III-2015 / Escolania de Montserrat conducted by Llorenç Castelló performs «Vivancos/Schuberts’s Ave Maria» on tour in China at National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing, March 1st), National Centre for the Performing Arts (Shanghai, March 6th) and Shanghai Oriental Art Centre (Shanghai, March 7th.
III-2015 / Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Klava performs a program with works of Arvo Pärt and Bernat Vivancos, on March 6th in Església del Pi, Barcelona (Spain).
V-2014 / The children’s choir Escolania de Montserrat releases a monographic album by Bernat Vivancos. Jaume Cabré: «The result shines and transforms itself into an inner landscape of sounds which enriches us and obliges us to rethink everything».
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VI-2014 / «Our biggest discovery in this festival was Catalan composer Bernat Vivancos. He is one of the bravest composer today who work in absolute harmonic and beautiful musical way.» Inese Lūsiņa, DIENA (Latvian Newspaper). The concert includes the world premiere of «O Virgo Splendens», commissioned and performed by the Latvian Radio Choir, and will be broadcast by EBU (European Broadcast Union) in several countries.
VI-2014 / Next Thursday 18 at 19:30h at Petit Palau hall, Bernat Vivancos talks with Joan Vives (musicologist and broadcaster at Catalunya Música) about his music. The composer in residence at Palau de la Música Catalana will also show some audio excerpts of his music and will play some examples with the piano.
VI-2014 / Carme Miró interviews the composer.
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V-2014 / The Pro Coro Canada conducted by Michael Zaugg perform “Le Cri des bergers” on tour: in Museum of Civilization of Ottawa (Ontario, 9th May), St. Joseph’s Church of Ottawa (Ontario, 11th May), Trinity-St. Stephen’s United Church of Amherst (Nova Scotia, 13th May), St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of Halifax (Nova Scotia, 15th May), All Saints Cathedral of Edmonton (Alberta, 1st June).
IV-2014 / El Celler de Can Roca, world leader in gastronomic excellence, and Franc Aleu, a key innovator in the aesthetics of contemporary opera, presented an audiovisual gastronomic opera at the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale) last February. Bernat Vivancos’s music, recorded by Neu in surround format, comprises the tenth act of ‘El Somni’.
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The film ‘El Somni’, with music by Bernat Vivancos
III-2014 / Bernat Vivancos has been named Resident Composer at the Palau de la Música Catalana for the 2014-15 concert season. Twelve pieces by Bernat Vivancos will be performed in the institution during the season, including three commissioned works specially written for the Residency. The performers of Vivancos’ music at the Palau de la Música Catalana will be the Orquesta Nacional de España (ONE) conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Cuarteto Quiroga, Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès (OSV), Orquestra Nacional Clàssica d’Andorra (ONCA), Latvian Radio Choir, Cor Madrigal, Hector París and Escolania de Montserrat.
II-2014 / «(…) almost anyone can appreciate its beauty. That is precisely the direction in which modern classical music should be going.» Callum Williams, THE ECONOMIST.
