11/10/2021
Another performance of LIBERAR - the latest work by Maria de Alvear, will take place on November 12th in Segovia. It will be played by the fantastic Kebyart Ensemble.
More information here: http://www.cndm.mcu.es/node/22289
11/04/2021
Highlights in November! The ensemble œnm . œsterreichisches ensemble fuer neue musik will premiere a new composition by Maria de Alvear: Freisetzen I. The concerts will take place on November 4, 2021 as part of the Wien Modern Festival and on November 13 in Salzburg, at the Odeion.
Further information here:
https://www.oenm.at/de/konzerte/2021/Logothetis/
https://www.wienmodern.at/2021-logothetis-1003-20211104-0800-reaktor-de
https://www.odeion.at
Celebrating her 60th Birthday, the Wolke Verlag publishing house published a wonderful, richly illustrated book about Maria de Alvears life and work! Have a look inside here!
10/26/2021
10/07/2021
Tomorrow! The young and uprising Kebyart Ensemble will premiere Maria de Alvears latest work LIBERAR at the MIXTUR-Festival in Barcelona!
Find out more about the concert and this fantastic festival: https://mixturbcn.com/en/programa-2021/kebyart-ensemble
05/27/2021
We are very happy to announce that on Thursday, May 27th 2021 the Concertzender Nederland begins to stream a beautiful radioshow by Dirk Serries / Portamento with some of Maria de Alvear’s compositions. The radio show is on air this Thursday but also streamable afterwards from that link: https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/portamento_610013/
04/28/2021
In its online-programme OCAZEnigma, the Orquesta de Cámara del Auditorio de Zaragoza will present a cycle of video works by Maria de Alvear. It will be shown during the month of May under the title “Maria de Alvear, PRIMERA OBRA DE VIDEOARTE”.
The presented video works are:
Estudio sobre Arnulf Rainer (1980) 15’
Confesión (1982) 15’
El Greco (1983) 16’
Pasión (1985) 3’
SOL (1994) 60’
More information here.
03/02/2021
The most recent composition of Maria, Im Kern III for brass quintet, will be premiered on 29 March in the Auditorio 400 of the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid as part of the Series 20/21 cycle of the CNDM. It is performed by the Spanish Brass in a programme that includes works by Luciano Berio, Cristóbal Halffter, María de Alvear, Nuria Núñez Hierro, Witold Lutosławski, Ángela Gallego, Delfín Colomé and Voro García.
More information at CNDM.
02/16/2021
Tune in tomorrow: Feb. 17 2021, 19:00h (CET time) - don't miss Maria de Alvear’s lecture on "Freedom and Voice" within the scope of #Festivaldelavoz hosted by Medialab-Prado & Miguel Álvarez-Fernández !
Here is the direct link: https://www.medialab-prado.es/.../musica-lenguaje-y-otras...
02/15/2021
Irene Ibáñez Gómez has written a great and very informative essay about women in spanish contemporary music, amongst them Maria de Alvear. You can find the article in the January edition of the spanish magazine Ritmo ( it is only the printed version and the article is in spanish, but still…) !
10/27/2020
FINALLY !!! looking forward to the world premiere of Maria de Alvear’s piece She takes a Look, which was planned to be shown already in March 2020 .. this will happen (…lets keep those fingers crossed!) on October 29th at the CentroCentro in Madrid hosted by VANG. Músicas en vanguardia !!
10/27/2020
American pianist Sarah Cahill will play an excerpt from Maria de Alvear’s Intenso as part of her ongoing project “The future is female”.
The concert will be a livestream on November 20th within the scope of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
photo: Marianne LaRochelle
10/19/2020
photo: Philip Lethen
Maria de Alvear will celebrate her 60th birthday next week! To start the upcoming row of tributes, Hanno Ehrler produced a very sensitive and insightful feature for Deutschlandfunk. You can listen to or download it here:
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/atelier-neuer-musik.812.de.html
10/06/2020
Maria de Alvears early radio work die Badenden is part of a virtual exposition of sound art works hosted by Galería Freijo.
06/17/2020
More news from Trío Arbós : we are very happy to announce that Trío Arbós will be performing Maria de Alvears latest work Im Kern II. This will be hosted and streamed on CNDM. Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/CanalCNDM within the scope of the "European Music Day" on June 20th 2020 at 18:20!
06/02/2020
Maria just finished a new composition for Madrid-based Trío Arbós. The title is Im Kern II and the musicians already recorded this wonderful Video-Version!
03/12/2020
Breaking news: we are very sorry to inform you that the concert at CentroCentro in Madrid on March 19th is cancelled due to the Corona-Pandemic. We will keep you informed about a possible postponement of the performance.
02/11/2020
Eve Egoyan will perform Marias composition Asking at the prestigious Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in Quebec (Canada). The concert will take place on May 15th.
02/11/2020
Maria just finished a new composition for soprano, piano and video. This one is for a video made by Ana de Alvear called ELLA ECHA UN OJO (she takes a look). It will be premiered in Madrid, at CentroCentro on March 19th! It will be played by Sarah Maria Sun and Neus Esterellas.
11/05/2019
A crowd of happy people! Maria attended one of the concerts of the “A Villa Voz” concert series. This one took place on November 2nd at Navalcarnero. The choir of the ORCAM performed Maria's latest choral piece Einfache Freiheit.
10/10/2019
As part of the new concert series "A Villa Voz" in Madrid, Maria's latest choral piece Einfache Freiheit is performed. From 5 October to 3 November 2019, this new series by the orchestra and choir of the Autonomous Community of Madrid (ORCAM) will bring classical music to eleven municipalities in the Autonomous Community of Madrid. The repertoire mixes Zarzuelas with contemporary music.
The 11 villages that ORCAM will visit are Manzanares el Real (5 October 2019), Rascafría (6 October), Nuevo Baztán (12 October), Torrelaguna (13 October), Buitrago de Lozoya (19 October) , Patones de arriba (October 20), Chinchón (October 26), Colmenar de Oreja (October 27), Villarejo de Salvanés (November 1), Navalcarnero (November 2) and San Martín de Valdeiglesias (November 3).
05/20/2019
Fresh from Austria: Here are some pictures from Marias visit to the Festival 4020 in Linz - performing Tapas and in conversation with artistic director Marie-Therese Rudolph. The photos are by Reinhard Winkler ©.
04/30/2019
Just yesterday, Deutschlandfunk Kultur broadcasted a wonderful feature about Marias composition Magna Mater. It was produced by Hubert Steins and you can listen to it here:
04/30/2019
Currently on my way to wonderful Linz (Austria) – a week filled with fantastic activities. Looking forward to being part of Festival 4020. Giving talks and performing my Œuvre Tapas - as well my work Corazon Abierto will be premiered in Austria. Last but not least, i will give a masterclass for the composition students of Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität and sharing these experiences with my dear old friend Carola Bauckholt
Feeling grateful!
08/05/2018
our concert tip for the summer:
antoine beuger will perform besando el tiempo by maria de alvear
kunstraum düsseldorf - August 11th - https://www.wandelweiser.de/_concert-series/minimal.html
08/05/2018
we had a great time presenting the new CD of Klarenz Barlow : Musica Algorithmica !
you can order it here: http://world-edition.com/pages/archiv/cd/cd_0034.html
05/25/2018
Eve Egoyan played Maria de Alvear
... let us share some really nice photos of Eves concert in Toronto, playing de puro amor and en amor duro
04/13/2018
Double CD Release with Eve Egoyan
playing Maria de Alvear: DE PURO AMOR & EN AMOR DURO in Toronto on April 14, 2018
"Immensely happy that this CD has been finally released after so many years! Gorgeous Eve Egoyan playing my compositions.. deeply grateful!
And of course having the opportunity again to share my work with my sister Ana, with her beautiful drawings culminating in this long awaited release.“ (Maria de Alvear)
01/10/2018
Photographer Oliver Abraham presents his new portraits of Maria de Alvear to the world-edition-team !
10/05/2017
A special recommendation for next Friday, October 13, 20:10 in Deutschlandfunk Radio:
09/05/2017
TAPAS performed in Madrid
Maria de Alvears latest composition 'TAPAS' was performed on June, 30th in the fantastic, inspiring ambiente of the recordstore La Quinta de Mahler in Madrid. It was played by Juan Carlos Garvayo and Trío Arbós - note the chef's hat !
07/06/2017
ELIÁ - Musical Installation by Rupert Huber
Performance by Maria de Alvear
during the "Sommer in Stuttgart" Festival
Photos by Susanne van Loon
06/14/2017
ELIÁ - Musical Installation
Performance by Maria de Alvear
Friday, June 16, 2017, 7.30 pm - Stuttgart, St. Georg Kirche
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart _ Photo: Martin Siegmund
A concert in the frame of 'Sommer in Stuttgart-Festival'
Rupert Huber, Conductor and Composer
Maria de Alvear, voice
Donald Manuel, drums
Neue Vocalsolisten
Program:
Rupert Huber
I. Das Ölblatt
II. Aceitunas con vino / Olives with Wine
III. Al olivo, al olivo…
IV. Das Licht der Öllampe
06/08/2017
We have some wonderful new press photos & portraits of Maria!
Shot by the fantastic Philip Lethen at the Neanderthal Museum.
06/06/2017
Maria de Alvear becomes new member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Maria de Alvear has been accepted as a new member in the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (AWK). On May 10, 2017, the Academy admitted altogether 11 new members. The president of the Academy, Prof. Wolfgang Löwer, presented them with their certificates of admittance during the Academy's annual celebratory meeting. The composer Maria de Alvear, together with Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka), composer, Düsseldorf, Prof. Christopher Dell, musician, composer and theorist, Berlin, Martin Schläpfer, dancer, choreographer, Düsseldorf, and Prof. Hans Peter Thurn, cultural sociologist, Düsseldorf, were admitted to the Class of the Arts.
The North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of the Sciences, Humanities and the Arts brings together leading German researchers, and is home to numerous research projects. It was founded in 1970 as the successor institution to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung (Working Group for Research), which had been established by the then-premier of the state, Karl Arnold, to advise the state government on how best to reconstruct infrastructure following the Second World War. Even today, the North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of the Sciences, Humanities and the Arts is tasked not only with advising the state government on promoting and stimulating research, but also providing it with scientifically founded arguments and guidance in social affairs. As in the other seven German state academies, the members exchange ideas and cultivate close contacts to other academic, scientific and research institutions in Germany and abroad. The Academy is structured into three classes for humanities, sciences and medicine, and engineering and economic science, and one for the arts.
05/10/2017
Browsing through our archives and scanning photos, we just discovered this quite enchanting shot from 1997. It shows Maria alongside her sister, the video-artist Ana de Alvear. It was taken by Wolfgang Lehmann at the Donaueschingen Festival for contemporary music.
05/04/2017
New CD Release : Maria de Alvear – besando el tiempo on Wandelweiser Records
Edition Wandelweiser Records was established in 1996 and is now well-known throughout the world for its radical and rigorous programme.
'besando el tiempo' is a piece that was composed in 1995 in the space of four days. It was written in an automatic script that Maria de Alvear uses for many of her pieces. The work was originally composed for the flautist Caren Levine, who also gave it its first performance in Salzau in 1995. 'besando el tiempo' has now been performed several times worldwide by different interpreters.
When Maria de Alvear heard the performance by Antoine Beuger, she asked him to give her a recording for herself.
Maria de Alvear: “For me, Antoine Beuger's interpretation is the most exact reading there is of my piece. It embodies perfect introversion on the part of the interpreter. The interpreter hears music as “the first beholder of the composer”, and that is the way the piece is played here.”
Antoine Beuger: “When I start playing this piece, I embark on a journey into my inmost being and encounter myself. I never know beforehand what it will be like, how it will continue; I am on my way, on my travels … that is the adventure of this piece. You have to expose yourself to this encounter without any protection or reservations, in complete innocence. And that is also what can be heard.”
04/25/2017
Photo-Shoot at the Neanderthal Museum with Philip Lethen
03/20/2017
ARCAICO
In preparation of my new project 'Arcaico'
with Juan Carlos Garvayo, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Ana de Alvear and Sra de Arsuaga
02/20/2017
Performance and Artist Talk 60 Years Goethe-Institut Madrid: José Iges – Dedicatorias [Dedications]
Sound Art from Spain and Germany
Monday 02/20/2017, 07:30 PM - Goethe-Institut Madrid (Spain)
Goethe-Institut Madrid celebrates its 60th anniversary with a series of events. One of them will be an evening about different perspectives on sound art: José Iges presents a choice of his Dedicatorias, and after this artistic intervention he will join a panel discussion with the renowned international experts Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, María de Alvear, Götz Naleppa and Raquel Rivera.
08/27/2016
Radio Broadcast: FLORES by María de Alvear
Deutschlandfunk, Atelier neuer Musik
August 27, 2016 - REVISITED Forum neuer Musik 2003
María de Alvear (voice)
Amelia Cuni (voice)
Marco Blaauw (trumpet)
musikFabrik NRW
Deutschlandfunk - Forum neuer Musik 2003
06/01/2016
Public prize presentation – Spanish National Award for Music in the field of composition went to Maria de Alvear
The German-Spanish composer Maria de Alvear was officially honoured with the Spanish National Award for Music on June 1, 2016. King Felipe VI and Queen Leticia of Spain presented Maria de Alvear with the prize in Palencia Cathedral.
The jury commended Maria de Alvear for her prolific output and the international appeal of her works, for her pioneering role in the conception of musical works as complete artistic syntheses, for her interdisciplinary approach with its constant openness to partners from other artistic spheres, for her extraordinary ability to channel musical influences in a transgressive manner and for her strong commitment to younger composers.
Maria de Alvear was born in Madrid and has been living in Cologne for more than 35 years. She studied New Music Theatre with Mauricio Kagel and was awarded the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Prize early on in her career. Since 1998, Maria has regularly collaborated with her sister, the video artist Ana de Alvear. Her mostly interdisciplinary and multi-media works are performed worldwide by renowned interpreters including Ensemble Modern, the Basel Sinfonietta, Ensemble Musikfabrik and the hr-Sinfonieorchester.
Maria De Alvear with King Felipe VI of Spain
05/01/2016
Radio Broadcast : Les Simultans de Silvia Alvarez
with an extract of Maria de Alvear: 'Colourful Penis'
Radio de Monaco
From the Festival des Printemps des Arts de Monaco 2016, May 2016
02/01/2016
Concert : Ensemble Neoars Sonora
Seven Authors, Seven Works and Seven Sources of Inspiration
with María de Alvear: 'Nieve' for French horn, violoncello and piano (2009)
"Dedicated to the innocence and the capacity of transformation that lies within snow - the versatility of its states between water and snow."
(Maria de Alvear)
February 1, 2016, 7.30 pm at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
http://www.cndm.mcu.es/node/1380
01/03/2016
Radio Broadcast : La tertulia de Radio Clásica, Radio Nacional de España (RNE) - Escuchar música
Invited Guests: Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, María de Alvear y Stefano Russomanno - January 3, 2016
http://rtve.es/a/3432258
12/03/2015
Concert : LOSIGKEIT
Music by Christian Wolff und Maria de Alvear - In memoriam Agnieszka Dziubak
Séparé et Ensemble
with Geneviève Foccroulle(piano), Erik Drescher(flute),
as guest: Biliana Voutchkova (viola, violin)
BESANDO EL TIEMPO
Maria de Alvear
afterwards: music and videos in memoriam Agnieszka Dziubak
December 3rd, 2015, 19:30
Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
Ackerstraße 169, 10115 Berlin
10/02/2015
Concert : EINFACHE FREIHEIT
'Einfache Freiheit' - first performance - composition for choir by Maria de Alvear
October 2nd, 2015, 20:00, St. Marien Kirche, Dortmund- as part of the festival chor.com
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart conducted by : Rupert Huber
more information : Neue Chormusik mit dem SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart unter Leitung von Rupert Huber
07/11/2015
First Performance in Japan: EN AMOR DURO
Keiko Shichijo plays 'En Amor Duro', a composition by Maria De Alvear
11th July 2015 at Ryogoku Monten Hall, Tokyo, Japan
12/07/2014
Concert : EN AMOR DURO
Keiko Shichijo plays 'En Amor Duro', a composition by Maria De Alvear
26th October 2014, at Arti Amsterdam
7th December 2014, at Amsterdam Geelvinck Museum