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Background from ModMyProfile.comSpanish percussionist Enric Monfort is an experienced musician in the classical, contemporary and crossover music scenes. After his studies with the Amsterdam Percussion Group and Emmanuel Séjourné, Monfort has stablished himself as a versatile musician that creates and works in a very wide variety of fields. He has worked with Koninkijk Concertgebouw Orkest, Nederlands Philharmonish Orkest or Orquesta del Palau de les Arts de València, Ziggurat Ensemble, the Barton Workshop, Percussion Group The Hague. He is percussionist with the Axyz Ensemble and N Ensemble. As a soloist, Monfort has performed in The Netherlands, Spain, Luxemburg, Denmark, Germany, Turkey, premiering many pieces written for him. In 2006 he founded Duometrie, with bass clarinet player Carlos Galvez, and since 2005 he is artistic leader of Kimbala, percussion sextet and Percusons Festival (Spain). Enric Monfort has been also in contact with different percussive traditions from all over the world (african, indian, south-american, japanese, korean and of course spanish and european) whose influence can be found in both his playing and his creative side. With shows like Egungun, Kaleidoscope, Gears, Miniatures or Añá, Monfort creates new musical and visual experiences working with composers, dancers and visual artists. In summer 2008, for an audience of more than 3000 people, he premiered A la Terra, his last show for Kimbala, where Monfort invited world famous spanish flamenco dancer Antonio Canales and the basque duo of txalaparta players Ttukunak to this global song to the Earth.

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Member Since: 04/12/2006
Band Members: www.kimbala.eu.............................................. ..................... www.duometrie.com........................................... .................. www.myspace.com/xpercussionduo.............................. ..........
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Add to My Profile | More VideosCOMPOSER LOUIS AGUIRRE WROTE:“Being a contemporary composer and find players who want to play your music is in itself a very difficult task . But getting the possibility to work with the rare kind of players who are fully prepared, the ones who understand and give the utmost for the music that they are performing, thats when you feel that a real miracle has occurred! That is the way I feel about my working relationship with the percussionist Enric Monfort and the DuoMetrie: a meeting that has allowed me to write the music I really like without limitations regarding to technical, musical or intellectual matters. It is a blessing for a composer to work under such favourable circumstances because it makes it possible to create the most satisfactory results. In the already long collaboration between Eric Monfort and me, there has been a kind of musical -spiritual understanding between us which has given birth to many of my latest works, directly inspired by his capacity as an instrumentalist and his understanding of my music. In my opinion Enric and Carlos Gálvez belong to the type of soloist that Luciano Berio has described as the best players of our time: modern in intelligence, sensibility and technique. Capable of moving in a very broad historical perspective and solve the tension between the creativity of today and the past, always using their instruments as a medium of expression and search.”Louis Aguirre has written the following pieces for Enric Monfort:-Kabiosile (2003) percussion, flute and recorder (Ned McGowan and Arwieke Glas) -Obba Kosso (2004) percussion solo -Añá (Liturgia de la transmutación) (2005) Percussion concerto with (Axyz) ensemble -Ayágguna II (2006) bass-clarinet and percussion – Duometrie (with Carlos Gálvez) -Orun de Igbodú (2006) percussion sextet – KIMBALA -Yalodde II (2006) percussion duo – xpercussionduo -Egungun (2007) percussion sextet - KIMBALA -Yalodde III (2007) percussion sextet - KIMBALA -Among flowers (2007) 4 songs based in poems by Basho, for voice, bass clarinet and percussion - Duometrie meets Kristina Fuchs
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