Bernat Vivancos's musical personality (Barcelona, 1973) is influenced by his years as a choirboy at the Montserrat Monastery. Coming from a deeply musical family, he completed his piano studies with Maria Canals, and composition studies with David Padrós in Barcelona. He then moved to Paris for five years to study composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse, with professors Guy Reibel, Frédéric Durieux, Marc-André Dalvabie, and Alain Louvier. In the year 2000, a pivotal moment in his career, he discovered the music of Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen, leading him to Oslo to expand his studies, which shaped his musical directions and future work.

Bernat Vivancos's works are currently performed worldwide, receiving commissions from important festivals and ensembles. His style incorporates elements that make his production unique: music with rich sonic and textural colors, where Western modal music converges with a search for spirituality based on harmonic inspiration from the spectral realm. These two fundamental aspects represent the strong influence of nature in Vivancos's work: nature as a root, as earth, a symbol of tradition, but also as a presence that invariably manifests in the physical properties of sound. During the 2014-2015 season, he was a resident composer at the Palau de la Música Catalana, and during the 2021-2022 season, he was a Guest Composer at the Auditori de Barcelona. His open and timeless music has attracted singers like Rosalía and Jennifer López, with whom he has collaborated on various projects.

In 2011, a selection of his choral music was released on the double album "Blanc" (Neu Records), performed by the Latvian Radio Choir under the direction of Sigvards Klava. This recording received critical acclaim in Catalonia, winning the award for best album of 2011. In 2016, he released another double CD, "Requiem," with the same choir and label, praised unanimously by critics. Here, Vivancos's music, with its clear sonorities and ecstatic harmonies, ascending architectures, and bursts of Nordic luminosity, seeks to unite faith, sensuality, and beauty.

Complete discography:

• Journées de la composition 2004. Compilation Orchester des Lauréats du Conservatoire; Jerôme Laran, saxophone; Dominique My, dir. CNSMDP - Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (2004)


• Blanc - Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Klava (Neu Records, 2011)


• In Montibus Sanctis (Escolania de Montserrat, 2014)


• Requiem - Latvian Radio Choir directed by Sigvards Klava (Neu Records, 2016)

Much of his production is available in digital format for free download at www.bernatvivancos.com/works

In 2007 he was appointed musical director of the Escolania de Montserrat,, a position he held until 2014. He was the invited composer for the 2014-2015 season at the Palau de la Música Catalana, along with Arvo Pärt. In 2019, he collaborated with international pop singers such as Rosalía, who performed an arrangement of the song "Me quedo contigo" by Los Chunguitos accompanied by the Cor Jove del Orfeó Català at the Goya Awards. He also collaborated with singer Jennifer López on choral arrangements for the song "Limitless" during her American tour "It's my party: a life celebration", which began on June 7, 2019.

Between 2007 and 2014, he served as Musical Director of the Escolania de Montserrat, combining this role with his teaching activities. Since 2003, he has been a professor of Composition and Orchestration at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), a position he currently holds.

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