last update: 25 October 2022
PROJECTS 2022-23
Music theatre, ópera and staging concerts CEGUEIRA link
16 April 2023, Porto (premiere) Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa 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 News blog
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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.
full biography 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) 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) 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 Concerts 2023 27 February 2023 Viena, Austria CALA (for soprano saxophone) dedicated to Elisa Urrestarazu. Privat Universität Maz 2023 Nerja, Spain CALA (for soprano saxophone) dedicated to Elisa Urrestarazu. Museo de Nerja 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 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) 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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