(Barcelona, 1956-)
A student of Gabrel Brncic, with whom he studied counterpoint, harmony, instrumentation, and composition and followed these techniques with courses in electro-acoustic music at the Laboratori de Música Electroacústica Phonos with Andrés Lewin-Richter, Lluís Callejo, and Gabriel Brncic. Under the instruction of guitarist Miguel Angel Cherubito, he later studied at the Conservatori Superior de Música de Barcelona with Marcos Villanueva.
He has assisted in teaching courses and seminars with Luigi Nono, Francisco Kroepfl, Gerardo Gandini, Helmut Lachenmann and Walter Zimmermann, among others.
Rossinyol has also studied musical arrangement under Xavier Serra at the Fundació Miró. Earlier, he studied mixed media arts with Xavier Franquesa, under the direction of Joan Hernández Pijuan, at the Centre d'Estudis Artístics de l'Hospitalet (with the direction of Ricard Salvat) as well musical language at the Centre d'Estudis Musicals del Barri de la Ribera. One highlight during his years of training was in the summer of 1983 in Darmstadt with the presentation of ¨Splasshhh...!¨ for the guitar, as well as attending conferences and concerts by Morton Feldman, Kaija Saariaho, Brian Ferneyhought, and received advice by Emmanuel Nunes as well as interpretations of Irvine Arditi and Magnus Anderson. He has been influenced by maintaining continual contact with Joan Guinjoan and Josep Mª Mestres Quadreny, which has resulted in several joint projects.
He became part of a collective of composers affiliated with Phonos from 1982 to 1992, some of which sought direction from Gabriel Brncic and formed an instrumental group and would integrate with Phonos, performing in the Palau de la Música Catalana, Zaragoza, Pamplona, Germany, and Italy.
In addition, he directed the instrumental group Vol ad libitum which has provided numerous first auditions and performances by musicians from all over the world. With this group he has recorded five discs of Catalan composers.
Simultaneously, since 1986 he has been an accompanying guitarist with the mezzo-soprano vocalist Anna Ricci for all of her releases until shortly before the death of the singer. In addition, he worked with her on numerous records and projects including ¨Brossiana¨, a musical in which Rossinyol was able to work on various occasions with the poet Joan Brossa.
He received the award for music for radio (R-2/CDMC) by Memòria, a grant by the Conservatory of Cuenca for the composition ¨Ensueño¨, as well as a scholarship for two years at la Fundació Phonos-Institut Universitari d'Audiovisuals de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra for the concert ¨Mestís¨; a work composed with the help of composer Eduard Resina. Throughout his work as a composer, he has created and interpreted such pieces as ¨Nit¨ (Sala Beckett, 1994), ¨la Llet de paradís¨ (Teatre Malic, 1996), ¨Del llibre dels canvis¨ (Teatre Malic, 1997), and ¨Lorca-New-York¨ (CCCB, 1998), working with professionals in both theatre and dance.
Also, with the texts of Albert Mestres, Rossinyol has also written works for chamber music and dramatic performance.
He has been comissioned by diverse institutions (TVE, Radio Clásica, Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea, Festival Internacional d'Òpera de Butxaca, Espai Brossa) and for serveral interpretations. He has written music for several shows by the company Théatre Vardar-Tangente (Lachaussée, França) and has directed, on two occasions, ¨Jocs de Mans¨, for the symphony band of Barcelona as well as three chamber operas (¨La petita bufa¨, ¨Odola i Cal 33-33¨, ¨de Manuel Valls¨).
He has edited Dinsic, Clivis, La mà de Guido and Periferia.
Catalunya Music has dedicated several diverse monografic programs to him.
He has assisted with Biennal Berlin, the Tardor Festival in Moscow, the Meeting of Catalonian Music in Toulouse, and the Conference of mediterrenean music (Palermo), amongst other diverse international festivals of music.
His more recent works include ¨Ääniä ja hiljaisuuksia kajastuksessa¨ (sounds of silence in the morning), for the guitar and contrabass, and ¨Als ocells i a la nit¨(the birds at night), for brass quintet.
Combining composition with teaching has enabled him to compose many great works and arrangements in the diverse field of education.
Web: http://www.accompositors.com (2013)