Ferran Cruixent

Ferran Cruixent lives with his family in his Catalan homeland near Barcelona • special emphases of his oeuvre include piano works, chamber music, vocal and orchestral works as well as ballet music • he writes unusually imaginative music, clearly structured, moving and densely constructed, seeking to touch the soul and the deepest feelings within • he specifies transcendence and the living, but also a certain kind of humour, as further characteristics of his musical language • in some works, especially those with extra-musical content, he tries to raise questions of our time and to answer them musically • Cruixent has a close relationship to the music of his homeland, but here especially to the Renaissance music of Spain, and to the German tradition • Cruixent, who has an interest in man’s relationship to the digital, himself created the technique of “cyber-singing”, in which the musicians play audios created by the composer via their mobile phones • founded the online magazine Stereotips for music analysis and criticism in 2006 and the musical and visual project Urban Surround in 2007

Works by Ferran Cruixent:
Virtual (2011) for large orchestra
Cyborg (2010) for large orchestra
Oscillation (2020) for dance and chamber orchestra
Rituals (2002) Concerto for timpani and percussion

Looking Ahead: World premiere Binary and Miralls Piano Duo Shalamov in Barcelona (10. May); new chamber opera Thasos and Europa staged in Heidelberg (21 May); world premiere of new Clarinet Concerto opens the Marvão Festival (Portugal) with Horácio Ferreira and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra (21 Jul)

“I have always been someone who has looked at the world and the cosmos from a broad perspective.” — Ferran Cruixent