V-2023 / “Missa per la Pau“, for double choir of children’s voices, soloists, organ and percussions. Composition comissioned by Escolania de Montserrat & Cor VEUS.
World premiere on May 7 in Palau de la Música Catalana, May 12 in Sant Esteve de Granollers, and 14th in Montserrat Abbey.
Escolania de Montserrat (Llorenç Castelló dir.) – Cor VEUS (Josep Vila i Jover, dir.) – Joan Seguí, orgue – Robert Armengol, perc. – Lluís Vilamajó, dir.
More info here
VIII-2022 / “Ay luna que reluces“, new chamber work for 4 saxophones, commission of Kebyart Ensemble, and premièred in Festival de Torroella, 5th August 2022.
Pere Méndez, Víctor Serra, Robert Seara, Daniel Miguel, saxos.
VI-2022 / Bach Collegium Barcelona, conducted by Pau Jorquera, premiered the new composition “In excelsis” in St. Thomas Church, at the prestigious Bachfest.
VI-2022 / The Barcelona Symphony Orchestra recorded, last June 9, 2020, the new work for orchestra “U“, commissioned by the Barcelona Auditorium and the OBC Orchestra, and conducted by Ludovic Morlot.
Ludovic Morlot was recently appointed Music Director of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.
II-2022 / L’Auditori premieres OFFSTAGE, a new audiovisual project of in-depth interviews. In this first season OFFSTAGE focuses on the composers who premiere works this season at L’Auditori. Bernat Vivancos, Joan Magrané, Enric Palomar and Raquel García Tomás star in the first four chapters. Journalist Anna Guitart is the host of the interviews that reveal the most personal facets and artistic concerns of the most stimulating composers of the current scene.
In this first chapter we talk to Bernat Vivancos (Barcelona, 1973) from the Collsacabra, a natural landscape source of his inspiration. Composer of great luminosity and asceticism, the music by Vivancos is a synthesis of the vocal tradition of religious coinage and the current sonority. Deeply linked to the Escolania de Montserrat, the imprint of the experience in the monastery has marked a trajectory that has crystallized in a unique and unmistakable voice. Traces of vocal music come together in his production in search of vivid and splendid harmony, nature, the sound presence of faith or beauty. Concepts that sustain a particular musical world, powerfully human and bright, close and universal.
Watch the audiovisual here
II-2022 / “Tros“, the new film directed by Pau Calpe (Galápagos Media), is Bernat Vivancos’ first work for film music. Núria Rial gives voice to a music that will not leave you indifferent.
Released February on 25th. Nominated as Best Film in Premis Gaudí 2022.
Núria Rial, solo soprano. Sara Sarroca, Brenda Sara and Irene Mas, sopranos. TV3 co-production.
Watch the trailer here
(photo: Alfa Pictures)
II-2022 / World Premiere of “Goigs de Nostra Dona“, a work about 30 minutes of music, was created by the “Cor Jove Nacional de Catalunya” – CJNC, conducted by Pere-Lluís Biosca in the Auditori of Barcelona, last February 13.
This composition was recorded on CD with Ficta Edicions, and you can listen here.
I-2022 / “Organis Aurea“, for Symphonic Band, conducted for José R.- Pascual-Vilaplana, was premièred in the Auditorium of Barcelona in last January 30th.
Is Vivancos ‘ first work for Symphonic Band, and it’s a re-creation of the sonority of a great organ, composition based on the “Goigs de Nostra Dona” of the Catalan Renaissance composer Joan Brudieu (1520-1591).
(photo: May Zircus / L’Auditori)
“U“, new work for Symphony Orchestra was created un Auditorium of Barcelona with Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Duncan Ward in the first concert of the Season 21-22 of the OBC Orchestra.
This composition is work with three different tuned orchestras in 1/8 tone, playing with textures and new harmonies.
(photo: L’Auditori)
