© Agustí Charles Soler. Barcelona 2018

Agustí Charles

Composer / Compositor

Writing music
Rosa Fernández. El Progreso (Galicia), 21.06.1997
Composer and pedagogue born in Manresa, he is author of more than a hundred musical works covering all styles, from solo instrument music to chamber music, band, symphony orchestra and opera, He has received commissions from the most important national and international institutions and his music is performed all over the world. He has also received nearly fifty awards, including the most important national and international composition prizes. He has released a total of four monographic CDs, in addition to other works in about forty recordings. Since 2007 he has devoted himself especially to opera, where he has already written a total of six titles: “La Cuzzoni, esperpent d’una veu" (La Cuzzoni, a voice of the grotesques), premiered at the Staatstheater of Darsmtadt (Germany) in October 2007; “Lord Byron, un estiu sense estiu” (Lord Byron, a summer without summer), premiered in 2011 at the Gran Teatre de Liceu; "Java Suite", premiered at the Festival de Perelada in August 2012; the “Històries d’una Reina embogida...” (Stories of a maddened Queen) premiered on December 21 2019 at the Oracles Theatre in Barcelona, "No es res urgent" (It is nothing urgent), premiered in Streamming at the Liceu de Barcelona in 2020, and the most recent, "Andromeda Encadenada" (Chained Andromeda), premiered at the Palau de la Música Catalana in October 2021. Next January 2025, his last opera, "The Lat Nigth of the World" will premiere at the Stiftung Staatstheater d'Ausburg (Germany). He is also the author of numerous works related to composition, musical analysis and orchestration, including his books "Análisis de la Música española de siglo XX (2002)", "Dodecafonismo y serialismo en España" ( 2005), and the collection "Instrumentación y orquestación clásica y contemporánea (5 volumes) (2005-2018)". He holds a PhD in Art History and has been Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and Professor of Composition at the ESMUC. He currently teaches orchestration at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.
" [...] the absolute dedication, without concessions to the work, the rigor, the constant searching, the work and the most complete dedication to the creation, motivated by the real necessity of to communicate and create. [...]"
Castellano Castellano Català Català Deutch Deutch

More information:

© Pol Rebaque
© Agustí Charles Soler. Barcelona 2018

Agustí Charles

Composer / Compositor

Rosa Fernández. El Progreso (Galicia), 21.06.1997
Castellano Castellano Català Català Deutch Deutch
Writing music
" [...] the absolute dedication, without concessions to the work, the rigor, the constant searching, the work and the most complete dedication to the creation, motivated by the real necessity of to communicate and create. [...]"
Composer and pedagogue born in Manresa, he is author of more than a hundred musical works covering all styles, from solo instrument music to chamber music, band, symphony orchestra and opera, He has received commissions from the most important national and international institutions and his music is performed all over the world. He has also received nearly fifty awards, including the most important national and international composition prizes. He has released a total of four monographic CDs, in addition to other works in about forty recordings. Since 2007 he has devoted himself especially to opera, where he has already written a total of six titles: “La Cuzzoni, esperpent d’una veu" (La Cuzzoni, a voice of the grotesques), premiered at the Staatstheater of Darsmtadt (Germany) in October 2007; “Lord Byron, un estiu sense estiu” (Lord Byron, a summer without summer), premiered in 2011 at the Gran Teatre de Liceu; "Java Suite", premiered at the Festival de Perelada in August 2012; the “Històries d’una Reina embogida...” (Stories of a maddened Queen) premiered on December 21 2019 at the Oracles Theatre in Barcelona, "No es res urgent" (It is nothing urgent), premiered in Streamming at the Liceu de Barcelona in 2020, and the most recent, "Andromeda Encadenada" (Chained Andromeda), premiered at the Palau de la Música Catalana in October 2021. Next January 2025, his last opera, "The Lat Nigth of the World" will premiere at the Stiftung Staatstheater d'Ausburg (Germany). He is also the author of numerous works related to composition, musical analysis and orchestration, including his books "Análisis de la Música española de siglo XX (2002)", "Dodecafonismo y serialismo en España" ( 2005), and the collection "Instrumentación y orquestación clásica y contemporánea (5 volumes) (2005-2018)". He holds a PhD in Art History and has been Professor of Composition at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and Professor of Composition at the ESMUC. He currently teaches orchestration at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.

More information:

© Pol Rebaque