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.The Government vetoes a foundation for the Alicante festivals. El País, 10 September 2012
Premieres
2012 Composer World premieres National premieres César Aliaj ...ce silence est dense Benet Casablancas Pastoral Irma Catalina Álvarez Anagnórisis II: Aurora expropiada Francisco Coll Tapias Jorge Fernández Guerra Memorias Rosa Ferrer Espígol d'estiu José Luis Greco Forbidden Tonic Carles Guinovart Septimino José Iges Poison Javier Martínez Campos Am Ufer des Rheins Adolfo Núñez Emak-Bakia Medín Peirón L'etoile de mer, Objeto para ser destruido Jorge Sancho Impromptu Joseba Torre Elegía concertante Jesús Villa Rojo Sinfonía de cámara Mercedes Zavala Cançons de l'aire Thomas Adès Sonata da caccia Diana Arismendi Las aguas australes Anna Bofill Autoportrait, Le retour de la raison Philip Cashian Caprichos Tansy Davies Nature Beat Furrer Ferner Gesang Oriol Graus Corrida. Idílico Heinz Holliger Cynddaredd-Brenddwyd Oliver Knussen Autumnal, Ophelia Dances, Ophelia's Last Dance Ramón Lazkano Lurralde Eduardo Polonio L'etoile de mer Kaija Saariaho Terra memoria Thomas Simaku String Quartet No. 4 Other performed composers Leonard Bernstein Luciano Berio Benjamin Britten Sergio Blardony Cristóbal Halffter Toshio Hosokawa Jonathan Harvey György Ligeti Olivier Messiaen Tomás Marco Xavier Montsalvatge Luis de Pablo José María Sánchez-Verdú Carles Santos Arnold Schoenberg Humphrey Searle Toru Takemitsu Isabel Urrutia Isang Yun
References