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kinamarábâfrena [Rika Usami]
New poem for cello written for Eric-Maria Couturier based on the Karate technique of Kata master Rika Usami
[30 October 2022]
Residence "Queue de Cerise #2" at Galerie Les Limbes in Saint Etienne (France)
BCA will be resident of "Queue de cerise" at Galerie les Limbes in Saint Etienne.
The residency will include, two conferences, a concert, a performance and recording of « fresh off the boat » by Frédéric Mathevet and an open studio exhibition.
[20 September - 3 October 2022]
Pre-World Premiere of Sc(herz)o infinito at "Der Sommer in Stuttgart"
Pre-world premiere of "Sc(herz)o infinito" a “tableau vivant” of Brueghel’s painting “Children’s games” at the “Der Sommer in Stuttgart” Festival.
WIth the participation of music schools in Germany:
Musikzug Wentzinger Gymnasium, Musikschule Renningen, Fritz Leonhardt-Realschule Degerloch, Johannes-Kepler Gymnasium Reutlingen, Landesjugendensemble Baden-Württemberg und weitere Schulen und Jugendmusikschulen aus der Region Stuttgart.
[23 July 2022]
Lecture panel and Masterclass with Ensemble Itinéraire
With Ensemble Itinéraire BCA will offer a lecture panel of composition residents at Centro de Compositores de Nuevo León and a Masterclass at Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey.
--Lecture panel
5 July 17h - Escuela Adolfo Prieto
--Masterclass
6 July 10h - Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey
[5-6 July 2022]
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Conference at Université de la Sorbonne about "de(cor)o"
Conference about “de(cor)o” - created for and with Valoriza at Festival Encontrarte in Amares, Portugal in 2019 and its relation with the research at Lund University of “Plastic Extension of Music”.
The conference will be followed by a performance of BCA with “Improvisación II” by Gonzalo Macías and “fomio” by BCA, poem for sirimcho and loop pedal.
[23 May 2022]
Radio Sveriges Live Recording
BCA recording performing as guest soloist with Ensemble Itinéraire in Malmö at Inter Arts Center
Spektralmusik med Ensemble L’Itinéraire i Malmö
[14 February 2022]
Concert with Remix ensemble at Casa de Música
BCA will play with Remix ensemble conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer the Portuguese premiere of "Night Shift" by Cathy Milliken at Casa de Música, Porto, Portugal.
[14th December 2021]
PhD 25% Seminar with Stefan Österjö
PhD 25% Seminar defense-discussion with Swedish guitarist-improviser-researcher Stefan Östersjö about the research on “Plastic Extension of Music” at Inter Arts Center in Malmö.
Link to the video of the seminar
[15th October 2021]
Interview about Plastic Extension of Music
Interview at the Civitella Ranieri foundation Newsletter about the 6 week artistic residency and Plastic Extension of Music with clay.
[20th September 2021]
Prize Winner "Ad Libitum"
BCA was awarded the Winfried Böhler Kulturstiftung-Netzwerk Neue Musik Baden-Württemberg e.V. “ad libitum” competition in Germany for the composition of “Sc(herz)o infinito”, a new tableau vivant of Pieter Brueghel’s “Children’s Games”.
A link to the prize winners.
[16th July 2021]
Online concert with Remix ensemble
Concert with Remix ensemble conducted by Peter Rundel playing the e-guitars part of "La jalousie" by German composer Heiner Goebbels for The Acht Brücken. Musik für Köln Festival.
[15th May 2021]
Interview at Lund Contemporary (Sweden)
At Skissernas Museum (Lund, Sweden) interview by composer and artistic director David Riebe as part of the Lund Contemporary Festival program a dialogue about the research at Lund University of Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete's Plastic Extension of Music.
[17th March 2021]
Interview at "Guitare Classique"
Interview at French magazine "Guitare Classique" with Florent Passamonti.
[March 2021]
ephemeral critters (2020)
Series of light painting photographies
Plastic-visual extension of Plis by Pascale Criton.
Video [p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea
Towards Sound - Collective exhibition in Köln, Germany
Wall of abandoned ideas - Notes and stories
BCA will make part of the collective exhibition curated by Ruth Weisenfeld Towards Sound
SCHAUSAMMLUNG 2020
Internationale Klangbasierte Künste
curated by Rochus Aust
From the 28.10. - 07.11.2020
PhD Artistic Research at Lund University (Sweden)
BCA will start an Artistic Research Doctoral Program (2020-2024) at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts in Malmö, Sweden, based on the "Plastic Extension of Music" (Porto, 2015), to make further experimentation on how to "perform" music in different formats.
kokoro - Solo exhibition in Spain
kokoro (installation)
Centro Cívico Canal de Castilla (Paseo Jardín Botánico, nº4)
from 2.03 until 16.03.2020
[a linguagem é um atrito] - Solo exhibition in Portugal
Solo exhibition
Galeria Rua do Sol in Porto, Portugal
Paintings, drawings and sculpture works by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete.
from 31st October until the 9th November 2019
Concert Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal)
BCA will be playing Scar by Rebecca Saunders with Remix ensemble in Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal).
17th September 2019
Esta es la tierra que nos han dado (2019)
Second Prize - 7ème Concours International de Composition Quatuor Molinari
Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete won the second prize at the 7e Concours International de Composition Quatuor Molinari with his string quartet douleur exquise in Montréal, Canada.
1st February 2019
Recitals in Spain and Russia in November 2018
3 November - Museo de Bellas Artes in Vitoria (Spain)
14 November - Kungur (Russia)
15 November - Concert and Masterclass in Perm. Sound 59 Festival (Russia)
Playing works of Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena, Álvaro Carlevaro, Ramon Lazkano, Gabriel Erkoreka, Teresa Catalán, Mikel Urquiza, Iñaki Estrada.
And the World Premiere of "Color" by Carlos Fontcuberta.
Collaboration for a new piece "Brumal" with electronic music collective Haarvöl
Brumal
New electronic music piece collaboration with a 12 string guitar and sirincho for the new album "Peripherad Debris" at Moving Furniture Records.
Recording available at: https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/peripherad-debris
Recital and Workshop in Festival DME (Lisbon, Portugal)
Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete will be playing and giving a lecture in Lisbon at Festival DME (Dias de Música Electroacústica).
The recital will feature music by: Rita Torres, Jaime Reis, Vincent Airault, and Joan Riera Robuste.
19th and 20th May 2018
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VIPA Academy with SMASH ensemble
8 World premieres with SMASH ensemble soloists: Richard Craig, flute, Carola Schluter, soprano and Emmanuel Acurero, cello.
3-8 of July 2017
a supressão da (in)utilidade (2017)
Publication of the book a supressão da (in)utilidade in Porto at the FBAUP (Portugal).
[Publication/Edition - 52 pages]
A [de]con[struction] of the poem Des livres inutiles by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521) in the Das Narren schyff (The ship of fools) [1494] translated from german by Madeleine Horst in 1977.
28 January 2017
Sortie de Residence "Les limbes"
End of Residency "Queue de cerise" of Projet bloom at "Les limbes" gallery in Saint-Etienne (France).
Presenting "carminic tensor" a new plastic extension of Étude IV by Heitor Villa-Lobos with live performance of the same piece and "fomio" for sirimcho and loop pedal.
[30 September 2022]
BCA at Sveriges Radio
Anton Bennebrant from Sveriges Radio made an interview to Carla Perez de Arce (participant at the workshop) and BCA, about "Unveiling the invisible" a workshop for the blind and the visually impaired.
[13 September 2022]
Critics at Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México
Press critics after the concert of "Spectral guitar" with ensemble Itinéraire at Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México.
El zócalo "Sumergen al FIGM con espectros guitarrísticos"
La vanguardia "El día que Saltillo escuchó a una guitarra explotar sus sonidos"
[July 2022]
World Premiere of koromi with Ensemble Itinéraire and BCA as soloist
Ensemble Itinéraire with BCA as soloist playing the guitar and the sirimcho will make the world premiere his new piece "koromi" for flute, string trio, guitar and sirimcho.
--World Premiere
4 July 20h30 - Teatro Fernando Soler
Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México (Saltillo, Coahuila)
--World Premiere
6 July 19h - Centro de las Artes (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
[4 and 6 July 2022]
"cansos" and Plastic Extension conference in Berlin
BCA will play a solo concert "cansos" (10th March) with 4 of his new poems:
pômrô (2020)
fomio (2020)
maeseniå (2021)
[côrīo]·étilá (2021)
And a conference (12th March) about Plastic Extension at the Towards de sound Festival in Berlin, Germany at HilbertRaum gallery.
[9-12 March 2022]
Solo guitar concert with OFF orchestra in Paris, France.
BCA will play Alain Bancquart's solo guitar and flute orchestra piece "De l'Étrange circulation de la sève" with the OFF orchestra of Pierre-Yves Artaud.
[31st January 2022]
Concert with Ensemble Itinéraire
BCA will play with ensemble Itinéraire at Inter Feral Arts Festival in Malmö, Sweden.
Program:
Tempo Mental Rap (var.1) by Michael Edward Edgerton
Il sogno di Tartini by Kent Olofsson
Seirēnes II & IV by John Croft
Limae Labor by Fernando Garnero
Molly’s song 3 - Shadows of Crimson by Rebecca Saunders
[IAC - 29th October 2021]
Guitar Recital at Inter Arts Center (Malmö, Sweden)
BCA will give a recital at the Inter Feral Arts Festival in IAC in Malmö with pieces that have been or are in the process of being a “Plastic Extension” (PhD research at Lund University in Sweden).
3 Tientos by Antonio de Cabezón, 2 studies by Heitor Villalobos, Prelude by Manuel M. Ponce, Kurze Schatten II by Brian Ferneyhough, Plis by Pascale Criton and [côrīo]•étilá by BCA.
[14th October 2021]
World Premiere of [côrīo]·étilá
World Premiere of [côrīo]·étilá, a poem for guitar and sirimcho at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy.
Recording available.
[30th August 2021]
World Premiere of peråava
World Premiere of peråava, a poem for voice, metronomes and piano.
The performance was made by singer Mareike Schellenberger and pianist Naoko Hirata at the Château de Bellegarde in France.
A link to the press announce.
[11th July 2021]
Video with ensemble 2e2m
(EP)Scra'p by Julien Malaussena for guitar solo recorded with a series of videos with ensemble 2e2m in Paris, France.
[20th April 2021]
Concert in Paris
Concert with Ensemble Itinéraire
Program:
Tres canciones delirantes by Daniel Alvarado for guitar solo (World Premiere)
Seirēnes II by John Croft (French Premiere)
Molly's Song 3 - Shades of Crimson by Rebecca Saunders
[12th March 2021]
HALT HALTUNG VERHALTEN - Online exhibition (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln)
Requiem for a beetle
fomio
TOWARDS SOUND presents selected contributions of its FLEETING ARCHIVE, closing event of the Artistic Research Laboratory at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Germany)
[January 2021]
Editor's choice
[p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea "Editor's Choice" at HighResAudio
[December 2020]
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phantom errance [muscle memory] (2020)
Installation with 2 ink and graphite drawings on cloth, stones and graphite and ink drawing on paper.
Plastic extension of Prélude 1923 by Manuel M. Ponce.
OPEN STUDIO
Artistic Residence of BCA
Fábrica de Criatividade with Festival DME and Lisboa Incomum.
15-30 October 2020
Artistic Residency at Fabrica de Criatividade
Artistic Residency in Fabrica de Criativide in Castelo Branco (Portugal) with Festival DME & Lisboa Incomum as part of Artistic Research from Lund University (Sweden).
15th October to 2nd November 2020
Improvisation Performance with Haarvöl
Improvisation performance with Haarvöl at Maus Hábitos.
[September 2018 - Porto, Portugal]
pômrô (2020)
Premiere recording of pômrô
poem for voice, guitar, stones, sirimcho and electronics, composed and played by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete.
February 13th 2020 in Lisboa Incomum (Lisbon, Portugal)
Residence at Lisboa Incomum - February 2020
- 11.02 | 18:30 ESML (Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa)
Conferência (Lecture)
“Bússola rota” - A composição é para perder-se
- 12.02 | 18:30 | FBAUL (Faculdade de Belas-Artes)
Conferência (Lecture)
"Pulsações dilatadas” - Uma extensão da música nas artes plásticas
- 13.02 | 19h30 | Lisboa Incomum
Recital
Works by Manuel M. Ponce, Francisco Tárrega, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jaime Reis, Pascale Criton (for guitar in 1/12th tuning) and the world premiere of pômrô by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete a poem for guitar, sirimcho, voice and electronics, followed by a performance with artist Tânia Geiroto Marcelino.
- 14-16.02 | EMNSC - Escola de Música Nossa Senhora do Cabo
Masterclass
- 14.02 | 19h | EMNSC - Escola de Música Nossa Senhora do Cabo
Recital
Works by Francisco Tárrega, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jaime Reis, Pascale Criton (for guitar in 1/12th tuning).
(de)cor(o)
Live performance of (de)cor(o) by Bertrand Chavarría-Aldret in Amares, Portugal during the Festival Encontrarte with the residents of the CAO-Valoriza (special needs residence).
[27th July 2019]
(de)cor(o) - Encontrarte Amares 2019
(de)cor(o) - A new mixed electroacoustic work by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete to be premiered during an artistic residency at the Festival Encontrarte in Amares, Portugal.
July 2019
Solo Exhibition - Spain
Photography Exhibition
Solo photography exhibition by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete at Centro Cívico Las delicias in Valladolid, Spain.
from the 15th until the 30th April 2019
World Premiere of douleur exquise by Quatuor Molinari (Montréal, Canada)
Concert des lauréats du 7e Concours International de Composition Quatuor Molinari.
Works by Beebe, Oh, Peistikos and Chavarria-Aldrete.
Salle de concert du Conservatoire
4750, avenue Henri-Julien
Montréal, QC H2T 2C8 Canada
1 February 2019 at 19h30
Concert at Maus-Hábitos (Porto, Portugal)
Concert at Maus-Hábitos in Porto, Portugal with Collective Haarvöl at the Noite Crónica consort series.
8th September 2018 at 22h
douleur exquise (2015)
The string quartet douleur exquise by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete it's on the final of the 7th International Composition Competition for string quartet.
The final will take place the 1st February 2019 in Montréal, Canada in a concert held by Quatuor Molinari.
Linea Academy for Contemporary Music
Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete will be teaching at the Linea Academy for contemporary music in Strasbourg, France.
from the 27th August to the 2nd September 2018
La nef de fous (2017)
Description and photos from the musical tableau vivant La nef de fous by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete
Recital in Portugal
Concert in Centro Portugues de Fotografía (Porto, Portugal)
Quatro reflexõ(e)s
Cuatro reflexiones en que espejismos (fata morgana) sonoros se reflejan hacia el oído por el tratamiento histórico de la música.
Music by Haendel, Ohana, Dowland, Angot, Henze, Hortigüela/Cabezón and Reis.
25 June 2017
Solo exhibition in Spain
Solo photo exhibition of elásticas in Valladolid, Spain.
Centro J.L. Mosquera (Valladolid)
1-14 February 2017
...pas digun ne vedeva sa cara (uma vontade de foder) (2016-17)
Exhibition at Porto with ...pas digun ne vedeva sa cara (uma vontade de foder) at FBAUP (Portugal).
22-27 January 2017
(in)habit - New video installation
(in)habit a new video installation of BCA will be presented at the Malmö Gallery Weekend - Open House at IAC
This video is a Plastic Extension of Minuet K. 73 by Domenico Scarlatti
[23-25 September 2022]
Unveiling the invisible - Workshop for the blind and the visually impaired
BCA and Swedish art historian Jan Eric Olsén will hold a workshop for the blind and the visually impaired at Inter Arts Center (Malmö, Sweden).
The workshop will be filmed for the creation of a future documentary between BCA and Portuguese visual artist Gonçalo Duarte.
[5-11 September 2022]
Conference "Plastic Extension of Music"
Conference of "Plastic Extension of Music" at Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México
[7 July 2022]
"Spectral Guitar" Mexican tour with Ensemble Itinéraire
BCA will make part, both as performer and composer on the Mexican tour "Spectral Guitar" of Ensemble Itinéraire in Saltillo and Monterrey.
Works by Rebecca Saunders, Pascale Criton, Elena Mendoza, Tristan Murail, John Croft and a new work by BCA.
4 July 20h30 - Teatro Fernando Soler
Festival Internacional de Guitarra de México (Saltillo, Coahuila)
6 July 19h - Centro de las Artes (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
[4-6 July 2022]
Plastic Extension of Music – The embodiment of sound
A workshop for two performers embodying sound at Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden
Workshop followed by a discussion and presentation of "Plastic Extension of Music" at the Öresund Collegium coordinated by Esa Kirkkopelto in collaboration with the Malmö Theatre Academy.
13h-16h
[23 February 2022]
Metteur-en-scène at Conservatoire de Paris
BCA will make a mise-en-scène with two new plastic extensions (Fugue BWV 1005 by J. S. Bach and Über die Linie VII by Wolfgang Rhim) in collaboration with violinist Rachel Koblyakov in a "Carte Blanche" concert at Paris Conservatory,
[21st January 2022]
Solo Exhibition "Plastic Extensions of Music" in Malmö, Sweden
Opening hours: Mon–Thu: 10.00–16.00, Fri: 10.00–20.00
Location: Inter Arts Center, Malmö.
Link to more information at IAC
[18th-29th October 2021]
PhD Conference on Sustainable Development at Lund University.
BCA will give a conference on Sustainable Development at Lund University introducing the research made on "Plastic Extension of Music".
[30th September 2021]
Artistic Residency at Civitella Ranieri
Artistic Residency of BCA at Civitella Ranieri Foundation
A link to the profile at Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
[9th August to 17th September 2021]
Research of the Month
Video with ensemble 2e2m
exigüe (contigüe) by Julien Malaussena for string trio and guitar with ensemble 2e2m in Paris, France.
[20th April 2021]
Review at "Guitare Classique" of [p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea
"...Intime, rafiné, émouvant, cet album restera comme une des références incontournables."
[March 2021]
bullseye (2020)
video: 4:19 min
plastic-visual extension of Étude V pour guitare by Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Interview at RTS
Radio Télévision Suisse
"L'écho des pavanes" with Benoît Perrier talking about [p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea.
[15 December 2020]
forced ergonomics [six strings for improvisation] (2020)
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[p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea
[p]ers[on]a mis[ce]llanea
Guitar works by Manuel M. Ponce
Release date: 30 October 2020
Académie annuelle Le Cerisier - Projet Bloom
BCA will be in residence at La tour de guet to work again in the improvisation duo with artist Tânia Geiroto Marcelino and premiere works by:
Jean-Marc Chouvel, Colin Roche and himself.
July 2020
New video of Nasiye by Michael Finnissy
Nasiye (2002) by Michael Finnissy performed by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete
[Santpedor 2010]
Improvisation performance
Improvisation performance on a sirimcho with Tânia Geiroto Marcelino & BCA
February 13th 2020 in Lisboa Incomum (Lisbon, Portugal)
Concert The Spheres (Pescara, Italy)
Playing works of Manuel M. Ponce, Francisco Tárrega, Salvatore Sciarrino, Johannn Sebastian Bach, Edgar Cortés and Nikita Koshkin.
16 December 2019 at 19h - The spheres, Pescara-Montesilvano, Italy
Concert Festival Musica (Strasbourg, France)
BCA will be playing Spazio elastico by Olga Neuwirth and Les Cris des lumières by Clemens Gadenstätter with Ensemble Linea at Festival Musica (Strasbourg, France).
30th September 2019
Vida muerta (coreografía de los objetos) (2019)
douleur exquise (2015)
Live recording of the string quartet douleur exquise by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete played by Quatuor Molinari in Montréal, Canada.
[1st February 2019]
"Dialogue sur le Plateau" with Quatuor Molinari (Montréal, Canada)
7e Concours International de Composition Quatuor Molinari.
Extraits and discussion of the string quartet douleur exquise by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete at Maison de la culture Plateau Mont-Royal (Montréal, Canada).
29 January 2019 at 19h30
Coyote (2018)
coyote
Plastic extension of Pièce pour guitare seule of french composer Elisabeth Angot.
66 drawings on paper by BCA
World premiere of "La nef des fous"
World Premiere of the Theatre Piece/Tableau Vivant La nef des fous by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete at Teatro Rivoli in Porto, Portugal.
29th September 2017
Interview at Neuguitars
Concert with ensemble Linea
Marteau sans Maître by Pierre Boulez with ensemble Linea at Fondation Royaumont.
Conducting Masterclass by Péter Eötvös.
1-8 April 2017
Recital in Paris
Solo guitar recital at vaisseau vert (Paris) with works by Barrios, Ponce, Haendel, Ohana, Tárrega, Sciarrino, Dowland and Angot.
29 January 2017
carpere fide(s) (2016)
carpere fide(s) vol.1 - Spanish contemporary music for guitar by Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete at Odradek Records.
Music by Erkoreka, Hortigüela/Cabezón, Urquiza, Mendoza, Riera and Lazkano.
November 2016