Octavi Rumbau
*10 November 1980
Works by Octavi Rumbau
Biography
His works have been performed in several festivals and venues in Europe & North America. He has been commissioned by Auditori de Barcelona, OBC Orchestra, Fundació Tàpies, ME_MMIX Festival, CrossingLines, Bcn216 ensemble, Festival d’Òpera de Butxaca, Festival Mixtur/UMS ´n JIP, Duo Links, Laps ensemble, Rémi Durupt, Miguel-Ángel Lorente, Víctor de la Rosa, Miquel Bernat, etc. He has also collaborated, among others, with Noelia Rodiles, the RTVE Orchestra, Ensemble Multilatérale, Taller Sonoro, Funktion, Lorraine Orchestra, Balearic Orchestra, Alberto Menchén, Miquel Bernat, Erica Wise, Jan Gerdes or Philippe Spiesser. He's the Invited composer in Auditori of Barcelona at the season 2017/2018.
He won the XXXVIII Reina Sofía Prize for Musical Composition 2021. He has also received distinctions from the Frederic Mompou Composition Prize, Dolors Calvet i Prat Composition Prize, the Colegio de España and Instituto de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (INAEM) award, the aid for young creators of Fundació Phonos of Universitat Pompeu i Fabra and the Berliner Opernpreis. He has also received the support by the Government of Catalonia & the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
A pianist with a classical training, he started his studies of composition in Barcelona with Enric Palomar and Agustin Charles. Afterwards, he moved to Paris at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Yoshihisa Taïra (2001-2004) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) where he got the Master degree of Composition with Frédéric Durieux and Orchestration with Denis Cohen (2007-2012). He also attended the anual Cursus 1 in musical computing at IRCAM.
Some of his music has been recorded by Neu Records: 'Pendular motion' (2021)
About the music
Octavi Rumbau recent work focuses into the malleability of musical time and its paradoxes, as well on the search for new sound spaces of interaction between instrument and electronics. Part of the music of Rumbau exploits the possibility of creating self-generating material from minimal premises. Organically regular structures proliferate in the form of processes of increasing, decreasing or stagnation complexity.
The perception of time is, indubitably, changed and transformed, released from ends-driven purposes, offering a glimpse of the possibility of a vertical, malleable time. We could say, in fact, that the passage of time and the alteration of perception are the two core elements in Octavi Rumbau’s conception of music.