Ensems (, meaning "jointly, at the same time") is an annual contemporary classical music festival that takes place every spring in Valencia. Founded in 1978, it is the oldest contemporary music festival in Spain. It centers mostly in chamber music due to budget restrictions.
Works by composers such as John Cage, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Krzysztof Penderecki, Salvatore Sciarrino or Iannis Xenakis have been given their Spanish premiere throughout the festival's history.
Editions
2009 Subject: Me falta una oreja (I lack an ear)
Composer World premieres National premieres Manuel Añón María José Belenguer Adrià Borredà Aurélio Edler Matías Far Carlos Fontcuberta Hermes Luaces Juan María Martínez Cue José Javier Peña Aguayo Josep Planells David del Puerto Marcela Rodríguez Jagoda Szmytka El sueño de TántaloTres miradas de un instanteSierpes salvajesPunto rosso sull'oceanoConcetto su tre (...a la luna de Valencia)Sobre un instante presagiadoEl rumor de las sombrasSomos marCemítricoStrampsCéfiroTrioverb(a)renne life! Hugues Dufourt Philippe Hurel Gabriela Ortiz Saxophone QuartetSix miniatures en trompe-l'oeilTrifolium Other performed composers Xavier Benguerel Salvador Brotons Leo Brouwer Emilio Calandín César Cano Elliott Carter Geoffroy Drouin Gabriel Erkoreka Brian Ferneyhough Ángel Lluís Ferrando Joshua Fineberg Francisco Guerrero Cristóbal Halffter Hans Werner Henze Ramón Humet Thomas Larcher György Ligeti Tomás Marco José Antonio Orts Alberto Posadas Claudio Prieto Ramón Ramos Vicente Roncero Carles Santos Mauricio Sotelo Karlheinz Stockhausen Toru Takemitsu Andrés Valero José Zárate
2010
Subject: Pop Composers
Germán Alonso Javier Álvarez Manuel Añón Luciano Berio Enrique Busto Fran Cabeza de Vaca Carlos Caires Emilio Calandín Alberto Carretero Aureliano Cattaneo Michael Daugherty Tansy Davies José Miguel Fayos Carlos Fontcuberta Josep Lluís Galiana Osvaldo Golijov Vicent Gómez Gregorio Jiménez Pierre Jodlowski Panayiotis Kokoras Mario Lavista Rodrigo Lima José Júlio Lopes Theodore Lotis Roberto López Corrales José Manrique Antony Maubert José López Montes Manolis Manousakis Juan María Martínez Cué Martín Matalón Elena Mendoza Andreas Mniestris Josué Moreno Alva Noto João Pedro Oliveira Josep Planells Jean-Claude Risset Manuel Rodríguez Valenzuela Fausto Romitelli Gabriel Santander Albert Schnelzer Jesús Torres Isidora Žebeljan
2011
Subject: Love Songs Composers
Germán Alonso Georges Aperghis Alfredo Aracil Natasha Barrett Pierluigi Billone Fran Cabeza de Vaca César Camarero Aureliano Cattaneo Jordi Cervelló Dominique Clément José Miguel Fayos Carmen Fernández Vidal Jean-Charles François Cristóbal Halffter Gregorio Jiménez Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher Voro García Magnus Lindberg Demián Luna Enrique Macías Miklós Maros Peter Maxwell Davies Rafael Murillo Kent Olofsson Hilda Paredes Eduardo Pérez Maseda Alberto Posadas Roger Reynolds Wolfgang Rihm Miquel Roger Jesús Rueda Albert Sanz Enrique Sanz-Burguete Josep Soler Mauricio Sotelo Jesús Torres Andrés Valero Luis Yuste
References El País