Piedras at New Music Festival Arëna of Latvia - Francisco Coll
-
'Mural' at the BBC Proms 2017'Mural' en los BBC Proms 2017 April 21, 2017 -
Fortissimo Spring 2017Fortissimo Spring 2017 March 24, 2017 -
'Four Iberian Miniatures' at the BBC Proms 2016'Four Iberian Miniatures' en los BBC Proms 2016 July 30, 2016 -
'Hyperlude IV' is now avalilable to download'Hyperlude IV' is now avalilable to download April 26, 2016 -
New work for large orchestraFrancisco Coll ultima el estreno mundial de su nueva sinfonía December 20, 2015 -
Hidd'n Blue with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra/Gustavo GimenoHidd'n Blue con la Orquesta Filarmónica de Munich/Gustavo Gimeno May 11, 2015 -
Café Kafka (trailer) April 23, 2014 -
Sentational premiere of Coll's opera Café KafkaSensacional estreno de Café Kafka en Londres (en Inglés) March 21, 2014 -
El Pais: "La música sinfónica no tiene por qué llenar estadios" (In Spanish)El Pais: "La música sinfónica no tiene por qué llenar estadios" January 26, 2014 -
Hidd'n Blue at Aix-en-Provence Festival this summer (in French)Hidd'n Blue en el Festival de Aix-en-Provence (En Francés) January 10, 2014
- September 24, 2013
NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL ARĒNA. TWITTER-OPERA NOSTRA CULPA
18 October, 7pm, Design Factory D.FAB
New Music festival Arēna
Iris Oja, mezzo-soprano
Guna Āboltiņa, cello
Conductor Normunds Šnē
Sinfonietta Rīga
Programme:
Eugene Birman Nostra culpa
Magnus Lindberg Jubilees
Witold Lutoslawski Grave
Jean-Marie Rens Monolythe
Francisco Coll Piedras
In June, 2012, there was a heated discussion on Twitter: Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the President of Estonia, and American economist Paul Krugman exchanged words on the status quo of Estonia’s economic situation. Just now, the event has been made into a ‘twitter-opera’ written by Eugene Birman who was born in Daugavpils, Latvia, and has studied composition and economy in the USA and Estonia. The mezzo soprano voice of Iris Oja (Estonia) travels across the widest of the horizons, impersonating both the debaters. Are we dumb or obscurant? Nostra culpa…
Along with a twitter opera, we are happy to enjoy Grave by Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994) – the metamorphoses of the motif from the Claude Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande; the chamber music opus Monolythe by Belgian composer and music theorist Jean-Marie Rens (1955); the multi-coloured music under the title Jubilees dedicated to Pierre Boulez and written by Magnus Lindberg (1958), so keen in tembral colours; and Piedras by the student of Thomas Adès, Francisco Coll (1985), a Spanish composer who resides in London: the first performance of the piece made a hit in England.