Salvador Brotons i Soler

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Salvador Brotons i Soler (born July 17, 1959 in Barcelona ) is a Catalan conductor , flautist and composer . Brotons is currently the conductor of the Banda Municipal de Barcelona and the chief conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra .

life and work

Brotons studied at the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory from 1967 to 1985 . He received high awards for his achievements in the subjects of flute, composition and orchestral conducting. His teachers here were Antoni Ros i Marbà , Xavier Montsalvatge , Manuel Oltra and his father, who was a professor of flute. He completed postgraduate studies in France and the UK. In 1985, a Fulbright scholarship enabled him to do a doctorate in music at Florida State University in the United States, where he then lived until 1997.

From 1977 to 1985 Brotons worked as a flautist in the orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ​​from 1981 to 1985 he had the same position in the Orquestra Ciudad de Barcelona . From 1986 to 1987 he was assistant director of the Symphony Orchestra at the University of Florida. A little later he took over the position of chief conductor of the orchestra at the University of Portland for nearly ten years until 1997 . At this university, Brotons also taught counterpoint, orchestral conducting and music history. From 1990 to 1993 he was chief conductor of the Oregon Sinfonietta , from 1989 to 1991 of the Mittleman Jewish Community Orchestra , from 1998 to 2001 of the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears (Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands), and from 1998 to 2002 and from 2009 to 2013 of the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès (Symphony Orchestra of the Vallès ). Since 1991, Brotons has also been director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra . Since 2008 Brotons has been the musical director of the Banda Municipal de Barcelona .

As a composer, Brotons received the Premio de Composición Orquesta Nacional (National Prize for Orchestral Composition) in 1977 for his Four Pieces for Strings and in 1983 for his First Symphony the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (Prize of the City of Barcelona) and in 1986 the First Prize of the Southeastern Composers League for his little chamber symphony. In 1987 he received the Flute Composition Prize from the University of Wisconsin – Madison for his flute suites and in 1991 the Reina Sofía Composition Prize for his orchestral work Virtus . Also worth mentioning are his Fantasia for wind instruments and strings from 1976, his Concerto for Flute from 1996, Symphony No. 3 from 1999, Symphony No. 5 Mundus noster from 2010 and Symphony No. 6 Concise from 2011, as well as the Rhapsody for Orchestra Terres llemosines (The Limousin Region, The Limousin Country). He also wrote several sonatas for two instruments and the cantata Randa , which he dedicated to Ramon Llull . His absolute sensitivity for American musical aesthetics is exemplified in his 1995 Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra.

Brotons' musical language is free from aesthetic guidelines and avant-garde influences. It is characterized by expressive accessibility and an idiomatic naturalness. This probably results from the fact that Brotons is both an interpreter and a composer from his musical origins. His work is characterized by an extroverted character and a loyalty to tonality in a very comprehensive sense. In his music, a constant willingness to communicate goes hand in hand with a deep sense of formal balance. These characteristics are evident in all of his sonatas and chamber music works as well as in his large-format symphonies.

Brotons has been professor of conducting and composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) since 2001 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Salvador Brotons i Soler In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  2. ↑ a b c Salvador Brotons i Soler. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Salvador Brotons i Soler. In: Grove Music Online.
  4. ^ A b Salvador Brotons i Soler. In: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
personal data
SURNAME Brotons i Soler, Salvador
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan conductor, flautist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona