MIXTUR 2024 COMMISSIONS
One of the fundamental pillars of Festival Mixtur is the commitment to the promotion of new sound creation. Since its foundation the festival has commissioned 67 new works by composers from Catalonia, Spain and around the world always premiered by first rate performers. These premieres are given through a close collaboration between composers and performers during the organization and the development of the festival and provide listeners high-quality and rigorous performances.
Mixtur XIII edition includes 5 premieres commissioned to composers: Ariadna Alsina (Catalonia), Alberto Bernal (Madrid), Irene Galindo Quero (Andalusia), Alexander Khubeev (RU) and Isandro Ojeda (Andalusia).
COMPOSITORS
Ariadna first studied violin and sonology and focused on composition, guided by L. Naón at ESMUC. In Paris, she studied with J. M. López López, H. Vaggione, Ch. Groult, H. Parra, M. Matalon. She joined the Cursus at Ircam and the Master in Mixed Music Composition at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (P. Dusapin, L. Naón and M. Jarrell). She completed a doctorate on the writing of time in mixed music at the University of Paris-8. She works in her compositions with the malleability and transformation of sound material and carries out constant research about timbre.
Alberto Bernal. Composer and sound artist of classical formation and several influences, with works framed near the turning point between traditional concert situations and other disciplines like installation, performance of video art. His work is, above all, a search and deconstruction of borders: between the aesthetic and sociopolitical realms, or between the different conventional perceptual fields (sound, image, word, quotidian perception). Since 2023 he has been professor at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid.
Granada, 1985. Irene Galindo Quero studied in Freiburg and Cologne. Since 2012 learns sarod with Pandit Brij Narayan. 2014-16 taught composition at the CSMA Aragón. Her work has been recognised with numerous awards: Berlin-Rheinsberger Kompositionspreis, Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Brahmshaus Baden-Baden, Residencia de Estudiantes Madrid. She has received commissions from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Concertgebouw Brugge, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Staatsoper Hamburg, Philharmonie Luxembourg. She works regularly with the poet Ángela Segovia. Lives in Berlin.
Alexander Khubeev (born 1986) graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2011, won awards in Argentina, Italy, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, USA including prestigious Gaudeamus Prize (Utrecht, 2015). He received scholarships from Darmstadt Summer Courses (2014) and Berlin Academy of Arts (2018). His music is played in concerts held in more than 30 countries around Europe, Asia, South and North America. He is artistic director of Tchaikovsky Young composers Academy and co-founder and curator of Composition course reMusik.org. Since 2023 he lives and works in Paris.
The composer, improviser and multimedia artist Isandro Ojeda-García -Seville, 1989- is interested in written or improvised music, experimental poetry, video installation and the construction of sound-creating objects. A singular voice, always hunting for sources of artistic material and a generation of aesthetics. His work is born from setting to the limit systems and numerical devices with potential to configure an hybrid imaginary of strongness.
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