High spots / news
 

Manuel Contreras Vázquez

Composer

Photo by Aaron Cassidy

High spots / news

9 November 2023


XXXII Chilean Contemporary Music Festival, GAM Centre, Santiago, Chile


"Taiken", for Cello.

Beatriz Lemus.

 

Photo by Javier Vergara


13 October 2023


XX Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea Darwin Vargas.

Pontificia Universidad Católica. Valparaíso, Chile.


"Los Ojos del Pueblo acusan al estado terrorista" (2020),

for piano and cello.


F(r)actura Ensemble:

Analía Marigliano, Francisco Palacios.

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21 April 2023


Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik,

Witten, Germany


Newcomer Concert.


"Maim ve daf" (2009), for violin, viola, cello, and double bass.


IEMA ENSEMBLE (Ensemble Modern Akademie and HfMDK Frankfurt):  Miria Sailer, Violin; Miho Kawai, Viola; Clara Franz, Cello; Riverton Vilela Alves, Double Bass.

Recording by WDR 3, here.

 

2022 - 2023


Mismar Association,

La Serena; Marga Marga orchestra, Quilpué.

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"Punctum", new composition commission by Oboist José Luis Urquieta and Marga Marga orchestra.


Supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

 

Photo by Mixtur Festival

16 March 2023


International Contemporary Music Festival. Córdoba, Spain.


"Lidio" (2020) Manuel Contreras Vásquez


Estelle Lallement & Filipe Marques, guitars.

January 2023

Manuel Contreras Vázquez joins Universal Edition


See complete profile and published works so far here

 

28 August 2022 


International composers meeting.

Santiago, Chile. GAM Centre.


"La Furia del Ermitaño, a theater of sounds about madness".




Taller de MúsicaContemporánea.

Pablo Aranda, dir.


Complete performance here

14 April 2022


"Premio Pulsar de la Música Chilena"

(Pulsar prize of Chilean Music).


Nominated to Best artist of classical  and concert music.


For "Lidio", performed by Duo 

Lallement-Marques.

 

Photo byGiovanna Cavallo

March 2022


Palazzo Tursi, Genoa, Italy.

Chiesa Rossa, Milan, Italy.








"Aswalaq, Zoos Humanos",

a voice theater.


VirgoVox Ensemble.

Jacopo Facchini, dir.


With the support of Chilean Government.

 

Photograph: Camille Blake

March 5, 2022


Such Music. 

a program by Resonance Radio,

London, Uk.


"Peripeteia", for 10 instruments.

"Tensor", for ensemble.


Broadcast hosted by Rihards Endriksons, journalist and artistic director of Latvia's Skaņu Mežs festival.

16 October 2021

18.00 (Local time. GMT-5)


Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas.

Xalapa section. Mexico.


"Ddüwéwé",

Synesthetic invasion

(Online)

 

Preliminary version. 


Paola Muñoz, Recorders

Laura Bisotti, Installation


David Velez, video production.

 

September 2021

RE.CO Lab project.

New York, USA.

CeReNeM, Huddersfield, UK.

"Taiken", for solo Cello.

(online)


Michael Nicolas

International Contemporary Ensemble.

 


Sept 11, 2020


Festival Mixtur, Barcelona, Spain.


"Lidio", for 2 guitars.


Estelle Lallement, Filipe Marques.



Jul 15, 2020


"Premio Pulsar de la Música Chilena"

(Pulsar prize of Chilean Music).


Best artist of classical or concert music.


"SCD", Chilean Society of authors and editors of music.


 March 12, 2020


Saint Paul's Church.

Huddersfield, UK.


"Los Ojos del Pueblo Acusan al Estado Terrorista", for Piano and cello.


Plus-Minus Ensemble.

 Jan 14, 2020


University of Huddersfield, UK

Richard Steinitz Building.


"Ddüwéwé", Synesthetic invasion


Preliminary version

 

Paola Muñoz, Recorders

Laura Bisotti, Scenography/ Installation.