Echo (Imago I)
Xelo Giner

1.-Piece for tenor saxophone, four avatars, electronics and video

This is the approach of Xelo Giner. A game of images in which the music leads us to be unable to distinguish which image is true or false. A lot of technique applied to the concert in which it will be possible to discover curious things about the perception of ourselves.
 

 2.-Miroirs Deformants

Distorting Mirrors is based on reflections in several planes: instrument and tape, vertical and horizontal, near and far, at the level of the fiber and the structure of the piece. The oboe part uses many extended chnigues, which are integrated into the very language of the piece, mixing them with electronic transformations.

 
3.-Narcissus. V Metamorphosis

It is a work written for solo oboe by the English composer Benjamin Britten in 1951. Britten wanted to evoke the images of the Roman poet Ovid in his work entitled The Metamorphoses.

The V Metamorphosis is Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image and became a flower.

Most of the six movements are marked by frequent pauses between phrases, using breath signs or a callitone. The fifth movement, Narcissus, marked Lento piacevole, or "slow and pleasing," is the longest in duration and evokes images of the protagonist's quiet fixation on his beauty.

PERFORMERS                             

Xelo Giner. Saxophon
She is a versatile performer who integrates various facets: soloist, chamber music, mixed electroacoustic music, multidisciplinary projects, interaction with sound sculpture installations, audiovisual and live video and contemporary improvisation, are some of her latest works that place her at the forefront of avant-garde music in the country. It covers an extensive repertoire ranging from the original classical, transcriptions, contemporary and newly created works.

"The music is clearly manifested in her personality charged with overwhelming energy. Fantastic, incredible, when interpreting you make every musical phrase yours, you are inside it, every gesture, every movement, is pure naturalness and expression" György Kurtag.

https://xeloginer.com

Pilar Fontalba: Oboe
She is Professor of Music and Performing Arts at the Conservatorio Superior de Navarra. Founding member of OWNSTAGE, collective creator of shows, and president of Colectivo E7.2, created for interdisciplinary experimentation in Navarra. She is oboist of the groups Vertixe Sonora and Ensemble Ö! (Switzerland), as well as oboe soloist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra. She has premiered more than a hundred works, many of which have been created for her. In 2024 she has premiered iSlave by Alberto Bernal, Mar Gómez and Pablo Ramos, winner of the BBVA Leonardo Scholarship. 

She has recorded Miroirs déformants by Nicolas Vérin for INA-GRM, Renaceres by Víctor Carbajo for oboe and strings, the Concierto del Alba by Manuel Angulo, for oboe and orchestra, with José Luis Temes and the Orquesta de Córdoba for the Verso label. Her latest recordings have been published by the Cezanne label with works written and dedicated to her under the epigraph KonTempoRaNeo. 

In 2003 she was awarded the Hegar Prize in Zürich for her interpretation of Kinêsis, by Gérard Zinsstag.


COMPOSERS

Miguel Angel Berbis
His intense activity as composer, teacher, researcher and artistic director frame his career. He has a catalog of works specializing in new technologies applied to contemporary music performed at international festivals such as the Carmelo Bernaola Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Opus concert series in Bordeaux, the RafelFestival in Valencia, the International Meeting of Composers of the ACA Foundation in Palma, the Contemporary Music Festival in Córdoba, the Festival Punto de Encuentro of the AMEE (Electroacoustic Music Association of Spain), Bazar Électronique in Paris, etc.  

He has been artistic director of the Ensemble d'Arts since its creation, as well as promoter and director of the RafelFestival International Festival and the Re_Cre@ International Competition for the Performance of New Creation Music.

He currently teaches music technology at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castellón.


Nicolas Vérin
Passionate about the musical gesture and the life of sounds, he explores in a singular way his fascination for time and its complexity. He draws in this wide and open field a plurality of languages, a synthesis beyond dogmas and fashions, which feeds his inspiration. His compositions strongly maintain this very current challenge.

Nicolas Vérin is a professor of composition and electroacoustic music at the Évry National School of Music, near Paris. He is also an improviser and gives concerts in particular with the trio Daroux-Sclavis-Vérin. His music, performed in numerous concerts and festivals in Europe and America, is published by Jobert.www.nicolasverin.com.

Edward Benjamin Britten
British composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure in 20th century British music, with a collection of works that includes opera, vocal music and orchestral and chamber pieces. Among his best-known works are the opera Peter Grimes, the War Requiem, and Orchestra Guide for Young People, or Noah's Flood. Together with Peter Pears and librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the Anuel Festival in Aldeburgh in 1948. In his last year of life, he was the first composer to receive the title of Nobel Laureate for Life.