Bernat Vivancos

The musical personality of Bernat Vivancos (Barcelona, ​​1973) is marked by the impressions received during his school years at the Monastery of Montserrat. He moved to Paris for five years to study Composition, Orchestration and Analysis at the CNSMdP. The year of 2000 he discovered the music of Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen. Thereafter Vivancos style incorporates elements that make his work a unique proposal: a music sound rich of color and textural, modal music converge on Western tradition and the search for a spirituality based on a Spectral harmonic inspiration. These two fundamental aspects represent the strong influence of the nature of Vivancos ‘s work: nature as root and soil, symbol of tradition, but also as a presence that manifests itself consistently in the physical properties of sound. Since 2003 he is professor of Composition and Orchestration in the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC) a post he combines with his research activities in the field composition, and the request to participate as member of the jury in international orchestration and composition competitions. He has published several CDs, among which stand out “Blanc” (2011), “Requiem” (2015) and "Tenebrae" (2025), all recorded by the famous Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Kļava (Neu Records). Vivancos’ music, full of limpid sounds and ecstatic harmonies, climbing architectures and resonances of nordic luminosity, aims to unite beauty, sensuality and spirituality.