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VI-2024 / The Auditorium of Barcelona has recently published the three-dimensional sound recording of the composition “U”, a microtonal work that the musical equipment and OBC orchestra commissioned from Bernat Vivancos and that was recorded from July 26 to 28, 2022 in Sala 1 Pau Casals of the Auditorium by Barcelona Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Ludovic Morlot. . The presentation takes place in the Orchestra Hall of the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya), 16th June, with composer Bernat Vivancos and Maestro Ludovic Morlot to be able to listen to the composition with 3D sound, following the sound specifications with which the work was recorded.

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XII-2023 / “Càntic d’amic e Amat” was performed last december 15th in the  Sagrada Família (Barcelona).

Composition comissioned by Blanquerna University, 75th anniversary. Lyrics by Ramon Llull.

More than 300 musicians for 70 minutes of music, with: Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès (Xavier Puig, dir.), Cor Jove Amics de la Unió (Marta Dosaiguas, dir.) – Cor de Cambra Amics de la Unió (Josep Vila i Jover, dir.) – Cor Burckner (Júlia Sesé, dir.) – Coral Cantiga (Daniel Mestre, dir.) – Cor Blanquerna (Eva Martínez Tomé, dir.)

Ferran Mitjans, tenor – Juan de la Ribua, orgue – Edmon Colomer, dir.

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IX-2023 / “Duo Seraphim” was performed last september 6th in the  Kunstfest Weimar.
45 minuts of Vivancos’ music with Núria Rial and Miriam Feuersinger, sopranos, les Cornets Noirs, Ensemble of viola da gamba and organ.
(photo: Thomas Müller)

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VII-2023 / “L’arbre de la Vida“, a new work comissioned by Palau de la Música Catalana, will be premiered by Cosmos Quartet next July 5 in Barcelona.
This work is inspired by sculptures by Naxo Farreras.

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V-2023 / “Veni Creator Spiritus” and “Càntic dels tres joves“, for mixt choir and string orchestra, compositions comissioned by Coral Càrmina 50th Anniversary, were premièred in the Palau de la Música Catalana, May 21, with Franz Schubert Filharmonia Orchestra & Coral Càrmina, conducted by Daniel Mestre.

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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.

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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