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20 01, 2014

Vivancos is to leave the Escolania de Montserrat

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I-2014 / Bernat Vivancos is to leave his post as choir master of the Escolania de Montserrat at the end of the current academic year in order to dedicate himself entirely to composing. Bernat Vivancos has been the director of the choir for the last seven years and in June will leave the post -as he announced to the choir’s directors four years ago- to be able to dedicate himself more completely to his compositional work, which he describes as “a vocation that needs time and tranquillity; and also,” he states, “to continue my work as teacher of Composition and Orchestration at ESMUC”.

For Vivancos, his experience and time as the Escolania’s musical director has been “an act of justice: to try to give back to Montserrat what they offered me as a child at the Escolania, the best gift I have ever received”. His assistant in recent years, Llorenç Castelló, will take over the role of musical director at the beginning of the coming academic year, ensuring the continuity of the choir’s musical trajectory.

4 03, 2013

El Somni, Franc Aleu and the Celler de Can Roca

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IX-2013 / The church of Sant Genís in Torroella de Montgrí was the venue chosen to record three new pieces by Bernat Vivancos. The prestigious vocal group Latvian Radio Choir perform, accompanied by Pau Codina’s cellos and the Scordatura Spectralis quartet, with Sigvards Klava conducting. Vivancos’s music, recorded by Neu Records in surround format, comprises the tenth act of ‘El Somni’, an audiovisual gastronomic opera by the multidisciplinary artist Franc Aleu in collaboration with the Celler de Can Roca, one of the world’s best restaurants.

10 05, 2012

First work composed for Gaudi’s Sagrada Família

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V-2013 / Bernat Vivancos writes «Avui és el dia que ha fet el Senyor», the first work composed specifically for the acoustics of the monumental Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Família, a Roman Catholic church in Barcelona designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926). The new work will be performed the 18th of May by the organist Juan de la Rubia and more than 500 singers placed all around the church.

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1 03, 2012

Blanc, best album of the year 2011

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II-2013 / On 22 February, the Spanish National Radio (RNE Radio Clásica) broadcasted a special program devoted to Blanc, in which Carlos Sandúa interviewed the composer and the producer of the album. Blanc has received the Critics Award as Best Album of 2011 by 440 Clàssica Magazine and Catalunya Música, the Catalan classical music radio station.

20 03, 2010

«Cantantibus organis», written for the New Organ of Montserrat

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I-2013 / The Escolania of Montserrat premieres Salve Montserratina «Cantantibus organis» by Bernat Vivancos, conducted by the composer and specially written for the Benediction of the New Organ in the Monastery of Montserrat. The men’s choir Capella de Música de Montserrat and the organist Mercè Sanchis accompanied the Escolania in the premiere. The work was dedicated to P. Cassià Ma. Just, who made possible this new instrument built by Albert Blancafort.

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