Núria Giménez Comas
Composer
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Núria Giménez-Comas began her musical studies with piano, but already with the idea of studying after the composition. She entered the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya) and works instrumental and electroacoustic composition with composer Christophe Havel. This work with electroacoustic music changes her way of thinking about instrumental music with a deep reflection on the notion of timbre in music. In ESMUC she finished the bachelor's degree with Mauricio Sotelo and a dissertation about "Music and Mathematics".
After two years she could enjoy a period of training at the Geneva Conservatory where she studied electroacustic composition with Luis Naon and instrumental with Michael Jarrell especially deepening in harmony and instrumentation. She has finished the Master in Composition at the High School of Music of Geneva with a dissertation about sound perception with Eric Daubresse.
Very interested in mixt music she has been selected to do Cursus 1 and Cursus 2 for composers at IRCAM. During this research year she deals with the sound scape listening in a project for string quartet and electronics. It has been premiered by Diotima Quartet in a collaboration with Voix Nouvelles de Royaumont using the new spatialisation system in 3D ambisonics.
She has worked in many collaboratif projects as with video-art and live video performance with Canadian artist Dan Browne and actors as Michel Deville, Lambert Wilson and Judith Henry. Also she has been in a long exchange with the poet Laure Gauthier and stage director Anne Monfort.
Very attached also to the orchestration, she has worked with orchestras as OCG, Brussels Philharmonic and Geneva Camerata, Orchestra of Cadaqués, OBC and with conductors as Michel Tabachnik, David Robertson, Duncan Ward, and Benjamin Shwuartz. She has recently recorded a digital CD with orchestral works with l'Auditori, OBC Orchestra and Sylvain Cadars as sound director.
She has worked also in an artistic research residency at IRCAM-ZKM with Marlon Schumacher, "Sculpting Space" about Synthesis textures in 3D space, working on different immersive installations in promenade format.
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Recently, she has realized two stage works, one from the text "Nostalgie 2175" by Anja Hilling, commissioned by Ircam, in collaboration with Anne Monfort, stage director. Also a small chamber opera from the text "Shadow. Eurydice says" of Elfriede Jelinek, commission of Gran Teatre del Liceu, in Barcelona, with Anne Monfort, Alicia Serrat and Elisava School Design.
She has premiered last year "Llum i matèria. Pour Kaija" in the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Ensemble Itinéraire at ESPRO-Ircam.
She has also made studio recordings of recent chamber vocal mix pieces with a long collaboration with GMEM (Marseille) and the Opera of Marseille.
She has received commissions from different musicians, orchestras and institutions, as Ensemble Itinéraire, Proxima Centauri, Geneva Camerata, Cadaqués Orchestra, OBC L'Auditori, Sigma Quartet, Aleph Guitar Quartet, Radio France, Grame, Ircam, GMEM, CNDM, BBVA Foundation receiving support of French Culture Ministry, INAEM, SGAE Foundation. Her pieces has been played in festivals as Manifeste, Présences, Archipel, Biennale Musique en Scène (Lyon), BCNClàssics, Ibermúsica, among others and she has also worked with renowned ensembles as Diotima Quartet, Contrechamps Ensemble, Klangforum, etc.
She has been awarded in many competitions as the Prize of Colegio de España de Paris-INAEM 2012 and the 1st prize of III Edison-Denisov Competition.
She has given some master-class or conferences about her music and research and about mixt music at Instituto Cervantes (Bordeaux), at Ircam Cursus and at ISCT of Zurich, Hochschule of Stuttgart among others. Very interested in creatif pedagogic projects she has worked in some institutions such as the UAB, "Composers in the classroom" and other pedagogic commissions.
She has been also professor of the stage "In Vivo Theatre" from the Manifest Academy, a long term project and exchange organised by Ircam, T2G, Day for night Company and CNSAD.