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GERARD LÓPEZ He graduates in Piano and Composition in the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Música de Barcelona with several honor awards. He
has studied piano basically with Carme Poch and Luiz de Moura, and has
received counseling by Claude Helffer, Paul Badura-Skoda, Aquilles Delle
Vigne, Germain Mounier and Joaquin Achúcarro, among others; he has worked
chamber music with Àngel Soler, Pere Busquets and Manuel Garcia Morante;
and composition with James Sellars, Carles Guinovart and David Padrós,
and seldomly with Jonathan
Harvey, Joan Guinjoan, José Manuel López López, Walter Zimmermann,
Agustí Charles and Lleonard Balada. He has
won several awards in some piano and composition competitions all over
Catalonia. He wins scholarship with "Talent Award" by the University of Hartford where he gets Artist Diploma and Master in Piano Performance.
He works several years as an accompanist at the Curs Internacional d'Interpretació Musical de Girona, and also at the violin course of Ruggiero Ricci, at the Curs d'Interpretació Teatral per a Cantants by Magda Puyo and at the Curs de Música Espanyola by Isabel Penagos. He has worked with contemporary groups like "Bártok", "Sinfonietta", "Barcelona 216" and "Hartt Contemporary Players He
has given recitals as a soloist and chamber music in Spain, Italy,
France and the United States. As a composer, "La Força que mou l'Univers", “El vestit nou de l’emperador”, “Variations looking for a theme”, “Mirroring the mirror”, “Arioso e burlesca”, “Signes”, “4 cançons eròtiques”, “Pictures”, “Work in progress”, “Dialogues” and “Haikú” have been premiered in Catalonia, England and the United States. Currently
he combines working as an accompanist at the conservatories of Manresa and
Igualada with playing and composing. |
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