Continuum XXI has been selected as winner of the Scholarship #MusikerZukunft of the Deutsche Orchester Stiftung. The vision of its Artistic Director Alberto Arroyo has convinced the Jury and the musicians of the ensemble will develop different projects around Early & Contemporary Music, including important premieres!
A reviwew of Alberto Arroyo’s work “Zeitpyramide” has been published in one of the reference books concerning Music Theatre “Gegenwart und Zukunft des Musiktheaters. Theorien, Analysen, Positionen” Ed-: Jörn Peter Hiekel, David Roesner
Review after the premiere opera “LABRYS” in Neue (musikalische) Blätter by Wolfram Quellmalz. Labyrinth in Farben und Klängen
From 2022 Alberto Arroyo is Faculty of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Webern Dresden. He works in the Class of Prof. Lisa Fornhammar in the Master Neue Music (Gesang) as Correpetitor. Some of the repertoire, composers and projects that will be developed include Classical Contemporary Music (Anton Webern, […]
Review after the premiere opera “ONIROS” in Neue (musikalische) Blätter by Wolfram Quellmalz. Wer ist – was ist?
Joan Gómez Alemany writes a review of Arroyo’s opera “ONIROS”. https://sulponticello.com/iii-epoca/oniros-o-el-teatro-musical-de-los-suenos-de-alberto-arroyo/
Alberto Arroyo has developed different Artistic Research projects with worldwide musicians. Some of these artists include Sarah Maria Sun (sopran), Andrés Gomis/SIGMA Project (saxophone), Sisco Aparici/Synergein Project (percussion), AuditivVokal Dresden (vocal ensemble), Iñaki Alberti (accodeon), Richard Röbel (harpsichord), Trío Arbós (National Music Award), etc.
A reviwew of Alberto Arroyo’s work “Estado interior: Meta-Instrument Etude nr. 1” has been published in one of the most original books of the recent years written by the authors and critics Paco Yáñez & Joan Gómez Alemany. “Cartografías de la Música Contemporánea. Ensayo, Crítica e Interdisciplinariedad en los s. […]
Composer: Alberto Arroyo Libretto: Carmen Guaita Premiere: Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (Dresden, Germany) | 9th November 2023 2nd Performance: Auditorio Caja Círculo, Burgos (Spain) | 1st December 2023 AuditivVokal Dresden | https://www.auditivvokal.de Soprano 1: Anne Stadler Soprano 2: Katharina Salden Altus: Stefan Kunath Tenor: András Adamik Bass: Cornelius […]
In his activity as Artistic Director of Continuum XXI, Alberto Arroyo has commisioned and conducted over 20 pieces. Some of the most relevant composers include Peter Ablinger, José M. Sánchez-Verdú, Raphaël Cendo and many young comopsers. Concert halls and festivals such as Hellerau-Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Guggenheim Museum, Teatros del […]
Continuum XXI (Historical Instrument Ensemble for Early & Contemporary Music) releases its new website!
ONIROS. Ein Musiktheater der Träume Music by Alberto Arroyo Libretto by Carmen Guaita Oniros, Mikolaj Bonkowski Philoniros, Daniel Oehme Mutter, Hannah Rundel Penelope (reale), Nicoletta Ieridou Penelope (virtuale), Sujin Lee Eurykleia, Anna Maria Tietze Diambar, Mykola Piddubnyk Mbëggeel, Lia Gets-Beermann Sprechrollen: Telemachos, Jonathan Koch Tänzerin, Judith Wurm Poet, Fabian […]
AuditivVokal Dresden is one of the most innovative vocal ensembles worldwide and Alberto Arroyo is 2021-2022 ‘composer in residence’. He will work on different projects that researche innovative vocal techniques, new interdisciplinary formats together with philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, etc.
(…) three participants who passed the qualifying round were admitted to the final of the competition: Alberto Arroyo (Spain), Joshua Hey (USA) and Shin Mizutani (Japan).
Winner of the composition commision “Glaube-Kire-Hoffnung” together with Friederike Bernhardt, Max-Lukas Hundelshausen and Shadi Kassaee
Radio Broadcast in Spanish National Radio (RNE) with Alberto Arroyo about Continuum XXI and topics about Early and Contemporary Music. Temas de música viva: antigua vs contemporánea
Article about the interdisciplinary project Continuum XXI: Traces (Spanish)
Premiere for vocal ensemble during the pandemic: “Ruf in die Stille” ist a contemporary vocal composition in dialog with Heinrich Schütz “Verleih uns Frieden”.
Interdisciplinar Project with visual artist Joan Gómez Alemany and ensemble Continuum XXI
Selected paper for KEAMSAC & Emille 2018: The ‘meta-instrument’ as compositional technique: Strategies of the current musical creation.
From 23:10. Premiere of “Poesie des Vergessens” (Poetry of Oblivion). Gedenkstätte Lindenstrasse and Kammerakademie Potsdam. Radio broadcast rbb Kultur (German).
Vídeo de una de las sesiones de EPOS Lab 2018, en el grupo del compositor Alberto Arroyo y la poeta Guadalupe Grande, en la que se empieza a trabajar la voz en relación al texto poético escogido: el poema “Gatas pariendo”.