Javier Torres Maldonado
PAST YEARS (FULL PROFESSOR):
Conservatorio "Arrigo Boito" of Parma, Italy.
Professor, Electro-acoustic Composition, Composition Assisted by Computer & Sound Technologies, degree and master courses, from 2010 to 2021
Conservatorio "G. Verdi" of Milan, Italy.Professor, Electro-acoustic Composition, Composition Assisted by Computer & Sound Technologies, degree and master courses, from 2007 to 2010
Professor, Electro-acoustic Composition, Sound Technologies, Composition Assisted by Computer, Composition Techniques in the XXth.Century, 2003-2007, 2010-2011.
Professor, Masters in Composition and New Technologies, academic year 2006-2007.
COMPOSITION MASTERCLASSES AND SEMINARS:
2024
22-25.02.2024, Concerts and Composition masterclasses and seminars, Ensemble Kuraia and Conservatorio Superior de Música de Pamplona.
2023
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.
— 13-17 June, Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Electroacoustic Composition and Composition seminars.
1 & 2 June 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.
21.03.2023, Milan, Composition seminar, Festival 5 Giornate Academy, Teatro Bruno Murani (
more information).
— 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".
2022
2021
28.10.2021, Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia, Composition and Electroacoustic Composition Masterclass.
12.10.2021, Mozarteum, Salzburg, SWEET SPOT FESTIVAL: The imaginary piano: artificiality and nature in the piano sound
, concert/conference, 12.10.2021, 7:30 p.m. Small studio, Mozarteum University, Salzburg. An event by: Institute for New Music. This sweet spot deals with the exploration of spectral sounds, acoustic illusions and an electroacoustic double in piano works by Jonathan Harvey, Achim Bornhöft and Javier Torres Maldonado. Piano: Candida Felici, Achim Bornhöft (moderation) in conversation with Javier Torres Maldonado and Candida Felici. Idea, technology and moderation: Alexander Bauer, Achim Bornhöft, Marco Döttlinger, Martin Losert.
10.07.2021, Sermoneta,
Festival Pontino — Incontri di Musica Contemporanea—, lecture on the spatialialization in my music.
Program of the festival.
09.12.2020, lecture, "La concepción del espacio en mi música", international conference "Primer Coloquio Internacional Creación e Investigación en las Artes" organized by the
University of Zacatecas and
University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
April 2020, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León (Salamanca, Spain), Composition Masterclass.
2019
5 to 7 June 2019, Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et Danse of Lyon, France, Electroacoustic Composition Seminar.
10 to 14.04.2019, Zaragoza; Spain,
Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (Spain), Composition Masterclass: "Modelos Naturalísticos y Artificiales en mi Música", live performance of
Orior, Candida Felici (pianist).
2018
2018, new
Masters in Sound Tchnology and Music Composition, a high specialization course in spatial composition and spatial sound engineering created as a collaboration between
Conservatorio "A. Boito",
University of Parma and
Casa della Musica/Casa del Suono (Municipality of Parma).
Composition and New Technologies, Computer Assisted Composition/Orchestration courses.
15 to 28.07.2018,
International Composition Seminar, Ciclo Internacional de Música "Laberintos Sonoros" of
Cenart (National Center for the Arts of Mexico, Composition Professor and Director), ensembles and performers in residence:
Ensemble Sillages,
Candida Felici,
Ensemble Taller Sonoro.
June 10 to 23, 2018,
Le Domaine Forget,
Canada, invited composer and Professor to teach masterclasses in composition, International Music Academy
Le Domaine Forget. Ensemble in residence:
Quatuor Bozzini. For more information please visit the link to Domaine Forget international music academy:
Composition Course.
2017
01 & 02.12.2017, Seville, Spain, Composition masterclasses, Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel Castillo" of Seville.
25,10,2017, Academia Cervantina (Festival Internacional Cervantino), composition masterclass on his work and conference on Móvil, cambiante, for ensemble (14 instruments), work commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation and the Festival Internacional Cervantino for the Ensemble Klangforum of Vienna. 25.07.2017. "Paradigmas naturales y artificiales, invención musical y nuevas técnicas instrumentales en mis obras Huayra-Yana y Alborada" Conference/concert, Huayra-Yana, for bass-flute and electronics and Alborada, version for saxophone and electronics. Javier Torres Maldonado, Birgit Nolte (bass-flute), Isabella Fabbri (sopr. saxophone). Ciclo Internacional de Música "Laberintos Sonoros", National Center for the Arts, Mexico City. 11.10.2016, Composition & Electroacoustic composition masterclass, in collaboration with the Accordion and Electroacoustic composition courses, Conservatorio "L. Refice" of Frosinone, Italy. Performances of "Hacia el umbral del aire", for accordion and electronics, Francesco Gesualdi and Nicola Tommassini (accordion). 13 & 14 June 2016.
17 to 29.07.2018, Ciclo Internacional de Música "Laberintos Sonoros" of Cenart (National Center for the Arts of Mexico Ciity), Composition Professor and Director, Ensembles and performers in residence: Dynamis Ensemble, Ensemble Taller Sonoro and Alejandro Barrañón (piano.)
From 10 to 17.03.2016. Composition seminar and masterclasses, Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y Leon (Salamanca). Spanish premieres of "Imágenes de la Caída de Altazor", for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists, "Masih", for saxophone quartet, "Rosa Mutabile" for two instrumental groups, and "Orior", for piano solo, Candida Felici (piano), Leonardo Bartali (viola), Ensemble del Taller de Música Contemporánea of the Conservatorio Superior de Castilla y León, Festival de Primavera of the University of Salamanca.
