Agustí Fernández
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Agustí Fernández (* 1954 in Palma ) is a Spanish pianist of modern creative and new improvisation music as well as a composer .
Live and act
Fernández received classical piano lessons as a child and became a professional musician at the age of thirteen. When he discovered the music of Cecil Taylor and Iannis Xenakis , he turned to the avant-garde. He began studying music in Barcelona before continuing with Xenakis in France in 1978. As a soloist, he received international attention for the first time at the second Biennale of Young Creative Artists in Thessaloniki in 1987, and then appeared at most of the most important festivals in Europe. In 1987 he also recorded his first solo album. He worked with numerous choreographers and wrote the music for their ballets, for example for Àngels Margarit, María Muñoz, Ramon Oller, Tomás Aragay and Margarita Guergué, and since 1998 especially for Andrés Corchero. In addition, he also composed theater, film and television music. Between 1989 and 1991 Fernández was the musical director of the TV program Glasnost. Together with Barbara Held, he organized the Metrònom International Experimental Music Week in Barcelona from 1997 to 1999 . Then he directed the Nous Sons Festival for contemporary music in Barcelona until 2006 .
Fernández founded the Orquestra del Caos and the Big Ensemble del Taller de Músics, both of which he directed. He was also a founding member of the Collectivo Improvisadors de Barcelona and led the Orqestra Improvisadors de Barcelona together with Joan Saura and Liba Villavecchia between 1998 and 2001. As an improviser, Fernández played with musicians such as Tom Cora , Butch Morris , Peter Kowald , Marilyn Crispell and Carlos Zingaro , Lê Quan Ninh , Wolfgang Reisinger , Christoph Irmer , Irene Aranda and Mat Maneri . Since 2002 he has been a member of both the Evan Parker Electro Acoustic Ensemble ( Memory / Vision 2002) and the Barry Guy New Orchestra. With Guy and Ramón López he forms the Trio Aurora, with Baldo Martínez and Ramón López Triez.
Fernández has been teaching as an associate professor for improvisation at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya since 2001 .
Prizes and awards
Fernández was awarded the Altaveu Prize in 2000. In 2010 the city of Barcelona awarded him its Premi Ciutat de Barcelona de música music prize . The album Aurora was named Album of the Year 2007 by the Spanish magazine Cuadernos de Jazz ; the same magazine had previously named its Ornette Coleman tribute Lonely Women as Album of the Year 2005. In 2012 he and his trio were nominated for the BMW Welt Jazz Award .
Discographic notes
- Agustí Fernández & Jo Krause Draco (Anacrusí 2008)
- Agustí Fernández, John Edwards & Mark Sanders Un llamp que no s'acaba mai (Psi 2007)
- Agustí Fernández, Barry Guy & Ramón López Aurora (Maya 2006)
- Agustí Fernández & Derek Bailey A Silent Dance (Incus 2005)
- Agustí Fernández Quartet Lonely Woman (with David Mengual, Liba Villavecchia, Jo Krause; Taller / Sirulita 2004)
- Agustí Fernández, Susie Ibarra & William Parker Live at the Joan Miró Foundation (Synergy 1998)
- 1 is not 1 (Nova Era 1998)
- Agustí Fernández & Big Ensemble del Taller de Músics Aura (Taller 1991)
- Celebration Ensemble (Fundacja Sluchaj !, 2017)
- Peter Evans , Agustí Fernández, Mats Gustafsson : A Quietness of Water ( Not Two Records , 2017)
- Spontaneous Soundscapes (Not Two, 2018), with Rafał Mazur , Artur Majewski
- Agustí Fernández & Sarah Claman : Antipodal Suite (Sirulita Records, 2018)
- Agusti Fernández / Liudas Mockunas : Improdimensions (NoBusiness, 2020)
Lexigraphic entry
- Xosé Aviñoa (ed.) Història de la música catalana, valenciana i balear: Diccionari AH Edicions 62, 2003; ISBN 9788429752830
Web links
- Web presence with discography
- Agustí Fernández at Allmusic (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fernández, Agustí |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palma |