Prof. Òscar Colomina i Bosch Chamber Music Master Class at the Liszt Academy

Dates:

Tuesday 1 October  2024, 15.00–17.00

Wednesday 2 October 2024, 10.00–13.00  & 15.00-17.00

Venue:

Liszt Academy Main Building, Room X

(1061 Budapest, Liszt Ferenc tér 8.)

Participation options & application:

Active participants:

·                    Strings and strings+piano formed groups by students of the Liszt Academy may apply with the members’ names, their instruments (or singing), and pieces to be performed at the master class. You can apply using the online form below (on the form, fill in the names in the first two blocks).

Application deadline: Wednesday 23 September 2024, Midnight

Passive participants:

·                    The master class is open to all passive participants free of charge, no prior registration is required.

The University will not issue a certificate of attendance for passive participants.

CV:

Prize-winner of the Penderecki International Composers' Competition-Arboretum, Òscar is a composer-conductor, dean of the Reina Sofía School in Madrid since 2020. Before relocating to Spain, he held important positions in the UK as Director of Music at the Menuhin School and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music. He has guest lectured at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague-School for Young Talent, the Akoesticum Talent Programme, and is part of the faculty at Porto PianoFest.

Òscar studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Royal Academy of Music with Malcolm Singer and Simon Bainbridge, receiving advice from Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr and Julian Anderson.

His composition Shpigl, written for the Menuhin Competition, was described by John Adams as “a small masterpiece of musical and dramatic imagination,” which led to its performance in Los Angeles’ Disney Hall by Liszt Academy student, Marley Erickson.

Commissions and performances include the Aldeburgh Festival, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orquesta de Valencia, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, Trío Arbós, Grup Instrumental de València and the Schubert Ensemble, in concert venues across the UK, USA, Spain, Portugal, France, Denmark, Italy, Poland and Armenia; including the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Purcell Room, Yale and New York Universities, Palau de la Música, Palau de les Arts, Auditorio de Zaragoza and Auditorio de Galicia among them.

Òscar is working on a new work for the Spanish National Orchestra and has been invited to teach at the Mozarteum (Salzburg), where a Portrait Concert of his music will be given on the 12th of November.