Vertixe Sonora is a Spanish chamber ensemble founded in 2010 and specialized in contemporary classical music. It is an independent non-profit organisation functioning both as a platform which supports the creation and dissemination of New Music and as a music ensemble. Its artistic director since its founding has been the composer Ramón Souto. Their work has been shown in several documentary film as Correspondencias Sonoras (2013) by Manuel del Río,
History The group appeared in 2010 as a flexible collective of soloists who specialize in contemporary classical music.
Repertory
The wide repertory of Vertixe Sonora mainly comprises pieces written specifically for them. Some of the composers who have collaborated with the ensemble are Ramón Souto, Santiago Díez Fischer, Fernando Garnero,url=http://mixturbcn.com/en/programacio-2015/mixtur-2015-concert-7/ Germán Alonso, Bernardo Barros, Stefan Beyer, Charles-Antoine Fréchette, Takuto Fukuda,url=http://cgac.xunta.es/EN/actividad-detalle/62/music-and-art-sound-correspondences Jacobo Gaspar, Víctor Ibarra, Esaias Järnegard, Alexander Khubeev, Matthias Kranebitter, Dmitri Kourliandski, Michelle Lou, Miguel Matamoro, Simone Movio, Abel Paul, Marek Poliks, Stefan Prins, Santiago Quintáns, Lula Romero, Elena Rykova, Benjamin Scheuer, Sabrina Schroeder,url=https://vertixesonora.gal/es/causal/ Sergio Blardony, Nadir Vassena, González Compeán, Hernández Ramos, and Mauricio Pauly.http://www.mundoclasico.com/ed/documentos/doc-ver.aspx?id=63a9ae2f-506e-4b1f-808a-81b8cb7c609d
Members
Roberto Alonso, violin Adriana Aranda, soprano Rubén Barros, electric guitar Jesús Coello, bassoon Pablo Coello, saxophones & musical direction Carlos Cordeiro, clarinets Carlos Cortés, trumpet Sara Chordà, violoncello Maribeth Diggle, soprano David Durán Arufe, piano Ángel Faraldo, electronics Iván Ferrer-Orozco, electronics Pilar Fontalba, oboe Jorge Fuentes, horn Carlos Gálvez, clarinets Aglaya González, viola Bleuenn Le Friec, harp Simon Lewis, horn Nuno Marques, electric guitar Carlos Méndez, double bass María Mogas, accordion Keiko Murakami, flutes Alfonso Noriega, viola Sérgio Pacheco, trumpet Hugo Paiva, violoncello Thomas Piel, violoncello Iago Ríos, trombone Clara Saleiro, flutes Helena Sousa, accordion Haruna Takebe, piano Daniel Veiga, clarinets Diego Ventoso, percussion
Discography 2016 - XXVII Premio Jóvenes Compositores. Fundación SGAE-CNDM. Pedro Amaral, conductor 2019 - Lula Romero: ins Offene. Wergo 2020 - Víctor Ibarra: The Dimension of the Fragile - Works for Ensemble. Nacho de Paz, conductor. NEOS 2023 - Camilo Méndez: Peripheral Spaces. NEOS
Documentaries 2013 - Correspondencias Sonoras. Manuel del Río 2014 - son[UT]opías. CampUSCulturae 2020 - Enrique X. Macías. A lira do deserto. Manuel del Río
ISCM - Spain Since 2021, Vertixe Sonora is the Spanish Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). That is the return of Spanish representation at the ISCM after several years. An important aspect of the organisation's role is to convene an annual jury to select Spanish works that will be considered for performance at the ISCM's World Music Days festival.
References
External links Vertixe's website. Vertixe at CNDM. Full documentary film from sonUTopías 2013.