Josep Planells wins New Scenes IV
Josep Planells Schiaffino, the recipient of the Roche Young Commission 2019 from Roche and Lucerne Festival, is one of the winners of the composition competition Neue Szenen IV of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in cooperation with the Hanns Eisler School of Music.
In addition to Josep Planells Schiaffino (28), the British-Chinese composer Jamie Man (30) and Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis (30) from the Philippines are the winners of the competition. The jury, chaired by composer Detlef Glanert, selected them for the scholarship to compose new music theater works.
From 2006 to 2010, Josep Planells Schiaffino studied clarinet with José Cerveró at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in his native city of Valencia, graduating with a diploma. From 2010 to 2014, he studied composition with Arnulf Herrmann at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, where he completed his master's degree with Hanspeter Kyburz.
In 2017, he took part in master classes in conducting at the Lucerne Festival Academy with Heinz Holliger and Matthias Pintscher, and in 2015 and 2016 also with Peter Eötvös, Helmut Lachenmann and Peter Rundel. Josep Planells has already received numerous awards and commissions, including for Les Vents Français and Eric Le Sage as well as the Roche Young Commissions 2019 of the Lucerne Festival. He gained his first musical theater experience with Franck Ollu at the Theater Basel and at the Staatsoper Berlin with Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz.
