Bernat Vivancos i Farràs

Bernat Vivancos i Farràs (* 1973 in Barcelona ) is a contemporary Catalan composer , organist , pianist , choir director and music teacher. From 2007 to 2014 Vivancos was head of Escolania de Montserrat . Since 2003 he has been Professor of Composition and Orchestration at the ESMUC in Barcelona.

life and work

Bernat Vivancos studied with Ireneu Segarra at the Escola de Montserrat . He completed his piano studies with Maria Canals in her Ars Nova Academy and his composition studies with David Pedrós in Barcelona. He later deepened his musical studies for five years at the Paris Conservatory with Guy Reibel , Frédéric Durieux , Marc-André Dalbavie and Alain Louvier in orchestration and music analysis and with Lasse Thoresen in Norway.

In 2000 he received the first prize for electroacoustic music in Brussels for his composition Métamorphoses (“Metamorphoses”) . Since then, his music has been performed on European stages such as Amsterdam and Frankfurt am Main. Above all, his interest in choral music determined his further career as a composer. He composed El gran alquimista (2007, "The Great Alchemist") on a text by Miquel Desclot . His works Contemplació polièdrica de nu femení (2006, “Contemplation on a polyhedral female nude”) and La ciutat dels àngels (2002, “The City of Angels”) must also be mentioned.

Together with Arvo Pärt , Vivancos was Composer in Residence at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona in the 2014/2015 season . In 2019 Vivancos worked musically with international pop singers such as the Catalan flamenco pop singer Rosalía , who participated in the Goya competition with the Cor Jove de l'Orfeó Català (youth choir of the Orfeo Català) Me quedo contigo (“I stay with you “) Performed by the Los Chunguitos group . He also performed with Jennifer Lopez on their American tour entitled It's my party: a life celebration .

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Catalan contemporary music (20th Century AC - 21th Century AC). Generalitat de Catalunya, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved on April 9, 2020 (English, there a section on Bernat Vivancos).

Web links

Wikiquote: Bernat Vivancos i Farràs (ca) - Quotes

Literature by and about Bernat Vivancos i Farràs in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Bernat Vivancos i Farràs at Discogs (English)
Bernat Vivancos: Personal website of the artist. Archived from the original on September 29, 2019 ; accessed on April 10, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Generalitat de Catalunya: Bernat Vivancos i Farràs. In: Catalan contemporary music.
↑ ^a ^b Bernat Vivancos deixarà la direcció de l'Escolania de Montserrat a final de curs. In: Revista Musical Catalana. Archived from the original ; Retrieved April 9, 2020 (Catalan).
↑ Xavier Cervantes: Bernat Vivancos: "En aquesta nova etapa em consagraré totalment a la composicio". In: ara.cat. October 7, 2014, archived from the original on July 5, 2018 ; Retrieved April 9, 2020 (Catalan).
↑ Bernat Vivancos, compositor i professor de l'ESMUC, col·labora amb Jennifer López, després de treballar amb Rosalía. ESMUC, June 12, 2019, archived from the original on April 9, 2020 ; Retrieved April 9, 2020 (Catalan).

personal data
SURNAME	Vivancos i Farràs, Bernat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan composer, organist, pianist, choir director and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barcelona

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Generalitat de Catalunya: Bernat Vivancos i Farràs. In: Catalan contemporary music.

[:1-2] Bernat Vivancos deixarà la direcció de l'Escolania de Montserrat a final de curs. In: Revista Musical Catalana. Archived from the original ; Retrieved April 9, 2020 (Catalan).

[3] Xavier Cervantes: Bernat Vivancos: "En aquesta nova etapa em consagraré totalment a la composicio". In: ara.cat. October 7, 2014, archived from the original on July 5, 2018 ; Retrieved April 9, 2020 (Catalan).

[4] Bernat Vivancos, compositor i professor de l'ESMUC, col·labora amb Jennifer López, després de treballar amb Rosalía. ESMUC, June 12, 2019, archived from the original on April 9, 2020 ; Retrieved April 9, 2020 (Catalan).