for two string quartets 

2012

commissioned by the town of Witten and the Wigmore Hall, London

Arditti Quartet and JACK Quartet

2012-S

Premiere: 25th November 2013
XI Festival of Spanish Music
Auditorium of Royal Conservatory of Music "Manuel de Falla" - Cadiz (Spain)
Guillermo Martínez (Sax) Javier Campaña (Electronics)
- Taller Sonoro Ensemble -

ITACA (Mosaic II) for Baritone/Alt Sax and Electronics (2013)

ROSS, director Marcus Bosch. Encargo de la Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, AEOS, SGAE.

Diario de a bordo [Alberto CARRETERO] - orquesta

Luke Skylater

Synthpod Drums

Bass

dotted dub

dotted dub 108 Cm

Luciano Berio, Kol Od, Marco Blaauw, Trumpet Live Rec

Modular Db for bass clarinet, by Mateu Malondra Flaquer
Rafel Caldentey, bass clarinet
Recorded at Museu Es Baluard (Mallorca)
October, 2024
 

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ME_MMIX Festival 2024
15/11/24 
Rafel Caldentey (Bass clarinet)
Aljub; Es Baluard Museu, Palma
Recording: Sonoteque

Yan Maresz
Tutti, pour ensemble et dispositif électronique 
Ensemble intercontemporain 
Matthias Pintscher, direction
Thomas Goepfer, réalisation informatique musicale Ircam  

Enregistré en direct par Radio France le 10.06.2016 à la Philharmonie de Paris - Cité de la musique 

Yan Maresz, Tutti

String Quartet No.6

Born in Palma/Illes Balears on 11 May 1977; Mateu Malondra Flaquer is a composer, guitarist, researcher, programmer, curator and cultural manager who lives between the Balearic Islands and the United Kingdom.

He has had the fortune of working with musicians such as Arditti String Quartet, Vertixe Sonora, Bcn216, dissonArt, Ensemble Exposé, Insomnio, Mdi Ensemble, Plural Ensemble, Riot Ensemble, Vocalensemble NOVA, UMS’nJIP, Neus Estarellas, Mark Knoop, Takao Hyakutome, Tatsuki Narita, Jan Gerdes, Pilar Fontalba and conductors such as Gerry Cornelius, Beat Furrer, Yasuaki Itakura, Taco Kooistra, Fabián Panisello, Ulrich Pöhl, Roger Redgate, Robert HP Platz, J.M.Sánchez Verdú and Michel Tabachnik.

His music has been performed in such forums as Cairo Contemporary Music Days, Donaueschinger Musiktage-Next Generation, Forum Wallis, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, IMD-47-Internationale Ferienkurse für neuen Musik-OS, Festival Mixtur, Nact der Neuen Musik, NUNC2!, Unerhörte Musik, Sintése, Musikprotokoll-ORF and in such halls as L’Auditori-Barcelona, BKA-Theater Berlin, Concertgebouw Brugge, MISE-EN Place, Muziekcentrum First Philips, Studio Noru, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall and Spectrum, among others.

Malondra started his composition studies with David Padros and Christian de Jong in Barcelona. In 2004 he moved to Maastricht where he did a BAMus and MMus in composition at ZUYD-Maastricht Conservatory, under Robert HP Platz. He also holds a BAMus in classical guitar performing from Den Haag Royal Conservatoire, under Enno Voorhorst. Malondra developed a PhD research at Kingston University-London, under the guidance of Paul Archbold and Oded Ben-Tal. Prof.Philip Grange and Prof.Roger Redgate awarded him the PhD in 2021. Masterclasses with Richard Barrett, Daniel D'Adamo, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer and Wolfgang Rihm.

Associate professor at Conservatori Superior de les Illes Balears between 2016 and 2021–Mixed media I-II and electroacoustic composition.

Between 2019 and 2022 he has been the Cultural Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics, PC of the Illes Balears public sector. 
Mateu Malondra has been the founder, artistic director and coordinator (2013-2019) of the ME_MMIX Festival, co-founder of the non-profit association Placa Base and the ensemble Placa Base Collective.

Recordings: Takao Hyakutome's solo debut CD, at label Chanpd’Action. Tomeu Moll solo debut CD. Vokalensemble NOVA/Musikprotokoll CD-ORF. Netherlands National Radio-4, Concertzender.nl and Relevant Tones-USA broadcasted his music.

Malondra’s music has been performed in Egypt, Europe, Iceland, Japan, México, the UK and the USA.

Recipient of a commission funded by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

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Mateu Malondra Flaquer

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