Pro Coro Canada performing «Bubbles» on tour in Canada and USA
V-2015 / The Pro Coro Canada conducted by Michael Zaugg performs Bubbles on tour: in Museum of Civilization of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada, on May 9th), Winspear Centre (Edmonton, USA, on May 10th), St. Joseph’s Church of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada, on May 11th), Trinity-St. Stephen’s United Church of Amherst (Nova Scotia, Canada, May 13th), St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica of Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada, May 15th).
«O Lux Beata» – World Premiere in Barcelona
V-2015 / Barcelona (Spain) Escolania de Montserrat conducted by Llorenç Castelló performs the World Premiere of «O Lux Beata» (2015) along with «Fundamenta eius» (2011) and Salve Regina (1998) on May 15th in Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona (Spain) within the Cicle Coral de l’Orfeó Català Season. On May 29th Escolania performs the same program 29.05.2015 in Tarragona Cathedral, Tarragona (Spain).
Orfeó Català perfoms «Le cri des bergers» in London
IV-2015 / Orfeó Català conducted by Josep Vila i Casañas performs «Le cri des bergers» (2004) on April 26th in Cadogan Hall, London (UK) within the Choral at Cadogan 2014-15 Season.
Vivancos music in Australia
IV-2015 / Coro Austral conducted by Margot McLaughlim performs»Salve Montserratina» (2010) and «El cant dels ocells» (2010) on April 11th in Campbell Street Presbyterian Church, Balmain (Australia).
Vivancos music in Japan
IV-2015 / The little singers of Tokyo conducted by Hisae Hasegawa performs Vivancos’s Salve d’Ecos (2002) and Nigra Sum (2000-01) in St. Mary’s Cathedral (Tokyo) on April 6th.
“Vivancos/Schubert’s Ave Maria” on tour in China
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.
Arvo Pärt / Bernat Vivancos concert in Barcelona
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).
In Montibus Sanctis · New CD
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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World Premiere at TENSO DAYS · Riga
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.
Joan Vives presents Vivancos at Palau de la Música Catalana
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.
Bernat Vivancos at Sonograma Magazine
VI-2014 / Carme Miró interviews the composer.
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Pro Coro Canada performing «Le Cri de bergers» on tour
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).
The film ‘El Somni’, with music by Bernat Vivancos
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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Resident Composer at the Palau de la Música Catalana 2014-15
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.
Bernat Vivancos at The Economist: Gloriously eerie
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.
Vivancos is to leave the Escolania de Montserrat
I-2014 / Bernat Vivancos is to leave his post as choir master of the Escolania de Montserrat at the end of the current academic year in order to dedicate himself entirely to composing. Bernat Vivancos has been the director of the choir for the last seven years and in June will leave the post -as he announced to the choir’s directors four years ago- to be able to dedicate himself more completely to his compositional work, which he describes as “a vocation that needs time and tranquillity; and also,” he states, “to continue my work as teacher of Composition and Orchestration at ESMUC”.
For Vivancos, his experience and time as the Escolania’s musical director has been “an act of justice: to try to give back to Montserrat what they offered me as a child at the Escolania, the best gift I have ever received”. His assistant in recent years, Llorenç Castelló, will take over the role of musical director at the beginning of the coming academic year, ensuring the continuity of the choir’s musical trajectory.
Vivancos’ music in Latvia, October 2013
X-2013 / The Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Klava perform «Le Cri des bergers» and «Aeternam» in Riga Cathedral (17th October) and in the Austrumlatvijas koncertzāle of Latgale (16th October).
El Somni, Franc Aleu and the Celler de Can Roca
IX-2013 / The church of Sant Genís in Torroella de Montgrí was the venue chosen to record three new pieces by Bernat Vivancos. The prestigious vocal group Latvian Radio Choir perform, accompanied by Pau Codina’s cellos and the Scordatura Spectralis quartet, with Sigvards Klava conducting. Vivancos’s music, recorded by Neu Records in surround format, comprises the tenth act of ‘El Somni’, an audiovisual gastronomic opera by the multidisciplinary artist Franc Aleu in collaboration with the Celler de Can Roca, one of the world’s best restaurants.
First work composed for Gaudi’s Sagrada Família
V-2013 / Bernat Vivancos writes «Avui és el dia que ha fet el Senyor», the first work composed specifically for the acoustics of the monumental Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Família, a Roman Catholic church in Barcelona designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926). The new work will be performed the 18th of May by the organist Juan de la Rubia and more than 500 singers placed all around the church.
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Blanc, best album of the year 2011
II-2013 / On 22 February, the Spanish National Radio (RNE Radio Clásica) broadcasted a special program devoted to Blanc, in which Carlos Sandúa interviewed the composer and the producer of the album. Blanc has received the Critics Award as Best Album of 2011 by 440 Clàssica Magazine and Catalunya Música, the Catalan classical music radio station.
«Cantantibus organis», written for the New Organ of Montserrat
I-2013 / The Escolania of Montserrat premieres Salve Montserratina «Cantantibus organis» by Bernat Vivancos, conducted by the composer and specially written for the Benediction of the New Organ in the Monastery of Montserrat. The men’s choir Capella de Música de Montserrat and the organist Mercè Sanchis accompanied the Escolania in the premiere. The work was dedicated to P. Cassià Ma. Just, who made possible this new instrument built by Albert Blancafort.
