© Agustí Charles Soler. Barcelona 2018
Agustí Charles
Composer / Compositor
Writing music
Rosa Fernández. El Progreso
(Galicia), 21.06.1997
© Sònia Balcells
Born
in
Manresa,
Agustí
Charles
began
his
music
studies
at
an
early
age.
His
first
works
in
composition
date
from
the
80s,
under
the
guidance
of
his
first
composition
teachers:
Miquel
Roger,
Albert
Sardà
and
Josep
Soler.
Later
he
studied
with
Franco
Donatoni,
Luigi
Nono
and
Samuel
Adler,
as
well
as
working
with
other
composers
and
conductors
including
Joan
Guinjoan,
Cristóbal Halffter, J.R. Encinar and Ros Marbà.
He
has
had
much
recognition
for
his
work,
receiving
nearly
fifty
awards,
among
these
are
the
most
important
national
and
international
composition
prizes.
He
has
also
received
commissions
from
important
institutions
and
prestigious
performers,
as
a
result
of
which
his
music
is
performed
worldwide.
His
work
“Seven
looks”
was
awarded
the
prize
of
the
Association
of
Spanish
Symphonic
Orchestras
(AEOS)
and
has
been
played
by
all
the
major
Spanish
orchestras
between
the
2004
and
2008
seasons.
His
first
opera
“La
Cuzzoni,
esperpent
d’una
veu”,
was
premiered
in
October
2007
at
the
Darmstadt
Staatstheater
in
Germany
with
great
success.
Recently,
in
2008,
the
Italian
Stradivarius
Records
Co.
has
published
a
new
monographic
CD
with
part
of
his
orchestral
work,
played
by
the
Orchestra
of
the
Community
of
Madrid
and
directed
by
José
Ramón
Encinar.
The
Tritó
Records
Company
edited
a
new
monographic
CD
in
2010
with
the
Symphonic
Orchestra
of
Barcelona
and
National
of
Catalunya,
directed
by
Jaime
Martin.
In
March
2011
the
premiere
of
his
second
opera,
“Lord
Byron,
un
estiu
sense
estiu”,
will
take
place
in
the
Staatstheater
of
Darmstadt,
Germany.
The
libretto
is
by
Marc
Rosich
with
stage
direction
by
Alfonso
Romero
Mora.
At
August
2012,
primered
his
third
opera
JAVA
SUITE,
in
the
Perelada
Festival
(Girona,
Spain),
and
the
last
opera
Andromeda
Encadenada,
premiered
in
the
Palau
de
la
Música
Catalana
(Barcelona) in october 2021.
He
is
also
author
of
texts
and
books
related
to
musical
composition
and
analysis,
among
which
stand
out
the
following:
“Análisis
de
la
música
española
del
siglo
XX
(2002)”,
“Dodecafonismo
y
serialismo
en
España”
(2005),
“Instrumentación
y
orquestación
clásica
y
contemporánea”
,
on
five
vol.
(2005-2015).
He
is
Doctor
in
Arts,
and
teach
orchestration
in
the
Escuela
Superior
de
Música Reina Sofía (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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