Ramón Humet is a Spanish composer born in Barcelona in 1968. In 2006 he was awarded the Queen Sofía Prize for Escenas de pájaros,Humet, Queen Sofía Composition Prize awardee for Escenas de pájaros, ABC, 24 November 2006 which also won the Montreal Symphony Prize the following year,The OSM International Competition Prize Gala Concert. Montreal Symphony's website, 10/01/08 and in 2008 he won the Ciutat de Tarragona Award for Gagaku.Ramón Humet wins the Ciudad de Tarragona Composition Prize. Mundoclasico.com, 17 December 2008 His music, influenced by nature and zen, has been described as "atemporal, luminous, colorful, very meditative and organic" by Pablo González,Profile in the Catalan Composers Association's website and as "delicate and subtle, with high poetic imagination" by Johathan Harvey.Booklet notes of the Ramon Humet · Niwa · London Sinfonietta & Nicholas Collon CD, quoted in soundcloud.com
Compositions
Opera Sky Disc (2012)
Orchestral El temps i la campana (The time and the bell, 2014-2015)El Compositor Habla: «Ramon Humet estrena Escenas de pájaros (2006) Gagaku (2008) Escenas de viento (2008) Música del no esser (2010)
Concertante 3 Nocturnes for saxophone and orchestra (2001) And the World Was Calm, for piano and ensemble (2009)
Ensemble From the Meadows (2006) Jardí de haikus (2007)
Chamber music Mantra 2 (2002) Quatre jardins zen (2008) El jardí de Kinko (2008) Pètals (2009) Petites catàstrofes (2010)
Solo Escenes del bosc, for piano (2005–08) Meditació, for marimba (2007) Vent de l'Oest, for shakuhachi (2007)
Vocal Homenaje a Martha Ghaham (2011)
Choral Salve Montserratina (2011) Tres Ofertoris (2012)
Cobla El Montsant (2004)
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