Testimonials
Interviews
**Inventory of Inventors** (Radio Clásica, RNE 2)
**Direction and Presentation:** Marcos Castán
---
**"Composition is a way of life that helps give it meaning, sometimes to understand it; other times, to accept the incomprehensible."**
**"... I aim to capture my idea in the score with the utmost precision using all the means at my disposal."**
**"I see music as a form of communication; that is its ultimate goal."**
— Carme Fernández Vidal
---
**January 5, 2010**
Interview with Carme Fernández Vidal, by Ruth Prieto.
"Composition is a way of life; it allows us to grow as human beings, and along that path, it's necessary to look at both the sublime and the infamous."
"Each new work involves a renewed obsession with managing events in time, seeking the balance of these events within a framework of temporal architectural structure. Avoiding the superfluous, focusing on the essential. And of course, imagining, and listening to the point of obsession. I can spend an embarrassingly large amount of time deciding how long I want that sound, that resonance, or that silence to last."
"You always start with an idea—let's say a somewhat blurred one—and gradually you have to sculpt it. In this process, I would say that I act, but so does She."
February 24, 2020
The Composer Speaks
Our fourteenth program will take place next Saturday, March 6th, at 12:00 p.m., under the title "Composers." This time we are featuring Carme Fernández Vidal, Irene Galindo Quero, Núria Giménez Comas, Hilda Paredes, and Ruth Prieto, director of El Compositor Habla, who will serve as the moderator.
Program 014 - Enclave Contemporáneo - Composers. March 6, 2021
Atonal Music
Book presentation "Música No Tonal".
Authors: Teresa Catalán and Carme Fernandez Vidal and prologue by Tomás Marco.
Presents: Ana Guijarro, Director of Real Conservatorio Superior de Música of Madrid
Book presentation "Música No Tonal" and
"Técnicas Compositivas Atonales". (Youtube)
February 28, 2012
La soirée musicale (Radio Alma)
Composers
April, 4, 2022
**"Whenever I get involved in a project, especially if it is national or international, I look for a way to bring my land, my environment, and my self into it, after all. I went directly to find something related to the Balearic Islands, and when I saw it, I was absolutely certain: it is an utterly captivating figure."**
— Carme Fernández Vidal
**www.noudiari.es**
**March 1, 2021**
Critics
"Fernández Vidal explores iridescent timbres, details of sonorities, and, above all, a powerful orchestration."
— Teobaldos, Diario de Noticias
Review of Erreinu Miresgarria in Mirarte-Cultura, Diario de Noticias
October 22, 2023
"The performance concluded with a very striking piece of extraordinary quality, *Dama de Eivissa* based on a Punic terracotta of Tanit from the 3rd century BC, written by the Majorcan Carme Fernández Vidal in the form of a diptych. It offers us two different but complementary views of a ritual aspect of music that is as ancient as it is contemporary. Truly well-crafted, it is like a sonic enchantment that envelops us and propels us towards the past with modern resources toward the future."
— Tomás Marco, Scherzo
March 13, 2021
**"Carme Fernández's *Concert per a flauta i arc* (Concerto per flauto e archi) transformed the Aljub into a magical place, with Josep Francesc Palou as the soloist, once again showcasing his virtuosity in a delightful piece. Supported by a Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Remartínez, the performance displayed a full range of its possibilities with precise, clear, and vibrant execution."**
— Review by Josep A. Mendiola, *Ara Balears*
**January 11, 2014**
"Los textos de Falk y Krenek, en esta versión castellana, permitirán un acceso hasta ahora restringido a un material de valor didáctico articulado alrededor del contrapunto como eje de un particular proyecto pedagógico".
— Vicent Minguet, Sonograma.org
29 septiembre 2012
.jpg)
"The pieces by Carme Fernández Vidal, *La admonició apocalíptica* and *Stratvm Mvtvvm*, recently composed, are a refined treatise, well-balanced dynamically, carrying a melodic instinct that breaks into sharp dissonance. The result is a finished work that communicates and endures".
— Emiliano Allende, El Norte de Castilla
March 11, 2013
Photo: *Las palabras del agua*
**"Professor Carme Fernández Vidal of the Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears personally received applause for her works, *Eguzkilore*—piano music of brilliant and resonant quality—and the premiered *Tasta un nigul*, characterized by dreamlike qualities and sonic masking, as well as a great sense of emotional tempo."**
— Critique by Josep Lluís Galiana, *Diario Levante*
December 1, 2012