Composer’s Commission Recipients Receive National Award for Music

We at the Foundation for Iberian Music are very proud of composer Antoni Parera Fons, who has just been awarded the 2016 Premio Nacional de Música (National Award for Music). The Spanish government awards two prizes annually, one for creation (composition) and one for interpretation (such as performance or musicology). In addition to the prestige, recipients are awarded 30,000 euros.

Parera received the Foundation’s Composer’s Commission in 2008, for which he composed Mentum. (Visit the link to hear a recording of the premiere performance.)

But Parera is not the first Composer’s Commission alum to receive the Premio Nacional! Our frequent collaborator and guest Benet Casablancas received the award in 2013. Casablancas was the Composer’s Commission recipient in 2012, which he fulfilled with an homage to Xavier Montsalvatge. (Click the link for a video recording of the premiere.)

Congratulations to Parera!