Benet Casablancas [SEP] residence
Benet Casablancas
Benet Casablancas Domingo (born April 2, 1956 in Sabadell) is a Spanish Catalan composer and musicologist.
Biography.
Casablancas started to study music in Barcelona´s Conservatory of Music and privately with Josep Soler Sardà and then moved to Vienna, where he attended lessons in the Vienna Academy of Music with Friedrich Cerha and Karl Heinz Füssl. He also graduated in Philosophy in Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona (1982) and has a PhD in musicology by the same university. He has always combined composition with teaching and research
was distinguished with the Spanish National Music Prize 2013 (“Premio Nacional de Música 2013”) granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. This award is the most prestigious honour of its kind within Spain. The decision of the jury was unanimous regarding the intellectual maturity of Casablancas’s works, the diversity of genres mastered by him and the international impact of his works.
Benet Casablancas has been appointed Composer in Residence of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya for the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons. Currently he works in