Montserrat
Torras Salvador
Torras Salvador
Ànima - 21/09/2010 49.56 Compositors catalans ens expliquen el moment actual de la música de creació Benet Casablancas, Montserrat Torras i Enric Palomar ens expliquen la situació de la música de creació al nostre país.
Ànima - 21/09/2010 49.56
Compositors catalans ens expliquen el moment actual de la música de creació
Benet Casablancas, Montserrat Torras i Enric Palomar ens expliquen la situació de la música de creació al nostre país.
enllaç:
http://www.tv3.cat/videos/3109150
Compositors catalans ens expliquen el moment actual de la música de creació
Benet Casablancas, Montserrat Torras i Enric Palomar ens expliquen la situació de la música de creació al nostre país.
enllaç:
http://www.tv3.cat/videos/3109150
Article entrevista a la Revista Musical Catalana
Mostra de text : (730 kb.) descarregar
Caversham Centre The Hour Glass
Caversham Centre The Hour Glass (Juliol 2007)
Gabi ha col·laborat amb artistes internacionals en un espectacle únic en el que es combina poesia i fotografia americanes, amb art sud-africà, veus argentines, gaita gallega i música espanyola. El concert va tenir lloc a Boston, Massachusetts. Les imatges de Gabi i de la poeta americana Amy West foren posades a música per la compositora Montserrat Torras.
http://www.cavershamcentre.org/newsletters/THE%20HOURGLASS%20JULY%202007.pdf
Gabi ha col·laborat amb artistes internacionals en un espectacle únic en el que es combina poesia i fotografia americanes, amb art sud-africà, veus argentines, gaita gallega i música espanyola. El concert va tenir lloc a Boston, Massachusetts. Les imatges de Gabi i de la poeta americana Amy West foren posades a música per la compositora Montserrat Torras.
http://www.cavershamcentre.org/newsletters/THE%20HOURGLASS%20JULY%202007.pdf
Crítiques sobre l'obra per a orquestra de cambra Abans
Reviews
'The winners of the BMOP/ NEC Composition and Concerto competitions, Montserrat Torras and violinist Rimma Yermosh, made particularly impressive debuts.
Torras, a 29-year-old Barcelona native and student of Michael Gandolfi, composed Abans, her prizewinning competition entry, last summer. The title is a Catalan word meaning 'before.' She explains that the piece 'recalls a simpler, more playful time in the past. ' Indeed, the lucidly organized and colorful piece opens with a bright, childlike innocence. There is an almost chinoise quality about the opening pages that gives way later to a more obsessive and brutal militancy.'
Ellen Pfeifer, The Boston Globe, 1/20/2003
'Spanish composer Montserrat Torras' Abans created a riot of energy. Torras received a masters in composition at New England Conservatory, and Abans offers great promise. Concentrating on repeated figures in the higher pitches, it raced headlong to its gong conclusion supplied by the huge and beautiful Zildjian at the back of the stage.'
Keith Powers, Boston Herald, 1/20/2003
'This year's BMOP student contest winners held their own capably in the face of such formidable competition. Abans (2002) by Montserrat Torras shows its young tonemeister exploring more consonant waters, owing much in sound to Stravinksy and Copland. Hints of Iberian sunniness, conveyed via use of indigenous percussion, jumpy rhythms, and piquant wind passages impart a unique flavor to the proceedings, though. There’s also a delightful clarity of orchestration and a nicely expressed sense of melodic shape (primarily a Bolero upward wedge with many side alleyways explored).'
David Cleary, New Music Connoisseur, 9/3/2003
'The winners of the BMOP/ NEC Composition and Concerto competitions, Montserrat Torras and violinist Rimma Yermosh, made particularly impressive debuts.
Torras, a 29-year-old Barcelona native and student of Michael Gandolfi, composed Abans, her prizewinning competition entry, last summer. The title is a Catalan word meaning 'before.' She explains that the piece 'recalls a simpler, more playful time in the past. ' Indeed, the lucidly organized and colorful piece opens with a bright, childlike innocence. There is an almost chinoise quality about the opening pages that gives way later to a more obsessive and brutal militancy.'
Ellen Pfeifer, The Boston Globe, 1/20/2003
'Spanish composer Montserrat Torras' Abans created a riot of energy. Torras received a masters in composition at New England Conservatory, and Abans offers great promise. Concentrating on repeated figures in the higher pitches, it raced headlong to its gong conclusion supplied by the huge and beautiful Zildjian at the back of the stage.'
Keith Powers, Boston Herald, 1/20/2003
'This year's BMOP student contest winners held their own capably in the face of such formidable competition. Abans (2002) by Montserrat Torras shows its young tonemeister exploring more consonant waters, owing much in sound to Stravinksy and Copland. Hints of Iberian sunniness, conveyed via use of indigenous percussion, jumpy rhythms, and piquant wind passages impart a unique flavor to the proceedings, though. There’s also a delightful clarity of orchestration and a nicely expressed sense of melodic shape (primarily a Bolero upward wedge with many side alleyways explored).'
David Cleary, New Music Connoisseur, 9/3/2003
Spotlight on: Montserrat Torras
David Garland entrevista a Montserrat Torras sobre la seva música per a WNYC (radio nacional pública de New York).
Per a escoltar l'entrevista cliqueu el següent enllaç:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/eveningmusic/episodes/2007/06/01/segments/79828
Per a escoltar l'entrevista cliqueu el següent enllaç:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/eveningmusic/episodes/2007/06/01/segments/79828
Crítica sobre la peça Margarideta
New Music Connoisseur by David Cleary.
'Montserrat Torras's Margarideta features solo accordion interacting with a prerecorded background based on accordion sounds to good effect. Its improvisational spinning of material, wide-ranging harmonic style, and varied extended techniques would earn Pauline Oliveros's seal of approval.'
'Montserrat Torras's Margarideta features solo accordion interacting with a prerecorded background based on accordion sounds to good effect. Its improvisational spinning of material, wide-ranging harmonic style, and varied extended techniques would earn Pauline Oliveros's seal of approval.'
Contacte
Pot posar-se en contacte amb el compositor a través dels mitjans següents :
Montserrat Torras Salvador : mtorrascomposer@gmail.com