new projects:

1. Start working on the opera "Libre dels feyts" (based on the chronicles of "Jaume I the conqueror").
2. to write a new symphonic orchestra piece.
3. to write the orchestral version of the cicle of songs "Divan del Tamarit" (for chamber orchestra and voice).
4. Musicalize Federico Garcia Lorca's "Sonetos del amor oscuro" for voice and piano.
5. Finish the piece "Initial Dance" (for Guitar Quartet).

past projects:

1. "Divan del Tamarit" (song cycle for voice and marimba). Commissioned by the "Aurora Borealis Duo".
2. "Plexus" (for soprano sax and Percussion Quartet). Comissioned by Javier Oviedo and the "Percussions of Barcelona".
3. "Zodiac" (for 6 voices and 3 clarinets). Commissioned by "el Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid".

new concerts:

2010

• 27|01|2010
  "Zodiac"
  Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 7:00pm
  Palau de la Música Catalana
  El Petit Palau
  c/ Palau de la Música, 4, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
  http://www.palaumusica.org/
  more info

past concerts:

2009

• 03|03|2009
  "Divan del Tamarit"
  Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 7:00pm
  Instituto Cervantes of NYC
  211 East 49th Street, NY 10017
  more info

2008

2007

2006

Curriculum Vitae

Albert Carbonell i Sauri was born in Barcelona begining his musical studies at the "Conservatori Superior de Música" where he graduates with honors (Honour’s Prize of harmony, fugue, composition and instrumentation).

He has received various grants and scholarships: from the Fundació Autor/SGAE, the Fundació Agustí Pedro i Pons of the University of Barcelona. In 1999 he moves to New York City to achieve his Master degree in composition at the Mannes College of Music, thanks to a Fulbright Fellowship. He studies with David Loeb (composition), Robert Cuckson (analysis) and Carl Schachter (music theory).

In 2001 he received the prize as best Catalan composer in the Contest "Francesc Civil" of Girona awarded by the "Associació Catalana de Compositors" and the First Prize of the "International Competition of Composition" of Monserrat (València). In 2004 he's been awarded with the Boruslav Martinu Composition Prize.

The same year 2004 is requested to be the comissioned composer for the "Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance" in New York being Elliott Carter and Pierre Boulez in the advisory board and the founder and director the prestigious pianist Marc Ponthus.

His catalog includes pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensemble, string orchestra and symphonic orchestra, as well as choral pieces and children songs, sardanas and works for cobla (national catalan ensemble).

His work is presided by the use of counterpoint, as well as a marked preference to the new notation. It is therefore strongly influenced by the traditional extended harmony, the taste for the timbre effects and an approximation to the Catalan folk song.

Awards and Grants

• 1st. Prize of XXIV Premi Musical de Composició per a cobla Ceret-Banyoles. (2007) Concertone (new version for cobla)
• Grant by the “Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid”. Piece commissioned: Zodiac (2007)
• 1st Prize on the project "Opera at secondary School" by the "Gran Teatre del Liceu" (City Opera Hall in Barcelona) to write a pedagogical opera Lisistrata (2005)
• Honorary Prize at the “Murray Schafer” Composition Competition. Poland 1999
• Prize as the best Catalan Composer at the 11th "Francesc Civil" Prize in Composition. (2001)
• 1st. Prize at the "III Concurs Internacional de Composició" de Música de Cámara de Montserrat (València). (2001)
• 1st. Prize “5th Composition Competition for Christmas Carols” Fundacion Caja de Granada. (1999)
• 1st Prize Sardanes SGAE (1999)
• 1st. Prize "Premi Ramon Serrat per a joves compositors de sardanes". Terrassa. (1999)
• Premio de Honor Grado Superior de Composición (1998)
• Premio de Honor Grado Superior de Instrumentación (1998)
• Special Youth Award at the XIVth Premi Musical de Composició per a cobla Ceret-Banyoles. (1998)
• 1st Prize at the Chamber Composition Competition “Joaquim Maideu”. Category A. Vic (1998)
• 1st Prize at the Chamber Composition Competition “Joaquim Maideu”. Category B. Vic (1998)
• Special Youth Award at the VIIIth Premi Musical de Composició per a cobla Ceret-Banyoles. (1992)
• Special Youth Award at the VIth Premi Musical de Composició per a cobla Ceret-Banyoles. (1990)
• Grant by “Fundació Caixa Sabadell” (1996-97)
• 1st. Prize of the "Agrupació Sardanista de Taradell". (1996)
• 1st Prize Sardanes SGAE (1995)

Scholarships and certificates

• Fullbright Fellowship (2002-04)
• Mannes College of Music Merit Scholarship. (2003)
• “Fundació Agustí Pedro i Pons” (Universitat de Barcelona). Scholarship (2001)
• “Fundación Autor/SGAE” (Spanish Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers) Scholarship (2000)
• “Fundación Autor/SGAE” (Spanish Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers) Scholarship (1998)
• "Artistas Interpretes y Ejecutantes" (Beca AIE). Scholarship (1994-95/96-97)
• "Fundació Caixa Catalunya". Scholarship to assist to the Summer Festival in Torruella de Montgrí (Girona) 1992.
• Master of Music by the "Mannes College of Music" (the "New School University") (2004)
• Certificate of Superior Professor of "Conducting" (2001)
• Certificate of Superior Professor of "Harmony, Counterpoint, Composition and Instrumentation (1998)
• Certificate of Superior Professor of "Solfege, Music Theory, Transposition and Accompaniment" (1997)
• Certificate of Superior Professor of "Percussion" (1996)
• Certificate of Superior Professor of "Music Pedagogy" (1996)

* for more info about the pieces and parts, please fill out the contact form

solo instruments

1. Soliloqui VII (clarinet) 2009 (13'ca.) [score]
2. Soliloqui VI (guitar) 2003 (8'ca.) [audio] [score]
3. Soliloqui V (trumpet) 2003 (9'ca.) [audio] [score]
4. Soliloqui IV (fiscorn) 2002 (5'ca.) [score]
5. Soliloqui III (flabiol & tamborí) 2001 (7'17'') [score]
6. Soliloqui II (vibràfon) 2001 (9'12'') [audio] [score]
7. Joguines (piano) 2000 [score]
8. Variacions lliures (piano) 2000 (5'41'') [score]
9. Koubba (marimba) 1997 (8'47'') [audio] [score]
10. Homenatge (piano) 1997
11. Collage (violin) 1995

chamber music

1. Plexus (soprano sax and Percussion Quartet) 2008 (10'ca.) [audio] [score] [video]
2. Verbum (violin and piano) 2004 (8'ca.) [score]
3. The magic circle (sax quartet) 2004 (15'ca.) [audio] [score]
4. Three children songs (ob. or cl. and pno.) 2003 (8'ca.) [audio] [score]
5. Nexus (percussion quartet) 2003 (12'ca.) [audio] [score] [video]
6. Metamorphosis I (fl. cl. perc. vln. vlc. pno.) 2003 (10') [audio] [score]
7. Overture for the hope (Trpt. Trb. Tba. 2 Perc. Organ) 2002
8. Seqüències (cl. vln. vlc. pno) 2001 (5'41'')
9. El ferrocarril (children sax ensemble) 2001 (3')
10. Tamborilada (for 5 tamborils) 2001 (9'10'')
11. String quartet (string quartet) 2000 (20'ca.)
12. The Shepherd's boy (pedagogical work for children) 1999
13. Suite de danses (carillon & tenora) 1998 (12'ca.)
14. Tríptic x4 (quartet for clarinets) 1998
15. El petit bestiari (fl. vln. pno.) 1998
16. Variacions (fl. cl. pno.) 1998
17. Jam (jazz ensemble) 1997
18. Sonatine (wind quintet) 1995
19. L'estel de l'esperança (jazz) 1993
20. Castor & Pollux (percussion duet) 1991 (9'10'')
21. Hades "The temple of death" (chamber ensemble) 1990
22. Marxa dels animals (piano 6 hands for children) 1990

songs

1. Diván del Tamarit (song cycle for voice and marimba) 2008 (1h 15'ca.) [audio] [score]
2. Una gallina (canon per a infants) 2000
3. a l'Estiu (canon for children) 2000
4. El bandid (canon for children) 1999
5. In modo di habanera (children's song) 1999
6. El canon de l'absurd (canon for children) 1999
7. La cançó del carceller (children's song) 1999
8. El gosset perdut (children's song) 1999
9. La pluja (children's song) 1993
10. El tren de Vilagrasseta (canon for children) 1992
11. Quan el sol es desfà dins la nit (children's song) 1992
12. Marinada (children's song) 1992
13. El gat blau (children's song) 1992
14. El temps (cycle of 3 canons for children) 1991
15. Retaule per a infants (cycle of 6 canons for children) 1991
16. Cançó (children's song) 1991
17. El gronxador (children's song) 1991
18. El card i la rosa (cycle of 5 songs) 1990
19. Pedra alba (song) 1989

choral music

1. Zodiac (3 clarinets and 6 voices) 2007 (13'ca.) [audio] [score]
2. Ovillejos (choir and piano) 2005 (5'ca.) [score]
3. Homilia V (choir, baritone, cobla, 4 perc.) 2007 (30'ca.) [score]
4. Homilia IV (choir, baritone, ensemble, 4 perc.) 2005 (30'ca.) [score]
5. Homilia III (choir, baritone, ensemble, 4 perc.) 2005 (30'ca.) [score]
6. Homilia II (choir, baritone, organ, 4 perc.) 2004 (30'ca.) [score]
7. Homilia I (choir, baritone, organ, 4 perc.) 2003-04 (30'ca.) [score]
8. Un segon, cent anys... (choir and cobla) 2003 (2'ca.) [score]
9. Lli (mixed choir "a cappella") 2002 (3') [score]
10. O magnum mysterium (men's choir "a cappella") 2000
11. So we'll go no more roving (mixed choir "a cappella") 1999
12. The Möbius Band (mixed choir "a cappella") 1999
13. Venid a Belén (Christmas carol) 1999
14. Pastorcillos del monte (Christmas carol) 1999
15. Excèlsior (mixed choir and brass ensemble) 1998
16. Pater noster (mixed choir "a cappella") 1996
17. Ave Maria (mixed choir "a cappella") 1990

orchestral works

1. Els follets (symphonic orchestra) 2005 (20'ca.) [score]
2. Metamorphosis II (symphonic orchestra) 2003 (20'ca.) [score]
3. Concertone (for piano and string orchestra) 2003 (15'ca.) [score]
4. En Patufet (narrated tale for children's string orchestra) 2002 [score]
5. Chance "Atzar" (symphonic orchestra) 2001 (12'30'') [score]
6. The magic square (double string orchestra) 2001 (20') [score]
7. Suite de danses (version for tenora and orchestra) 1998/2000 (12'ca.)
8. Concertino (piece for vln. and orchestra) 1996
9. Cinc songs de la roda del temps (voice and orchestra) 1995
10. Elegia (string orchestra) 1994 (14')

operas

1. Lisístrata (òpera a secundària) 2005 (1h) [score]
2. La lluna en un cove (òpera còmica per a infants) 1998 (1h.15') [score]

sardanes

1. Recordant Cardedeu (for cobla) 2006 (4'30"ca) [score]
2. El trapella d'en Pau (for cobla) 2005 (4'30"ca) [score]
3. Flor d'albat (for cobla) 2004 (4'30"ca) [score]
4. Balneary Vichy (for voice and cobla) 2002
5. Nous sons (for cobla) 2002 (4') [score]
6. Pel vostre aniversari (for cobla) 2001 (6') [score]
7. L'hostal de la grossa (for cobla) 2000 [score]
8. Ressons d'aplec (for cobla) 2000 (3'59'') [score]
9. Postal de Besalú (for cobla) 2000 (4'49'') [score]
10. Cant d'enyorança (for cobla) 1999 (4'ca.) [score]
11. La vall de Sant Daniel (for cobla) 1999
12. Eixerida (for cobla) 1998
13. Incerta (for cobla) 1998
14. Aida (for cobla) 1998
15. Anella d'argent (for cobla) 1997
16. L'erol de Cardedeu (for cobla) 1996
17. Aplec daurat (for cobla) 1996
18. Bellsolar (for cobla) 1995 (2'29'')
19. Carrer pedró (for cobla) 1994 (3'55'')
20. L'Hostal la Glòria (for cobla) 1994
21. Sota l'oreig (for mixed choir "a cappella") 1992 (5'ca)
22. Ca'n Peret Sabater (for cobla) 1992
23. Vora la mar (for cobla) 1990
24. Renaixença (for cobla) 1989
25. Cap al tard (for cobla) 1988
26. Oda a l'avi Joan (for cobla) 1987

works for cobla

1. Homilia V (choir, baritone, cobla, 4 perc.) 2007 (30'ca.) [score]
2. Concertone (version for piano and cobla) (15'ca) 2007
3. Dansa Macabra (for cobla) (12'ca) 2005 [score]
4. Deliri 2002
5. Joguines (version for cobla) 2001 (4'30'')
6. Sincronia 1999 (12'30''ca.)
7. Escenes del circ (divertimento for cobla and perc.) 2000 (5'36'') [score] [video]
8. Nyerros i Cadells (work for two cobles and percussion) 1998 (13'ca.)
9. Estruga Maigarda (esoteric poem for cobla) 1998 (6'ca.)
10. La ciutat llunyana 1992 (15'ca.)
11. El silenci del bosc 1990 (12'ca.)

others

1. Music from Cardedeu (traditional and popular folklore music) 2000 (14')