My work Balbulus, for amplified double bass and pre-recorded and processed double basses, will have its UK premiere on February 17, 2023, at King’s Place Music Foundation by contrabass player Marianne Schofield, as part of the Riot Ensemble’s «Sonic Illusions» program.More info at: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/contemporary/riot-ensemble-sonic-illusions/ Continúa leyendo UK’s premiere of Balbulus at King’s Place
I am very happy to receive a commission from my dear friends of the viennese group Platypus Ensemble. The work will be premiered on May 12, 2023 at the Suena Festival (Vienna). More information soon. Continúa leyendo New piece for Ensemble Platypus (Austria) at Suena Festival 2023
My work Everything’s dead but the tree will be performed by the Nuntempe Ensemble at the ‘Industria Nacional’ concert series at the Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires, Argentina). The concert is dated August 21, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. The program will include also piece by composers Ezequiel Menalled, Lucas Fagin y Pablo Ortiz. Continúa leyendo Nuntempe at the CCBorges
My duo for cello and piano ‘Hojas que arrebató un soplo frío’ will be performed in Freiburg, Germany, next November 1st, 2022, by Ensemble Aventure (Germany). The concert program include pieces by Rodolfo Acosta, Natalia Solomonoff, Maximiliano Soto Mayorga and my duo. Concert info: https://www.ensemble-aventure.de/de/aventure/konzerte/veranstaltung/konzertatem-und-feuer01 November 1st, 2022, 20.00 hsElisabeth Schneider Stiftung, Wilhelmstr. 17aFreiburg, GermanyKonzertgespräch … Continúa leyendo Hojas que arrebató un soplo frío en Freiburg
In 2020, the first year of the pandemic -and during a hard and long lockdown in Argentina-, I worked on an experimental rock album. I played electric guitar in experimental rock and jazz bands between the years 1998 and 2007 and I always wanted to come back in some way to these worlds. The pandemic … Continúa leyendo Velut umbra
My piece Everything’s dead but the tree will be performed by Nuntempe Ensemble next May 15th, 2022, at the concert series ‘Mínimo un Lunes’. The concert also will include performances by Carmen Baliero, Wenchi Lazo, Carlos Vega and El estrecho. Domingo 15 de Mayo 7.30 pm Oceanario Club Cultural Continúa leyendo Mínimo un Lunes 2022
My dear friends of Nuntempe Ensamble will make their first european tour on next June, 2022. In the framework of this tour they will perform my guitar quartet Everything’s dead but the tree in the festival Musica in Prossimità (2022 edition), festival held in the city of Pinerolo (To) and organized by another dear and … Continúa leyendo Musica in Prossimità 2022
My friends and colleagues from the Nuntempe Ensemble just have released a new album entitled «But the tree» which includes my composition Everything’s dead but the tree. The album also includes works by Eblis Alvarez and Diego Taranto.Link on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3GbvNvtTosZbK43u3AvC92?si=oBhR37p7RMeuozAMX2Bm8w Continúa leyendo But the tree
I am extremely happy to know I was awarded with the Civitella Ranieri Music Composition Fellowship for 2022. Located in a 15th century castle in the Umbrian region of Italy, Civitella is a residency program for international writers, composers, and visual artists. More info at: https://civitella.org/newly-awarded-music-composition-fellows/ Continúa leyendo Civitella Ranieri Music Composition Fellowship
The portrait article on my music, made by musicologist and musician Wolfgang Rüdiger at the renowned german magazine Musiktext (Köln), is now available as website version too. It is possible to read the full article at this link: https://texte.musiktexte.de/mt-163/258/zum-werk-des-argentinischen-komponisten-jose-manuel-serrano I would like to give my thaks again for this honour to the maganize Musiktexte and … Continúa leyendo Porträt in Musiktexte (Das Wiedererblühen der Rose) now in website/online version
José Manuel Serrano 