The
Creative Team
Guillermo
Martorell Casanovas- Composer
He received his first piano lessons at the age of 4, and subsequently studied guitar. He later studied composition with Gabriel Brncic and Arnau Bataller, at ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya), where he graduated, and with David Padrós at el Conservatori del Liceu, in Barcelona. He has composed electronic, choral, chamber and orchestral music, as well as music for five short films. Recent premieres include Arsis (2013), a score for Telma Llos’ short film, premiered live at l’Auditori in Barcelona by the Bcn216 chamber ensemble; Scie (2013), for orchestra, comissioned by Orquestra Simfònica de Sant Cugat; a We No Longer Know (2013), a short opera piece in collaboration with stage director Martin Butler; as well as Intende voci orationis meae (2012), for choir, comissioned by Cor de Cambra Francesc Valls and which premiered at the Barcelona Cathedral.
He was selected as participant in the 2012 NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in New York, where he had the chance to work and study with teachers such as Tim Starnes, Sean Callery, Mark Snow and Ira Newborn, as well as to record his music with some of the top studio musicians in New York.
As a performer, one of his early projects was electronic music duo Mr. Hubba & el Mono Inventor, in collaboration with Miguel Yuste.
They made their debut at the Northern California Experimental Music Festival in Sacramento -Noisefest- in 2004, and toured Europe and Japan, playing in places such as Tate Britain in London, The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and in Spain, in festivals such as Sònar, LEM and Periferias. The duo released a first album, Stargarder (2006, South China Sea Music), after being recruited by former Beck/Siouxsie and the Banshees collaborator David Brown, from Brazzaville.
After their dissolution, the box set Vida y Muerte de Mr. Hubba & el Mono Inventor (2010, Bankrobber), a collection of recordings from the 3 years that the band lasted, was released, and received rave reviews from the Spanish press. Chilean electronic composer and dj, former SuperCollider member Cristian Vogel mixed nearly all of their recordings.
He has also been part of the Barcelona-based orchestra Usted es un Do, dedicated to performing Terry Riley’s In C, playing guitar, and is currently involved in newly formed experimental-rock band Valentina, playing guitar, synths, piano and composing.
He also plays and records with singer-songwriter Maria Rodés and electronic pop-rock group Mazoni, as a guitarist and keyboardist.
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