CATALOGUE OF WORKS

SOLOS

Strings

Violin

• Perquè encara no surti el sol (solo violin)

Premiere (absolute): 6 May 2006
Performer: Joan Plana Nadal (violin)
Venue: Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland (Ohio, USA)
Link: https://www.musicadanza.es/contenidos/manuel-guillen-catalogo-violin.pdf#page=48

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa I

Viola

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa II

Cello

• Chelorimbach

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa III

Woodwinds

Clarinet

• El món d'Ulisses

Brass

French Horn

• Da Caccia

Others

Accordion (quarter-tone accordion)

• Les obnubilacions ontològiques

Piano

• Say thanks to Mr Franz Joseph Beethozart

Piano (microtonal tuning)

• Suite Illa (microtonal-tuning pianos, four keyboards)

Premiere (absolute): 24 February 2024
Performer: Roger Illa Prats (keyboards)
Event: Mirades Creuades – Suite Illa (four microtonal keyboards)
Venue: Auditori Caputxins, Figueres
Time: 20:00
Link: https://www.figueresaescena.cat/ca/programacio/c/327-mirades-creuades-entre-passat-i-futur.html

CHAMBER MUSIC

DUETS

String duets

2 Vn

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa IV

2 Va

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa V

2 Vc

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa VI

Vn & Va

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa VII

Vn & Vc

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa VIII

Va & Vc

• Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joyosa IX

Duets with piano

Soprano & Piano

• La nit és freda

Viola & Piano

• Quatre peces en tres I

Premiere (absolute): 16 November 2014
Performers: Yuval Gotlibovich (viola), Jordi Torrent (piano)
Venue: Auditori Castanyer (Música Callada, III Contemplative Music Cycle), Barcelona
Document: Poster (cartell)

Cello & Piano

• Variations on "El Llibre Vermell"

Duets with guitar

Viola & Guitar

• Quatre peces en tres II

Cello & Guitar

• Variations on "El Llibre Vermell"

• Divinae Paracusiae

Premiere (absolute): 9 March 2024
Performers: Ensemble Fluido (Andrea Peirón, cello; Fix Nicolet, guitar)
Venue: Sala Tàpies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (CERCCA–Maison du Dialogue et de la Paix meeting)
Support: Vilavecchia Fellowships and the Friends of the Haas Library
Link: https://www.upf.edu/web/cercca/inici/-/asset_publisher/wj83XwJONG3o/content/-acte-trobada-entre-el-cercca-i-la-maison-du-dialogue-et-de-la-paix-09.03.2024-

TRIOS

Violin, Clarinet & Piano

• Trio

QUARTETS

Piano quartet (Vn, Va, Vc & Pno)

• Variacions Montserratines

Clarinet quartet (4 Clarinets in B♭)

• Miniatura

QUINTETS

Woodwind quintet

• Tres pensaments curiosos

Bass clarinet quintet

• Memento mori

ENSEMBLE

Cl, Vn, Vc & Quarter-tone Guitar

• La escucha errática

Fl, Cl, Vn, Vc & Pno

• Four Crosswords

Fl, Cl, Vn, Vc, Pno & Perc

• La fi i el principi de la infantesa

Premiere (absolute): 30 May 2001
Performers: Ensemble Siglo XXI, conducted by Diego Martín
Venue: IV International Festival of Contemporary Music (Fundación Laxeiro, Galicia and Catalonia)
Document: Concert program

Fl, Ob, Cl, Bn, F. Hn, Vn, Va, Vc & Db

• Des toupies dans l'insinuation

Fl, Ob, Cl, Bn, Vn, Va, Vc, Pno & Perc

• I-Magí-nat (chamber ensemble with narrator & electroacoustics)

Premiere (absolute): 23 December 2008
Performers: Grup Instrumental BCN216, conducted by Francesc Prat
Venue: L'Auditori de Barcelona (Sala Oriol Martorell)
Commission: INAEM BCN216
Document: Poster (cartell)

CHOIR

SATB

• Viderunt Omnes

SATTBarB

• Remember

ORCHESTRA

String orchestra

• Como siguiendo mariposas

Premiere (absolute): 16 November 2013
Performers: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Venue: Liederhalle Stuttgart (Hegel Hall), 2013/2014 season of "attacca – Geistesgegenwart.Musik"
Documents: Poster and fee records

• La persistència del caprici

Full orchestra

• My Lady Hunsdon's Puff

• O Virgo Splendens

• Two footnotes

• Suite in Stile Antico

Premiere (absolute): 3 February 2023
Performers: Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra (OBC)
Conductor: Rebecca Tong
Venue: L'Auditori de Barcelona (Sala Pau Casals), official OBC season
Link: https://www.auditori.cat/ca/esdeveniment/txaikovski-5/

OPERA & THEATRICAL WORKS

Ensemble (Cl, Bn, Tpet, Tbone, Perc, Vn, Cb & Narrator)

• Triumphal Day (chamber opera with ensemble, narrator & electroacoustics)

Premiere (absolute): 14 April 2019
Composer: Manel Ribera
Venue: Constellation, Chicago, Illinois, USA ("Centennial Commissioning Project" by Après L'Histoire)
Commission Award: Winner of Après L'Histoire's commission to create a new piece celebrating the centenary of Stravinsky & Ramuz's "L'Histoire du soldat" (1918–2018)
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5RZtolSAPc
Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcjgRFOAcHM
Social media / Event link: https://fb.me/e/5A2d2r93s