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17/V – 2025 – “Lilium Montis”, for baroque orchestra, new World Première, will be performed for “Orquestra del Miracle”, conducted by Juan de la Rubia.
Next May 17th, in Festival Espurnes, in the Santuari del Miracle, Catalonia.

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22 to 24/IV-2025 / Recording sessions with Latvian Radio Choir & Sigvards Kļava for Neu Records level for the new CD album “Tenebrae”, for mixed choir a cappella.

Photo: Kristaps Anškens

IV – 2025 /The “Quartet Vivancos” (Jordi Prim & Luis Montes, violins., Estela Megías, viola, Quim Tejedor, violoncelle.) performed “Sacrilège” in the Festival Prades Pablo Casals in Perpignan, France (Festival Musique Sacrée).

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XI – 2024 / On November 23rd and 24th, the work “Kumbaya” by Bernat Vivancos, for choirs and symphony orchestra, commissioned by the Vic EMC School of Music for its 180th anniversary, will be premiered in Teatre Atlàntida, Vic, Catalonia.
The work will be performed by different choral groups and by EMC students.

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IV – 2025 / Next Good Friday, April 18, Bernat Vivancos’ “Responsoria Hebdomadae Sanctae” will premiere at the Perelada’s Festival, who commisioned the composition.

The concert will be performed by the Latvian Radio Choir under the direction of Sigvards Klava.

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VIII-2024 / “Responsoria Hebdomamade Sanctae” will be recorded next April in Riga, Latvia, with Latvian Radio Choir, with Sigvards Klava, direction.

It will be the third CD recorded by Neu Records, after “Blanc” (2011) and “Requiem” (2015).

Photo: Janis Deinats

VI-2024 / Last June, during the ISE Integrated Systems Europe Conferences, which took place in Barcelona, ​​the “Talentum Foundation” awarded the TALENTUM PRIZE 2023 for Music and Composition to Bernat Vivancos.

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VI-2024 / Last June 30 was premiered “Three Universal Prayers”, for 2 choirs, String Orchestra, organ and percussions in Musikforum Kastellaun, Deutschland.
Performed by Kinderchor, Jugendchor and Vokalensemble der Chorakademie Kastellaun,  Kammerorchester Kastellaun, conducted by Volker Klein.

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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

II-2022 / “Tros“, the new film directed by Pau Calpe (Galápagos Media), is Bernat Vivancos’ first work for film music. Núria Rial gives voice to a music that will not leave you indifferent.
Released February on 25th. Nominated as Best Film in Premis Gaudí 2022.
Núria Rial, solo soprano. Sara Sarroca, Brenda Sara and Irene Mas, sopranos. TV3 co-production.

Watch the trailer here
(photo: Alfa Pictures)

II-2022 / World Premiere of “Goigs de Nostra Dona“, a work about 30 minutes of music, was created by the “Cor Jove Nacional de Catalunya” – CJNC, conducted by Pere-Lluís Biosca in the Auditori of Barcelona, last February 13.

This composition was recorded on CD with Ficta Edicions, and you can listen here.

I-2022 / “Organis Aurea“, for Symphonic Band, conducted for José R.- Pascual-Vilaplana, was premièred in the Auditorium of Barcelona in last January 30th.

Is Vivancos ‘ first work for Symphonic Band, and it’s a re-creation of the sonority of a great organ, composition based on the “Goigs de Nostra Dona” of the Catalan Renaissance composer Joan Brudieu (1520-1591).
(photo: May Zircus / L’Auditori)

“U“, new work for Symphony Orchestra was created un Auditorium of Barcelona with Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Duncan Ward in the first concert of the Season 21-22 of the OBC Orchestra.
This composition is work with three different tuned orchestras in 1/8 tone, playing with textures and new harmonies.
(photo: L’Auditori)