Ramón Humet

Ramón Humet is a Spanish composer born in Barcelona in 1968. In 2006 he was awarded the Queen Sofía Prize for Escenas de pájaros,[1] which also won the Montreal Symphony Prize the following year,[2] and in 2008 he won the Ciutat de Tarragona Award for Gagaku.[3] His music, influenced by nature and zen, has been described as atemporal, luminous, colorful, very meditative and organic by Pablo González,[4] and as delicate and subtle, with high poetic imagination by Johathan Harvey.[5]

Ramon Humet

Compositions

Opera
  • Sky Disc (2012)

Orchestral
  • El temps i la campana (The time and the bell, 2014-2015)[6]
  • Escenas de pájaros (2006)
  • Gagaku (2008)
  • Escenas de viento (2008)
  • Música del no esser (2010)

Concertante
  • 3 Nocturnes for saxophone and orchestra (2001)
  • And the World Was Calm, for piano and ensemble (2009)

Ensemble
  • From the Meadows (2006)
  • Jardí de haikus (2007)

Chamber music
  • Mantra 2 (2002)
  • Quatre jardins zen (2008)
  • El jardí de Kinko (2008)
  • Pètals (2009)
  • Petites catàstrofes (2010)

Solo
  • Escenes del bosc, for piano (2005–08)
  • Meditació, for marimba (2007)
  • Vent de l'Oest, for shakuhachi (2007)

Vocal
  • Homenaje a Martha Ghaham (2011)

Choral
  • Salve Montserratina (2011)
  • Tres Ofertoris (2012)

Cobla
  • El Montsant (2004)

References
  1. Humet, Queen Sofía Composition Prize awardee for Escenas de pájaros, ABC, 24 November 2006
  2. The OSM International Competition Prize Gala Concert. Montreal Symphony's website, 10/01/08
  3. Ramón Humet wins the Ciudad de Tarragona Composition Prize. Mundoclasico.com, 17 December 2008
  4. Profile in the Catalan Composers Association's website
  5. Booklet notes of the Ramon Humet · Niwa · London Sinfonietta & Nicholas Collon CD, quoted in soundcloud.com
  6. El Compositor Habla: «Ramon Humet estrena (in Spanish)


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