Joan Guinjoan i Gispert

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Joan Guinjoan i Gispert in 2013

Joan Guinjoan i Gispert (born November 28, 1931 in Riudoms , † January 1, 2019 in Barcelona ) was a Catalan composer of contemporary music and pianist. As a pianist, Guinjoan was a member of the Catalan Pianist School .

life and work

education

Guinjoan studied from 1947 at the Conservatori de Música del Liceu in Barcelona and completed his piano studies in 1953. From 1955 he completed postgraduate studies in piano at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. Here he also studied composition, orchestration and electroacoustics. In 1960 Guinjoan settled in Barcelona and completed in-depth studies in composition with Cristòfor Taltabull . He decided on a career as a composer and went back to Paris to study composition with Pierre Wissmer . In 1963 he earned his diploma as composer and in 1964 the diploma for orchestration both at the Schola Cantorum de Paris . Then he returned to Barcelona. From 1967 he also wrote music reviews in the Diari de Barcelona .

Musical activities

In 1953 Guinjoan gave the first public piano concerts in Reus and Tarragona . After winning the Concurs de Piano de Juventudes Musicales competition , he gave recitals throughout Spain. From the 1960s onwards he devoted himself to composition, especially after having had contact with the French composer avant-garde from 1964. In 1960 he performed his first public work (in Las Palmas ) with his Suite opus 1 .

In 1965 he founded the instrumental group Diabolus in Musica with the clarinetist Juli Panyella. The first concert took place in 1966 in the Círculo Medina in Barcelona. In 1968 they made the first Spanish recording of Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat with Víctor Martín as violin soloist.

In 1969 he made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona with his ballet Els cinc continents (The Five Continents) .

In 1971 he first performed his work Magma at the Palau de la Música Catalana .

In 1986 the recording of his work Trama (1983) was nominated for the Koussevitzky Prize of the International Record Critics Award (IRCA) .

On November 3, 2004, he first performed his opera Gaudi based on a libretto by Josep Maria Carandell at the Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona .

On November 3, 2011, the Auditori Nacional de Madrid gave a concert in honor of Joan Guinjoan on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

Teaching

In 1952 Guinjoan was appointed professor at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona. Anna Bofill Levi is one of his numerous students .

Awards

Since 1991 Guinjoan was a member of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi . In France he was appointed Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and Officier des Arts et Lettres de França . In 1999 he was awarded the Creu-de-Sant-Jordi by the Catalan government in Barcelona . In the same year he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona. In his hometown of Riudoms he was declared an outstanding son ; the secondary school there is named after him. The cultural association Center d'Estudis Riudomencs Arnau de Palomar (CERAP) gave in 2013 under the title Joan Guinjoan, íntim. Les arrels del compositor riudomenc published a biography by Joan Guinjoan. He has received numerous prizes, including the Premio Nacional de Música of the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1990 and the Premi Nacional de Música of the Catalan government in Barcelona in 1995 .

Personal

In 1954 he met his wife Monique Gispert, whom he married in 1956. The couple had the son François.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Enciclopèdia Catalana. Joan Guinjoan i Gispert
  2. ↑ The article is a translation of the article of the same name on the Catalan language Wikipedia. The text parts are slightly regrouped. The work lists were not adopted.
  3. ^ Pérez de Arteaga, José Luis: Acerca del Premio Kousevitzky (Boston, 1986), concedido por el Jurado del Premio Mundial del Disco (IRCA). September 7, 1986, p. 23 f , accessed on May 5, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Robert Benito: Por fin, 'Gaudí'. November 3, 2004, accessed May 5, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ "Madrid celebra el 80E aniversari de Joan Guinjoan". Diari Ara [Barcelona], núm. 335, 2011, p.28. ISSN  2014-010X .
  6. ^ Lluís Bages: Es presenta la biografia més íntima del compositor Joan Guinjoan. In: FemSafareig.cat. January 20, 2013, accessed May 5, 2019 (Catalan).
  7. ↑ ara.cat: Mor el compositor Joan Guinjoan. January 1, 2019, accessed May 5, 2019 (Catalan).

See also

personal data
SURNAME Guinjoan i Gispert, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Riudoms
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 2019
Place of death Barcelona