UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC | SEASON IV | #3
David del Puerto
UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IV | #3
Joan Cerveró, Director & Conductor
CONCERT & LECTURE | WAYS OF LISTENING
THE CATEGORIES | David del Puerto
Friday 28 | January 2011 | 20:00 H | Institut Français de Valencia |
Program
Johann S. Bach Sonata ‘sopr'il Soggetto Reale’
from Das Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 (1747)
for flute, violin and piano
David del Puerto Trip I (2009)
for electric guitar
Olivier Messiaen Abîme des oiseaux
from Quattuor pour la fin du temps (1940 - 41)
for solo clarinet
David del Puerto Dolce (1998)
for clarinet and piano
David del Puerto Improvisation (2011)
for electric guitar
José Mª Sáez-Ferríz, Flute
José Cerveró, Clarinet
Vicent Taroncher, Violin
David del Puerto, Electric Guitar
Carlos Apellániz, Piano
Joan Cerveró, Conductor
David del Puerto (Madrid, 1964), composer and guitarist, disciple of Francisco Guerrero and Luis de Pablo.
His production includes more than 140 works of all genres, including 4 symphonies, 2 operas, a ballet, numerous solo concerts and an important catalog for guitar.
Since 1985, his music has been present in festivals and concert seasons in Europe, America and Asia. His work is collected in more than 25 recordings. In 1993 he won the Gaudeamus Prize in Amsterdam with his first Concerto for oboe and chamber group, and the "El ojo crítico" Award of Radio Nacional de España. In 2005 he was awarded the National Music Prize.
He is guitarist and composer of the group Rejoice! with whom he premiered the shows Sobre la noche, Carmen replay (ballet commissioned by the Teatro Real de Madrid) and Caro Domenico, commissioned by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
Numerous academic works have been written on his work, including three doctoral theses (Jeremy Bass, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Ángel Luis Castaño, University of Extremadura; Eduardo Soutullo, University of Vigo).
For more than 20 years he has been a regular visiting professor at conservatories and universities in Europe, the United States and Latin America. He is professor of Composition and Didactics of contemporary music at the Katarina Gurska Higher Center, and of Musical Analysis and Harmony at the Reina Sofía Superior School of Music