CÉSAR CANO
Spanish
contemporary composer. Born in Valencia (Spain) in 1960.
He studied Composition and
Piano at the Conservatoire of his native city and also there Orchestral
Conducting with maestro Manuel Galduf,
achieving the highest
qualifications, obtaining the Honour Prize in Counterpoint and
Fugue, Composition and Conducting. At the same time, he was a scholarship
student at various national and international
courses
and seminars. He is Profesor Superior in
Harmony,
Counterpoint,
Composition and
Instrumentation, as well
as in Orchestral
Conducting.
He was Principal Conductor of Grup Contemporani beetwen 1987 a 1990. He won the second prize in the Manuel Palau Conducting Competition in 1985. He has received many composition prizes, among the most outstanding being the Valencia Chamber Music Prize twice, in 1984 and 1986, and the First Prize in the III Internacional Composition Competition for of JONDE in 1990 with the work PRÁCTICAS DE PASIÓN. He has the First Prize in several International Choral Composition Competitions. In 1988 the Council of Valencia commissioned him the composition of a TE DEUM to celebrate the 750 aniversary of the Conquest of the the City in the Cathedral with the attendance of the King and the Queen of Spain. This work was recorded in CD and was awarded later with the 2nd Prize in the III International Symphonic Choral Composition Competition of JONDE in 1991.
He has had commissions by National Orchestra of Spain (PIANO CONCERTO), “Arte y Tecnología” Foundation of Spanish Telefónica (GRIS), Generalitat Valenciana (CLINAMEN, and the CLARINET CONCERTO) Center for Contemporary Music Diffussion (TRIBAL), etc. The world premiere of his was in february 1999, a commission by Generalitat Valenciana, played by Joan Enric Lluna,clarinet, and the O.V., conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. His varied catalogue of works has more than 60 pieces which have been performed in Spain, England, U.S.A., Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Holland, Uruguay, Portugal, Lebanon, etc. His discography includes up to now 18 Cds, offering several of his most representatives works.
He has composed and conducted scene music to request of the Dramatic Centre of Valencia and Theâtre de la Commune of Paris. From 1993 to 1995 he was living in London working as a freelance composer. He has made since 1987 several seminaries, lectures and reports about contemporary music and composition in some Spanish cities. He was composer in residence of the Joven Orquesta de la Generalitat Valenciana during 2001 and 2002. composing by comission from this orchestra theworks VESTIGIOS, for chamber orchestra and electroacustic music and SOBRE LOS ÁNGELES, for symphonic orchestra. As a musical Producer, he has released nine CDs, eight of them with the EGT label.
eMail: info@cesarcano.com
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