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Vertixe Sonora is a Spanish
chamber ensemble Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...
founded in 2010 and specialized in
contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st-century classical music, 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 Modernism (music), post-tonal music after the death of ...
. It is an independent
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functioning both as a platform which supports the creation and dissemination of New Music and as a music ensemble. Its
artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogu ...
since its founding has been the composer
Ramón Souto Ramón Souto Caride (born April 21, 1976 in Vigo, Spain) is a Spanish composer. He is the founder of the Spanish chamber orchestra ''Vertixe Sonora Ensemble''. Biography Caride graduated from C.S.M. Vigo and C.L.E.M. Barcelona and went on to col ...
. Their work has been shown in several
documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
as ''Correspondencias Sonoras'' (2013) by Manuel del Río,


History

The group appeared in 2010 as a flexible collective of soloists who specialize in contemporary classical music.


Repertory

The wide repertory of Vertixe Sonora mainly comprises pieces written specifically for them. Some of the composers who have collaborated with the ensemble are
Ramón Souto Ramón Souto Caride (born April 21, 1976 in Vigo, Spain) is a Spanish composer. He is the founder of the Spanish chamber orchestra ''Vertixe Sonora Ensemble''. Biography Caride graduated from C.S.M. Vigo and C.L.E.M. Barcelona and went on to col ...
, Santiago Díez Fischer, Fernando Garnero, Germán Alonso, Bernardo Barros, Stefan Beyer, Charles-Antoine Fréchette, Takuto Fukuda, Jacobo Gaspar, Víctor Ibarra, Esaias Järnegard, Alexander Khubeev, Matthias Kranebitter, Dmitri Kourliandski, Michelle Lou, Miguel Matamoro, Simone Movio, Abel Paul, Marek Poliks,
Stefan Prins Stefan Prins (born 20 May 1979) is a Belgian composer and performer. Biography Studies Born in Kortrijk, Stefan Prins studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp from which he holds a master's degree (2009) and specialized i ...
, Santiago Quintáns, Lula Romero, Elena Rykova, Benjamin Scheuer, Sabrina Schroeder, Sergio Blardony, Nadir Vassena, González Compeán, Hernández Ramos, and Mauricio Pauly.http://www.mundoclasico.com/ed/documentos/doc-ver.aspx?id=63a9ae2f-506e-4b1f-808a-81b8cb7c609d


Members

* Roberto Alonso, violin * Adriana Aranda, soprano * Rubén Barros, electric guitar * Jesús Coello, bassoon * Pablo Coello, saxophones & musical direction * Carlos Cordeiro, clarinets * Carlos Cortés, trumpet * Sara Chordà, violoncello * Maribeth Diggle, soprano * David Durán Arufe, piano * Ángel Faraldo, electronics * Iván Ferrer-Orozco, electronics * Pilar Fontalba, oboe * Jorge Fuentes, horn * Carlos Gálvez, clarinets * Aglaya González, viola * Bleuenn Le Friec, harp * Simon Lewis, horn * Nuno Marques, electric guitar * Carlos Méndez, double bass * María Mogas, accordion * Keiko Murakami, flutes * Alfonso Noriega, viola * Sérgio Pacheco, trumpet * Hugo Paiva, violoncello * Thomas Piel, violoncello * Iago Ríos, trombone * Clara Saleiro, flutes * Helena Sousa, accordion * Haruna Takebe, piano * Daniel Veiga, clarinets * Diego Ventoso, percussion


Discography

* 2016 - ''XXVII Premio Jóvenes Compositores. Fundación SGAE-CNDM''. Pedro Amaral, conductor * 2019 - Lula Romero: ''ins Offene''. Wergo * 2020 - Víctor Ibarra: ''The Dimension of the Fragile - Works for Ensemble''. Nacho de Paz, conductor. NEOS * 2023 - Camilo Méndez: ''Peripheral Spaces''. NEOS


Documentaries

* 2013 - ''Correspondencias Sonoras''. Manuel del Río * 2014 - ''son Tpías''. CampUSCulturae * 2020 - ''Enrique X. Macías. A lira do deserto''. Manuel del Río


ISCM - Spain

Since 2021, Vertixe Sonora is the Spanish Section of the
International Society for Contemporary Music The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music. The organization was established in Salzburg in 1922 as Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) following the ...
(ISCM). That is the return of Spanish representation at the ISCM after several years. An important aspect of the organisation's role is to convene an annual jury to select Spanish works that will be considered for performance at the ISCM's World Music Days festival.


References


External links


Vertixe's website


Vertixe at CNDM.
Full documentary film from sonUTopías 2013
{{authority control Contemporary classical music ensembles Spanish orchestras Musical groups established in 2010 2010 establishments in Spain Chamber orchestras