VANG VIII. Músicas en vanguardia

A cycle of avant-garde music produced in-house by CentroCentro in Madrid which, in its eighth season, brings together contemporary and experimental music proposals, with performers and works that are unusual for the regular programme.

VANG is CentroCentro's own-production cycle, in its eighth season, dedicated to avant-garde music. Its purpose is to create regular encounters in which to explore new ways of composing, understanding and transmitting music. The edition is curated by Sergio Luque and Víctor Barceló and is built around works that seek to act upon the listener's perception and states of consciousness.

The cycle opens with the Quatuor Bozzini, a Canadian ensemble founded in 1999. Its programme includes the String Quartet No. 2 (1998-2000) by Swiss composer Jürg Frey and Baobab, a work by American composer Phill Niblock dated 2011 and revised in 2017, two landmark pieces of contemporary music from the last few decades.

The rest of the season includes a reading of Ustvolskaya and Feldman in dialogue with baroque music, performed by Marino Formenti; Plaything, by Maryanne Amacher, presented by Edwin van der Heide; Vortex Temporum, by Gérard Grisey, performed by Vertixe Sonora; a solo percussion recital by Lê Quan Ninh; and the Studies for Player Piano by Conlon Nancarrow, presented by Dominic Murcott. CentroCentro is a venue located in the Palacio de Cibeles that hosts mainly exhibitions and, to a lesser extent, concerts.