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Francisco Coll Leads the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg in a Performance of Aqua Cinerea at the ICMA Awards Ceremony

Apr. 21, 2022

Francisco Coll made his conducting debut at the ICMA awards ceremony on April 21 leading the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg in a performance of his piece Aqua Cinerea. This year, Coll received the ICMA Orchestra Award and the award for Best Contemporary Recording, adding to his 2019 success in the ICMA Composer category.

As his Op.1, Aqua Cinerea offers a foretaste of Coll’s explosive and unsettling compositional imagination, elaborated in a host of works since. Several of these can be heard on the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg’s 2021 Pentatone recording of Francisco Coll’s music, including the Violin ConcertoHidd'n Blue, and Four Iberian Miniatures (the latter in a version for violin and orchestra, performed by Patricia Kopatchinskaja).

The ICMA jury said of Francisco Coll: “In just a few years, the young Valencian composer Francisco Coll...has become one of the great realities of contemporary European musical creation. His works, characterized by overflowing imagination and structural richness, as well as by an unquestionable and very attractive technical virtuosity, are commissioned by some of the most important international soloists, ensembles, and orchestras. Moreover, his ability to communicate with a wide audience seems to guarantee a bright future.”

In addition, Francisco Coll’s recording of Les Plaisirs Illuminés, his double concerto for violin and cello, has also been shortlisted in the Concerto category of the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022, and for Best Contemporary Music Release. 


(Aqua Cinerea/Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Gustavo Gimeno, conductor)

To learn more about Francisco Coll, visit: fabermusic.com.

Francisco Coll
Aqua Cinerea (2005)
for orchestra
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