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First name: David
Last name: Padros
Dates: 1942
Category: Quartet
Nationality: spanish
Opus name: Gjatans (1993)
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Peculiarities: See: http://www.earsense.org/chamberbase/works/?newquery=1&nolq=1&composerKey=1143
Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Padrós (Igualada, Spain 1942), is a Catalan composer. He was born in Igualada in 1942 . He studied with Jordi Albareda(piano) and Jordi Torra (harmony and composition). Afterwards he travelled to Germany and Switzerland where he studied with Paul Baumgartner, Sava Savoff (piano), Hans Ulrich Lehman, Klaus Huber (Composition) and Jürg Wyttenbach (contemporary music performance). In 1969 he won the Hanz Lenz prize for the artistic merit (Germany) and the composition prize of the Landis & Gyr Foundation (1976). He lived in Basel until 1982, where he developed an intens task as a composer, pianist and pedagogue. He moved to Barcelona, where he continues with the same professional activities. Serious and perfectionist creator, he admits his work has been influenced by Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. His very personal work has sometimes its inspiration in the Oriental philosophy, and he is very interested in the sense of space, as a physical or a temporary dimension. In 1971 his work "Styx" was performed for the first time in the Barcelona Music Festival. From that date on, his works have been performed in many European International festivals : In Luzern (Switzerland), the "Gaudeamus Musicwoche" (Holland), "Europalia-85" (Belgium) and Barcelona (1987)where his work "Confluències (Música per a Santa Maria del Mar)" was performed for the first time with a great success. Important to be mentioned are the recent perfonmances of his works :"Metamorfosis mozartiana" by the Grupo Enigma" in the Auditorio de Zaragoza (2006), "Daha", by Harry Sparnaay in the Ateneu Barcelonès (2006) and "Línies i Plans" by the OBC in the Auditori de Barcelona (2007)