last update: 17 May 2023

MOOD for solo tapping cello

17 May 2023
Wattens, Austria
Wattens, Beñetage, 18h30
Listening Closely Festival
Valerie Fritz (cello)
MOOD for solo tapping cello
Link

TED TALK
Innsbruck

I have been invited to give a TED TALK in Innsbruck, Austria on May 13th! 🌍
I will share some insights about music creation and the creative process. I will also talk about what it means to pursue a career in the arts today.
Join me on May 13th in Innsbruck! 🙌"
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DECONSTRUCTING BEAUTY
Have you ever wondered what beauty is and where it originates from? As Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges said: "An afternoon, a twilight, a shadow wants to tell us something; the fact that we cannot express it in words is perhaps the aesthetic fact." In other words, beauty is difficult to define with words, yet it is something that we can all feel and admire. In fact, beauty is a concept that serves as a connector to understand the world around us, a bridge between our mind, our feelings, and reality. Like music, we do not need to define beauty to enjoy and appreciate it. In this talk, we will explore the origin of beauty and how we construct it through our experience. Join me on this journey to deconstruct beauty and discover what it truly means to us.

Interview

​La entrevista más reciente que tuve con Eva Maria Camacho en Canal 7 de San Luis Potosí, México! Comparto detalles sobre mi trayectoria musical tanto en Europa como en México.

The latest interview I had with Eva Maria Camacho on Channel 7 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico! I share details about my musical career both in Europe and Mexico.

9 March 2023

PLEXUS for sax and electronics
American premiere

The piece "PLEXUS" was composed in 2009 and is one of the most performed works in Fuentes' catalog. It was originally premiered at the acoustic dome of the KUBUS in Karlsruhe.

Now, it will be presented in Texas at a concert by the New Music New Mexico ensemble, conducted by composer José Luis Hurtado and featuring saxophonist Edwin Anthony.

7 March 2023

Fear - No sign of the wind
Work in progress
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I am now in the process of creating a new composition for saxophone and ensemble, which is dedicated to Andreas Mader and the Windkraft Ensemble. The piece is scheduled to be performed in Innsbruck in May.
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​Wind instruments, and particularly the saxophone, possess a unique quality of sound that I would define as "spoken". This phonetic characteristic of the saxophone connects music with our perception of language, which I explore in my works as a psychoacoustic element. Air, voice, words, and guttural sounds are like the multifaceted voice of a character enclosed in a "sonic poem", which I use to create an expressive auditory experience.

4 March 2023

MONDRIAN ENSEMBLE IN CZECH REPUBLIC

New performance of Halluzination 02, an hypnotic piano quartet composed in 2014 by Arturo Fuentes. 

Hear the whole piece in YouTube

INFO: 
31 October 2022
Olomouc, Czech Republic
HALLUZINATION 02
Mondrian Ensemble (Swizerland)
Music Olomouc Festival, 20h. ​

Jump! (work in progress)
New scenic project is coming, first production meetings now...

Jump!
10 ragioni per saltare

Spettacolo musicale per voce sola in nove quadri, 
da una idea di Laura Catrani

Laura Catrani - soprano
Beniamino Sidoti - testi
Arturo Fuentes - musica
Elena Russo Arman - regia 

CALA  for saxophone soprano
Premiere in Sevilla, November 2022

After several meetings and recordings near the sea, the new work for Elisa Urrestarazu Capellán will finally be premiered in Spain! 
Seville, Espacio Turina, December 12, 2022.
With the support of the cultural funds of Innsbruck, Austria.

CALA (2022)
Once again, the notion of water returns to my palette of sounds. The fluid noise carves out its own path. I employ a metaphor here that encapsulates a way of thinking about music, composing it, and interpreting it: deciphering the world sonically. Through this "acoustic logic," I interpret, translate, and assign new categories to the forms and things that I experience, and the score is the "calm" (a space) where this logic is translated into sounds. The delicate sound of the saxophone keys, creating percussion, blends with the injected air, inventing a column of sounds on the immovable axis of time, an allegory of the South in the sea of Spain. AF

FLOR  - new video
Jugend Gitarrenorchester Baden-Württemberg (Germany)

Great premiere in Mexico by the JGO directed by Christian Wernicke playing FLOR (for microtonal guitar orchestra). 

Full version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrjBg4LCcJE​

MEXICAN TOUR 2022
Jugend Gitarrenorchester Baden-Württemberg (Germany)

The young and talented musicians of the JGO directed by Christian Wernicke will play FLOR (for microtonal guitar orchestra) written by Arturo Fuentes in several concerts in Mexico. 
21. Aug Konzert Sala Hermilo Novelo (CCOY), Cd Mex
22. Aug Konzert Opus 94 (IMER), Estudio A, Cd Mex
24. Aug Konzert Sala Xochipilli (FaM-UNAM), Cd Mex
25. Aug Konzert in Museo Regional de Huajuapan, Oaxaca
26. Aug Konzert in Museo Regional de Huajuapan, Oaxaca
28. Aug Konzert Teatro Cuauhtémoc, Pachuca, Hidalgo
29. Aug Konzert Iglesia San Antonio de Padua, Pachuca, Hidalgo
29. Aug Konzert Gavillero (granero del S.XVIII), Pachuca, Hidalgo
31. Aug   Konzert Conservatorio Nacional de Música (INBA), Cd Mex
01. Sep   Konzert Centro Cultural Casa Talavera (UACM), Cd Mex
04. Sep   Concierto Centro Cult. Mexiquense Bicentenario, Texcoco
Link: INSTAGRAM

​published: 25 August 2022

COMPOSITION MASTERCLASS 
Secretaría de Cultura de San Luis Potosí, México

13th - 24th June, composition masterclass by Arturo Fuentes, open to all composition students. The final pieces will be played by the Camerata de San Luis. 

Link: https://www.facebook.com/laboratoriosonido14​

​published: 8 June 2022

COMPOSITION MASTERCLASS 
University of Guanajuato, México

On the 11th and 12th May, Arturo Fuentes is invited to work with the students of the composition department of the University of Guanajuato, in the class of composer Victor Ibarra. 


​published: 29 April 2022

​​CARLOTAS ZIMMER - new video
Italian premiere 2021
This video production is only for private use and for documentation purposes; prohibited its public reproduction. 

New version of the opera monodrama CARLOTA'S BEDROOM, with Johanna Vargas, Alice Crepaz-Fuentes, Peter Rundel and the Haydn Orchestra.
Premiere 11-12 June 2021, Bolzano, Italy
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published: 23 April 2022

​​INFLUX - CD production
21 February 2022
Burgos, Spain
The SIGMA Project - saxophone quartet (Spain), has recorded five pieces of Mexican composers, including INFLUX by Arturo Fuentes. 
The new production will be presented in Mexico and Europe with concerts and radio broadcasts at the end of 2022. 
CD with pieces of: Victor Ibarra, Hilda Paredes, Javier Torres Maldonado, Hebert Vázquez and Arturo Fuentes.

​​GRACE NOTE (back to Vienna in 2022) link
20, 21, 22 October 2022 (New version)
Vienna, Austria
GRACE NOTE (new version 2022) a dance performance with PHACE ensemble and LIQUID LOFT company.
ODEON, Vienna

A dystopian narrative reflecting our world, where the language intercepts the electronic noise and the dance melts with the musical instruments. A new Viennese premiere with the music by composer Arturo Fuentes, the dance of the Liquid Loft company and the interpretation of the PHACE ensemble. 

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 Poème Maudit-link

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 Poème Maudit-link

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 have been recording two new pieces for flute and violin as part of my "Atlantic Vortex" cycle, where I delve into improvisation with instruments that I don't play professionally (as I am primarily a guitarist). The goal is to capture a finished piece in a single recording take, usually lasting between three and five minutes. Then, I transcribe the score directly from this recording. The creative process behind this approach aims to keep the "inner drive" free of conscious will, while still being limited by a context (such as a specific technique, rhythm, or effect). I should mention that I rehearse extensively and explore the instrument before the recording session. This method of composition allows me to uncover new dramaturgies in my music that might otherwise have gone unnoticed, as well as to generate new sounds and effects that I can integrate into future works. It's an exercise in intuition.
​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

Arturo Fuentes

Over the course of the past two decades, Arturo Fuentes (an Austrian citizen born in Mexico in 1975) has created a highly diverse catalog of over one hundred works. In recent years, he has ventured into creating scenography and directing his own music theater projects, such as the opera-monodrama Carlota (2018), which was dedicated to Sarah Maria Sun and the Klangforum Wien. His catalog includes chamber, vocal, and orchestral music, as well as mixed works with electronics and electroacoustic pieces, staged concerts, dance performances, and short films that he has directed and produced. 
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28 January 2023
Nerja, Spain
Museo de Nerja
JMCN 2012 Jornadas Música Contemporánea Nerja
CALA (for soprano saxophone) dedicated to Elisa Urrestarazu. 

8 February 2023
Lille, France
Radio Campus Lille, Musique aux pieds
SIGMA Project new CD
INFLUx for saxophone quartet​

23 February 2023
Texas, USA
The Shepherd School of Music at Rice
Calliopé Duo
Elizabeth McNutt, flute; Shannon Wettstein, piano
OMAGGIO (for flute and piano)

27 February 2023
Viena, Austria
CALA (for soprano saxophone) dedicated to Elisa Urrestarazu. 
Privat Universität MUK

5 March 2023
Ciudad de México
INTERVIEW
Testimonio de oidas, programa dirigido 
por Dulce Huet: 50 años del CIEM
​Radio UNAM
LINK

7 March 2023
Texas, USA
UNM University of New Mexico
New Music New Mexico Ensemble
José Luis Hurtado, conductor
Edwin Anthony, saxophone
PLEXUS for saxophone and soundtrack

24 March 2023
Puerto Rico, USA
Flores y Balas - XI festival
Conservatorio de Música, 19h.
Anna Margules (recorder flute)
TORO MARIPOSA (recorder sopranino & soundtrack)

16 April 2023,  (premiere)
Lisbon, Portugal
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
Centro Cultural de Belém
Artway culture & arts - production

11 May 2023,  (premiere)
Innsbruck, Austria
Haus der Musik
FEAR - No sing for the wind
Windkraft ensemble
Andreas Mader, saxophone
Link

13 May 2023,  (premiere)
Innsbruck, Austria
TED TALKwww.listeningclosely.eu/#/
"Deconstructing Beauty"
Link

17 May 2023
Wattens, Austria
Wattens, Beñetage, 18h30
Listening Closely Festival
Valerie Fritz (cello)
MOOD for solo tapping cello
Link

30 June 2023
Mallorca, Spain
Neus Estarellas, piano
QUESTO MARE (piano and cello)

Dates soon
Switzerland
Ovid I 
Nora Bertogg (soprano)
Christof Denoth (guitar)

Past concerts (2022)

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
​ECLAT Poème Maudit-link

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) 

25 February 2022
Famalicão, Portugal
Staged concert: “A Fog Machine e Outros Poemas para o Teu Regresso”
Creación del proyecto: Nuno Aroso
Interpretación: Nuno Aroso y Juan Reyes
“Tirar o som do tempo” (for multi-percussion and actor)

11, 12 May 2022
Guanajuato, México
Masterclass with the students of the composition department of the University of Guanajuato, in the class of composer Victor Ibarra.

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

18 August - 8 Sept. (World Premiere)
Mexico City
Jugend Gitarrenorchester Baden-Württemberg. 
Premiere of FLOR (for microtonal guitar orchestra) 
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19 September 2022 (New version)
Bolzano, Italy
GRACE NOTE (new version 2022) a dance performance with PHACE ensemble and LIQUID LOFT company.
Transart Festival

15 October 2022 (World premiere)
Mexico City
Carrillón y la microbelleza
Rodrigo Cadet, conductor
Auditorio del MUAC, 12h
Commissioned by UNAM

20, 21, 22 October 2022 (New version)
Vienna, Austria
GRACE NOTE (new version 2022) a dance performance with PHACE ensemble and LIQUID LOFT company.
Odeon Theater

29 October 2022
Mexico City
SIGMA saxophone quartet (Spain)
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Sala Boari, 16h CD presentation
Sala Ponce 18h, concert

31 October 2022
Olomouc, Czech Republic
HALLUZINATION 02
Mondrian Ensemble (Swizerland)
Music Olomouc Festival, 20h. 

11 November 2022
Mexico City
QUIMERA (for harp) dedicated to Elisabeth Plank. 
World premiere, Festival de arpa

12 November 2022
Sevilla, Spain
CALA (for soprano saxophone) dedicated to Elisa Urrestarazu. World premiere
Concert with Taller Sonoro ensemble.
Espacio Turina

13 November 2022
Morelia, México
QUIMERA (for harp) dedicated to Elisabeth Plank. 
Festival de Morelia

17 November 2022
Porto, Portugal
Estudio de multipercusión
Dedicado a Miquel Bernat
​Grabación

2 December 2022
Paris, France
OMICRÓN XXI (Pilar Rius & Elisa Urrestarazu)
Colegio de España
Ruido de Levante (e-guitar & saxophone)

5 December 2022
San Luis Potosí, México
Instituto Potosino de Bellas Artes, 18:30
Conversatorio académico: La influencia del barroco en las músicas tradicionales y contemporáneas. 

8 December 2022
San Luis Potosí, México
Templo de San Agustín, 20h.
Festival de música antigua y barroca.
FUENTES BARROCO: Concierto del Premio "Julián Carrillo" 20 de Noviembre. Stay in Mexico - Opera 360, versión instrumental.
Camerata de San Luis, Coro Cantera
Dir. Arturo Fuentes

18 December 2022
Malaga, Spain
CALA (for soprano saxophone) dedicated to Elisa Urrestarazu. 
Centro Pompidou

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