Mixtur Group, in collaboration with Fabra i Coats - Creation Factory, and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, the registration opens for the 2014 Workshop on Composition and Sound Experimentation as one of the activities of the Festival 2014. Our Mixtur wish is to create a meeting point for contemporary creation in Barcelona in pedagogy Which is one of the essential Pillars. For this first edition of the workshop, will be our guest composer José Manuel López López and we will count on the collaboration of Taller Sonoro Ensemble for the reading panel.
The music of José Manuel López López is characterized by an immediate seduction and profound interiority, both from a personal and revealing language, constantly renewed. After studying with Antón García Abril and Luis de Pablo, he debuts in Madrid, where he also studied Piano, Composition and Orchestral Conducting. He continued his studies with Luigi Nono, Franco Donatoni and Roger Cochini at the GMEB (Experimental Music Group in Bourges) as well as Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez at the Avignon Courses in Analysis and Composition. López López developed a very personal language integrating electronic and computer music under the tutorage of Horacio Vaggione (Paris 8 University) and Tristan Murail (IRCAM). He also held a DEA “Music and Musicology of the twentieth century” at the EHESS (School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris.
His compositions range from solo works to the use of large ensembles and orchestra, with and without electronics. He has received commissions from the major festivals and institutions, like Sincronie Nuove (Milan), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Ensems (Valencia), Radio France, MUSICA Strasbourg, Cirm Nice, International Music Festival of the Canary Islands, Art-Zoyd, as well as from the Spanish and French Ministrys of Culture, the Arditti String Quartet, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Siemens Foundation, Trio Arbós, BBVA Foundation, among others. His music is been played by great performers and ensembles such as: the Spanish National Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Spanish Radio and Television, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Ciudad de México, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchestra of Berlin, the Bamberg Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, Taller Sonoro, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Espai Sonor, Sonor Ensemble, Plural Ensemble, Ensemble l’Itinéraire, Solistes XXI, Ensemble OrchestralContemporary, 2e2m, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Percussions de Strasbourg, Miquel Bernat, Anne Mercier, Rachid Safir, Alberto Rosado, Jonathan Nott, Daniel Kawka, Esteban Algora, etc. On Reviews the other hand, He Did Many collaborations with artists from artistic disciplines --other Such As the painter José Manuel Broto, the poet Dionisio Cañas gold videographers Pascal Auger, Francis Naranjo and Robin Meier.
In 1996 José Manuel López López was awarded with a Residency at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto (Japan) by the Association Française d’Action Artistique (AFAA). This experience definitely transformed his understanding of sound and beat. In 1997 he was a fellow of the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and in 2000 the Spanish government granted him with the National Music Prize. In 2004 he was the guest Professor at the Cátedra Manuel de Falla in Cádiz, and between 2005-2008 and 2011-2012 he worked as professor of composition at the Conservatory of Zaragoza. Between 2008 and 2011 he was the Artistic Director of the National Auditorium in Madrid. López López has also been awarded with the Francis and Milica Salabert prize from the SACEM (2012) for his work “Metro Vox in memoriam Xenakis” as well as the René Dumesnil prize by the French Academy of Fine Arts (2013). He is currently Associate Professor of Composition at the Paris 8 University and professor of Composition at theEdgard Varèse Conservatory (Gennevilliers, France).
His works are published by Durand-Salabert-Eschig (Universal Music Publishing Group), Transatlantiques and Lémoine in Paris, Piles (Spain) as well as by the composer himself.
Since its creation in 2000, Taller Sonoro has tirelessly advanced in two main directions, the interpretation of the latest and most radical music in its aesthetic proposal, with the aim of offering it to the Spanish and international public with the highest degree of rigor and commitment; and support for young composers, offering the group itself as a useful and professional tool to fully develop their creative bet. The deployment of these two lines of action has been unstoppable in the last decade as it has been proven in a regular way in the Ciclo de Música Contemporanea in Seville and Granada from 2002, in seasons of CDMC at the Museo Reina Sofia Art Center, 2006, 2007 (and soon 2012), in the Ciclo de Música Comtemporanea in Córdoba (2005), the Ciclo de Música Contemporanea Orquesta Sinfónica of Malaga (2007), the Festival de Música Contemporanea of Alicante (2008), the Quincena Musical of San Sebastian (2006) and festivals KLEM (Bilbao, 2009) and ENSEMS (Valencia, 2010)…Landmarks of an Iberian Peninsula which also lists the names of Almería (Ciclo de Música de Cámara of Unicaja), Santander (Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo), Murcia (II Festival de Música Contemporanea in Molina de Segura) and, again, Madrid (Auditorio Nacional de Musica).
Simultaneously, the international diffusion of the activity of Taller Sonoro has been one of its prime objectives, contributing to the knowledge of current Spanish repertoires in European scope- Cycle OPUS 5.1 (Bordeaux, 2005), Cycle “Spirals” ( Paris, 2005), Hochschule für Musik (Frankfurt am Main, 2005), Instituto Cervantes Berlin (2006, 2007) and Bremen (2007), Colegio de España and Instituto Cervantes de Paris (2007), Theatre Quartz (Brest, 2008) Academia de España in Rome (2010),Peru (Festival de Música Contemporanea in Lima, 2007 and 2008), Mexico (Festival Múisca contemporanea in Morelia, 2010) and Argentina (2011). Certainly, the collaboration with other musical groups and access to the recording market decisively enriches the contribution of Taller Sonoro to the national scene: with several projects in which the group has collaborated with the Ensemble Organum Marcel Peres and the Ensemble Gilles Binchois conducted by Dominique Vellard, the phonographic presence of ourgroup covers monographs devoted to composers such as José María Sánchez-Verdú, Juan Cruz and Cesar Camarero, within the first edited series by Anemos in 2009 – as well as two live recordings devoted to the work of David del Puerto (Sendesaal, Radio Bremen, 28/11/2007) and finalists composers Premio Fundación de Autor SGAE (Auditorio 400, National Museum Art Centre Reina Sofia, 12.03.2007). Moreover, the pedagogical work of Taller Sonoro and its collaboration with the promotions of younger composers has been a fundamental constant in its career: thus in 2005 at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt am Main and between 2004 and 2006 as resident group in the Curso Internacional de Analisis y Composición de Villafranca del Bierzo (International Course on Analysis and Composition ), led by Cristóbal Halffter, and, in very significant way , the group is a fundamental part of the activities of the Chair of Composition “Manuel de Falla” in Cádiz promoted by Junta de Andalucía since2004, which has become Taller Sonoro into a regular group in the planning of Festival de Música Española which is held annually in the Andalusian city.