Agustí Charles i Soler (; es, Agustín Charles Soler ; born 12 July 1960) is a Spanish-born composer and scholar.
Biography
Born in
Manresa
Manresa () is the capital of the Comarca of Bages, located in the geographical centre of Catalonia, Spain, and crossed by the river Cardener. It is an industrial area with textile, metallurgical, and glass industries. The houses of Manresa are ...
(
Province of Barcelona), he began his music studies at an early age.
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Biography on the official website (English version). Retrieved 14 August 2014. His first works in composition date back to the 1980s, under the guidance of his first composition teachers:
Miquel Roger, Albert Sardà and
Josep Soler Josep is a Catalan masculine given name equivalent to Joseph (Spanish ''José'').
People named Josep include:
* Josep Bargalló (born 1958), Catalan philologist and former politician
* Josep Bartolí (1910-1995), Catalan painter, cartoonist and w ...
. Later, he studied with
Franco Donatoni,
Luigi Nono and
Samuel Adler, as well as worked with other composers and conductors including
Joan Guinjoan
Joan Guinjoan i Gispert (28 November 1931 – 1 January 2019) was a Catalan composer and pianist.
Life
Born in Riudoms, Guinjoan studied at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona. In 1954, he moved to Paris and continued h ...
,
Cristóbal Halffter, J.R. Encinar and Ros Marbà.
Career
His work ''Seven Looks'', inspired by the poems of
García Lorca was awarded the 2003 prize of the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras (AEOS) and has been played by a number of Spanish and German orchestras in the 2004 and 2008 seasons. His first opera ''La Cuzzoni, esperpent d’una veu,'' was premiered in October 2007 at the
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
Staatstheater in Germany. In 2008, the Italian
Stradivarius Records Stradivarius Records, Italian Casa Discografica Stradivarius (founded 1988) is a Milan based independent Italian record label specializing in early music and contemporary classical music. The record label was originally based from a shop in the Via ...
issued a CD which includes his orchestral work, performed by the
Community of Madrid Orchestra
The Community of Madrid Orchestra ( es, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid), founded in 1987, is a symphony orchestra in Madrid, Spain. It is the resident orchestra at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and performs its concert programs at the Aud ...
and conducted by José Ramón Encinar. In 2010, Tritó Records compiled a release in conjunction with the
, conducted by
Jaime Martin. In March 2011, the premiere of his second opera, ''Lord Byron: A summer without summer'', took place in the
Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany, while it was staged again in Barcelona the following year. The libretto is by Marc Rosich with stage direction by Alfonso Romero Mora. In August 2012, the premiere of his third opera ''Java Suite'' took place in the Perelada Festival (
Girona,
Spain).
Publications
He is also author of texts and books related to musical composition and analysis, among them: ''Análisis de la música española del siglo XX'' (2002), ''Dodecafonismo y serialismo en España'' (2005), ''Colección Instrumentación y orquestación clásica y contemporánea'' (5 vols) (2005–2012).
"El Argonauta listing"
Details on works published listed on the website of a specialist music bookshop. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
Charles currently teaches composition at the Catalonia College of Music
The Catalonia College of Music ( ca, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC; ) is a music school in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
The school is located at L'Auditori, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three conc ...
in Barcelona.
References
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People from Manresa
1960 births
Living people
Composers from Catalonia
Academic staff of the Catalonia College of Music