JOSUÈ BLANCO
Interview for Cultural Resuena
Ouest france about my 1st string quartet Motýl
About Fjordens fortællinger
About l'Homme de la nuit:
About Iris, the sound of light:
Writings:
Josuè blanco
Balaguer
Graduate in History on the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), obtaining the mention in the speciality of Contemporary History.
Graduate in Composition at the Liceu Superior Conservatory of Music in Barcelona with Israel David Martínez.
Graduate at the Composition master program at
Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium in Aarhus with Niels Rønsholdt, Juliana Hodkinson and Simon Steen-Andersen.
Student of Organ and Choir conduction at Vestervig Kirkemusikskoler with Anders Gade.
I have also collaborated with Press-music as editor and critic, and also with the Academy of Fine Arts of Sabadell (Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell) as head of the Auditorium and music programming.
In the interpretative aspect, I'm the co-founder of two projects:
Cesi 133, an ensemble that works on contemporary improvisation, with close multidisciplinary relationships with painting, poetry and the sound research. With Cesi 133 I premiered works like Phonetic landscape 2 and Textures.
L'homme de la nuit, another multidisciplinary project carried out together with the plastic artist Gerard Torres, where painting and music are linked together in a synesthetic relationship. In this project, I premiered the works Thalassa I & II and Nocturne.
In May 2019 I won the First Prize of the 1st Composition Contest of the Quatuor à l'ouest Festival, Crozon with my first string quartet: Motýl.
In July 2019 I was resident artist at l'Estruch: Fàbrica de creació de les arts en viu, with the Project Iris: El so de la llum (Iris: The sound of light)
In May 2021 I won the First Prize of the Randers Kammerorkester KOMPONIST- KONKURRENCE 2021 with my piece Fjordens fortællinger.
In October 2021 I premiered my project Lyden af lys (The sound of light) on Your Rainbow Panorama (ARoS) with Ensemble Edge.
In October 2021 I was selected finalist in the XXXII Young Composers Award of the SGAE-CNDM Foundation 2021. With my piece Pan (Bread)
Obtaining the honorable mention Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga.
In October 2021 my work Sculptures of light and frequencies II was forming part of the Nordic Percussion festival, performed by Input Duo
I have also collaborated in the writing of the music for the short films William and Opkaldet for Potemkin Filmskole (Aarhus)
And Nunca volvió a ser primavera by Kevin Bran, produced by Terra Nova World.