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Javier Torres Maldonado

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2026 (to be updated)

New commission by Radio France: chamber work with electronics for Alla Breve, the radio program by Anne Montaron.



2025 (to be updated)


- 17.05.2025 (17,00 o'clock), Milan, Primer libro del canto alando (2006), for piccolo, flute, flute in G and bass flute. Milano Suona Contemporanea, New Made Meets. Birgit Nolte, flutes, SLAP (Spazio Lambrate Arti Perfotmative), Milan. Flyer.

- New piece for trombone and electronics: Tensión tranquila V, for trombone and electronics, dedicated to Raffaele Marsicano.

- 02.05.2025, Milan, MUSART Doctorate, seminar: "Un posibile día, quasi un radiodramma": il suono in scena tra composizione assistita e orchestrazione algoritmica. Library Conference Hall, Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" of Milan. Abstract - - Seminars program.

- 21.03.2025, Milan, Festival 5 giornate, composition masterclass. Festival 5 giornate general program (pdf).

- 28.03.2025, Newport, U. S. A., Broken comlumns in a false horizon, for violin and piano. Syncrhonos Ensemble Concert, Contemporary Music Festival, Newport University, Concert program. Poster.

22.03.2025, Mexico City, Oltre (2017), for ensemble (10 players), 4th concert of CEPROMUSIC Ensemble's Concert Series.  Manuel M. Ponce Concert Hall, Palacio de Bellas Artes. Ensemble Cepromusic, José Luis Castillo, conductor. 

- 11 & 12.03.2025, Vienna. Composition and Electroacoustic composition masterclass and lecture Multi-spectral shifting and multidimensional systems as compositional models, Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Flyer (web link) - - Flyer (PDF format).

- 24 & 25.02.2025, Valencia, Composition masterclass, Jornadas de Sonología, Conservatorio Superior de Música "Joaquín Rodrigo" of Valencia. Flyer.



2024

— 19.12.2024, Konstanz, Germany, Estudios Concretos (2017), for guitar and electronics, German premiere, Pierpaolo Dinapoli (guitar), Matteo Tundo (electronics), concert series Out of the Ordinary, Concert program.

— 14.12.2024, Logroño, Spain, Interstizi (2003), for violin and cello, Ensemble Taller SonoroCiclo de música contemporánea de Logroño, Sala La Gota de Leche, together with works by Ciria, Sánchez Verdú, Halffter and Guerenabarrena. Ensemble Taller Sonoro: Jesús Sánchez Valladares (flute), Alejandro Tuñón (violin), María del Carmen Coronado (violonchelo) and Ignacio Torner (piano). Concert program.

— 06.12.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2000) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Concerts Season Music of Sound. El Galpón, Mexico City. Flyer and concert program.

— 15.12.2024, Brugherio, Italy, Estudios Concretos (2017), for guitar and electronics, Pierpaolo Dinapoli (guitar), Matteo Tundo (electronics), Corde in Trasformazione (dialoghi fra chitarra ed elettronica), Spazio Nuovo, Ex Chiesa Maria Mambina, Via Fabio Filzi 4, Brugherio. Fondazione Luigi Piseri. Concert program

— 30.11.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2000) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Concert Season Music of Sound. Nuu Savi, Café Cultural, Mexico City. Flyer and concert program.

— 16.11.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2000) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Concert Season Music of Sound, UNAY, Antigua Estación de Ferrocarriles (Old Railway Station), Salón C, Edificio C, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. Flyer and concert program.

— 09.11.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2001) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Concert Season Music of Sound. Casa Helecho, Mexico City. Flyer and concert program.

— 01.11.2024, Morgantown, U. S. A., Tensión tranquila III (2024) for alto saxophone, world premiere. Andrés Santana (alto saxophone). Bloch Learning and Performance Hall, Canady Creative Arts Center. West Virginia University | College of Creative Arts and Media | School of Music present. Concert program.


— 30.10.2024, Olomuc, Czech Republic, World premiere, 
Breath... Wind... Butterflies wings (2024), for piano quartet. Synchronos Ensemble: Vlatka Peljhan (violin), Lucija Brnadić (viola), Smiljan Mrčela (cello), Mia Elezović (piano). Palacký University Art Center in Olomouc, MusicOlomouc Festival. Concert program (web). Link (pdf).

23.10.2025, Mexico City, Conference-concert, Senate of the Mexican Republic: "Signo y creación musical". Works performed: Broken columns in a false horizon (2022), for violin and piano, Orior (1997), for piano, Tres estudios (2001), for solo violin and some fragments of Canti Naturali, for voice and piano. Afrodita Torres Maldonado, 

— 21.10.2024, Interstizi (2003), for violin and cello, Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Festival Kuraia, Bilbao, Conservatorio "Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga" Concert Hall, together with works by Saariaho, Camarero, Manuel Castillo and Murail. Ensemble Taller Sonoro: Jesús Sánchez Valladares (flute), Alejandro Tuñón (violin), María del Carmen Coronado (violonchelo) and Ignacio Torner (piano). Concert program.

— 20.10.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2001) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Concert Season Music of Sound. 46 Foro Internacional de Música "Manuel Enríquez", Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. Flyer program and INBAL informative bulletin. Link to the INBAL's page.

— 19.10.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2001) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Concert Season Music of Sound. Pabellón del Jardín Escénico, Centro Cultural del Bosque, Mexico City. Flyer and concert program.

— 13 and 14.09.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2000) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Concert Season Music of Sound. Foro A Poco No, Mexico City. Flyer and concert program.

— 05.09.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2001) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Concert Season Music of Sound. Fonoteca Nacional. Flyer and concert program.

— 29.08.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2001) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Sala Carlos Chávez, Centro Cultural Universitario, Concert Season Música UNAM, Mexico City. Link. Flyer and concert program.

— 24.08.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2001) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Antonia, La Oficina del Libro, Mexico City. Flyer and concert program.


— 17.08.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2001) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. Sala Buena Onda, Concert Season Music of Sound, Mexico City. Link. Flyer and concert program.

— 16.06.2024, Italian premires of Javier Torres Maldonado: Inoltre (2017), for piano and electronics and Tensión tranquila II, for piano and electronics.  Piano: Candida Felici, electronics: Javier Torres Maldonado, Giulio Cattaneo, Damiano Festa, Aditi Stucchi and Maria Lysenko. "Musica Maestri" Concerts Season, Sala Puccini, Milan's Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi". Concert program (pdf format) and Milan's Conservatory web page.

— 28.05.2024, Masih (2012), "Musica Randagia" concert season (9th concert), "Maldonado selection: Aeolian Kaleidoscopes", Xelo Giner & Quinteto Kaizen, Spazio iscian, Milan, Italy. With the partecipation of Xelo Giner Antich (saxophones), Anna Margules (recorder) and Roberto Casado (flute). Concert program. Concert program bu ESMAR.

— 18.05.2024, 18,00h, KlangRoom, for guitar, accordion theorbo and electronics. Trento, Italy, "le garage lab", KlangRoom TSUMI Project, Ensemble Azione Improvvisa, in colllaboration with KOTTOMFilmsWatch in YouTube. Seven contemporary composers, seven audio-video miniatures.

— 24.08.2024, Mexico City, Tres Estudios (2001) for solo violin. Dirén Checa, violin. IV Concert Season Music of Sound. Antonia - La Oficina del Libro, Mexico City. Flyer and concert program.

— New video: String Quartet No. 1 (2009), MIVOS QUARTET, watch in YouTube.

— 21.03.2024, Instantáneas (2024) for solo guitar, Jesús Pineda Arjona (guitar), IV Encuentro Internacional de Compositores, Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel Castillo" of Seville, main Concert Hall. Concert program and General program: IV Encuentro Internacional de Compositores.

— 20 & 21.03.2024, conference and Composition masterclass, Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel Castillo" de Sevilla, Aula "Manuel de Falla", IV Encuentro Internacional de Compositores. General program: IV Encuentro Internacional de Compositores.

— 13.03.2024, High over the distant horizon (2018), for ensemble and electronics, TACOS Ensemble (Taller de Música Contemporánea del Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León), COSCYL (Main Concert Hall), Javier Castro Villamor (conductor).

— 13.03.2024, lecture: Desplazamiento multiespectral y Sistemas Multidimensionales como Modelos Composicionales. XXIV Jornadas de Música Contemporánea del Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y León (Main Concert Hall), Salamanca, Spain.

— 12.03.2024, El piano imaginario (The Imaginary Piano project), concert-conference: Inoltre (2017), Tensión tranqula II (2023, Spanish premiere), for piano and electronics. Candida Felici (piano), Javier Torres Maldonado, electronics. XXIV Jornadas de Música Contemporánea del COSCYL, Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y León (Main Concert Hall).

— 24.02.2024, De ignoto cantu (2003), version for bass-clarinet, percussions, vibraphone and electronics, and Broken columns in a high horizon (2021, Spanish premiere), for violin and piano. Encuentros de Música Contemporánea, Ensemble Kuraia, Andrea Cazzaniga (conductor).  Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra, Chamber Music Concert Hall. Flyer (PDF format).

- 23 & 24.02.2024, Tensión tranquila (2021), for oboe and electronics, Pila Fontalba, oboe. Conferences, Composition masterclass, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra. Flyer (PDF format).

— 28.01.2024, Italian premiere, Estudios concretos (2017), for guitar and electronics,  Pierpaolo Dinapoli (guitar), Daniela Fantechi (electronics), Festival Signal to Noise 3.0, Teatro di Pergine Valsugana, Italy.



Consult the complete list of concerts in the past years at the ARCHIVE SECTION


Mobirise

Now composing

I am developing "The Imaginary Piano," a project creating new piano and electronics pieces with Candida Felici, featuring premieres at prestigious venues and a CD recording with Ensemble Taller Sonoro.
I am also working on "Tensión Tranquila," including the fifth piece for trombone and electronics and "Tensión Tranquila II-b" for piano, orchestra, and electronics.

Mobirise

"Móvil, cambiante" (2017)

Móvil, cambiante is a work for 14 players written for the ensemble Klangforum of Vienna, commissioned by the Festival Internacional Cervantino with support from the E. von Siemens Foundation. It had a remarkable premiere during Klangforum's first historic concert in my country, receiving enthusiastic acclaim for its innovative textures and dynamic contrasts.

Mobirise

Teaching (full time)

I am currently Full Professor of Electroacoustic Composition at the Conservatory of Milan as well as Artistic Co-coordinator of the ECME (European Contemporary Music Ensemble), a strategic initiative of the Conservatory of Milan, in collaboration with Mozarteum, the "Liszt" Academy, the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and the Higher Conservatory of Salamanca.

...un lume per lo mar...

dedicated to Jake Arditti and the Arditti Quartet

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