Pedro Vilarroig

Pedro Vilarroig (Madrid, November 8, 1954) is a Spanish composer and mining engineer.

Biography

Pedro Vilarroig graduated as Mining Engineer Doctor, he reads music studies at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of Madrid. He belonged to the Laboratorio de Interpretación Musical (Music Performance Lab) LIM along two years acting as a collaborator, performer and composer in electroacoustics.Founder of the Asociación Musical Verda Stelo, he conducted a choir and a chamber orchestra during seven years. He reads choral studies with the Czech professor Petr Fiala, a composition workshop conducted by Carmelo Bernaola, choral conducting in courses organized by the Federación Coral of Madrid and incidental music in courses carried out by Eduardo Armenteros and José Miguel Martínez at theSGAE in Madrid. He has composed chamber and symphonic music, soundtracks for shorts and commissionsof soundtracks, among them an audiovisual for the Spanish Foreign Office and two for the Natural Sciences National Museum of Madrid. Though he has composed numerousworks for electroacoustics, his style is clearly neotonal with a lot of influences of Mahler, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Sibelius, among others.

He is president of the Asociación Española de Compositores Neotonales and president of the Federación Coral de Madrid since 1999. He is also teacher of Physics and Cosmology at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid since 1980.

Records

*Three symphonies for orchestra published in audio tape.
*Coauthor of the collection «Happy Baby» in CD for babies, with adaptations of classical pieces, as well as his own works with the general title "Variations about six child songs".
*CD tittled "Venite Adoremus" by the choir Matritum Cantat with the carol "Camino de Belén va una estrella".
*Anniversary of the creation of the choir Villa de las Rozas with the work "Wo leia sawola ni".
*CD tittled "Ave María" by the choir Surá of Costa Rica with his "Ave María".
*CD titled "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" with the Praga Symphony Orchestra with the works:
**"String Quartet"
**"Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano"
**"Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"under the record label Verso.
*He is planning a new CD in 2008 with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

Courses and lectures

*"Computer Generated Sound and Music Fractals" (electroacoustics) and "Consciousness Geometry" at the Civil Engineer Association.
*Introduction of the software "Ondaedit", for the generation of arbitrary shaped sound, at the Contemporary Music Spreading Center (CDMC). This software was created by himself.
*"Application of Astronomical data for the Musical Composition", at the CDMC also.
*He took part in the "Film Music Workshop" carried out at the SGAE facilities with the introduction of the software "TCFilm", also developed by himself and used for image and score synchronization in a film.

Concerts and premieres

1983

First premiere as he was at the LIM with the work "Ondas 1" (Waves I), for audio tape and three synthesizers.

1991

He participated in the show of theatre and music «Hydros», that took place in Segovia, with several snippets of his composition for electroacoustics "1980S26 The Saturn’s New Satellite".

1992

"Zodiac Suite" performed by the pianist Javier R. Van-Baumbergen in 1992 at the Mining School of Madrid.

1994

*his work "Lux Æterna" for choir and brass ensemble was premiered in the concert of the First Choir Conducting Course by the "Grup Reial de Metall" conducted by Francisco Serra.
*First cantata for choir and orchestra "La Profil´de viaj spuroj" in Esperanto language, that was performed for the first time by the choir Verda Stelo and the Valencia Symphony Orchestra at the Palau de la Música of this town.

1995

"Esferas" (Spheres), for string quartet and electroacoustics, at the Auditorio del Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

2000

A "piano and saxophone sonata" was performed by Joaquín Franco and Blanca Calvo, both of them teachers at the Conservatory of Madrid. From this event, and ordered by the saxophone professor, Joaquín Franco, he composed a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.

2004

*A "sonatina for violin and piano" ordered by the duo Blanca Calvo (piano) and Joan Espina (Second violins Principal of the National Orchestra of Spain).
*Premiere at the cinema hall of Hervás (Cáceres) with the work "Cosmological Suite", an audiovisual presentation by means of computer generated animation, also introduced in the new technologies festival Maquinarte at the Auditorium of Cáceres, Alcobendas, Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla La Mancha (Cuenca) and Centro Cultural Gaya Nuño (Soria).

2005

*The choral meeting "Matritum Cantat", organized by the city council of Madrid, took place. There, the participating choirs sang his "Ave Maria" for mixed choir as the compulsory work.
*25^th Anniversary of the creation of the Laboratorio Oficial José María de Madariaga. Closing concert with his "Saxophone Quartet" performed by the Joaquín Franco Quartet.

2006

*He organized a concert in the chamber hall of the Auditorio Nacional. In this concert his "Wind Quintet" was performed among works of several Spanish composers. The event was a great success.
*Two concerts with the "String Quartet" performed by the group «Cuarteto Neotonal» (Centro cultural Nicolás Salmerón and Junta de Distrito Centro).
*The "Sonata for alto saxophone and piano" was also performed in October 2006 at the Instituto Cervantes of New York by Joaquín Franco and Jesús María Gómez.

2007

*Soundtrack of the show "Más Abajo del Aire", a theatre work with the same name by Sergio Masís. It took place on May, 2007, at the Universidad Nacional of Costa Rica.
*Premiere of "Paisajes" (Landscapes) (flute and guitar version) by the guitar player Claudio Ferrer and the flautist Helena Ramos at the Conservatorio Teresa Berganza of Madrid

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List of works

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External links

* [http://www.neotonales.com/Vilarroig/VilarroigEng.htm Listen] to his works in mp3 format
* [http://www.neotonales.com/ Neotonal Composers]

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