Òscar’s new orchestral work first performance under the baton of Ariane Matiakh
On 17 April 2026, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife gave the world premiere of Òscar Colomina i Bosch’s new orchestral work Wells of Oblivion / Los Pozos del Olvido at the Auditorio de Tenerife, conducted by Ariane Matiakh (Melómano article here).
Francisco Campos (Tenerife Week) highlighted the expressive character of the work, noting that in Wells of Oblivion “the sensory prevails over the merely technical.”
Commissioned by the Sinfónica de Tenerife, the work opened a programme that also featured Clara-Jumi Kang as soloist in Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, followed by Liszt’s Hungaria and Kodály’s Dances of Galánta.
Wells of Oblivion forms the second part of Òscar’s orchestral triptych Myths for orchestra, a cycle exploring mythological imaginaries in which water appears as a liminal space between life and death. Conceived as a sequence of symbolic landscapes, the cycle treats rivers, wells and waterfalls as thresholds where memory, identity and temporality are suspended, transformed or renewed.
Following The Styx, premiered by the Orquestra de València under Baldur Brönnimann at Festival ENSEMS in 2024, Wells of Oblivion draws on the Chinese myth of the well of forgetfulness: the place where the soul looks into the waters of oblivion before crossing the threshold into another life.
The triptych will be completed next season with Havasu Falls, commissioned by the Orquesta de Extremadura. The third and closing work of the cycle opens the perspective from boundary and oblivion towards continuity, ancestry and living landscape.
Read more here: Myths for Orchestra.
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