Alicante Music Festival

The Festival de Música de Alicante (Alicante Music Festival), formerly known as Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de Alicante, is a Spanish annual contemporary classical music festival taking place every autumn, usually in September, in Alicante. First held in 1985, it is currently organized by the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (National Center for Music's Diffusion), a branch of the Spanish Ministry of Culture's Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (National Institute of Scenic Arts and Music). It currently has a budget of €485,000, following a 17% budget cut in 2012 due to the ongoing Spanish financial crisis.[1]

Premieres

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2012

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Composer World premieres National premieres
  César Aliaj ...ce silence est dense
  Benet Casablancas Pastoral
  Irma Catalina Álvarez Anagnórisis II: Aurora expropiada
  Francisco Coll Tapias
  Jorge Fernández Guerra Memorias
  Rosa Ferrer Espígol d'estiu
  José Luis Greco Forbidden Tonic
  Carles Guinovart Septimino
  José Iges Poison
  Javier Martínez Campos Am Ufer des Rheins
  Adolfo Núñez Emak-Bakia
  Medín Peirón L'etoile de mer, Objeto para ser destruido
  Jorge Sancho Impromptu
  Joseba Torre Elegía concertante
  Jesús Villa Rojo Sinfonía de cámara
  Mercedes Zavala Cançons de l'aire
  Thomas Adès Sonata da caccia
  Diana Arismendi Las aguas australes
  Anna Bofill Autoportrait, Le retour de la raison
  Philip Cashian Caprichos
  Tansy Davies Nature
  Beat Furrer Ferner Gesang
  Oriol Graus Corrida. Idílico
  Heinz Holliger Cynddaredd-Brenddwyd
  Oliver Knussen Autumnal, Ophelia Dances, Ophelia's Last Dance
  Ramón Lazkano Lurralde
  Eduardo Polonio L'etoile de mer
  Kaija Saariaho Terra memoria
  Thomas Simaku String Quartet No. 4
Other performed composers
  Leonard Bernstein
  Luciano Berio
  Benjamin Britten
  Sergio Blardony
  Cristóbal Halffter
  Toshio Hosokawa
  Jonathan Harvey
  György Ligeti
  Olivier Messiaen
  Tomás Marco
  Xavier Montsalvatge
  Luis de Pablo
  José María Sánchez-Verdú
  Carles Santos
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Humphrey Searle
  Toru Takemitsu
  Isabel Urrutia
  Isang Yun

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