Joan Gómez Alemany (1990)
Joan Gómez Alemany began his Composition degree with Oliver Rappoport (Conservatori del Liceu) and completed it with Clemens Gadenstätter (Kunstuniversität Graz). He holds a Master's in Composition (KUG) with Franck Bedrossian and a Master's in Opera and Musical Theatre (KUG) with Gadenstätter. He also holds a degree in Piano, which he began at the Conservatori Superior de València Joaquín Rodrigo and completed at the Conservatori del Liceu. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València, where he also earned his PhD Cum Laude with a thesis on artistic interdisciplinarity. From 2018 to 2020 he studied privately with Pierluigi Billone, and also received lessons from composers such as Mark Andre, Raphaël Cendo, Brian Ferneyhough, Ashley Fure, Dmitri Kourliandski, José Manuel López López, Michael Maierhof, Hèctor Parra, Alberto Posadas, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Yann Robin, José María Sánchez-Verdú, Rebecca Saunders and Mauricio Sotelo, among others. Gómez Alemany combines musical creation, visual arts and film, in constant dialogue with essay writing and criticism focused mainly on music and art.
His works have been commissioned or performed at festivals such as the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, impuls (Graz), ManiFeste-IRCAM (Paris), reMusik.org (Saint Petersburg), Mixtur (Barcelona), Ensems (València), COMA (Madrid), Klang (Copenhagen), the Lens Dans Festival (Brussels), MPArt Festival (Larissa, Greece), the Spaziomusica Project Festival (Cagliari), the Vertixe Festival (Vigo), the After Cage Festival (Pamplona), Rafel Festival (Rafelbunyol), Àgora Actual Percussió (Xàbia), Mostra Sonora Sueca and the Festival Contemporani d'Alacant, among others, and performed by musicians or ensembles such as Arditti, Nikel, Recherche, Multilatérale, Schallfeld, Adapter, Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Lumina Ensemble, Grup Instrumental de València, Vertixe Sonora, Parcours, MCME, Delirium, Synergein Project, Grupo Cosmos 21, Container, Aer Duo, Amores Grup de Percussió, IEMA, Szene Instrumental, Alxarq Percussió, BCN216, Shifter, and soloists such as Ulviya Abdullayeva, Arturo Barba, Xelo Giner, Tomeu Moll-Mas, María Rubio and Avelino Saavedra, among others.
As an improvising pianist he has collaborated with John Butcher, Bartolomé Ferrando, Josep Lluís Galiana, Jesús Gallardo, Amadeu Marín and CIM.CS. His music has also been premiered by orchestras such as the SWR Symphony Orchestra under Gregor Mayrhofer and the JOGV under Pablo Rus Broseta. In 2022 his chamber opera (an interdisciplinary project) Glücklich, die wissen, dass hinter allen Sprachen das Unsägliche steht premiered at the Graz Opera, directed by Leonhard Garms. His music has been broadcast on ORF, SWR, RNE, À Punt FM, Catalunya Ràdio and Radio Círculo de Bellas Artes. His catalogue currently includes more than 80 works, some released on 12 CDs by Liquen Records, IBS Classical, Viajero Inmóvil Ex]p[rimental and LCI-Sound-Art-Recordings. His music has been heard in Germany, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Israel, the Czech Republic, Russia and Switzerland.
Last updated: 10/9/26
