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Berlin 
19/03/2022 Music

The Catalan composer Hèctor Parra releases “Wanderwelle” in Germany

The play by the Catalan composer is a thirty-minutes monodrama for baritone and orchestra, and it will be premiered at the Cologne Philharmonic (Germany) on Saturday, March 19th. The WDR Symphony Orchestra, directed by Andris Poga and with the baritone Christian Miedl, will perform the play.
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BARCELONA 
22/11/2020 paperllull

Raquel García-Tomás: ‘Today’s music needs to become part of a national repertoire’

We interview Raquel García-Tomás, a young interdisciplinary creator and composer who has just won the National Music Prize for the opera 'Je suis narcissiste' and who has just premiered at the Liceu 'Per precaució', a piece composed during confinement.
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23/08/2020 paperllull

Pop and activism, an explosive combination

Pop music has always reflected the times we live in. So, what does music in Catalan say about our country? Lluís Gavaldà, the singer and composer from Els Pets, recalls the key names who have constantly sought to transform society through their music.
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Barcelona 
16/08/2020 paperllull

Catalan Urban Music

What’s behind the success of urban music in the Catalan Countries, with Rosalía as its international beacon? What are these artists’ relationship with the Catalan language? Luis Hidalgo reflects on these questions in this article.
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BARCELONA 
14/06/2020 paperllull

Mediterranean pines and robotic voices

Antònia Font smashed through the geographical and mental boundaries of Balearic music once and for all. In this article, Nando Cruz explains which voices are part of this new generation of ultra-local yet cosmic songwriters who have picked up the baton from the Mallorcan band.
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Barcelona 
19/04/2020 paperllull

Musical composition in today’s Catalonia: a broken voice and a new song

Musician and composer Joan Magrané Figuera paints a general, generalist picture of the current – and not-so-current – Catalan musical composition scene from generation to generation, maestro to maestro.
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Montpellier 
24/11/2018 Music

Barcelona Modern Project and Placa Base perform at Turbulences Sonores contemporary music festival in Montpellier

The 2018 edition of this biennial showcase of contemporary and avant‑garde music shines a spotlight on the Pirineus Mediterrània Modern Project, which brings together the international composition course created by Demian Luna at the Institut français in Barcelona and the Barcelona Modern Festival
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Alger, Algeria  
23/02/2018 Music

Musicians Chicuelo and Mezquida take their Conexión to Algeria

On 23rd February the Boualem Bessaih opera house in Algiers will be the venue for the performance by the pianist from Menorca Marco Mezquida and the Catalan guitarist Chicuelo. In a performance organized jointly by the Institut Ramon Llull and the Agence Algérienne pour le Rayonnement Culturel (AARC), in collaboration with the Mediterranean Fair of Manresa, the musicians will be presenting Conexión, a disc that fuses jazz with flamenco.
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London 
25/04/2015 Music

Mishima at Scala

Having previously been a hit at The Great Escape and Liverpool Sound City, pop-rock band Mishima come back to the UK to present their latest album, 'L'ànsia que cura' with Rock Sin Subtítulos. Don't miss the chance to see this internationally renowed band at Scala on Saturday 25 April.  
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Germany and Austria 
31/10/2014 Performing

A weekend of Catalan dance, music and film in Germany and Austria

Moreover, Pere Faura’s dance company is performing this Friday at the MOVE! Festival in Krefeld, with the show “Sin baile no hay paraíso”. This festival previously programmed another dance company founded in Catalonia on 18th and 19th October: Thomas Noone Dance, performing “Watch me”, “As if I”, “Brutal Love Poems” and “Alice”. Later, on 19th November, Sònia Sánchez will present Le ça. El ello there and ...
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