Joan Albert Amargós
Joan Albert Amargós is a Spanish composer and conductor born in Barcelona in 1950. Amargós is an instrumentalist on piano and clarinet, and has composed a number of chamber and symphonic works. He is also a great connoisseur of Flamenco, which has served as the basis for some of his compositions, which always breathe a brightness and colour distinctly Mediterranean.
He has earned a number of prizes, such as the prize for best arranger of Spain. The government of Catalonia awarded him the National Award for music for the opera Euridice in 2002. He also won the Ciudad de Barcelona Prize the same year, for his collaborations with Miguel Poveda. In 2008 his composition Northern Concerto was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition; Michala Petri was the soloist on recorder. He also collaborated with Flamenco legends Paco de Lucía and Camarón de la Isla
Filmography
He has composed the soundtracks of several motion pictures.
- 2005 : J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka
References
- KML Fondazione Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Conservatori Liceu
- Musicians from Catalonia
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Spanish male classical composers
- 20th-century Spanish classical composers
- 21st-century Spanish classical composers
- Spanish male film score composers
- Spanish male conductors (music)
- 20th-century Spanish conductors (music)
- 21st-century Spanish conductors (music)
- Spanish classical clarinetists
- 20th-century clarinetists
- 21st-century clarinetists
- Spanish male classical pianists
- 20th-century Spanish classical pianists
- 21st-century Spanish classical pianists
- 20th-century male pianists
- 21st-century male pianists