«OUEST FRANCE», 03.02.2012
On retiendra particulièrement Javier Torres Maldonado et son magnifique Interstizi, pour violon et violoncelle. Une parenté avec la musique de chambre. C'est poignant et quasiment mystique, d'une pureté qui oblige à fermer les yeux pour mieux s'envoler.


GERHARD ROHDE, «NEUE MUSIKZEITUNG», JUNE 2010 (about the opening concert of the Witten Tage for New Music, WDR of Cologne, Germany)
The Arditti Quartet, an indispensable part of Witten, played the electrifying Cuarteto de cuerdas n. 1 by Javier Torres Maldonado, the Mexican composer living in Italy: five dense movements, caught between compression and expansion, often organized on principles that are almost mathematical.
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GIANLUIGI MATTIETTI, MUSICA, N. 217, JUNE 2010, (about the opening concert of the Witten Tage for New Music, WDR of Cologne, Germany).
This year the opening concert featured the Arditti Quartet, who played the Cuarteto de cuerdas n. 1 by Javier Torres Maldonado, one of the most interesting new works in the festival. The Mexican composer has built this quartet on a mirror structure, in five movements innervated with continuous developments, intertwining different musical processes, which generated a nervous matter, always full of tension but with highly refined timbre.

NEW VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MASIH (2012-2013), FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET, COMMISSIONED BY SIGMA PROJECT QUARTET AND CONACULTA
Sigma Project Quartet publkished a new video about the piece composed by Javier Torres Maldonado for the 5th. Anniversary of the Sigma Project Quartet: MASIH (2012-2013), FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET. The first world performance was scheduled on 25.08.2013 during Quincena Musical de San Sebastian.

JAVIER TORRES MALDONADO RECEIVES THE COMMANDE D'ETAT BY THE FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE FOR THE FOURTH TIME. NEW WORK TO BE COMPOSED (2013-2014): SECOND STRING QUARTET.
MORE DETAILS WILL BE GIVEN SOON.

PARIS, HEMISFERIOS ARTIFICIALES, FOR TWO INSTRUMENTAL GROUPS — ENSEM BLE ALEPH, CONCERT SEASSON OF THE ENSEMBLE ALEPH, THEATRE DUONIS, PARIS.
07.12.2013.

07.12.2013. Presentation of the new book Arte e Fisica del Suono by the authors of the different essays (John Chowning, Javier Torres Maldonado, Paolo Allia, Anna Dondi, Davide Bonsi), edited by Cesare Beltrami. Publisher: Franco Angeli (Turin). International Festival Il Suono Occulto, Casa del Suono, Parma.

Essay by Javier Torres Maldonado:

RELAZIONI PLURIDIMENSIONALI FRA SUONO, SCRITTURA STRUMENTALE, ORCHESTRAZIONE AUTOMATICA E COMPOSIZIONE ELETTROACUSTICA IN UN POSIBLE DÍA, QUASI UN RADIODRAMMA.

This article illustrates the use of automatic orchestration techniques, derived from the server application Orchidée, in the work Un posible día, quasi un radiodramma, composed between 2010 and 2011 by Javier Torres Maldonado. It sheds light on the derivation processes of musical materials at the base of this composition, as well as on different solutions of automatic orchestration, calculated from a brief sample recorded from a tam-tam.

For more details about Un posible dia visit THIS PAGE.

MASIH (2012-2013), FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET (VERSION WITH ELECTRONICS), COMMISSIONED BY SIGMA PROJECT QUARTET AND CONACULTA
Javier Torres Maldonado composed a new piece for the 5th. Anniversary of the Sigma Project Quartet in two versiones (with and without electronics): MASIH, FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET. The first world performance of the version with electronics will take place on December 2013 at the Guggenheim Foundation of Bilbao, Spain. More details will be given soon.

NEW VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MASIH (2012-2013), FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET, COMMISSIONED BY SIGMA PROJECT QUARTET AND CONACULTA
Sigma Project Quartet publkished a new video about the piece composed by Javier Torres Maldonado for the 5th. Anniversary of the Sigma Project Quartet: MASIH (2012-2013), FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET. The first world performance was scheduled on 25.08.2013 during Quincena Musical de San Sebastian.

20.03.2013,HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK (GROSSER SAAL), BASEL, ESPIRA I, II, FOR VIOLIN, VILONCELLO, PIANO AND GUITAR, SWISS PREMIERE.



VITTORIA PAGANI, guitar, MOMOKO KAWAMOTO, violin, SIMON THOMPSON, violoncello, SINFOROSA PETRALIA, piano.

JAVIER TORRES MALDONADO IS THE WINNER OF THE DA CAPO INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, BRANDENBURGER BIENNALE, GERMANY. The prize was awarded to the composer for his works ESFERAL, for 8 orchestral groups and electronics, OBSCURO ETIANTUM LUMINE, for violin and 3 orchestral groups, and for EXABRUPTO, for 3 instrumental groups, one pianist and one percussionist.

As part of the "Da Capo" Prize, in a concert scheduled during the V Branderburger Biennale on 13.10.2013 and for the first time in Europe will be played EXABRUPTO, for three instrumental groups, 1 pianist and 1 percussionist. The performance will be made by the Branderburger Symphoniker conducted by Michael Helmrath.

Link: 5. Brandenburger Biennale Preisträger

23.10.2013, MEXICO CITY. — IM WINDESWEBEN II (for solo French horn) and IM WINDESWEBEN III (for four wind instruments), works commissioned by the Mexico City Wind Quintet — FIRST WORLD PERFORMANCE — PAUL MILLER (French horn), MEXICO CITY WIND QUINTET, SALA OLLIN YOLIZTLI, MEXICO CITY.

17.10.2013, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA. ORIOR, FOR PIANO, AUDITORIUM OF THE CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA COOPERACION FLOREAL GORINI.
PIANO: NORA GARCIA.

LISTEN TO THE PIECE

MASIH (2012-2013), FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET, COMMISSIONED BY SIGMA PROJECT QUARTET AND CONACULTA
Javier Torres Maldonado composed a new piece for the 5th. Anniversary of the Sigma Project Quartet: MASIH, FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET. The first world performance will take place on 25.08.2013 during Quincena Musical de San Sebastian. Visit the web page clicking HERE.

ORIOR, FORTEPIANO VERSION

14.08.2013, KUOPIO, FINLAND.

KAORU IAMURA, FORTEPIANO.

NORDIC HISTORICAL KEYBOARD FESTIVAL, A HOMAGE TO FORTEPIANO, CHAMBER MUSIC HALL OF KUOPIO.

Clic here to listen to the piece and to visit the page dedicated to this work.

ORIOR, VERSION FOR FORTEPIANO.

KAORU IAMURA, FORTEPIANO. .

Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis
Address: Keizersgracht 633, Amsterdam
start: 16:45

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Ah, LE haPpy birtHday!
First world performance
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A POSTAL CARD FOR FOR THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENSEMBLE ALEPH.

04.06.2013, Théatre Dunois, Paris.
Ensemble Aleph.

04.05.2013, CASA DEL SUONO OF PARMA, ITALY, MASTERCLASS IN COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER ASSISTED COMPOSITION, INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL IL SUONO OCCULTO.

SUONO, VIRTUALITÀ, TECNOLOGIA E IMMAGINAZIONE: COMPORRE LA MUSICA OGGI, SEMINAR IN COMPOSITION, ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER ASSISTED ORCHESTRATION, LAST SESSION WITH ROCCO PARISI.

Soloist invited: Rocco Parisi, bass-clarinet (Dynamis Ensemble.)
(CNRT) Kernel Studios, Milan, Italy.

Clic HERE for detailed information.

20.03.2013, BOLOGNA, SALA SILENTIUM, TIENTO, FOR SOLO CELLO AND ALBORADA FOR SOPRANO SAXOPHONE.

NICOLA BARONI, (VIOLONCELLO) AND MICHELE SELVA (SAXOPHONE)

Tiento, version for violoncello and electronics:

Alborada, version for saxophone and electronics:

20.03.2013,HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK (GROSSER SAAL), BASEL, ESPIRA I, II, FOR VIOLIN, VILONCELLO, PIANO AND GUITAR, SWISS PREMIERE.



VITTORIA PAGANI, guitar, MOMOKO KAWAMOTO, violin, SIMON THOMPSON, violoncello, ALECK CARRATTA piano.

15 & 16.03.2013, CONSERVATORY OF TRENTO, ITALY, MASTERCLASS IN COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER ASSISTED COMPOSITION.,

28.02.2013,LA SCALA SHOP (LA SCALA OPERA THEATER), QUEL CHE RESTA DEL '900, LECTURE SERIES ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE NEW MUSIC ORGANIZED BY IL CORRIERE MUSICALE.

JAVIER TORRES MALDONADO (composer)

CARLO GOLDSTEIN, (conductor)

SIMEONE POZZINI, (presenter

Quel che resta del '900, continuità e fratture (article from il Corriere Musicale)

L'eterno '900 in tutti secoli, by Cecilia Malatera, il Corriere Musicale

25.01.2013

HEMISFERIOS ARTIFICIALES, FOR TWO INSTRUMENTAL GROUPS.
FIRST PERFORMANCE IN GERMANY

ENSEMBLE EL PERRO ANDALUZ
LENHART DOHMS, CONDUCTOR
STRAVINSKY SAAL, DONAUSCHINGEN.

25.01.2013

HEMISFERIOS ARTIFICIALES, FOR TWO INSTRUMENTAL GROUPS.
FIRST PERFORMANCE IN GERMANY

ENSEMBLE EL PERRO ANDALUZ
LENHART DOHMS, CONDUCTOR
DRESDEN, HOCHSCULE FUR MUSIK.

20.03.2013,HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK (GROSSER SAAL), BASEL, ESPIRA I, II, FOR VIOLIN, VILONCELLO, PIANO AND GUITAR, SWISS PREMIERE.



Festival Happy New Ears I - Lange Nacht der neuen Klange
Klaus Linder-Saal

VITTORIA PAGANI, guitar, MOMOKO KAWAMOTO, violin, SIMON THOMPSON, violoncello, ALECK CARRATTA piano.

SEMINAR IN COMPOSITION, CONSERVATORIO SUPERIOR DE MUSICA DE SALAMANCA, SPAIN.

More details will be given soon.

03.04.2014 — SALAMANCA, SPAIN —EL SUSPIRO DEL ANGEL, FOR 3 INSTRUMENTAL GROUPS AND ELECTROCAOUSTIC INTERACTIVE SUPPORT — FIRST PERFORMANCE IN SPAIN — ENSEMBLE DEL TALLER DE MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA OF THE CONSERVATORY OF SALAMANCA, CONDUCTED BY JOSE LUIS ESTELLES. FESTIVAL DE PRIMAVERA DE LA USAL.

CONSERVATORY OF PERPIGNAN, FRANCE —IM WINDESWEBEN II (for French horn) and IM WINDESWEBEN III (for four wind instruments) — FIRST PERFORMANCE IN FRANCE — PAUL MILLER (French horn), MEXICO CITY WIND QUINTET, CONSERVATORY OF PERPIGNAN.