Composers

To support the development and promotion of the art song genre, the Barcelona Festival of Song® commissions every year one or more composers from Latin-America or Spain to write a new cycle of songs that is premiere (is performed for first time) during the opening concert of the festival.

In this page you will be able to obtain information about the composers commissioned for the festival since 2006. You will find the name  and biographies of past commissioned composers as well as read information about the cycles written for the Barcelona Festival of Song.

The cycles commissioned by the festival have been published by Mundo Arts Publications and can be acquired at www.mundoarts.com .

We have commissioned pieces for voice and piano as well as pieces for voice and guitar.

In 2010 the BFOS in conjunction with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá sponsored the Vocal Works competition.  It should be a work for voice and 5 instruments with poetry by Ibero American composer.  The winner was composer Fabian Roa who wrote the song cycle Balada del tiempo perdido with text by Colombian poet Leon de Greiff.

In 2011 we are debuting works by Catalan-Colombian composer Moises Bertrán, Colombian composer Amparo Angel, Cuban American Orlando Jacinto Garcia  and Catalan composer Ernest Borrás.

If you would like to learn about our past commissioned composers and about his/her works, please click on the left in Past composers!

In the picture from Left to right.
Sitting:composer Max Lifcthiz, composer and musicologist Craig Russell, tenor Lenine Santos, composer and guitarist José Lezcano. Standing up: soprano and musicologist Patricia Caicedo, painter Merwan Chaverra, soprano Rosa Mateu, composer Ernest Borrás, composer and pianist Moisés Bertrán, doble bass player Juan Pablo Serna Aguilar.