Salvador Pueyo Pons (1935)
His works have been performed in multiple halls: Carnegie Hall (New York); Mann Auditorium (Tel Aviv); Coliseo (Porto); Amadeo Roldán (Havana); Tivoli Concert Hall (Copenhagen); Oper der Stadt Köln (Germany); in Bogota, Medellín, Quito, Xalapa, Paris, Cannes, Perpignan, Moscow, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Essen, Brno, Prague, Tokyo, Madrid, Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela, Valencia, Barcelona…
In 1964, the Barcelona Municipal Orchestra premiered the symphonic work Abstraccions (Abstractions; 6 mov. on Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca) at Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona), conducted by Enrique Jorda. Henceforth, it has been performed by different orchestras and conductors, such as Ronald Zollman, Antoni Ros Marbà, Uwe Mund, Simone Young…
Simfonia Barroca (Baroque Symphony; string orchestra) has been performed in several countries in Europe and the Americas. Among others, it has been conducted by: Yehudi Menuhin, Bohdam Warchal, Evelio Tieles (CD, with the Chamber Orchestra of Vila-Seca), Xavier Güell, Daniel Tosi (CD, with Camerata de France), Antoni Ros Marbà, Theo Alcántara, Ernest Xancó, Uwe Mund, Agustín León Ara, Joan Pàmies, José Luis Chan, Gonçal Comellas, Jaume Francesch, Horst Sohm, Minoslav Janicek, Urs Brodmann…
In 1976, the English Consort, conducted by Trevor Pinnock, premiered his Quintet per a instruments d’arc, de fusta i clavecí obligat (2 vl., Ci, fg., and harpsichord).
L’Orant de Pedret (The Orant of Pedret), for flute and clarinet, was premiered in Berlin in 1978, by Barbara Held, flute, and Miquel Gaspà, clarinet. In Catalonia it premiered at Joan Miró Foundation.
In 1984, the Trio à Cordes de Paris premiered Fantasia Trio at Palau de la Música Catalana.
At the request of the soprano Montserrat Caballé, he wrote the song cycle Cap al meu silenci (Towards my Silence), for voice and symphony orchestra; camera; piano. Montserrat Caballé performed it in Catalonia, United States, Israel, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, …
The ballet Yerma (Abstraccions‘ music) was premiered at the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) by the company Tanz-Forum in 1992, with Jochen Ulrich’s choreography, Ramon B. Ivars’ scenery and Uwe Mund’s musical direction. In 1993 it was performed several times in Cologne’s Opera House, both by its own orchestra and by North Westphalia State’s, with Simone Young conducting both of them.
Copenhagen’96 (European Capital of Culture) commissioned his symphony Morta Fiamma for the European Youth Music Festival. It was premiered at the Tivoli Concert Hall (Copenhagen) by the orchestra OSECM, conducted by Giuseppe Mancini. It has been performed by several orchestras, having been conducted, among others, by: Vicent Sempere, José Luis Temes, Salvador Brotons, Franz-Paul Decker, Leos Svarovsky…
In 1999, Simfonia Concertant (for string orchestra and principal violin) was premiered in Havana by the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, with violinist Evelio Tieles , conducted by Ma. E. Mendiola.
In the festival X Schubertiada a Vilabertran, Assumpta Mateu (soprano) and Francisco Poyato (piano) premiered Tres poemes sense text (Three poems without a text).
Exclamations, an oratorio for symphony orchestra, chorus and soprano soloist on text of St. Teresa of Jesus, was commissioned from Rome on occasion of the Great Jubilee. It was premiered in 2005 by JM Terrassa’s Montserrat Choir (Dir. Joan Casals), the Vallès Symphony Orchestra and the soprano Elena Copons, conducted by Manel Valdivieso, in the Auditorium of the Centre Cultural de Terrassa.
In 2008, the OBC (Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra), directed by Manel Valdivieso, premiered Simfonia, which was commissioned by the orchestra itself.
In 2011, the Municipal Band of Barcelona, Dir. Salvador Brotons, premiered Percepció (symphonic movement for band). Work commissioned by the band on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.
He also had works premiered, among other artists, by: Antoni Besses, Cecilio Tieles, Miguel Zanetti, Lourdes and Lluís Pérez Molina, Anna Cardona, Carles Santos…, pianists; Montserrat Torrent, Maria Nacy, Modest Moreno, organists; Salvador Gratacòs and Josep Andreu, flutists; Domènec Segú, oboe; Juli Panyella, Alfons Reverter, clarinet; Ramon Isbert, bassoon; violinists Joan Lluís Jordà, Adelina Pittier, Jaume Francesch, Josep Maria Alpiste…; Mateu Valero, Aureli Vila…, violas; Josep Trotta, Francesc Alfonso, Pere Busquets, Lluís Sedó…, cellos; sopranos Ma. José Martos, Malgorzata Zygmaniak, Rosa Barbany, Susanna Puig…; guitarist Renata Tarragó; directors Antoni Ros Marbà, Cristóbal Halfter, Franz Paul Decker, Xavier Güell, José María Franco Gil, Gonçal Comellas, Joan Pàmies, Rafael Ferrer…; the wind quintet Het Nederlands Blazerensemble, Ensemble Solars Vortices (Dir. Jean Pierre Dupuy), Jess Trio Wien…
He has collaborated professionally with excellent directors, musicians, singers and orchestras of different nationalities: Jorge Bolet, Rosa Sabater, Antoni Ros Marbà, Pier N. Masi, Esteban Sánchez, Rome’s Quartetto Brahams, Quatuor Parrenin, Madrid Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the City of Barcelona Orchestra, Solisti Veneti, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra da Camara di Padova, Capella de Música i Escolania de Montserrat, Ireneu Segarra, Gregori Estrada, Montserrat Torrent, Enric Ribó, Montserrat Caballé, Carlo Beregonzi, Jaume Aragall…
He orchestrated Neapolitan songs to be recorded by the Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi and the Catalan tenor Giacomo Aragall.
He authored a study on the origin of the music of the national anthem of Catalonia Els Segadors, which was commissioned and published (1983) by the Catalan Government.
In 1964 he won the Music Award Competition Ciudad de Barcelona with his work Abstraccions. In 1965, he enjoyed a grant from the Fundación Juan March to further his studies in Paris, at École Normale de Musique and ORTF’s Service de la Recherche, with Maurice Ohana and Pierre Schaeffer. That same year, the IVe Biennale de Paris would select two of his works. In 1967 he was awarded, competitively and by unanimity of the jury, the Special Prize for Composition of Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona, for his symphonic work Antítesi.
He has been a professor of composition and instrumentation at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu, Barcelona. He has served on national and international juries, such as Madama Butterfly (USA and Japan) international competition for professional opera singers.
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