© 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. [...]"
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