Ongoing collaboration with IDEAMI Films |
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In February 2008, Òscar conducted the recording of his string sextet 'The Thinking Machine'. The piece inspired director Javier González to do a second version of his film 'La Última Cena' to the sextet. 'The Thinking Machine' was premiered at the Royal Academy of Music, the 20th of June, 2008. Click here to see some photographs of the shooting.
'El Cuadro', a film by Ideami Productions featuring Oscar's piece 'Open the Curtains' won the Best Music Award in the 'Ateneo en Corto' festival in Tenerife (Canary Islands). It is also finalist in various other festivals: Gijón International Film Festival, Aarhus Festival in Denmark, IFCT Festival in the USA (touring New York, Los Angeles, etc), Short Films & Video Art Festival of Manresa, Aguilar Film Festival, Audiovisual SubImagen Festival, Mostra Minima Film Festival. It is being taken up by Atom Films (an MTV company) for its distribution in the USA. |
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'It was one of the most successful works of the evening, richly scored and completely convincing in the way its splintered forms progressively dissolved away' - New Notes Magazine (reg: 'I have to talk to broken things')
'The piece was received with enthusiasm by the audience (...) and was a worthy beginning to the Orchestra of the Swan's 10th anniversary concert series' - Stratford Herald (reg: 'Open the Curtains') |
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Òscar conducted the launch concert of the Underground Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Warehouse, Waterloo, to a packed audience the 23rd of February, 2007. The programme included Gerard Grisey 'Périodes', and two world premieres. Download sample of Grisey's 'Périodes'.
'Their spectrally-oriented programme of Grisey and young composers was ambitious', 'Remarkable rhyhtmic tightness' , 'A considerable promise' - New Notes Magazine |
© Oscar Colomina i Bosch, 2009
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