Bernardo Adam Ferrero Explained

Bernardo Adam Ferrero
Birth Date:1942 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Algemesí, Spain
Death Place:Valencia, Spain

Bernardo Adam Ferrero (28 February 1942 – 12 October 2022) was a Spanish composer, conductor, and musicologist. He is known for conducting concert bands, including the Spanish military bands, and composing music for them. He wrote books about the topic, presented a radio program and directed a festival. His compositions earned him prestigious prizes, and his works are played around the world.

Life and career

Born in Algemesí, Adam Ferrero was a clarinetist in the local band as a boy of age eight. He studied at the conservatory of Valencia from age 10 with, piano, harmony, counterpoint, composition and conducting. He studied conducting further at the Madrid Royal Conservatory with Enrique García Asensio.

His first conductor position was with the Enguera Music Band in 1962, when he was age 20. A year later he became conductor of the Civil Music Bands, then as the youngest of them in Spain. He moved on to conducting the Ateneo Musical Band in Cullera. He was awarded the Joaquín Rodrigo Composition Prize for a choral work, Cant espiritual, setting a text by Ausiàs March.

He continued his studies abroad, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with Luigi Dallapiccola, Franco Ferrara,, Goffredo Petrassi and Boris Porena among others, and at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen.

Adam Ferrero conducted several symphony orchestras, choirs and ensembles, including the Orquesta de València, symphony orchestra in Spain, Sofía and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, of Tarija, Bolivia among others. He conducted concert bands internationally, including the Philippines, Europe and the Americas. He collaborated with soloists such as Leon Ara and Narciso Yepes. He was also conductor of the symphony orchestra of Lliria, and of the bands of the Motorised Infantry Division "Maestrazgo3" from 1975 to 1980, of the Music of the Military Government of San Sebastián from 1980 to 1982, and of the Symphonic Band of the Marine Infantry of Madrid from 1995 to 2004.

In the 1980s, he presented a program on radio, La música de Valencia for the broadcaster COPE. He was director of the internationally known festival for bands, Certamen Internacional de Bandes de Música Ciutat de Valencia. director of the Semana internacional de música religiosa de Plasencia from 1999 to 2001, and director of the Semana internacional de música religiosa de Valencia in 2003 and 2011. He led two composers' congresses at the Palau de la Música de València, and an International Wind Music Congress in Castellón in 2002.

He received several awards for his compositions, including the Joaquín Rodrigo Prize of the Spanish Ministry of the Exterior in 1970 and 1974. He was awarded the Manuel Palau Prize in 1974, and the prize of the Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos in 1982 for his composition Danzas alicantinas. The city of Valencia named him a Ballester de l'Any for his contributions to the cultural exchange in the city and its artistic development. He was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, director of the Academia de la Música Valenciana, and an honorary member of the Fundación Carlos III. He was awarded membership of the Royal Order of San Hermenegildo awarded by King Juan Carlos I, and an honorary doctorate of the University of Sydney. He received the Order of Merit in New York for his contribution to music, the Golden Batuta of Havana, and the Gold Medal of the Mid West of Chicago.

Personal life

Ferrero was married to Amparo Llagües Benet. The couple had three children, María Amparo, a general auditor of the Generalitat Valenciana, Bernat, conductor and professor, and Rubén, professor of violin.

Ferrero died in Valencia on 12 October 2022, at age 80.

Works

Adam Ferrero turned to composing for bands, because there was little original music for them when he grew up.

Works for concert band

Chamber music

Piano music

Vocal music

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.musikarte.net/autor-libro-partitura/adam-ferrero-bernardo Libros y Partituras de Adam Ferrero, Bernardo
  2. https://www.levante-emv.com/fallas/2022/10/12/bernardo-adam-creo-banda-sonora-77160667.html Cuando Bernardo Adam creó la banda sonora de la Fallera Mayor de València
  3. http://www.ateneumusical.com/historia.html Historia
  4. http://fonoteca.cibm-valencia.com/detalles-compositor-cibm.aspx?idCompositor=41 Bernardo Adam Ferrero
  5. https://fsmcv.org/sociedades-musicales/cd-homenaje-a-la-m-i-academia-de-la-musica-valenciana/ CD Homenaje a la M.I. Academia de la Música Valenciana
  6. https://www.musicafestera.com/compositors/bernardo-adam-ferrero Bernardo Adam Ferrero
  7. https://www.nuestrasbandasdemusica.com/noticias/noticias-nbm/festivales-y-conciertos/1924-manana-concierto-solidario-de-la-banda-sinfonica-de-musicos-sin-fronteras.html Mañana Concierto Solidario de la Banda Sinfónica de Músicos Sin Fronteras
  8. https://www.edizionieufonia.it/homepage/obertura-para-una-reina/ Obertura para una reina

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