian, and also Catalan as well, having learnt it over the many times he visited Catalonia, after first accepting an invitation from his friend, composer Jaume Padrós, in 1948. He was extremely knowledgeable about ancient Catalan music and Catalan popular music with an ancient tradition, and assimilated them more than most of his contemporaries.
Although his compositions were not afforded the recognition they deserved in his own country, they were regularly performed and recorded in pre-Communist Prague.
His compositions ranged from works for many instruments and voices through to different sorts of chamber music, and from choral music to pieces for solo instruments, including unusual ones such as the guitar, accordion or the chalumeau, traditional instrument from Catalonia. He wrote many pieces aimed at people learning various instruments and all his theoretical works can be found in the Ulm Library under signature 69346, where they can be consulted. His later work is particularly important, such as the compositions on the poetry of San Juan de la Cruz, for its simplification of form and polished translation into German.
He died in October 2010 in Albstadt. -
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.
