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Javier Torres Maldonado

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2025
(to be updated)

- 11 & 12.03.2025, Composition and Electroacoustic composition masterclass, Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts.

- Composition masterclass, Royal Conservatoire of Bruxelles.



2024 (to be updated)

— 2024, the Synchronos Ensemble will play Broken columns in a false horizon (2021), for violin and piano in Zagreb, Croatia, more details will be given soon. The piece has been chosen for the Synchronos Ensemble's "Call for scores". 

— 16.06.2024, 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".

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

— 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.

— 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.

— 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. 

— 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, Conference: 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.

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

— 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.



2023 (to be updated)

— New page in this web site dedicated to Ancienne chanson corse: un portrait imaginaire (2020), for 20 male voices divided into 4 groups distributed in the space.

— New very special LP and digital edition by Phoenix Ensemble Basel: Fénix, (naturaleza visible) (2019-2020), double chamber concert for two guitars and ensemble, dedicated to Pablo Márquez, Maurizio Grandinetti and the Ensemble Phoenix Basel. LIMITED EDITION distributed by Bandcamp (pre-order HERE).

— New CD: ÔM, Spirito (4 diapasons d'or -4 tuned forks- and special mention to the contemporary music work by Polyphonies -France-), it includes Ancienne chanson corse: un portrait imaginaire (2020), for 20 male voices divided into 4 groups moving in the space. Link to Spotify.

— New CD TEMPO, by Pilar Fontalba (Cezanne Recordings), it includes Tensión tranquila, for oboe and electronics. Oboe: Pilar Fontalba. Link to Spotify.

— New CD: New Mexican Music for Saxophone Quartet", it includes Masih (2012), for saxohone quartet, works by Ibarra, Paredes, Vazquez, Fuentes and Torres Maldonado. Sigma Proyect Quartet. Link to Spotify.

— 29.11.2023, Tensión tranquila II (2023), for piano and electronics (World premiere) and Inoltre (2017), for piano and electronics (Finland premiere), Music Space Audio Week, Helsinki Music Center (Black Box Concert Hall), University of the Arts/Sibelius Academy, Department of Music Technology, together with the painist and musicologue Candida Felici. Link to the concert program.

— 29.11.2023, conference: "Spatiality and automorphosis: from Exabrutpo to High over the distant horizon", Music Space Audio Week, Helsinki Music Center (Black Box Concert Hall), University of the Arts/Sibelius Academy, Department of Music Technology, together with the painist and musicologue Candida Felici. Link to the concert program.

— October 2023, "Liszt Academy" in Budapest, masterclass and concert/conference together with Candida Felici (pianist and musicologue), Inoltre (2017), for piano & electronics and other pieces. Candida Felici, piano, Javier Torres Maldonado, electronics.

23-24.08.2023, Fondazione "Guido d'Arezzo",  international conference "Eredità e prospettive della coralità contemporanea a cappella", invited speaker. Arezzo, Italy. Présentation: "Oltre la dicotomia: Ancienne chanson corse, un portrait imaginaire". Conference program (PDF).

— 25.06.2023, Lyon, Église Saint-François-de-Sales, France, chamber choir "Spirito" Concert Season, Ancienne chanson corse: un portrait immaginaire (2020), for 20 male voices divided into four groups distributed in the space, chamber choir "Spirito", Nicole Corti (conductor). 

— 13-17 June, Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Electroacoustic Composition and Composition seminars. 

— 01 & 02.06.2023, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, masterclass and concert/conference together with Candida Felici (pianist and musicologue), Inoltre (2017), for piano & electronics and other pieces. Candida Felici, piano, Javier Torres Maldonado, electronics.

— 01 & 02.06.2023, Bourg-en-Bresse, France, chamber choir "Spirito" Concert Season, Ancienne chanson corse: un portrait immaginaire (2020), for 20 male voices divided into four groups distributed in the space, chamber choir "Spirito", Nicole Corti (conductor). 

20.05.2023, Padiglione Austriaco, Biennale of Venice, STRINGS THEORY MUSIC FEST, Desde el instante (2001), three pieces for clarinet, Italian premiere. The program includes works by Alberto Carretero, Cesare Saldicco, Laura Bianchini, Giulio Cattaneo, Bruno Maderna and Stockhausen. Massimo Restifo (clarinet) Giulio Cattaneo (live electronics). Concert program (pdf or jpg formats).

— New critics by Pablo J. Vayón (Spanish Classical Music Magazine) about the World premiere of the Spanish version of Un posible día by the Ensemble Taller Sonoro. Link to the article or PDF format.

— 21.03.2023, Milan, Composition seminar, Festival 5 Giornate Academy, Teatro Bruno (more information).

16.03.2023, new review by Paco Yáñez (Scherzo, Spanish music magazine) about the new CD (Mode Records) "NEW MEXICAN MUSIC FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET", it includes Masih (2012), for saxophone quartet. Works by Ibarra, Paredes, Vazquez, Fuentes and Torres Maldonado. Sigma Proyect Quartet.

— Symposium Composition & Research, 13 - 15 March 2023 at the Gustav Mahler Private University Klagenfurt, Austria. Presentation, artistic research: "Multi-spectral shifting and multidimensional systems as compositional models". Booklet Symposium Composition & Research GMPU Klagenfurt (english)

— 02.03.2023, U.S.A. premiere, String quartet No. 1 (2009), Mivos Quartet, Twin Cities Music Festival (113 Composer Collective Festival). St. Paul’s Church of Christ, 900 Summit Ave, St Paul (MN 55105), Minnesota, Etats-Unis.

— 23.02.2023, critical review of the World premiere, Spanish version of Un posible día, quasi un rediodramma (2011), for soprano, narrator, ensemble (10 players) and electronics. Rocío de Frutos (soprano), Javier Jiménez (narrator), Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Asier Puga (conductor), Encuentros Sonoros international festival. Un enorme esfuerzo intelectual de Taller Sonoro, by Juan José Roldán, El Correo de Andalucía.

— 22.02.2023, critical review of the World premiere, Spanish version of Un posible día, quasi un rediodramma (2011), for soprano, narrator, ensemble (10 players) and electronics. Rocío de Frutos (soprano), Javier Jiménez (narrator), Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Asier Puga (conductor), Encuentros Sonoros international festival. El Turina estrena radio teatro, Buenas Noticias Magazine, Seville.

— 22.02.2023, critical review of the World premiere, Spanish version of Un posible día, quasi un rediodramma (2011), for soprano, narrator, ensemble (10 players) and electronics. Rocío de Frutos (soprano), Javier Jiménez (narrator), Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Asier Puga (conductor), Encuentros Sonoros international festival. Abismos de la vida corriente, by Pablo J. Vayón, El Correo de Andalucía.

— 22.02.2023, World premiere of the new Spanish version (2022), Un posible día, quasi un rediodramma (2011), for soprano, narrator, ensemble (10 players) and electronics. Rocío de Frutos (soprano), Javier Jiménez (narrator), Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Asier Puga (conductor), Encuentros Sonoros international festival, Espacio Turina, Sala Silvio, Seville, Spain. Concert program.

— 20.02.2023, Seville, Composition masterclass and conference about Un posible día, quasi un radiodramma (2011), Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel Castillo", of Seville, Biblioteca Pública "Felipe González Márquez". Masterclass booklet.

— 21.02.2023, new interview to Javier Torres Maldonado by Ismael Cabral, El Compositor Habla (Spanish music web magazine).


2022

— Javier Torres Maldonado has been nominated advisor to the Artistic Research Area, Conservatoire "Giuseppe Verdi" of Milan as well as collaborator of the WARM (Workshop in Musical Artistic Research) project.

— 09.12.2022, Théâtre du Parc, Andrézieux-Bouthéon, France, chamber choir "Spirito" Concert Season, Ancienne chanson corse: un portrait immaginaire (2020), for 20 male voices divided into four groups distributed in the space, chamber choir "Spirito", Nicole Corti (conductor). 

— 30.10.2022, Masih (2012), for saxophone quartet. Concert performed on the occasion of the Mexican tournée of the Sigma Project Quartet ensemble, “Manuel M. Ponce” Hall of the High School of Music of Monterrey, Mexico.

— 26.10.2022, Orior (1996), for piano solo, performed by Alejandro Barrañón on one of Conlon Nancarrow's pianos, concert Homage to Conlon Nancarrow, Foro Internacional de 44 Música Nueva “Manuel Enríquez”, Espacio Nancarrow-O'Gorman (Conlon Nancarrow home), Mexico City.

— 16.10.2022, Orior (1996), for piano solo, Alejandro Barrañón, piano, Foro Internacional de 44 Música Nueva “Manuel Enríquez”, Concert Hall of the National Museum of Art, Mexico City.

— 07 & 09.10.2022, Esferal (2006), for orchestra and electronics, Mexico State Symphony Orchestra, Rodrigo Macías (conductor), OSEM concert season, Auditorio "Felipe Villanueva", Toluca, and Auditorio FES Acatlán, Naucalpan, Mexico City. 

— 29.09.2022, Tensión tranquila (2020), for oboe and electronics. Concert performed on the occasion of the presentation CD "Tempo" by oboist Pilar Fontalba. Electronics: Pablo Coello, scenography and spatial concert concept: Pablo Ramos. "After Cage" festival, Museo Uni residas of Navarra, Pamplona.

— 09.09.2022, Jardines artificiales (2020), acousmatic piece, “Milano Suona Contemporanea” international festival. Bruno Munari Theater, Milan.

— 27.08.2022, Cardinas, festival and international academy of the Ensemble Vertixe Sonora, Santiago de Compostela. Work performed: Tensión tranquila, for oboe and electronics. Concert performed on the occasion of the presentation of the new CD by oboist Pilar Fontalba "Tempo" during the festival. Electronics: Pablo Coello, scenography and spatial concert concept: Pablo Ramos.

— 24.07.2022, Sermoneta —Festival Pontino, Incontri di Musica Contemporanea—, Broken columns in a false horizon (2002), for violin and piano, dedicated to Francesco D'Orazio and Giampaolo Nuti, Teatro Ponchielli, Latina.

— June 2022, "Polyphonies" category of its June issue, Diapason Magazine gives 4 diapasons d'or (four tuning forks) to the disc "ÔM" published by Hortus Editions and a special mention to the dytique by Javier Torres Maldonado "Ancienne chanson Corse: un portrait imaginaire" as well as to “Clouds” by Maurice Ohana.

New CD "Tempo", includes "Tensión tranquila"(2020), for oboe and electronics as well as pieces by José María Sánchez Verdú, Carolina Cerezo Dávila, Juan José Eslava, Germán Cancián e Louis Aguirre.

New CD "ÔM, voix d'hommes" including Ancienne chanson corse: un portrait immaginaire (2020), for 20 male voices divided into four groups distributed in the space, chamber choir "Spirito", Nicole Corti (conductor), together with works by Ohana, Stravinsky, Holst, Poulenc, Shostakovich, Soloviov-Sedoi Sibelius, Bartok, and Kodaly. Editions Hortus, Hortus 208, ©2022 Hortus. 

New CD "Mexican Saxophone Quartets", it will include Masih (2012-13), for saxophone quartet, Sigma Project Quartet, other works by H. Paredes, H. Vazquez, V. Ibarra and A. Fuentes. . 

— 28, 29 & 30.07.2022, Composition and Electroacoustic International meetings of Riva del Garda, Conservatorio di Musica "A. Bomporti" di Trento, sezione staccata di Riva del Garda, Composition and Electroacoustic Composition masterclasses and seminars.

— 1 & 3.07.2022, Esferal (2006), for orchestra and electronics, Estado de México Symphony Orchestra, Rodrigo Macías (conductor), OSEM concert season, Auditorio "Felipe Villanueva", Toluca (01.07.22), Mexico and Centro Cultural Mexiquense Bicentenario, Texcoco, Mexico City. Concert program. Concert cancelled by Covid, it is rescheduled on 7 and 9.10.2022.

— 26.06.2022, Canti naturali (2022), for voice and piano, first world performance, Rovereto, Giardino dell'Università di Palazzo Fedrigotti (Corso Bettini), Stagione di Concerti Settenovecento. Giulia Zaniboni, soprano, Candida Felici, piano.

— 5 & 6.04.2022, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Sevilla, II Encuentro Internacional de Compositiores (pdf program), Composition and Electroacoustic composition masterclasses: Multi-espectralidad y modelos naturales en mi música and Paradigmas artificiales en Tensión tranquila (2021), para oboe y electrónica. 

— 3 & 4.04.2022, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de MadridComposition and Electroacoustic composition masterclasses: Natural and artificial paradigms in my work and concert/conference: Tensión tranquila (2020), for oboe and electronics, Pilar Fontalba (oboe) and Javier Torres Maldonado (electronics).

— 23.03.2022, Orior (1997), for piano solo, Candida Felici (piano), international festival "Résonances", Perpignan, France, Auditorium, Conservatoire National de Perpignan, concert of the Dynamis Ensemble, Alessandra Rombolà (flute), Candida Felici (piano), together with works of Jonathan Harvey, Franco Donatoni, S. Bussoti, M. Romero and D. Tosi. Concert program.

— 15 & 16 March 2022, Composition and Electroacoustic Composition MasterclassParadigmi naturali e artificiali per la composizione musicale, Conservatorio di Musica "Agostino Stefani" di Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. Brochure (pdf).



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


Mobirise

Now composing

Now I am working on new piano pieces for Candida Felici, for a CD that will be recorded in 2024.

Mobirise

"Móvil, cambiante" (2017)

Móvil, cambiante is a work for 14 players written for the ensemble Klangforum of Vienna, commissioned with funds of E. von Siemens foundation by the Festival Internacional Cervantino. It received a marvelous premiere during the first historic concert of Klangforum in my country.

Mobirise

Teaching (full time)

I'm Full Professor of Electroacoustic Composition and Composition & New Technologies at the Conservatory of Milan from November 2021, In the same institution I also have been nominated as Advisor for the Artistic Research, collaborating in the WARM project from 2021.

...un lume per lo mar...

dedicated to Jake Arditti and the Arditti Quartet

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