The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Contemporary Music category goes to Spanish composer and conductor Cristóbal Halffter (Madrid, 1930), whose works breathe with inspiration, in the words of the prize jury. “Through their coherence and the continuity of their commitment, they have greatly contributed to the idea of a European contemporary music”
The BBVA Foundation and Spanish Ministry of Culture have called the second edition of the “National Music Auditorium” International Composition Contest, in order to recognize and promote the best international musical creation and find it a wider public within Spain. Entries are welcome from composers of any nationality.
Atlas. Global Architecture circa 2000 proposes a critical assessment of world architecture in our global times: both a “state of the art” and a “state of the planet” in the years from 1990 to 2007, that is, circa 2000. Eleven experts explore the architecture of the same number of world regions, offering a general analysis rounded off by a study of three of the area’s most representative works. Photographs, plans and illustrations complete a volume that is itself a work of art.
The BBVA Foundation has launched the collection Compositores españoles y latinoamericanos de música actual, an ambitious music publishing project released on record label Verso. The latest CD in the series features the work of Spanich composer César Camarero.
The Sibila-Fundación BBVA Library of Spanish Poetry is intended to celebrate and share the past and present wealth of Spanish-language poetry and the aesthetic and cultural universe it represents, with its differences and singularities.
The BBVA Foundation collaborates with magazine Sibila, a quarterly publication in which literary texts are accompanied by original numbered etchings, signed by the artists, and recordings of contemporary music.
Sibila Website
