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III-2017 / On March 8th Elektra Women’s Choir, conducted by Morna Edmundson, will permorm Nigra Sum in Vancouver (Canada).

I-2017 / On January 29th 2017 the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya – ESMUC celebrated its 15th aniversay with a concert in Auditori performed by the ESMUC Symphonic Orchestra & Lorenzo Ferrándiz, dir. The program pretended to cover the diversity of disciplines offered by ESMUC. Vivancos «Blau» represented the field of classic and contemporary composition.

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I-2017 / On January 28th «Bubbles» was performed in Stockholm by Swedish Radio Choir, conducted by Josep Vila Casañas, in a concert devoted to Catalan contemporary music composers.

I-2017 / «Vocal Ice» and «El cant dels ocells» will be included in the next CD of Núria Rial and Symphonierorchester Basel Cello Octet, registered in Basel during January 2017.

XII-2016 / With today’s melody (number 366) the project of composing a melody every day during 2016 has been achieved!

XII-2016 / On Barcelona Cathedral Christmas Eve Mass the traditional «Cant de la Sibil·la» (El jorn del judici») was performed by the Cor Francesc Valls, directed by Pere Lluís Biosca.

World premiere of «Cançons nocturnes» performed by Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió and String Orchestra of Granollers

XII-2016 / «La nit de Bernat Vivancos», World premiere of «Cançons nocturnes», 12 compositions with text by Catalan poets and 12 clarinet interludes. Performed by Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió (Josep Vila i Jover, dir.), String Orchestra of Granollers (Corrado Bolsi, dir.), Teresa Noguerón, clarinet, and David Pintó, stage director. The concert was conducted by Edmon Colomer in the Teatre Auditori de Granollers.

XI-2016 / «Ave Maria Shubert/Vivancos» is included in the new CD of Escolania de Montserrat devoted to Spiritual Contemporary Music, edited by Institut Art i Espiritualitat Sean Scully. The CD includes also works by György Deák-Bárdos, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Arvo Pärt.

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VIII-2016 / Cambridge Voices (Ian de Massini, director) performed «Nigra Sum» on August 15th in St. Etienne-du-Mont, Paris (France). Later this month, on August 29th perfomed it in Ely Cathedral Lady Chapel, Cambridgeshire (England).

VIII-2016 / World premiere of «Obriu-me els llavis, Senyor» in St. Mary’s Cathedral of Sydney, performed by Bel a Cappella, Anthony Pasquill, dir.

I-2016 / 2016 New year’s resolution: composing «a melody a day». Will it be achieved?

IX-2015 / On september 20th Kazushi Ono conducts the opening season concert of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra [OBC] at the Sagrada Familia, including works by Mozart, Fauré, Vivancos and Takemitsu. The concerts starts with Vivancos’s Improvisation I (1999) performed by Juan de la Rubia, organist.

VIII-2015 / Juan de la Rubia, organist, will perform Improvisation I (1999) on tour in Europe during the summer: On August 14th in Maria Laach Abbey, Maria Laach (Germany) On August 16th in St. Wolfgang, Salzkammergut (Austria) On August 24th in Basílica de Montserrat, Montserrat (Catalonia).

VII-2015 / Coral Sant Jordi conducted by Lluís Vila performs the World Premiere of La Lumière du nord on July 11th in Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, within the 50 Festival Internacional de cant coral de Barcelona Festival.

VII-2015 / Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Klava performs the World Premiere of Les Béatitudes (2015) and Souffle ta bougie (2015) on July 22nd in the Church of Jesus, Riga (Latvia), within the “Ad Lucem” Festival.

VII-2015 / Oriol Romaní, clarinetist,  performs the World Premiere of «O Gloriosa Virginum Sublimis inter sidera» on July 30th in the small church Ermita de Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar (Spain) . This concert takes place within the   “Concerts d’estiu” Festival. The work is a commission by Ajuntament de Sant Pol de Mar.

V-2015 / Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès conducted by Rubén Gimeno performs the World Premiere of  «Aeternam» for String Orchestra on May 29th in Teatre La Faràndula, Sabadell (Spain) and on May 30th in Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona within the cycle of concerts «Simfònics al Palau».

V-2015 / Cor de Noies de l’Orfeó Català conducted by Pere Lluís Biosca performs «Cant del ocells» (2006) on May 17th in Auditori Badarres, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain); on May 23th in Palau de la Música, Barcelona (Spain) and on July 2nd in Ljubljana  (Slovenia) within the 27th International Festival Summer in Old Ljubljana Town.

V-2015 / The Pro Coro Canada conducted by Michael Zaugg performs Bubbles on tour: in Museum of Civilization of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada, on May 9th), Winspear Centre (Edmonton, USA, on May 10th),  St. Joseph’s Church of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada, on May 11th), Trinity-St. Stephen’s United Church of Amherst (Nova Scotia, Canada, May 13th), St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada, May 15th).

V-2015 / Barcelona (Spain) Escolania de Montserrat conducted by Llorenç Castelló performs the World Premiere of  «O Lux Beata» (2015) along with «Fundamenta eius» (2011) and Salve Regina (1998) on May 15th in Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona (Spain) within the Cicle Coral de l’Orfeó Català Season. On May 29th Escolania performs the same program  29.05.2015 in Tarragona Cathedral, Tarragona (Spain).

IV-2015 / Orfeó Català conducted by Josep Vila i Casañas performs «Le cri des bergers» (2004) on April 26th in Cadogan Hall, London (UK) within the Choral at Cadogan 2014-15 Season.

IV-2015 / Coro Austral conducted by Margot McLaughlim performs»Salve Montserratina» (2010) and «El cant dels ocells» (2010) on April 11th in Campbell Street Presbyterian Church, Balmain (Australia).

IV-2015 / The little singers of Tokyo conducted by Hisae Hasegawa performs Vivancos’s Salve d’Ecos (2002) and Nigra Sum (2000-01) in St. Mary’s Cathedral (Tokyo) on April 6th.

III-2015 / Escolania de Montserrat conducted by Llorenç Castelló performs «Vivancos/Schuberts’s Ave Maria» on tour in China at National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing, March 1st),  National Centre for the Performing Arts (Shanghai, March 6th)  and Shanghai Oriental Art Centre (Shanghai, March 7th.