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.
Also recorded as Joan Albert Amargos · Joan Amargós · Joan Albert Amargós Altisent
Joan Albert Amargós
- Full name
- Joan Albert Amargós i Altisent.
- Born
- 1950. · Barcelona.
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Occupation
- composer, pianist, conductor and music arranger.
- Fields
- opera and sardana.
- Languages
- Catalan and Spanish.
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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.
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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
He has composed the soundtracks of several motion pictures. • 2005: J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka
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Joan Albert Amargós is recorded as composer, pianist, conductor and music arranger. A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
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