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VII-2017 / World Premiere of «Lux Surgit Aurea» by Westminster Choir, USA, conducted by Joe Miller, in  Auditori of Barcelona on July 28th, and concert in Montserrat Abbey on July 29th. Both concerts within the Barcelona 11th World Symposium on Choral Music (July 22nd to 29th).

VII-2017 / Intense presence of Vivancos’s music in the Barcelona 11th World Symposium on Choral Music WSCM (July 22nd to 29th ). Performances by different choirs in several concerts, among them highlighting «Avui és el dia» in Sagrada Familia by 600 singers (July 26th), and the World Premiere of «Lux Surgit Aurea» by Westminster Choir conducted by Joe  Miller (Auditori, July 28th and Montserrat, July 29th) Moreover Vivancos offered a conferece/presentation of his music (July 27th).

VII-2017 / On July 3rd within the concert for Kennedy’s Birth Centenary celebration Escolania de Montserrat, conducted by Llorenç Castelló, performed the World Premiere of «L’Ametller», with lyrics of Catalan poet Joan Maragall, comissioned by Classical Movements. The concert took place in John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.

VII-2017 / Summer Singers are performing Aeternam in three concerts in Minnesota, in St. Paul on July 23 & 30 and in Minneapolis on July 27.

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.

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).

VIII-2016 / World premiere of «Obriu-me els llavis, Senyor» in St. Mary’s Cathedral of Sydney, performed by Bel a Cappella, Anthony Pasquill, dir.

I-2016 / 2016 New year’s resolution: composing «a melody a day». Will it be achieved?

IX-2015 / On september 20th Kazushi Ono conducts the opening season concert of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra [OBC] at the Sagrada Familia, including works by Mozart, Fauré, Vivancos and Takemitsu. The concerts starts with Vivancos’s Improvisation I (1999) performed by Juan de la Rubia, organist.

VIII-2015 / Juan de la Rubia, organist, will perform Improvisation I (1999) on tour in Europe during the summer: On August 14th in Maria Laach Abbey, Maria Laach (Germany) On August 16th in St. Wolfgang, Salzkammergut (Austria) On August 24th in Basílica de Montserrat, Montserrat (Catalonia).