last update: 28 Oct. 2021

PROJECTS 2022 
Music theatre, ópera and staging concerts

POÈME MAUDIT  link
5 February 2022 (World Premiere)
Stuttgart, Germany
Sporthalle, Stuttgart. ECLAT Festival
POÈME MAUDIT: Staged concert for a microtonal guitar quartet,
guitar ensemble and voice. With poems of Arthur Rimbaud. 
Aleph Gitarrenquartett, Jugend-Gitarrenorchester
Baden-Württenberg, Alice Crepaz-Fuentes (voice).
Music and staging by Arturo Fuentes
Eclat.org

​CEGUEIRA link
(Nov. 2022)
Music theatre for singer-actress and percussion quartet - 2022
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of José Saramago
ARTURO FUENTES | DRUMMING GRUPO DE PERCUSSÃO | RAQUEL CAMARINHA
Artway culture & arts - production
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STAY IN MEXICO - Ópera 360   link
(recording in nov. 2021 - staging in 2022)
Música de Arturo Fuentes
Libreto y concepto dramático de Yuriria Fanjul ​

News blog

POÈME MAUDIT  link
5 February 2022 (World Premiere)
Stuttgart, Germany

In Poème maudit Arturo Fuentes creates a sound work and a staging as if we were entering a Rimbaud dream, ecstatic by opium and Absinthe, with an expanded time and space. As in other scenic works by Fuentes, here we discover the dark psychology of a character, Rimbaud, on a sound journey.

Sporthalle, Stuttgart. ECLAT Festival
POÈME MAUDIT: Staged concert for a microtonal guitar quartet,
guitar ensemble and voice. With poems of Arthur Rimbaud. 
Aleph Gitarrenquartett, Jugend-Gitarrenorchester
Baden-Württenberg, Alice Crepaz-Fuentes (voice).
Music and staging by Arturo Fuentes
​Eclat.org

CONTROLADOR DEL UNIVERSO
UNIVERSE CONTROLLER (December 2021)

The great percussionist from Valencia, Spain, Miquel Bernat premiered in México City the new percussion concerto by Arturo Fuentes.  José Luis Castillo, another Valencian living in Mexico conducted the CEPROMUSIC ensemble. This piece, with some minimalistic touches, starts a new period in the music of Fuentes. 

4 December 2021, MEXICO CITY (World Premiere)
Concierto coreográfico para un percusionista
y dos grupos instrumentales (30 minutes)
Miquel Bernat, percussion
CEPROMUSIC Ensemble
José Luis Castillo, direction
Arturo Fuentes, staging and scenography

CARLOTAS ZIMMER - opera monodrama
​(Italian premiere in June 2021)

CARLOTAS ZIMMER
un’opera monodrama di Arturo Fuentes

(Carlota's Bedroom)
Musica, regia, scene, luci : Arturo Fuentes
Johanna Vargas: Carlota - voice and acting
Alice Crepaz-Fuentes: Carlota da bambina - acting 
Orquesta Haydn di Bolzano e Trento
Direttore: Peter Rundel 
Editore: LondonHall Editions, Austria
Script: Arturo Fuentes
Based on the book Noticias de Imperio, written by Fernando del Paso ​
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Italian premiere: 11-12.06.2021, 20h. 
Stadttheater / Teatro comunale - Studio theater 
Piazza Verdi 40 - Bolzano, Italy
https://www.haydn.it/eventi/carlotas-zimmer

​World premiere in 2018 by Sarah Maria Sun and Klangforum Wien, conducted by Johannes Kalitzker and directed by Arturo Fuentes - Klangspuren Schwaz, Austria.

LondonHall Editions, scores 50% off

LondonHall Editions, who has published all my catalogue since 10 years, starts a new campaign. 
Visit the webpage and have a look into these 24 soloist pieces!
www.londonhalleditions.com

​news date: 7 April. 2021

Atlantic Vortex cycle (2 new pieces)

I've been recording two new pieces for flute and violin from my "Atlantic Vortex" cycle, in which I explore the improvisation with instruments that I don't play professionally - I'm a guitarrist. The idea is to have a finished piece in a single recording take (usually between 3 and 5 minutes long). Then I write the score, taken exactly from this recording. The idea behind this creative process is to leave the "inner drive" free of will, but limited by a context (a technique, a rhythm, an effect) — I should say that I rehearse a lot and explore the instrument before the recording session. This approach to my composition allows me to find new dramaturgies in my music, that otherwise would have remained hidden, and also create new sounds and effects that I will later integrate into new works. An intuition exercise. 
​news date: 28 Nov. 2020

Carlota's Bedroom (2021)

The opera-monodrama premiered by Sarah María Sun and the Klangforum Wien at the Klangspuren Festival (2018), had its Mexican premiere in 2019. Now we expect a new staging by Arturo Fuentes in Italy, in the first half of 2021. More information very soon.

Visit the link:
La habitación de Carlota (Mexico)
​Carlotas Zimmer (Austria) 
​news date: 1 Nov. 2020

Cegueira (2021)

The new trailer directed by Arturo Fuentes for the show Cegueira (Blindness) has just come out. Based on the homonymous book by the Portuguese writer José Saramago (Nobel Prize winner), this show will be presented in Portugal by the Drumming Percussion Group, directed by Miquel Bernat. The staging of this music theatre is in the hands of Arturo Fuentes: a psychological drama in a pandemic time with white blindness, like a sea of milk, where the eyes of everybody seems healthy but only a woman can see (the main role in the show). Saramago expresses his critic point of view about humankind into a pandemic catastrophe: “I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”   Visit the YouTube link
​news date: 5 Nov. 2020

Ader (2021)

The last work for solo accordion that Arturo Fuentes wrote was in 2011. This new piece is dedicated to the great accordionist Krassimir Sterev (Klangforum Wien). Fuentes is inspired by the infinite networks of veins, as if they were ramifications of sounds. The piece has had the support of the Austrian government for its composition.

Here you can listen to GETMOVE (2011), performed by Luka Juhart:
LondonHall Editions
​news date: 7 Nov. 2020

Carrillo y la micro belleza (2021)

Julián Carrillo is a Mexican composer who died in 1965 at the age of 90, he was one of the pioneers of microtonalism at the beginning of the 20th century. His life is full of fantasy and mysticism. He was born in Ahualulco, a town in the middle of the desert, in the state of San Luis Potosí. However, he created a revolutionary theory and commissioned the construction of 16 microtonal pianos in Germany, which are a cornerstone of his research. Arturo Fuentes composes a work for these pianos, which are in the Carrillo Museum, and directs a documentary on the life of this composer. This project is supported by the UNAM and the Secretary of Culture of SLP and will have its premiere in July 2021.
​news date: 10 Nov. 2020

Carrillo - Retorno a Ahualulco. Documental (2021)

The teaser for this documentary has just been released. The desert spaces form the scenery of the life of this Mexican composer, full of contradictions and owner of unlimited creativity that led him to create his own microtonal theory at the beginning of the 20th century. A life that moves between politics, contacts with intellectuals and artists, and his town located in the desert, which he visited every now and then. An unknown character in Mexican musical culture, which the public will discover in this production.
​news date: 14 Nov. 2020

Work in progress

Poeta en Nueva York (song cycle for soprano and piano)

The Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was 32 years old when he traveled to New York (1929/1930), an almost initiatory journey where he would rediscover himself. The economic depression of 1929 definitely affected his poetic making, as well as the bigger picture of New York, the skyscrapers, the slums, and the Big Apple movement. Lorca was assassinated during the Franco regime, he was only 38 years old (1936). "Poet in New York" was published in Mexico and the United States in 1940. 

Arturo Fuentes has collaborated with the soprano Sarah Maria Sun and the pianist Alberto Rosado in the creation of several projects. On this occasion, Fuentes brings these two unique musicians together and dedicates the song cycle "Poet in New York" to them. The piece "Vuelta de paseo" (Walk back), which is the first poem in Federico García Lorca's book, has already been composed. The full hour-long cycle is scheduled for the end of 2021.
​news date: 25 Nov. 2020

About

In the course of these two decades Arturo Fuentes (Austrian citizen, born in México in 1975) has created a very diverse catalogue of over a hundred works. In the last years he started to create the scenography and to direct his own music theatre projects, like the opera-monodrama Carlota (2018) dedicated to Sarah Maria Sun and the Klangforum Wien. His catalogue consists of chamber, vocal and orchestral music and mixed works with electronics, as well as electroacoustic works, staged concerts, dance performances and short films that he has directed and produced.  
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Next concerts

21 January 2022
Logroño, Spain
La Rioja, VII Festival de música contemporánea
Anna Margules, recorder flute
Toro Mariposa (for recorder sopranino and soundtrack)
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5 February 2022 (World Premiere)
Stuttgart, Germany
Sporthalle, Stuttgart. ECLAT Festival
POÈME MAUDIT: Staged concert for a microtonal guitar quartet, guitar ensemble and voice. With poems of Arthur Rimbaud. 
Aleph Gitarrenquartett, Jugend-Gitarrenorchester Baden-Württenberg, Alice Crepaz-Fuentes (voice).
Music and staging by Arturo Fuentes

5 February 2022
Madrid, Spain
RTVE, entrevista con José Luis Besada
Miramondo Multiplo link
About: ECLAT festival, Premiere of Poème Maudit

20-21 February 2022
Burgos, Spain
CD recording with the saxophone quartet SIGMA. 
PLEXUS (for saxophone quartet) 

14 May 2022 (World Premiere)
Malaga, Spain
El cubo in live
Elisa Urrestarazu (saxophone)
New piece for saxophone

November 2022 (World Premiere)
Vienna, Austria
GRACE NOTE (new version 2022) a dance performance with PHACE ensemble and LIQUID LOFT company.

Past concerts 2021

6 March 2021
Málaga, Spain
Centre Pompodou
Elisa Urrestarazu (sax), Pilar Rius (e-guitar).
Ruido de levante, for saxophone and e-guitar

27 March 2021
Radio broadcast, RAI 3, Italy
INFINITO - Concerto doppio per violoncello, pianoforte e orchestra 
Francesco Dillon and Emanuele Torquati
link

14 May 2021
Münstereifel, Germany
Transeint Impuls Festival -live streaming-
Valerie Fritz (cello)
MOOD (for tapping cello)

16 May 2021
Salamanca, Spain
Conservatorio superior de Castilla y León. 16:30
-live streaming-
Jaime Bermejo, recorder
Toro Mariposa (recorder sopranino and soundtrack)

18 May 2021
Salamanca, Spain
Museo de arte contemporaneo DA2. 20:00
Jaime Bermejo, recorder
Toro Mariposa (recorder sopranino and soundtrack)

20 May 2021
Salamanca, Spain
Museo de arte contemporaneo DA2. 20:00
María Argüeso, piano
Disparate femenino (piano and soundtrack)

23 May 2021
Padova, Italy
Amici della musica di Padova
Michele Marco Rossi, cello
MOOD (for tapping cello)

11, 12 June 2021
Italian premiere
​CARLOTAS BEDROOM Opera monodrama with Johanna Vargas (soprano) in the main role and the actress Alice Crepaz-Fuentes as Carlota child. Italian premiere in Bolzano, Interpreted by the Haydn Orchestra conducted by Peter Rundel. Produced by OPER.A 21-22, Fondazione HAYDN. Composed, created and staged by Arturo Fuentes.
https://www.haydn.it/eventi/carlotas-zimmer

26 june 2021
Münstereifel, Germany
Transeint Impuls Festival -live streaming-
Valerie Fritz (cello)
MOOD (for tapping cello)

29 June 2021
Innsbruck, Austria
Valerie Fritz (cello)
Osterfestival Tirol, Haus der Musik, 15hr.
MOOD (for tapping cello)

27 August 2021
Belgium
Blikfabrik, Amberes
Aldo Aranda (percussion)
premiere of KUBEL

11 September 2021
Navarra, Spain
NAK Festival de música contemporanea link
Elisa Urrestarazu (sax), Pilar Rius (e-guitar).
RUIDO DE LEVANTE, for saxophone and e-guitar

11 September 2021
Madrid, Spain
FIMIM Festival Internacional de Música Iberoamericana de Madrid. 
Salón de actos. Casa de la Comunitat Valenciana en Madrid. 
Anna Margules (recorder)
TORO MARIPOSA (recorder sopranino & soundtrack)

1 October 2021
Guanajuato, Mexico
Festival Callejón del ruido link
Aldo Aranda (percussion)
KUBEL for percussionist and electronics

22 October 2021
Aveiro, Portugal
Teatro Aveirense - Staged Concert
“A Fog Machine e Outros Poemas para o Teu Regresso” 
De: Nuno Aroso
Encena: Juan Reyes
Interpretación: Nuno Aroso y Juan Reyes
Texto original: Gonçalo M. Tavares
Iluminacion: Pedro Fonseca
Musica: Arturo Fuentes “Tirar o som do tempo” (for multi-percussion and actor)

23 October 2021
Innsbruck, Austria
Haus der Musik - elektrorauschen, 20h.
Valerie Fritz - cello
MOOD (for tapping cello)
www.elektrorauschen.wordpress.com

27 October 2021
Berlin
Musikbrauerei 
Valerie Fritz - cello
MOOD (for tapping cello)
Berlin Prize for Young Artists
Valerei Fritz, winner with the Cello 360° program

28 October 2021
Coimbra, Portugal
Convento de São Francisco
“A Fog Machine e Outros Poemas para o Teu Regresso” 
“Tirar o som do tempo” (for multi-percussion and actor)
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4 December 2021
Mexico City
Auditorio Blas Galindo del Centro Nacional de las Artes, 19:00
Miquel Bernat (percussion), premiere of: CONTROLADOR DEL UNIVERSO - Concierto coreográfico", for percussion soloist and ensemble. 
Cepromusic ensemble conducted by José Luis Composers Castillo. Chávez, Revueltas and Enríquez on the program. 

10 December 2021
Castelo Branco, Portugal
Cineteatro Avenida
“A Fog Machine e Outros Poemas para o Teu Regresso”   
“Tirar o som do tempo” (for multi-percussion and actor)​

Work in progress 2021-22

90% of the concerts with FUENTES' music in 2021 have been cancelled due to COVID, however new works were commissioned and are being composed. Soon will be more information about the premieres starting at the end of the year, as far as the circumstances allow the venues to confirm the concerts (2021-2022).

Paradiso (for soprano and orquesta), Laura Catrani, soprano. Austria, Italy

Poeta en Nueva York (song cycle for soprano and piano), Sarah Maria Sun, voice; Alberto Rosado, piano. Austria. 

Carrillo y la micro belleza *STAGED CONCERT* (for 16 microtonal pianos), San Luis Potosí, México. 

Carrillón (for sextet and microtonal soundtrack), UNAM "Resilencia" project. México

Atlantic Vortex 1 (for flute and violin), Arturo Fuentes, flute and violin. México-Austria

Atlantic Vortex 2 (for flute and violin), Arturo Fuentes, flute and violin. México-Austria

Sentimi (for 2 bass clarinets), Duo Stump-Linshalm. Austria.

Godimi (for accordion), Krassimir Sterev, accordion. Austria.

Muovimi (for cello and contrabass), Phace ensemble, Austria.

Bevimi (for oboe), Markus Sepperer, oboe. Austria.

Assaporami (for harp), Elisabeth Plank, harp. Austria.

Coprimi (for horn and trumpet)​​​, Windkraft ensemble, Austria.

ON PREPARATION (2022) :
 
Cegueira *MUSIC THEATRE* Miquel Bernat (percussion), Drumming percussion group. Portugal. Based on the novel by José Saramago.

Poème Maudit *STAGED CONCERT* Aleph Gitarrenquartett, Staged concert for a microtonal guitar quartet, recorded voice and 28 performers. Texts of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. 

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