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Mikel Urquiza (1988, Bilbao) studies composition first at Musikene (San Sebastian) with Gabriel Erkoreka and Ramon Lazkano, later at Paris CNSM with Gérard Pesson. He receives the Spanish Institute for Scene Arts and Music young composer commission and the French Academy in Rome award, living three months at Villa Medici. He is mentored by the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation, together with Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.

Since 2012, he works closely with Diotima Quartet, which premiers both of his string quartets and, along with Sarah Maria Sun, his quintet White nights. His second quartet, Indicio, is played at Festival Pontino, BBVA Foundation in Bilbao, and Musikprotokoll in Graz, among others.

He also stablishes a rich collaboration with the ensemble L'Instant Donné, exploring the fragility of memory in Les lueurs se sont multipliées, and the violence of love gestures in Serpientes y escaleras (serenata). He will write a new piece for the whole ensemble, commissioned by Radio France and to be premiered in 2018.

  

In 2017, his piano piece Contrapluma travels along the ECHO network, from BOZAR in Brussels to the Wiener Musikverein, through Paris Philharmonie. Later the same year, mosaik ensemble, conducted by Enno Poppe, premiers Opus vermiculatum - a commission of the Spanish National Centre for Music (CNDM) and the Goethe Institut - at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. He is also a guest composer at Royaumont Abbey (with ensemble L'Imaginaire) and a composer in residence with C Barré ensemble, which commissions several pieces, playing his music in France and Cyprus.

Mikel Urquiza's music is also played by the Basque National Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, New European Ensemble, Smash Ensemble, Trio Talweg and Wilhem Latchoumia at the San Sebastian Fortnight, Chaillol Festival, Paris National Opera season, New York MATA Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and Lucerne Festival.

 

  
         
 
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EVENTS
    
     
 
Past events
  
2018
  
April
17

I nalt be clode on the frolt

for soprano and ensemble (recording)

L'Instant Donné / Radio France
April
8

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trio

Ensemble N / Vienna
April
4

Un lugar de Nueva Inglaterra

en el que nunca he estado,

for microtonal accordion (première)

Iñaki Alberdi / Fundación Juan March, Madrid
March
22

Elurretan, plucked string trio

Ensemble C Barré / Toulon
March
1

Les lueurs se sont multipliées, for ensemble

New European Ensemble / Amsterdam
February
24

Elurretan, plucked string trio

C Barré Ensemble / Puyloubier
February
22

Opus vermiculatum, for ensemble

ensemble mosaik & Enno Poppe / Berlin
February
20

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trio

Trio Talweg / Pully
January
14

Ouverture française, for accordion

Vincent Lhermet / Mexico
2017
  
December
3 - 9

Artist residence

Ensemble L'imaginaire / Royaumont Abbey
October
18, 25

Esquisses d'échecs , for accordion

Mateja Zenzerovic (Ciklus ensemble)
October
26 - 28

Esquisses d'échecs , for accordion

Mateja Zenzerovic (Ciklus ensemble)
October
17

Esquisses d'échecs , for accordion

Mateja Zenzerovic / BKA Theater, Berlin
October
11

More sweetly forgot

on poems by Sappho/Carson (première)

Sarah Sun & C Barré / Nicosia
October
7

Indicio, string quartet

Quatuor Diotima / Musikprotokoll, Graz
October
6

Las olas, for string orchestra (première)

OLC / Paris
September
22

Elurretan, plucked string trio

C Barré Ensemble / Trets
August
7

Manual de vuelo del aeronauta inexperto

Odyssée wind quintet / Klasik Festival
August
5

Contrapluma, for piano

Matthieu Acar / Klasik Festival
July - August
31 & 1

Elurretan, plucked string trio

C barré Ensemble / Chaillol Festival
July
20

Elurretan, plucked string trio (première)

C barré Ensemble / Musique à la ferme
May
15

Contrapluma, for piano

Mariam Batsashvili / Barbican London
May
13

Manual de vuelo del aeronauta inexperto

Odyssée wind quintet / Paris
May
12

Indicio, string quartet

Diotima Quartet / Festival Ensems, Valencia
May
9

Indicio, string quartet

Diotima Quartet / BBVA Bilbao
April
27

Belarretan, guitar and electronics

Dan Lippel / MATA New York
April
19 & 21

Contrapluma, for piano

Mariam Batsashvili / Vienna & Barcelona
2016
March
26

Portrait concert

L'instant donné / La Marbrerie, Paris
March
20

Opus vermiculatum, for ensemble (première)

Mosaik Ensemble and Enno Poppe / Madrid
March
11

Contrapluma, for piano

Mariam Batsashvili / Konzerthaus Dortmund
Nouveau
CD

Carpere Fide(s), Bertrand Chavarría Aldrete

Containing Belarretan

for guitar and electronics
November
22

Ouverture française, for accordion

Vincent Lhermet

Chenereilles, Valladolid & Montreuil
Novembre
6

Contrapluma, for piano (première)

Mariam Batsashvili / Cologne Philharmonie
September
22

Belarretan, guitar and elctronics

SMASH Ensemble / Perm, Russia
July
22

Indicio, string quartet (première)

Diotima Quartet / Festival Pontino
July
16

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trio

Trio Talweg / Musicales de Préfailles
June
29

Isiltzen denak, for ensemble

Kuraia Ensemble / Palau de la Música, Valencia
June
7

Isiltzen denak, for ensemble

Kuraia Ensemble / BBVA Foundation, Bilbao
June
5

Cálculo de la caída, for violin and viola

Lee & Percevic / Fontainebleau
April
24

Serpientes y escaleras (serenata) (première)

L'Instant Donné / Witten
Mars
4

Ouverture française, for accordion

Fanny Vicens / Levin Hall, Oslo
February
21

Ikusia ikusirik, for orchestra (première)

Musikene orchestra, Arturo Tamayo

Saint Sebastian
January
23

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trio

Trio Talweg / Les Diablerets, Switzerland
January
9

Ouverture française, for accordion

Fanny Vicens / Limoges
2015
December
9

Cálculo de la caída, violin and viola (première)

DAI Contemporain, CNSMDP
November
16

Isiltzen denak, for ensemble

Kuraia Ensemble / Bilbao
November
10

Belarretan, guitar and electronics

Bertrand Chavarría / Salamanca
November
1

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trio

Trio Talweg / Geneva
October
14

Isiltzen denak, for ensemble (première)

Kuraia Ensemble / Saint Sebastian
October
9

Belarretan, guitar and electronics

Bertrand Chavarría, Projecte Rafel, Valencia
October
3

Belarretan, guitar and electronics

Bertrand Chavarría, Saint Sebastian
Septembre
12

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trío

New European Ensemble

Gaudeamus Muziekweek
August
27

Manual de vuelo del aeronauta inexperto

Lucerne Festival Academy
June
28

Les lueurs se sont multipliées

for ensemble (première)

L'Instant Donné / Festival Format Raisins
March
24

Sobre lo apenas entrevisto

mezzo / guit / acc / perc, (création)

Smash Ensemble/ BBVA Foundation Bilbao

March
4

Esquisses d'échecs : Ouverture française

for accordion

Vincent Lhermet / CNSMDP
February
4

Manual de vuelo del aeronauta inexperto

wind quintet (première)

Ensemble Intercontemporain / Paris
2014
  
December
13-19

Maudits les Innocents (Acte1) - Première

CNSMDP and Paris National Opera

Amphithéâtre Bastille
December
18

Esquisses d'échecs : Tour blanche, accordion

Ander Tellería / University of Valladolid
November
21

Cinq pièges brefs, trio avec piano

Trio Talweg, Saint Sebastian
October
16

Esquisses d'échecs : Ouverture française,

for accordion

Vincent Lhermet / La Défense
October
15

Esquisses d'échecs : Ouverture française,

for accordion (première)

Vincent Lhermet / Opéra de Lille

September
28

White nights

soprano and string quartet (première)

Sarah Sun and Quatuor Diotima / Royaumont

   
September
11

Assur, for clarinet, accordion and cello

E. Iriarte, A. Tellería and E. Ayllón / Zarautz
   
September
6

Orduko orbainak, piano

Wilhem Latchoumia / Bagatelles, Paris
   
July
29

Belarretan, guitar and electronics

Bertrand Chavarría / Rosiers-d'Églentons
   
June
21

Eskudantza

six musicians with no instruments

Ciklus ensemble / Saint Sebastian (Première)
   
May
23

Table ronde at festival Artes [h]oy

Cervantes Institute in Paris
   
May
20

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trio

Trio Talweg / Temple Saint-Marcel, Paris
   
April
1

Belarretan, guitar and electronics

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete / Nave73, Madrid

   
March
7

Belarretan

for guitar and electronics (première)

Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete / Paris
   
January
8

Sturnus

txistu and accordion (première)

Duo KEtan / Euskaldunal, Bilbao
 
2018  
May
1

Un lugar de Nueva Inglaterra en el que nunca he estado,

for microtonal accordion

Iñaki Alberdi / Klingenthal
   
May
14 - 19

I nalt be clode on the frolt

for soprano and ensemble (broadcasting)

L'Instant Donné / France musique
   
June
3

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trio

Trio Talweg / Musique à la Ferme
   
June
17

Opus latericium

for flute, saxophone, clarinet and piano (première)

Ensemble L'imaginaire / Strasbourg
   
August
21

Cinco sólidos perfectos y una mariposa,

piano quintet (première)

Cosmos Quartet and Natalia Rodiles

San Sebastian Musical Fortnight
   
August
25

Cinq pièges brefs, piano trio

United instruments of Lucilin

San Sebastian Musical Fortnight
   

 

 

 
CATALOGUE
  
 
 
  Chamber music    
       
 

Serpientes y escaleras (serenata)

sextet - 2016

[hp, pno, perc, vn, va, vc]

Duration: 10'

Première : L'Instant Donné, Witten

Isiltzen denak

septet - 2015

[fl, cl, perc, pno,, guit, vn, vc]

Duration: 5'

Hommage à Mikel Laboa

Première : Kuraia, San Sebastian

Les lueurs se sont multipliées

septet - 2015

[fl, cl, perc, pno, vn, va, vc]

Duration: 12'

Comissioned by the Format Raisins Festival

Première : L'Instant Donné, La Charité-sur Loire

Zintzil

sextet - 2012

[fl, acc, a, gui, cel, perc]

Duration: 8'

Commissioned by the BBVA Foundation

Prmière : Ensemble Krater, Bilbao
 
 

Indicio

string quartet - 2016

[vln, vln, a, vc]

Duration: 16'

Première : Quatuor Diotima, Festival Pontino

Manual de vuelo

del aeronauta inexperto

wind quintet - 2015

[fl, ob, cl, horn, bsn]

Duration: 6'

Première : Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris

Cinq pièges brefs

piano trio - 2012

[vln, vc, pno]

Duration: 7'40

Première : DAI Contemporain, Paris

b

Cálculo de la caída

violin and viola - 2015

Duration: 6'

Première : Rachel Koblyakov & Ieva Sruogyte, CNSMDP
 
           
  Orchestra music        
           
 
a

Las olas

string orchestra - 2017

[6.5.4.4.2]

Duration: 10'

Première:

Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire

cond. Peter-Jelle de Boer, Paris
a

Ikusia ikusirik

orchestra - 2016

[3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1- 3perc - ac.cel.harp - strings]

Duration: 6'30

Première: Musikene Orchestra, cond. Arturo Tamayo, Saint Sebastian

a

Erio

orchestra - 2011

[ 2.1.2.1-2.1.1-2 perc-harp-strings]

Duration: 9'

Première: Basque National Orchestra, cond. Nacho de Paz, Saint Sebastian

   
           
  Solo music        
           
 
a

Contrapluma

piano - 2016

Duration: 6'

Première : Mariam Batsashvili, Cologne
a

Belarretan

guitar and electronics - 2014

Duration: 6'

Première : Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete, Paris

a

Esquisses d'échecs

accordion - 2013...

1 - Tour blanche (2013) 4'

Première: Ander Tellería 03/12/13, Leon

2 - Ouverture Française (2014) 3'

Première: Vincent Lhermet, Lille Opera

@Klarthe Editions
   
           
  Vocal music        
           
 
a

More sweetly forgot

sopr / sax / acc / perc - 2017

Poems by Sappho / Carson

Commissioned by ensemble C barré

Duration: 12'

Première: Sarah Sun & C barré

at Pharos Foundation, Nicosia
a

Sobre lo apenas entrevisto

mezzo / guit / acc / perc - 2015

Poems by Su Xiao-Xiao

Commissioned by the BBVA Foundation

Duration: 12'

Première: Ensemble Smash, Bilbao
a

White nights

soprano and string quartet - 2014

Poems by Paul Auster

Voix nouvelles Royaumont

Duration: 11'

Première : Sarah Sun et Quatuor Diotima, Royaumont
a

Maudits les Innocents

récit lyrique (act1) - 2014

Libretto: Laurent Gaudé

[5 soloists, children choir, ensemble]

Duration: 20'

A Paris National Opera and CNSM Production

Première: Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra, Maîtrise des Hauts de Seine, Guillaume Bourgogne, Amphithéâtre de l'Opéra Bastille
 
           
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