Angel Hernandez Lovera
*25 September 1984
Works by Angel Hernandez Lovera
Biography
"The music of the composer Ángel Hernandez-Lovera -from my perspective and experience- is one that is current, which is renewed daily within the framework of a tireless search for beauty. It is a "new" art, which bases the novelty of its impulse on historical foundations. That is to say, Ángel always maintains a dialectical relationship between performer-composer, generating a binomial of "creators" that in the context of experimentation and research generates innovations and ambitious artistic proposals with a very high aesthetic level and a prodigious load of sociocultural relevance."
Vicente Moronta - Oboist
Winner of the 2017 Joseph Haydn International Composition Prize, (Eisenstadt-Austria). Winner of the “Best Free Work” mention of the Second Edition of the Antonin Dvorak International Composition Competition (Prague, 2011) Finalist of the Basel Composition Competition (2021). Formed within the National System of Orchestras under the tutelage of Maestro José Antonio Abreu, he obtained the degree of composer with Blas Atehortua in the Latin American Chair of Composition in 2009, and continued his studies with Jorge Sanchez-Chiong in electronic music and with Tibor Nemeth at the Jospeh Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt obtaining diplomas in Music Theory and Composition in 2017.
His works ranges from the chamber to the symphonic genre, in 2008 and 2009 he received master classes with the Polish composer Kristoff Penderecki while visiting Venezuela. In 2012 and 2016 he participated in the 46th and 48th Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik in the city of Darmstadt in Germany, actively participating in classes and conferences, as well as taking part as a composer in various Concerts and Workshops. In 2017 he attended the Dialogszene Workshop in Budapest, organized by the Peter Eötvös Foundation, where he obtained as a regard the production and premiere of his musical theater “Dee and Dum”, this being cataloged by critics as: “a work full of color and modernity.”
His works had been interpreted by prestigious soloist as Yury Revich (Violin), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Violin), Uli Fussenneger (Kontrabaß), Greame Jennings (Violin), Jorge Sanchez-Chiong (Turn-Tables), Phillip Gravogel (Oboe), Roland Schueler (Cello), Anna Molnar (Mezzosoprano) Alfredo Ovalles (Piano) among others. By groups and festivals such as Intercontemporary Paris Ensemble, Kammerorchesterbasel (Switzerland) , the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchester Schallfeld Ensemble (Graz) Latin American Music Festival (Caracas, Venezuela), Darmstäter Musik Festival (Germany), Bye Bye Beethoven (Hamburg/Berlin, Alemania) Radio Symphony Orchestra (Vienna), Fetzn Festival (Vienna Austria) in variety of countries: Austria, Argentina, Colombia, USA, Venezuela, Germany, Russia, France, Switzerland, UK, among others.
About the music
Critics have cataloged his music as: "Music full of color and modernity"
In my opinion the composer is an architect of sounds, his function is to create sound spaces where the interpreter and the audience can discover the concept, the message or the idea to be transmitted.
My music just tries to be honest and sincere with myself, which is born as a result of the place and time in which I live, with the social, artistic and emotional influences that my environment transmits.
The search for my personal sound has led me to detach myself from what is already a traditional rhetoric for me, and start in the search for a color that brings me closer to the audience, but not in a massive way, but individually, that each piece can reflect and convey an idea.
The interpreter is a fundamental part of my creation process, as an “architect” my role is not only to create a space, but to create the ideal space where the interpreter can develop their skills. I'm a bit anti-traditional in the sense of not seeing my production as a linear evolution. As a composer I try to reinvent myself, at times to recycle myself; make a kind of spiral, where I try to achieve an evolution of my sound.
