Biography

Hector PARRA

After his studies at the Barcelona Conservatory of Music (First Prize in Composition, Piano, Concert and Choir Direction), it follows the Cursus of Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM then forms at Royaumont, at the Centre Acanthes, Takefu in Japan and the High School of Music in Geneva with Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, Philippe Leroux and Philippe Manoury.

In its many scenic and multidisciplinary projects, he collaborated with directors such as Calixto Bieito, Georges Lavaudant or Vera Nemirova, visual artists as Matthew Ritchie and Jaume Plensa and scientists such as Lisa Randall and Jean-Pierre Luminet.

Among his future projects, a work for the cellist Arne Deforce in collaboration with artist Jaume Plensa, and 'Inscape', an immersive symphonic work for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, IRCAM and the National Orchestra Barcelona, Cologne Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lille, inspired cosmological theories of the physicist Jean-Pierre Luminet.

Several prizes are awarded to her works: in 2011 the composition Ernst von Siemens Prize, in 2009 the price trends by the newspaper El Mundo, in 2008 the Impuls price (Klangfroum) in Graz, in 2007 Donald Aird Memorial Earplay San Francisco ...

We find his pieces at international festivals program Lucerne, Warsaw Autumn, Wien Modern, Donaueschingen, Tokyo Suntory Hall, Agora-IRCAM, Ars Musica (Brussels), Musica (Strasbourg), Staatsoper Berlin, Guggenheim New York ...

His works have been performed by numerous orchestras as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Tokyo Philharmonic, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Orquesta Nacional de España, or the Holland Symfonia led by David Afkham, Michail Jurowski, Kazushi Ono, Peter Rundel and Lothar Zagrosek among others.

Work(s)

" Wilde suite "

For symphonic orchestra

Universal Music

SÉLECTION 2017

"Wilde" is the story of a young, altruistic Doctor Without Borders who, returning home, falls into the hands of a strange family of savages ... with their claustrophobic tensions, with their abysses and Insurmountable fears ".

Wilde Suite, is a form of synthesis of opera - in which the vocal melodies are transferred to the woods. Parra brings the spirit of Wilde to the concert hall: with its claustrophobic tensions and its abysses, but also with its moments of hope, "close to tenderness".

Javier Vizoso, 2015 

" Wilde "

Opera

Universal Music

SÉLECTION 2016

WILDE is the story of a young Doctor cooperating who returned home by train after a difficult experience in a Moldovan prison. The plot is the thread that allows the composer Hèctor Parra to reveal the fragility of the human being but also confront us with his most ruthless face. With the booklet of the Austrian playwright Händl Klaus, born oppressive music that underscores the deeply selfish and wild part of the human being.

The doctor made the simple mistake down to the wrong station. He is in a deserted city where he meets two brothers. Learning that he was off the last train of the day, the young man accepted the invitation to visit the three sisters of the two men. Follows a kind of stifling spiral in which the family absorbs, empty its contents guest. The physical and moral degradation that may endure a human being is the cornerstone of this work which invites us to reflect on one of the most important issues of today's society: the instinct to eliminate what is different from us.

Programme du Bicentennaire du Teatro Real