«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.
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.
NOVEMBER 2013— BRANDENBURG, GERMANY— ONE OF THE LARGE ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITIONS BY JAVIER TORRES MALDONADO WILL BE PLAYED DURING THE NEXT EDITION OF THE BRANDEMBURGER BIENNALE BY THE BRANDENBURGER SYMPHONIKER AS A PART OF THE DA CAPO PRIZE, AWARDED BY THE COMPOSER IN 2012.
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.
More details will be given soon.
SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN —NEW WORK FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET FOR THE 5th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGMA PROJECT QUARTET: FIRST WORLD PERFORMANCE IN 2013 (WORK FOR SAXOPHONE QUARTET, COMMISSIONED BY SIGMA PROJECT QUARTET AND CONACULTA.)
NEW WORK COMMISSIONED BY SIGMA PROJECT QUARTET AND CONACULTA.
Javier Torres Maldonado will compose a new piece for the 5th. Anniversary of the Sigma Project Quartet. The first world performance will take place in the San Sebastian Festival, Spain. More details will be given soon.
MEXICO —NEW WORK FOR WIND QUINTET, COMMISSIONED BY THE MEXICO CITY WIND QUINTET AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR CULTURE AND ARTS OF MEXICO, FIRST WORLD PERFORMANCE IN SEPTEMBER 2013.
NEW WORK COMMISSIONED BY THE MEXICO CITY WIND QUINTET.
Javier Torres Maldonado will compose a new piece for one of the must important Mexican chamber groups. The first world performance will take place in September 2013. More details will be given soon.
PARIS — A POSTAL CARD FOR FOR THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENSEMBLE ALEPH — DUNOIS THEATER, 4.06.2013
NEW WORK TO THE ENSEMBLE ALEPH.
NEW COMPOSITION: A POSTAL CARD FOR FOR THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ENSEMBLE ALEPH.
The concert will take place on TUESDAY 04.06.2013, at 7PM in the Théatre Dunois, 7 rue Louise Weiss, Paris - 13th arrondissement
04.05.2013,CASA DEL SUONO, PARMA, ITALY, MASTERCLASS IN COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER ASSISTED COMPOSITION.
04.05.2013, CASA DEL SUONO OF PARMA, ITALY, MASTERCLASS IN COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER ASSISTED COMPOSITION.,
04.2013, NOVEMBER, SEMINAR IN COMPOSITION, CNTM (KERNEL STUDIOS), MILAN, ITALY. .
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 - IV INTERNATIONAL MASKFEST 2013, TIENTO, FOR SOLO CELLO AND ALBORADA FOR SOPRANO SAXOPHONE. NICOLA BARONI, (VIOLONCELLO) AND MICHELE SELVA (SAXOPHONE).
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:
15.03.2013, HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK (GROSSER SAAL), BASEL, ESPIRA I, II, FOR VIOLIN, VILONCELLO, PIANO AND GUITAR.VITTORIA PAGANI, guitar, MOMOKO KAWAMOTO, violin, SIMON THOMPSON, violoncello, ALECK CARRATTA piano.
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.
15 & 16.03.2013, CONSERVATORY OF TRENTO, ITALY, MASTERCLASS IN COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER ASSISTED COMPOSITION.,
15 & 16.03.2013, CONSERVATORY OF TRENTO, ITALY, MASTERCLASS IN COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER ASSISTED COMPOSITION.
15 & 16.03.2013, CONSERVATORY OF TRENTO, ITALY, MASTERCLASS IN COMPOSITION AND COMPUTER ASSISTED COMPOSITION.,
28.02.2013, MILAN, LA SCALA SHOP (LA SCALA OPERA THEATER) - CONFERENCE: JAVIER TORRES MALDONADO AND CARLO GOLDSTEIN, QUEL CHE RESTA DEL '900.-IL CORRIERE MUSICALE, 18,30.
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
18.01.2013, HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK (GROSSER SAAL), BASEL, ESPIRA I, II, FOR VIOLIN, VILONCELLO, PIANO AND GUITAR.VITTORIA PAGANI, guitar, MOMOKO KAWAMOTO, violin, SIMON THOMPSON, violoncello, ALECK CARRATTA piano.
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.
NEW PAPER: RELAZIONI PLURIDIMENSIONALI FRA SUONO, SCRITTURA STRUMENTALE, ORCHESTRAZIONE AUTOMATICA E COMPOSIZIONE ELETTROACUSTICA IN UN POSIBLE DÍA, QUASI UN RADIODRAMMA — VOLUME ARTE, SUONO, RELAZIONI TRA SCIENZA E COMPOSIZIONE MUSICALE, EDITED BY CESARE BELTRAMI. PUBLISHER: FRANCO ANGELI.
NEW PAPER: RELAZIONI PLURIDIMENSIONALI FRA SUONO, SCRITTURA STRUMENTALE, ORCHESTRAZIONE AUTOMATICA E COMPOSIZIONE ELETTROACUSTICA IN UN POSIBLE DÍA, QUASI UN RADIODRAMMA.
Volume: Arte, suono, relazioni tra scienza e composizione musicale, edited by Cesare Beltrami. Publisher: Franco Angeli.
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.
NEW CD — ORIOR, NORA GARCIA, PIANO. NEW CD — NEW PIECE FOR VIOLA DA GAMBA AND ELECTROACOUSTIC INTERACTIVE SYSTEM, GUIDO PONZINI, VIOLA DA GAMBA. ARCHIVES 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 PERFORMANCES SINCE 2008, COMMISSIONS...
