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World premiere of «Offertorium» by Barcelona Clarinet Players

V-2017 / On May 19th World premiere of «Offertorium» by Barcelona Clarinet Players (Manuel Martínez, clarinet; Javier Vilaplana, clarinet; Martí Guasteví, corno di bassetto and Alejandro Castillo, clarinet baix) in the Claustre Max Cahner of the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona. The concert program includes five World premieres with five musical works by the best Catalan composers of the current musical panorama.

IV-2017 / On April 29th Coro Austral, conducted by Margot McLaughlin performed «Le cri des bergers» and «Shubert’s Ave Maria» in St Augustine’s Catholic Church, Balmain, Sydney (Australia).

World premiere of «O Vos Omnes» by Ensemble O Vos Omnes

IV-2017 / World premiere of «O Vos Omnes» by Ensemble O Vos Omnes, concerts on tour: On April 6th on Barcelona, Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes On April 7th on La Sénia Church On May 6th on Tarragona, Sant Agusti Curch conducted by Xavier Pastrana.

III-2017 / Pope Francis offered an Audiance to conclude the Vatican Congress «Music and Church: Cult and Culture», where Vivancos gave a conference defending the contemporary liturgical music. Vivancos gave to the Pope two of his latest CDs: «Requiem» and «In Montibus Sanctis».

III-2017 / On July 3rd the concert for Kennedy’s Birth Centenary celebration will include the World Premiere of a new work, comissioned by Classical Movements. The work will be performed by Escolania de Montserrat conducted by Llorenç Castelló. The concert will take place in John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The new work will be about Peace.

III-2017 / On March 3rd Vivancos will participate in Vatican Congress «Musica e Chiesa: culto e cultura a 50 anni dalla Musicam Sacram», giving a lecture about «La promozione di musica contemporanea nella Chiesa: continuità di un patrimonio» #MusicaSacra. The congress will take in Rome during March 2nd – 4th and will conclude with an Audience of the Holly Father Pope Francis.

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.