Biografie van Félix Ibarrondo
Félix Ibarrondo was born in OÑATI-Guipúzcoa (Spain) on June 12th 1943 in a family steeped in musical traditions. He began his musical studie - musical notation and harmony - with his father, Antonino. Then, while doing degrees in philosophy and theology, he studied musical composition (with Juan Cordero Castaño) and the piano; he was subsequently awarded diplomas from the San Sebastián and Bilbao Conservatories.
Félix Ibarrondo was born in OÑATI-Guipúzcoa (Spain) on June 12th 1943 in a family steeped in musical traditions. He began his musical studie - musical notation and harmony - with his father, Antonino. Then, while doing degrees in philosophy and theology, he studied musical composition (with Juan Cordero Castaño) and the piano; he was subsequently awarded diplomas from the San Sebastián and Bilbao Conservatories.
In Paris, where he has lived since 1969, he has studied under Max Deutsch in the framework of the Grands Concerts de la Sorbonne and under Henri Dutilleux and Maurice Ohana in the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique. He began studying électro-acoustical music in the GRM.
Among other prizes, he has received the Esplá,Oscar, the Lili Boulanger prize, the Harpe d'Argent prize in the CECA (Spain) and the SACEM Young Composer prize.
His close relations with the composers Maurice Ohana and Francisco Guerrero were decisive for him, both musically and personally.
As a prolific and versatile composer, his work, in which orchestral and vocal music prevail, is played by eminently prestigious ensembles and interpreters.
Harry Halbreich, the musicologist and critic, had this to say about him : "Ibarrondo is the prime example of the independent composer, who, while remaining alien to cliques, has little by little become the reference, due to his power of communiating with the public and interpreters. Profoundly Basque at heart, he incarnates the qualities of his people : unadulterated fervor and an impassioned expression which, at times, may even include violence, with priority being given to actual experience over abstraction and systems, a certain generosity and open-mindedness in the perspective of a humanism which knows neither compromise nor complacency. With him, the rigor and solidity of musical notation, the very hallmark of all of Max Deutsch's disciples, are at the service of an eloquent message whose impassioned generosity does not shy away from even the bitterest of accents.
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