Alicante Music Festival

The Festival de Música de Alicante (Alicante Music Festival), formerly known as Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea de Alicante, is a Spanish annual contemporary classical music festival taking place every autumn, usually in September, in Alicante. First held in 1985, it is currently organized by the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (National Center for Music's Diffusion), a branch of the Spanish Ministry of Culture's Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (National Institute of Scenic Arts and Music). It currently has a budget of €485,000, following a 17% budget cut in 2012 due to the ongoing Spanish financial crisis.^[1]

Premieres[]

2012[]

Composer	World premieres	National premieres
	...ce silence est dense
Benet Casablancas	Pastoral
	Anagnórisis II: Aurora expropiada
Francisco Coll	Tapias
	Memorias
	Espígol d'estiu
	Forbidden Tonic
	Septimino
	Poison
	Am Ufer des Rheins
	Emak-Bakia
	L'etoile de mer, Objeto para ser destruido
	Impromptu
	Elegía concertante
	Sinfonía de cámara
	Cançons de l'aire
Thomas Adès		Sonata da caccia
Diana Arismendi		Las aguas australes
Anna Bofill		Autoportrait, Le retour de la raison
Philip Cashian		Caprichos
Tansy Davies		Nature
Beat Furrer		Ferner Gesang
		Corrida. Idílico
Heinz Holliger		Cynddaredd-Brenddwyd
Oliver Knussen		Autumnal, Ophelia Dances, Ophelia's Last Dance
		Lurralde
		L'etoile de mer
Kaija Saariaho		Terra memoria
Thomas Simaku		String Quartet No. 4

Other performed composers
Leonard Bernstein Luciano Berio Benjamin Britten Sergio Blardony Cristóbal Halffter Toshio Hosokawa Jonathan Harvey György Ligeti Olivier Messiaen Tomás Marco Xavier Montsalvatge Luis de Pablo José María Sánchez-Verdú Carles Santos Arnold Schoenberg Humphrey Searle Toru Takemitsu Isang Yun

References[]

^ The Government vetoes a foundation for the Alicante festivals. El País, 10 September 2012

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[1] The Government vetoes a foundation for the Alicante festivals. El País, 10 September 2012

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