Juan-José Eslava Cabanellas

TEACHING

Composition and Orquestration in Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra, Spain (currently)

Composition and Orchestration in Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón, Spain (until 2022).

Electroacoustic Composition in Conservatorio Superior de Navarra (until 2019)

and in Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca (until 2013)

CREATIVE WORK

Recently

2023. "eszku". Performative installation. Commissioned by Trio Zukan. Produced by E7.2 artistic collective and Trio Zukan. In Oteiza Foundation, Navarra, Spain

2023. "tanta i intzi tanta", installation. Commissioned by Baluarte Foundation and Gobierno de Navarra. Artistic Encounters of Navarra.

2022. "de cerca", for grand piano (commissioned by Gobierno de Navarra). A collaboration with piano player Lluïsa Espigolé

2022. "cuerpo abierto", for bass-baritone, electroacoustic and actor. Commissioned by Nicholas Isherwood & Museo Universidad de Navarra. With Javier Álvaro, actor.

2022. "desprendida voz", for txistu, accordion, percussion and electronics. Commissioned by Trio Zukan. In collaboration with Patxi Araujo (video)

2021. "Canta madera, grita!", for solo amplified 5 octaves marimba and resonnators. Commissioned by Juanjo Guillén (Neopercusión)

2021. “el tercero es la sombra”, for quintet (flute, bass clarinet, violon, celo, piano)

2020. "Melos", for baritone oboe and electronics. Commission by Pilar Fontalba, oboe player

2019. "shut down", for guitar and koto. Commissioned by Norio Sato

2019. "máscaras" (solo electronics, octaphonic system)

2019. “Oteiza”: A work on the sculptor, poet and essayist Jorge Oteiza. For ensemble, basse and electronics. Commissioned by the Collective E72 and Ópera de Cámara de Navarra. First performance by Nicholas Isherwood, Nacho de Paz, Ensemble E7.2, Ángel Faraldo, Pablo Ramos, Ópera de Cámara de Navarra, Museo de la Universidad de Navarra, Spain. 

Other projects, commissions

2017. “Sin horizonte”, for mesotonic accordion. Commissioned by Ander Tellería.

2017. "Scapeland", for piano, cello, gestures and words. Commissioned by Alberto Rosado and David Apellániz

2016. “Robar Belleza”, Commissioned by the collective E7.2, (collaboration with the choreographer Bertha Bermúdez and NeoPercusión ensemble)

Other commissions by the BBVA Foundation, Li(Luo) dance company, André Malraux cultural center, Fund. Author/AEOS, Fund. Pablo Sarasate, CNDM, Plural Ensemble, ORCAM, Quincena Musical, Grupo Enigma.

Works in progress

De Cerca: expansión, for grand piano. A research project in collaboration with piano player Lluïsa Espigolé

En la piel de la cuerda. For alto solo

MotoAusculpt: for a Guzzi motorcycle and electronics. For two or three percussionists

FESTIVALS

Encuentros Pamplona 2022, World New Music Days, Labirinti sonori, Time-of-Music, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, ICMC, World Saxophone Congress, Puentes, Jornadas Argentinas de Música Contemporánea, Résonnances, festival d’Art Lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence, Punto de Encuentro, Son, Musikaste, Contemporary Music Circuit of Euskadi, International Festival of Alicante, and concert halls such as the Tokyo Opera City, Kunitachi College of Music, Ircam, La Croix du Nord (Paris), Instituto Cervantes (Paris, Tokyo), Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Auditorio 400, Teatros del Canal, Museo Universidad de Navarra and others.

AWARDS

International Computer Music Conference’s prix to the best European work (2008); Finalist in the  Transitio International Festival of Electronic art (Mexico)

RESEARCH

Collaborations with Ircam (Paris) and the Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo)

Aid to the International Mobility of the City of Madrid (2008)

PUBLICATIONS

Ritmos infantiles: tejidos de un paisaje interior (Octaedro, 2007)

Ritmos infantis: tecidos de uma paisagem interior (revised) (Pedro % João, 2020)

Soinuzko Begiradak. Take 2. Trio Zukan. IBS classical, 2023

Tempo. Pilar Fontalba, oboe. Cezanne, 2022

Horors (fronteras). Ander Tellería (Cezanne, 2020. Melómano de Oro 2020-09)

Truths. The saxophone in the early 21st Century. Ángel Soria (IBS classical, 2017)

Utopías. New music for saxophone quartet. Sigma Project (Sigma records, 2013)

Momentos: cantos entre balbuceos. Incidental music for video (UPNA, 2002)

ACADEMIC TRAINING

Composition studies achieved at the National Superior Conservatory of Paris, the High Conservatory of Music of Aragon, IRCAM (Composition Cursus of Computer Music), Royaumont-Voix-Nouvelles Foundation, Centre Acanthes, Veruela, Szombathely, and Composition Academy of Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (France).

Research degree from the Public University of Navarra in the field of musical pedagogy.

MAIN PROFESSORS

Claude Ballif, Emmanuel Nunes, Gérard Grisey, Michael Lévinas, Marc-André Dalbavie, Luis Naon, José Manuel López-López, Teresa Catalan, Philippe Manoury, Philippe Leroux, Tristan Murail, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Mikhail Malt