Ramón Humet

Ramon Humet

Ramón Humet is a Spanish composer born in Barcelona in 1968. In 2006 he was awarded the Queen Sofía Prize for Escenas de pájaros,^[1] which also won the Montreal Symphony Prize the following year,^[2] and in 2008 he won the Ciutat de Tarragona Award for Gagaku.^[3] His music, influenced by nature and zen, has been described as atemporal, luminous, colorful, very meditative and organic by Pablo González,^[4] and as delicate and subtle, with high poetic imagination by Johathan Harvey.^[5]

Compositions

Opera

• Sky Disc (2012)

Orchestral

• El temps i la campana (The time and the bell, 2014-2015)^[6]
• Escenas de pájaros (2006)
• Gagaku (2008)
• Escenas de viento (2008)
• Música del no esser (2010)

Concertante

• 3 Nocturnes for saxophone and orchestra (2001)
• And the World Was Calm, for piano and ensemble (2009)

Ensemble

• From the Meadows (2006)
• Jardí de haikus (2007)

Chamber music

• Mantra 2 (2002)
• Quatre jardins zen (2008)
• El jardí de Kinko (2008)
• Pètals (2009)
• Petites catàstrofes (2010)

Solo

• Escenes del bosc, for piano (2005–08)
• Meditació, for marimba (2007)
• Vent de l'Oest, for shakuhachi (2007)

Vocal

• Homenaje a Martha Ghaham (2011)

Choral

• Salve Montserratina (2011)
• Tres Ofertoris (2012)

Cobla

• El Montsant (2004)

References

1. Humet, Queen Sofía Composition Prize awardee for Escenas de pájaros, ABC, 24 November 2006
2. The OSM International Competition Prize Gala Concert. Montreal Symphony's website, 10/01/08
3. Ramón Humet wins the Ciudad de Tarragona Composition Prize. Mundoclasico.com, 17 December 2008
4. Profile in the Catalan Composers Association's website
5. Booklet notes of the Ramon Humet · Niwa · London Sinfonietta & Nicholas Collon CD, quoted in soundcloud.com
6. El Compositor Habla: «Ramon Humet estrena (Spanish)