For me, composition is a fascinating challenge because it amounts to facing oneself.

I am going to find myself, looking more and more for my roots as a recalcitrant native, with the humility of origin inextricably linked to the reality of each moment.

The place of origin is necessary to define oneself. Born in the “Baix Camp” (Riudoms), I consider myself a Mare Nostrum composer with a Cartesian spirit.

I have never tried to seek the transcendent; for me the ideas that generate the composition can be born from the multiple subtleties that surround our own daily life.

Ignoring the future I believe in the present and I only aspire that my works are a living testimony of the moment in which they were written.

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Noè Rodrigo performs “Divertiment”

Noè Rodrigo performs “Divertiment”

The percussionist Noè Rodrigo will perform the work "Divertiment" for marimba on 02/03/2023 as part of the Joan Guinjoan’s cycle of the season of Auditori Josep Carreras season (Vilaseca, Tarragona, Spain), in the Arts Hall of Tortosa (03/03/2023) and at the Superior...

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Remembering Joan Guinjoan (III): Juan Ángel Vela del Campo

Remembering Joan Guinjoan (III): Juan Ángel Vela del Campo

The Joan Guinjoan Foundation has decided to publish today the third article (in spanish) of the project "Remembering Guinjoan" by Juan Ángel Vela del Campo, on the fourth year since my father passed-away. Juan Ángel Vela del Campo (Bilbao, 1947) has collaborated as a...

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Joan Guinjoan has created a musical corpus rich in proposals of high quality and workmanship and with the remarkable merit of originality. His creative personality is the result of positions always honest, sincere with himself, rabidly independent, self-demanding and with a very high sense of professionalism. "I am a composer of the Mare Nostrum with a Cartesian mentality", he has also said of himself. In short, Guinjoan is Guinjoan, and in vain would we look for models imitated by him, just as we will not be able to detect the slightest desire on his part to do school..... But, pretending to be simply him, only Guinjoan -nothing more and nothing less-, our musician has found a perfectly defined place in the line of the best Spanish and European music of the last third of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. "

- José Luis García del Busto, Académico de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

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