Agustí Charles

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Agustí Charles i Soler
Born (1960-07-12) 12 July 1960 (age 63)
Manresa, Spain
OccupationComposer
Years active2000–present

Agustí Charles i Soler (Catalan: [əɣusˈti ˈkaɾləz i suˈle]; Spanish: Agustín Charles Soler [aɣusˈtin ˈtʃaɾles soˈleɾ]; born 12 July 1960)[1][2] is a Spanish-born composer and scholar.[3]

Biography

Born in

Luigi Nono and Samuel Adler, as well as worked with other composers and conductors including Joan Guinjoan, Cristóbal Halffter, J.R. Encinar and Ros Marbà.[4]

Career

His work Seven Looks, inspired by the poems of

Jaime Martin.[7] In March 2011, the premiere of his second opera, Lord Byron: A summer without summer,[8] took place in the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany, while it was staged again in Barcelona the following year.[9] The libretto is by Marc Rosich with stage direction by Alfonso Romero Mora. In August 2012, the premiere of his third opera Java Suite took place in the Perelada Festival (Girona, Spain).[10]

Publications

He is also author of texts and books related to musical composition and analysis, among them: Análisis de la música española del siglo XX (2002), Dodecafonismo y serialismo en España (2005), Colección Instrumentación y orquestación clásica y contemporánea (5 vols) (2005–2012).[11]

Charles currently teaches composition at the Catalonia College of Music in Barcelona.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Agustí Charles i Soler | enciclopèdia.cat". www.enciclopedia.cat. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  2. ^ "MulesRasch Listing" Bio listing his date of birth. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Teachers of the Department of Theory, Composition and Conducting". Lists of people in the department. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Bio" Archived 14 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine Biography on the official website (English version). Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  5. ^ "History of the prize" Listing of previous prize winners, Charles is listed as Charles Augustine Soler under the second edition of the composition prize. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Staattheater Listing" Archived 19 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Description on the Darmstadt Staatstheater of the opera in German. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Record company official blog" Archived 19 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Listing on the Trito website of the album. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  8. ^ "Staatsstheater Document (english)" Detailed file explaining the rationale of the composition together with a CV. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  9. ^ Irurzun, Jose M. "Meet Lord Byron, Deviant: Agustí Charles' New Opera in Barcelona". Seen And Heard International. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  10. ^ "Listing" Archived 31 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine Details of the performance on the Òpera de Butxaca website. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  11. ^ "El Argonauta listing" Details on works published listed on the website of a specialist music bookshop. Retrieved 14 August 2014.