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Recent and Upcoming Performances

 

 

'Clothes crying slow, dirty tears' for chamber orchestra was an Aldeburgh Festival commission and received its premiere at Orford Church (Aldeburgh) by the Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble conducted by Baldur Bronnimann on the 24th of June, 2008.

-21st and 22nd of July, 2008: Oscar has been invited to conduct the Cre.Art Ensemble for a mini-series of concerts in the Segovia Festival (Click here for more details about the concerts). The concert includes the work Zaka, by Jennifer Higdon, of which Oscar will conduct its Spanish premiere.

 

-26th-28th of September, 2008: 'Une poupée en flammes' will be performed by Kontakte Percussió during the VI National Percussion Congress, held at the Palacio de Congresos Manuel Rojas, in Badajoz (Spain).

-29th and 30th of January, 2009: The Real Filharmonia de Galicia will give two performances of Oscar's award winning piece 'Open the Curtains' in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, under maestro Pablo González.

Oscar has assisted guitarist Jens Franke in the edition of his next Schott publication 'Romantic Guitar Vol. 1'. Released during July 2008. The anthology is also available from Amazon.

Subjection Project with Albert Corbí, photographer and artist

 

Òscar is collaborating with photographer and artist Albert Corbí in developing an installation project based around the idea of 'subjection'. Subjection understood as the human attempt to hold the scenery in which he lives, in a time when uncertainty and a liquid perception of time and of cause-effect relations questions the real value of any of those human-built illusions. The project will develop two interventions: private and public. For the private intervention, the installation will take place in a derelict flat and Òscar will write a 15' minutes piece for guitarist Jens Franke. The piece will then be transcribed for a different instrument for the public space installation. Both interventions will be videotaped and shown in art galleries.

Ongoing collaboration with IDEAMI Films

 

Òscar conducted the recording of his string sextet 'The Thinking Machine', written after close collaboration with film director Javier González. The resulting film has now entered its post-production stage and will be released in the Autumn. 'The Thinking Machine', which is a concert piece in its own right, will be 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.

CD Releases

 
El cuadro

'Une Poupée en Flammes' commissioned by Kontakte Percussió was recorded last August for a cd published by the Institut Valencià de la Música . The CD will be presented during the 2008 edition of the ENSEMS Internacional Festival, València.

Òscar's piece 'The Ruinous Circles' (2003) was included in the cd Ítaca - Contemporanis de la Mediterrània, published by the Area of Acoustic Creation Foundation . The cd is a live recording of the concert given by the Grup Instrumental de València for the 2006 Encontre Internacional de Compositors, Mallorca.

Press

  

'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')

Conducting

  

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