La Celestina

La Celestina: XVI scene

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Carmelo Bernaola is one of the Generation of 51’s most representative spanish composers. After training as a clarinettist, he studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory with Francisco Calés Otero and Julio Gómez, between 1951 and 1958. He won the Roma Prize, leading him to live in Italy for two years (1960-1962). During this era, he made contact with the European avant-garde in classes by Goffredo Petrassi and Bruno Maderna and discovered Sergiu Celibidache’s phenomenology of music. Returning to Madrid in 1962, he received the National Music Award. He premiered his orchestral work Espacios variados, the first attempt to combine intervallic serialism with the mobile or aleatoric form. In the 60s, he also began to work as an audiovisual composer, creating more than a hundred soundtracks. He became director of the Jesús Guridi Music Conservatory in Vitoria-Gasteiz, where he would teach students such as Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena (include in this CD with “Jaso”). This era produced notable works using quotations from and allusions to other music, and completed two large projects in the 90s: the cantata Euskadi and the ballet La Celestina, which was premiered in 1998 in the re-opened Teatro Real of Madrid. Conductor Nacho de Paz is specially renowned for his commitment to the music of XXth and XXIst centuries. His work with experimental, multimedia and new creation repertoire is a reference in Spain. He has been awarded the international composition prizes Joan Guinjoan (2002), Luigi Russolo (2003) and SGAE of electroacoustics (2004). He got specialized in Orchestral Conducting with Arturo Tamayo and Pierre Boulez. Hi is conductor by Ensemble Modern.

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Carmelo Bernaola

Born in Otxandio (Vizcaya) in 1929, he is one of the Generation of 51’s most representative composers. After training as a clarinettist, he studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory with Francisco Calés Otero and Julio Gómez, between 1951 and 1958. He won the Roma Prize, leading him to live in Italy for two years (1960-1962). During this era, he made contact with the European avant-garde in classes by Goffredo Petrassi and Bruno Maderna and discovered Sergiu Celibidache’s phenomenology of music. Returning to Madrid in 1962, he received the National Music Award. He premiered his orchestral work Espacios variados, the first attempt to combine intervallic serialism with the mobile or aleatoric form. Already known by critics, Bernaola premiered important works such as Heterofonías, Músicas de cámara, Relatividades and Impulsos. In the 60s, he also began to work as an audiovisual composer, creating more than a hundred soundtracks. He became involved in the liturgical reform promoted by the Second Vatican Council, writing works such as Negaciones de Pedro and Las siete últimas palabras de Jesús en la Cruz. He became director of the Jesús Guridi Music Conservatory in Vitoria-Gasteiz, where he would teach students such as Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena, among others. This era produced notable works using quotations from and allusions to other music, such as Abestiak, Rondó, Clamores y Secuencias and Tiento. He completed two large projects in the 90s: the cantata Euskadi and the ballet La Celestina, which was premiered in 1998 in the re-opened Teatro Real. Tireless until the end, in 2001 he accepted a new commission from the Festival de Música y Danza de Granada, which became his last orchestral work: Fantasías. He died in Madrid on 5 June 2002 at 72 years of age.

Zuriñe Gerenabarrena

She studied composition with Carmelo Bernaola and Franco Donatoni. A versatile composer, her work foregrounds the use of electronic media. She has taken part in international forums such as Musikaste, Bernaola Festival, Ciclo de Conciertos BBVA, Quincena Musical, Kuraia, Festival Shyntése, Visiones Sonoras, Sonoimagenes, MUSLAB, EMU Festival, arteSciencia (Rome), “E`Werk”, Borealis, Musiques & Recherches, Exhibition “Down the Dori” (Tokyo), EviMus, ICMC 2015 (Texas), Musica Electric Nova (Wroclaw), BIFEM (Australia), Noh X Contemporary Music (Tokyo), SICMF (Seoul), Matera/Intermedia 201, Musica Nova 2018, San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Mise-En Music, ICMC/NYCEM (NY), Helicotrema (Venice) and SAMPO, among others. She has been artist in residence at NOTAM (Oslo), EMS (Stockholm), ZHdk-ICST (Zurich), Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo), VICC (Sweden), USF/Verfet (Bergen) and LEC (Lisbon). She currently teaches Harmony and Counterpoint in the Composition speciality at Musikene. 

Musikene Orkestra

This Carmelo Bernaola recording, presented by Musikene as part of its commitment to Basque musical heritage, gathers together some of the school’s disciplines, such as research, interpretation, conducting and creation, with the the commission of a piece by the composer Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena dedicated to her maestro. The study plan of Musikene, the Higher Centre of Music of the Basque Country, includes the work of several groups within the Orchestral Studies programme. All students, during their four years of training, play in the Musikene Sinfonieta, the Concert Band and Musikene Symphony Orchestra. The three groups work for intensive periods culminating in one or several concerts. Thanks to that, the students have practical contact with professional life and different guest teachers and conductors. Maestros such as Alberto Zedda, Lutz Köhler, Michael Thomas, Enrique García Asensio, Pablo González, José Luis Estellés, Juanjo Mena, Simon Bernardini, Pierre Cao, Colin Metters, Arturo Tamayo, José Ramón Encinar, Víctor Pablo Pérez and Péter Eötvös, among others, have conducted Musikene’s groups. 

Nacho de Paz

Conductor Nacho de Paz is specially renowned for his commitment to the music of XXth and XXIst centuries. His work with experimental, multimedia and new creation repertoire is a reference in Spain. He holds masters’ degrees in Piano and Composition. He has been awarded the international composition prizes Joan Guinjoan (2002), Luigi Russolo (2003) and SGAE of electroacoustics (2004). He got specialized in Orchestral Conducting with Arturo Tamayo and Pierre Boulez. Chosen as conductor by Ensemble Modern, he received a scholarship from the German Government and did a Master in Contemporary Music at the University for Music and Performing Arts of Frankfurt am Main. Due to the covid19 pandemic, he resumed his activity as composer in 2020 and has been awarded the SGAE-Cullerarts Composition Prize in 2021. He has conducted the majority of the Spanish orchestras and international ensembles specialized in contemporary repertoire. He has conducted nearly 400 world premieres, has recorded for televisions such as ZDF, ARTE, HR, ORF-1 and TVE, and has published 14 CDs and DVDs. He is currently a regular guest conductor of PHACE in Vienna. Recent and upcoming engagements include collaborations with Teatro Real, Wiener Konzerthaus, ARTE tv, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vertixe Sonora, Ensemble Recherche, Aspekte Festival Salzburg, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Kampnagel Hamburg, Barbican Centre London, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Berliner Festspiele, Wien Modern, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Oper Graz, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Teatro de la Maestranza and Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España.