Feliu Gasull offers talk at IU School of Music
Monday, November 15, 9:15 pm
Sweeney Hall, Simon Building
School of Music, Indiana University
Composer, guitarist and IU alumnus Feliu Gasull will offer a talk in the context of Prof. Ernesto Bitetti's guitar masterclass. He will discuss his music and answer any questions about its demands on guitar technique and the expressions of flamenco.
Feliu Gasull is one of the most original artists in Spain today. His compositions, most of which feature the guitar very prominently, master the complexities of contemporary music and variety of Spanish folk idioms, especially the flamenco. Recently the City of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra premiered Gasull's Concerto for Orchestra.
FELIU GASULL
A native of Barcelona, Feliu Gasull leads a busy professional life as composer, guitarist, and teacher. He currently directs the Department of Traditional Music at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona, where he also teaches composition and chamber music. Gasull has written more than seventy works for a variety of media including solo guitar works, symphonic, chamber and choral music, as well as music for film and dance. Many of his chamber and symphonic works include the guitar and they incorporate elements clearly derived from Flamenco and from other Mediterranean popular genres.
Gasull's music has been described as the link between Manuel de Falla and Paco de Lucia. It has been performed by Orquesta Sinfonica de Barcelona, Santa Fe Chamber Music Orchestra Festival, Amsterdam's New Ensemble, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonieta de Caracas, and Orquesta de Camara Teatre Lliure among others. As a guitarist, Gasull has appeared at the Festival Internacional Andres Segovia, Festival Perelada, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, IV Festival Iberoamericano de Guitarra (Chile.) He was featured in the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
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