Festival Contemporáneo: Carles Marigó ‘Breaking Bach’

Concert in Arrecife.

Tickets: here.

‘Breaking Bach’, a proposal by the musician Carles Marigó (piano), with live video production by Alex Tentor. A programme in which works by Bach coexist with the most avant-garde contemporary creations by musicians like Daniel Roca, Laura Vega and Manuel Bonino from the Canary Islands, as well as Marigó himself and Joan Magrané. There will also be room for AI, through software developed for this project in 2022.

Carles Marigó is a pianist and creator who investigates new forms of artistic expression, combining innovation and history. He has performed in Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Denmark, England, Russia and New Zealand, among other countries, as a soloist, in ensembles and with orchestra. Founding member of the RAU Company (Barcelona) and of the collective Lo
Desconcert (Cologne, Germany). A creative musician in residence in various venues, he has performed many premieres of his own and other authors’ works. Trained in Barcelona and Moscow, he has also developed his facet as an improviser. He teaches at the ESMUC and the Conservatori del Liceu and specialises in the IEM Methodology (Emilio Molina Institute of Music Education).

Alex Tentor is a guitarist, sound artist and musicologist specialising in new music, both in his solo career and as a chamber musician, and in the development of pedagogical proposals, conferences and masterclasses. He has collaborated with important international ensembles specialising in contemporary creation. An active curator of new repertoire for his instrument, he has premiered works by Elena Rykova, Arturo Corrales, Bára Gísladóttir, Morgan Ågren, José María Sánchez, Bára Gísladóttir, José María Sánchez and José María Sánchez. Ågren, José María Sánchez Verdú, Jeeyoung Joo Diego Jiménez Tamame, Aleksandra Bajde, Guillermo Cobo and Avshalom Ariel, among others. He currently teaches guitar at the Escola
Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona.

Programme:
J. S. BACH VS. DANIEL ROCA
Daniel Roca – Etude for piano n. 1 (1998) [4′] (Author from the Canary Islands)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude in C major (Klavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann, BWV 924: n. 2) [1‘] [1’] (Canarian composer)
Daniel Roca – Study for piano n. 2 (1998) [4‘] [4’] Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude in C major
Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude in D major (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier II, BWV 850: n. 3) [2′]

J. S. BACH VS. JOAN MAGRANÉ
Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude (Fantasy) in A minor (BWV 922) [7‘] [7’] Joan Magrané – Fantasie in A minor (BWV 922) [7′] [7
Joan Magrané – Fantasiestück 3 (2020) [5‘] [5’]

J. S. BACH VS CARLES MARIGÓ
Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude in C minor (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I, BWV 847: n. 2) [2′] Carles Marigó – Tren.
Carles Marigó – Trencadís (2021) [6‘] [6’]

J. S. BACH VS. LAURA VEGA
Laura Vega – Bachiana Canariense for piano [4′] (Canarian composer)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto nach Italienischem Gusto BWV 971 (selection)

J. S. BACH VS. MANUEL BONINO
Manuel Bonino – Una reflexión [4′] (Canarian composer)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Erbarme dich mein, O Herre Gott BWV 721 [4′] (Canarian Author)
Carles Marigó – Improvisation [4′] (Canarian composer)

J. S. BACH VS. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Johann Sebastian Bach / AI programmed by Alex Tentor / Carles Marigó
Improvisation on Bach themes [8‘] [8’] Carles Marigó – Improvisation on Bach themes [8′].