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Albert
Recasens
 Born
in Cambrils (Tarragona). He began learning music under the direction
of his father, the teacher and conductor Ángel Recasens, which
he continued at the Conservatorio Profesional de Vilaseca y Salou.
In April 1986 he was awarded a prize at the "Premi Ciutat de
Berga" International Piano Competition and in December that year
he received the CIRIT Prize for encouraging the academic spirit of
the youth of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He perfected his knowledge
of music at the Escola de Música de Barcelona, the Stedelijk
Conservatorium van Brugge and the Koninklijk Conservatorium Gent (piano,
conducting, choir singing, history of music and music composition).
During his musical training, he attended several courses and seminars
on music teaching, choir singing and conducting. At the same time,
he studied for a degree in musicology at the Université Catholique
de Louvain in the Dutch and French sections, where he received a doctorate
degree in 2001 with his thesis on the zarzuelas of Rodríguez
de Hita (1722-1787) which was awarded Summa Cum Laude.
He has held scholarships from the Generalitat de Catalunya and Dirección
General de Recerca (AIRE) to further his studies abroad (1994-1996).
The Comunidad de Madrid also funded his dissertation as part of the
research project "La tonadilla escénica en tiempos de
José I y Fernando VII. Una mirada retrospectiva", based
at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has published in
various journals and encyclopaedias, both nationally and abroad, and
has completed the critical editions of Rodríguez de Hita's
zarzuela Briseida for the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias
Musicales, and Canciones Musicales for the Fundación
Caja Madrid (forthcoming, in 2008), and Alonso Lobo's Liber primus
for the Government of Andalucía.
In 1994, Recasens and his father founded the Capilla Príncipe
de Viana, which became La Grande Chapelle in 2005, through which he
has carried out important research projects to recuperate the musical
heritage of Spain. Some of his most significant projects were those
commissioned by the Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoración
de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, the Ministry of Culture
of the Autonomous Region of Madrid, the Fundación Caja Madrid
and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Scientíficas. In
2005, Recasens created the record label Lauda; together, Recasens,
the label and the critically acclaimed ensemble La Grande Chapelle,
which is supported by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Scientíficas,
have embarked on an ambitious series of recordings. Following the
death of Ángel Recasens in August of 2007, he has taken on
the artistic direction of La Grande Chapelle, and is working with
the ensemble on several projects in the fields of seventeenth and
eighteenth century music for the theatre and polychoral music. This
year, for example, he has been invited to direct the inaugural concert
at the 47th Semana de Música Religiosa Cuenca, the
premiere of Francisco García Fajer's officium defunctorum
and a programme of Spanish court music at the Noirlac and Haut-Jura
festivals.
Recasens regularly teaches music management and music history classes
and in masters programmes, primarily at the Universidad Autónoma,
Madrid and the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (Masters in Arts Management)
and the Universidad de Valencia (Masters in Music Aesthetics and Creativity).
He has been invited to give master classes - usually together with
his father - in various institutions in Mexico, Belgium and Spain.
He has also been a jury member in several international music competitions,
such as the International Young Artists Presentation (IYAP) in Antwerp.
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