José Luis Turina
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José Luis Turina is a Spanish composer, grandson of Joaquín Turina
.
He studied composition under Antón García Abril
, Román Alís
, Rodolfo Halffter
and Carmelo Bernaola at the conservatories of Barcelona and Madrid, and then, with a grant from the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs for studying at the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome, he attended the classes in composition given by Franco Donatoni
at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
In 1981, his work Meeting Point won the First Prize in the International Composition Contest organised by the Orchestra of the Valencia Conservatory to mark their first centenary. In 1986 he won the First Prize of the Musical Composition Contest “Queen Sofía”, from the Ferrer Salat Foundation, with his piece Ocnos (orchestral music on poems by Luis Cernuda). He was awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de Música
for composition in 1996.
Teacher of Harmony in the Conservatories of Cuenca and Madrid since 1981, in 1983 he was designated technical advisor of the Ministry for Education and Science, for the reformation of musical teaching in the realm of the new education law of 1990. In February 2001 he was appointed Artistic Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, and in 2004 he became the President of the Spanish Association of Youth Orchestras.
In September 2000 the world premiere of his opera D. Q. (Don Quijote in Barcelona), on a text by Justo Navarro and in a production by La Fura dels Baus
, took place in the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain). In November 2001 the Tokyo String Quartet
played with great success the world premiere of his string quartet “Clémisos y Sustalos”, written as a commission for them. In October 2004, the Brodsky Quartet
premiered his strinq quartet “The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross” in Cadiz. In January 2006, he was the focus of the Contemporary Music Cycle of the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, which played 18 of his compositions, and released both an extensive biographical study and a CD of five of his orchestral pieces.
Orchestral
Concertante
Choir & Orchestra
Choir
Accompanied voice
Chamber
Solo
Discography (selection)
Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina was a Spanish composer of classical music.-Biography:Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy . He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid...
.
He studied composition under Antón García Abril
Antón García Abril
Antón García Abril is a Spanish composer and musician. In 1997 Plácido Domingo created the role of Lucero in his Divinas Palabras at the Teatro Real in Madrid.-Biography:...
, Román Alís
Román Alís
Román Alís was a Spanish composer....
, Rodolfo Halffter
Rodolfo Halffter
Rodolfo Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer.-Life:Born in Madrid, Spain into a family of musicians, he was the brother of Ernesto Halffter and uncle of Cristóbal Halffter, also composers. His father Ernesto Halffter Hein came from Königsberg, Germany...
and Carmelo Bernaola at the conservatories of Barcelona and Madrid, and then, with a grant from the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs for studying at the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome, he attended the classes in composition given by Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...
at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
In 1981, his work Meeting Point won the First Prize in the International Composition Contest organised by the Orchestra of the Valencia Conservatory to mark their first centenary. In 1986 he won the First Prize of the Musical Composition Contest “Queen Sofía”, from the Ferrer Salat Foundation, with his piece Ocnos (orchestral music on poems by Luis Cernuda). He was awarded Spain's Premio Nacional de Música
Premio Nacional de Música
The Premio Nacional de Música forms part of the annual National Awards in Spain....
for composition in 1996.
Teacher of Harmony in the Conservatories of Cuenca and Madrid since 1981, in 1983 he was designated technical advisor of the Ministry for Education and Science, for the reformation of musical teaching in the realm of the new education law of 1990. In February 2001 he was appointed Artistic Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, and in 2004 he became the President of the Spanish Association of Youth Orchestras.
In September 2000 the world premiere of his opera D. Q. (Don Quijote in Barcelona), on a text by Justo Navarro and in a production by La Fura dels Baus
La Fura dels Baus
La Fura dels Baus is a Catalan theatrical group founded in 1979 in Barcelona, known for their urban theatre, use of unusual settings and blurring of the boundaries between audience and actor. "La Fura dels Baus" in Catalan means "vermin from the sewers"....
, took place in the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain). In November 2001 the Tokyo String Quartet
Tokyo String Quartet
The is an international string quartet.The group formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. The founding members attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where they studied with Professor Hideo Saito. Soon after its formation the Quartet won First Prizes at the Coleman Competition,...
played with great success the world premiere of his string quartet “Clémisos y Sustalos”, written as a commission for them. In October 2004, the Brodsky Quartet
Brodsky Quartet
The Brodsky Quartet is a British string quartet, in existence since 1972, though only Ian Belton and Jacqueline Thomas are original members.In addition to performing classical music, and in particular the classic string quartet repertoire of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Bartók and Shostakovich,...
premiered his strinq quartet “The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross” in Cadiz. In January 2006, he was the focus of the Contemporary Music Cycle of the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, which played 18 of his compositions, and released both an extensive biographical study and a CD of five of his orchestral pieces.
Selected works
Opera & stage works- Ligazon (1981-82), chamber opera in one act and 5 scenes, based on a play by Ramón del Valle-InclánRamón del Valle-InclánRamón María del Valle-Inclán y de la Peña , Spanish dramatist, novelist and member of the Spanish Generation of 98, is considered perhaps the most noteworthy and certainly the most radical dramatist working to subvert the traditionalism of the Spanish...
, premiered 2 July 1982, in Cuenca. - La raya en el agua (1995-95). Premiere: 26 September 1996, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
- D.Q. (Don Quijote en Barcelona) (1998-99); Opera in 3 acts, based on Don Quixote by CervantesCervantes-People:*Alfonso J. Cervantes , mayor of St. Louis, Missouri*Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, 16th-century man of letters*Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban composer*Jorge Cervantes, a world-renowned expert on indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse cannabis cultivation...
; libretto by Justo Navarro, staged by La Fura dels BausLa Fura dels BausLa Fura dels Baus is a Catalan theatrical group founded in 1979 in Barcelona, known for their urban theatre, use of unusual settings and blurring of the boundaries between audience and actor. "La Fura dels Baus" in Catalan means "vermin from the sewers"....
at the LiceuLiceuThe Gran Teatre del Liceu , or simply Liceu in Catalan and Liceo in Spanish, is an opera house on La Rambla in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain...
, Barcelona. (2 October 2000) - Tour de Manivelle (2006-2007), music theatre work for actress, orchestra and video, texts by the composer and five short films by Segundo de ChomónSegundo de ChomónSegundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz was a pioneering Spanish film director. He produced many short films in France while working for Pathé Frères and has been compared to Georges Méliès, due to his frequent camera tricks and optical illusions.-Selected filmography:*1902: Choque de trenes,...
. Premiere: May 2008, Teatro de la ZarzuelaTeatro de la ZarzuelaThe Teatro de la Zarzuela is a theatre in Madrid, Spain. The theatre is today mainly devoted to zarzuela , as well as operetta and recitals. In the past, in the city's long absence of an opera theatre , this was Madrid's theatre where most major opera performances were shown...
, Madrid.
Orchestral
- Punto de encuentro (1979)
- Pentimento (1983)
- Fantasía sobre una Fantasía de Alonso Mudarra (1989)
- El arpa y la sombra (1991)
- Música fugitiva (1992)
- Fantasía sobre doce notas (1994)
- Dos danzas sinfónicas (1996)
- La Commedia dell'Arte (2007)
Concertante
- Ocnos (orchestral music on poems by Luis Cernuda) (1982-84)
- Concierto para violín y orquesta (1987)
- Variaciones y desavenencias sobre temas de Boccherini (1988), concerto for harpsichord and orchestra
- Concierto para piano y orquesta (1997)
- Concerto da chiesa (1998), for cello and strings
- Cuatro sonetos de Shakespeare (2001-2002), for soprano and orchestra
Choir & Orchestra
- Exequias (In memoriam Fernando Zóbel) (1984), for cello and strings
- Musica ex lingua (1989), on texts by Agustín García Calvo, Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora, José Bergamín, Ramón del Valle-Inclán y Francisco de Quevedo
- Tres villancicos (2006)
Choir
- Para saber si existo (1979), on poems by Gabriel Celaya
- Per la morte di un capolavoro (1995), on a poem by Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Canzon de cuna pra Rosalía Castro, morta (2003), on poems by Rosalía de Castro y Federico García Lorca
- Ritirata notturna (2009)
Accompanied voice
- Epílogo del misterio (1979), on poems by Gabriel Celaya (mezzosoprano and piano)
- Primera antolojía (1979), on poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez (soprano and piano)
- Tres sonetos (1992), on poems by Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora y Francisco de Quevedo (low voice, clarinete, violin and piano)
- Tres poemas cantados (1993), on poems by Federico García Lorca (soprano and piano)
- Canción apócrifa (1994), on a poem by Antonio Machado (soprano and piano)
- Cinco canciones amatorias (1994), on poems by catalan writers of 14th-16th centuries (soprano and piano or strings)
- En forma de cuento (1994), on a poem by Rafael Alberti
Chamber
- Movimiento (1978), for violin and piano
- Crucifixus (1978), for 20 strings and piano
- Tres tercetos (2003), for violin, cello and piano
- Homenaje a Cesar Franck (1979), for wind quintet
- Iniciales (1980), for flute and piano
- Título a determinar (1980), for septet
- Fantasía sobre "Don Giovanni" (1980), for piano four-hands
- Trio (1982), for violin, cello and piano
- Variaciones sobre dos temas de Scarlatti (2005), for sextet
- Cuarteto en sol (1985), for string quartet
- La Commedia dell'Arte (1986), for flute, viola and piano, and (1990), for flute, viola and harp
- Variaciones sobre un tema de Prokofiev (1986), for bassoon and piano
- Sonata da chiesa (1986-87), for viola and piano
- Divertimento, aria y serenata (1987), for viola octet, and (1991), for cello octet
- Dos duetos (1988), for cello and piano, and (1992), for viola and piano
- Divertimento, aria y serenata for 8 violas (1987)
- Kammerconcertante (1988), for flute in g, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello and double-bass
- Seis metaplasmos (1990), for two violins
- Variaciones y tema (series 1 & 2), sobre el Tema con variaciones "Ah, vous dirai-je, maman!", de W. A. Mozart (1990), for violin and piano, and (2008), for two pianos
- Túmulo de la mariposa (1991), clarinet, cello and piano
- Sonata y Toccata (1991), for piano four-hands
- Rosa engalanada (1992), for flute and guitar
- Cuatro cuartetos (1994), for basset-horn quartet
- Tres palíndromos (1996), for piano four-hands
- Scherzo para un hobbit (1997), for quintet
- PasoDoppio (1999), for clarinet and cello
- Paráfrasis sobre "Don Giovanni" (2000), for cello octet
- Clémisos y Sustalos (2001), for string quartet
- Tres tercetos (2003), for violin, cello and piano
- Octeto de agua (2004), wind octet
- Las siete últimas palabras de Jesucristo en la cruz (2004), for string quartet
- Sonata (2004), for violin and piano
- Viaggio di Parnaso (2005), for violin, cello and piano
- Cinco quintetos (2005), for brass quintet
- Hércules y Cronos (2008), for brass and percussion ensemble
Solo
- Copla de cante jondo (1980), for guitar
- ¡Ya "uté" ve...! (1982), for piano
- En volandas (1982), for cello
- Dubles (1983), for flute
- Scherzo (1986), for piano
- Amb "P" de Pau (1986), for piano
- Cinco preludios a un tema de Chopin (1987), for piano
- Cuatro estudios en forma de pieza (1989), for guitar
- Cuatro estudios en forma de pieza (1989), for guitar
- Due essercizi (1989), for harpsichord
- Punto de órgano (1990), for organ
- Notas dormidas (1992), for harp
- Monólogos del viento y de la roca (1993), for guitar
- Preludio sobreesdrújulo (1994), for guitar
- Toccata (Homenaje a Manuel de Falla) (1995), for piano
- L'art d'être touché par le clavecin (Sonata para clave) (2000), for harpsichord
- Homenaje a Isaac Albéniz (I. Jaén) (2001), for piano
- Partita (2001), for double-bass
- Catdenza (2003), for clarinet
- Soliloquio (in memoriam Joaquim Homs) (2004), for piano
- Saeta (2006), for marimba
- Homenaje a Isaac Albéniz (II. León) (2009), for piano
- Dos cuadros de Marc Chagall (2009), for violin
- Homenaje a Isaac Albéniz (III. Salamanca) (2010), for piano
- Arboretum (2010), for guitar
Discography (selection)
- Crucifixus (1978), for 20 strings and piano
- Epílogo del misterio (1979), on poems by Gabriel Celaya (mezzosoprano and piano)
- Punto de encuentro (1979), for orchestra
- Primera antolojía (1979), on poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez (soprano and piano)
- Copla de cante jondo (1980), for guitar
- Fantasía sobre "Don Giovanni" (1980), for piano four-hands
- Iniciales (1980), for flute and piano
- En volandas (1982), for solo cello
- Trio (1982), for violin, cello and piano
- Pentimento (1983), for orchestra
- Ocnos (orchestral music on poems by Luis Cernuda) (1982-84), for speaker, cello and orchestra
- Variaciones sobre dos temas de Scarlatti (2005), for sextet
- Amb "P" de Pau (1986), for piano
- Scherzo (1986), for piano
- Concierto para violín y orquesta (1987)
- Fantasía sobre una Fantasía de Alonso Mudarra (1989), for orchestra
- Musica ex lingua (1989), for choir and orchestra
- Due essercizi (1989), for harpsichord
- El arpa y la sombra (1991), for orchestra
- Música fugitiva (1992), for orchestra
- Rosa engalanada (1992), for flute and guitar
- Monólogos del viento y de la roca (1993), for guitar
- Fantasía sobre doce notas (1994), for orchestra
- Dos danzas sinfónicas (1996), for orchestra
- Concierto para piano y orquesta (1997)
- Scherzo para un hobbit (1997), for quintet
- D.Q. (Don Quijote en Barcelona) (1998-99), opera
- L'art d'être touché par le clavecin (Sonata para clave) (2000), for harpsichord
- Homenaje a Isaac Albéniz (I. Jaén) (2001), for piano
- Octeto de agua (2004), wind octet
- Soliloquio (in memoriam Joaquim Homs) (2004), for piano
- Cinco quintetos (2005), for brass quintet
- La Commedia dell'Arte (2007), for orchestra
- Homenaje a Isaac Albéniz (II. León) (2009), for piano