Alicante Music Festival

The Festival de Música de Alicante (Alicante Music Festival), formerly known as Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de Alicante, is a Spanish annual contemporary classical music festival taking place every autumn, usually in September, in Alicante. First held in 1985, it is currently organized by the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (National Center for Music's Diffusion), a branch of the Spanish Ministry of Culture's Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (National Institute of Scenic Arts and Music). It currently has a budget of €485,000, following a 17% budget cut in 2012 due to the ongoing Spanish financial crisis.[1]

Premieres

2012

ComposerWorld premieresNational premieres
Albania César Aliaj...ce silence est dense
Spain Benet CasablancasPastoral
Spain Irma Catalina ÁlvarezAnagnórisis II: Aurora expropiada
Spain Francisco CollTapias
Spain Jorge Fernández GuerraMemorias
Spain Rosa FerrerEspígol d'estiu
Spain José Luis GrecoForbidden Tonic
Spain Carles GuinovartSeptimino
Spain José IgesPoison
Spain Javier Martínez CamposAm Ufer des Rheins
Spain Adolfo NúñezEmak-Bakia
Spain Medín PeirónL'etoile de mer, Objeto para ser destruido
Spain Jorge SanchoImpromptu
Spain Joseba TorreElegía concertante
Spain Jesús Villa RojoSinfonía de cámara
Spain Mercedes ZavalaCançons de l'aire
United Kingdom Thomas AdèsSonata da caccia
Venezuela Diana ArismendiLas aguas australes
Spain Anna BofillAutoportrait, Le retour de la raison
United Kingdom Philip CashianCaprichos
United Kingdom Tansy DaviesNature
Switzerland Beat FurrerFerner Gesang
Spain Oriol GrausCorrida. Idílico
Switzerland Heinz HolligerCynddaredd-Brenddwyd
United Kingdom Oliver KnussenAutumnal, Ophelia Dances, Ophelia's Last Dance
Spain Ramón LazkanoLurralde
Spain Eduardo PolonioL'etoile de mer
Finland Kaija SaariahoTerra memoria
Albania Thomas SimakuString Quartet No. 4
Other performed composers
United States Leonard Bernstein
Italy Luciano Berio
United Kingdom Benjamin Britten
Spain Sergio Blardony
Spain Cristóbal Halffter
Japan Toshio Hosokawa
United Kingdom Jonathan Harvey
Hungary György Ligeti
France Olivier Messiaen
Spain Tomás Marco
Spain Xavier Montsalvatge
Spain Luis de Pablo
Spain José María Sánchez-Verdú
Spain Carles Santos
Austria Arnold Schoenberg
United Kingdom Humphrey Searle
Japan Toru Takemitsu
Spain Isabel Urrutia
South Korea Isang Yun

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