Agustí Charles i Soler (; ; born 12 July 1960)"MulesRasch Listing" Bio listing his date of birth. Retrieved 14 August 2014. is a Spanish-born composer and scholar.
Biography
He was born in Manresa (Province of Barcelona)."Bio" Biography on the official website (English version). Retrieved 14 August 2014. His first works in composition date back to the 1980s, under the guidance of his first composition teachers: Miquel Roger, Albert Sardà and Josep Soler. Later, he studied with Franco Donatoni, Luigi Nono and Samuel Adler, as well as worked with other composers and conductors including Joan Guinjoan, Cristóbal Halffter, J.R. Encinar and Ros Marbà.
Career
His work Seven Looks, inspired by the poems of García Lorca was awarded the 2003 prize of the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras (AEOS) and has been played by a number of Spanish and German orchestras in the 2004 and 2008 seasons."History of the prize" Listing of previous prize winners, Charles is listed as Charles Augustine Soler under the second edition of the composition prize. Retrieved 14 August 2014. His first opera La Cuzzoni, esperpent d’una veu, was premiered in October 2007 at the Darmstadt Staatstheater in Germany."Staattheater Listing" Description on the Darmstadt Staatstheater of the opera in German. Retrieved 14 August 2014. In 2008, the Italian Stradivarius Records issued a CD which includes his orchestral work, performed by the Community of Madrid Orchestra and conducted by José Ramón Encinar. In 2010, Tritó Records compiled a release in conjunction with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia, conducted by Jaime Martin."Record company official blog" Listing on the Trito website of the album. Retrieved 14 August 2014. In March 2011, the premiere of his second opera, Lord Byron: A summer without summer,"Staatsstheater Document (english)" Detailed file explaining the rationale of the composition together with a CV. Retrieved 14 August 2014. took place in the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany, while it was staged again in Barcelona the following year. The libretto is by Marc Rosich with stage direction by Alfonso Romero Mora. In August 2012, the premiere of his third opera Java Suite took place in the Perelada Festival (Girona, Spain)."Listing" Details of the performance on the Òpera de Butxaca website. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
Publications
He is also author of texts and books related to musical composition and analysis, among them: Análisis de la música española del siglo XX (2002), Dodecafonismo y serialismo en España (2005), Colección Instrumentación y orquestación clásica y contemporánea (5 vols) (2005–2012)."El Argonauta listing" Details on works published listed on the website of a specialist music bookshop. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
Charles currently teaches composition at the Catalonia College of Music in Barcelona.
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