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