A Portrait Concert at the Liszt Academy, a CNDM commission for Trío Penderecki, and the completion of Myths for orchestra with the Orquesta de Extremadura
The 2026–27 season brings together new creation, performances and international teaching.
From 6–9 December 2026, Òscar will return to the Liszt Academy in Budapest for a series of masterclasses culminating in a Portrait Concert at the Régi Zeneakadémia on 9 December. Spanning more than two decades of his music, the programme brings together The Labyrinth (2003), Conversation with Joseph Beuys (2005), Brief History of Sand (2006), Sund (2016), Campanes al Vespre (2026) and the three Nocturnes for piano trio. The concert offers a rare opportunity to hear works from different periods side by side, tracing continuities and transformations in Òscar’s musical language from his early output to his most recent work. The Budapest concert is the second concert devoted to his music hosted by a major European institution, following from the one at the Mozarteum Salzburg in 2024.
On 15 March 2027, the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM) will present the world premiere of a new piano trio commissioned as part of its Series 20/21. The new work, inspired by Krzysztof Penderecki’s Arboretum, will be performed at the Auditorio 400 of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid by Trío Penderecki — Leticia Moreno, violin; Claudio Bohórquez, cello; and ?ukasz Krupi?ski, piano. The concert forms part of Leticia Moreno’s season as Artist-in-Residence at the CNDM.
The season will culminate on 27 and 28 May 2027 with the world premiere of Havasu Falls, commissioned by the Orquesta de Extremadura and conducted by Roberto Forés Veses, with performances in Badajoz and Mérida.
Havasu Falls completes Myths for orchestra, the orchestral triptych begun with The Styx, premiered by the Orquestra de València and Baldur Brönnimann in 2024, and continued with Wells of Oblivion, commissioned and premiered by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and Ariane Matiakh in 2026. Across its three panels, the cycle explores water as a threshold between worlds and as a space for memory, oblivion, transformation and renewal.
Together, these projects follow a 2025–26 season that saw the premieres of VISITACION[e]S, Wells of Oblivion and Campanes al Vespre, alongside a growing international performing life for works from across Òscar’s catalogue, with performances, premieres, residencies and other artistic projects extending from Madrid, Oviedo, Tenerife, Valencia, Santander and Gijón to Frankfurt, Bergamo, Bern and Coburg.
