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.
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).
