Carles Santos will interpret the parts for piano that were to be played by Steve Reich at the concert for Sonar 2011 at L'Auditori Barcelona, which will remain intact for the planned program and its artistic result will not be modified in any way.

In a statement made today by Steve Reich's agency in New York, we are informed that the 74 year old, North American composer, sees himself obliged to remain at home under medical orders for the forthcoming weeks, therefore preventing him from travelling to Spain to participate in the concerts programmed here in Spain, the second of which being the Sonar 2011 inaugural concert on 16th June at L'Auditori Barcelona.

The composer and pianist Carles Santos, one of the most reputed artists in contemporary Spanish music will substitute Steve Reich on the pieces which should have been performed by the American author, more specifically the Piaono Nº4 in "Music For 18 Musicians". Carles Santos joins the bcn216 orchestra and chorus Synergy Vocals, maintained therefore the foreseen repertoire intact for the Sonar 2011 inaugural concert at L'Auditori Barcelona. Both programmed pieces, "Sextet" and "Music for 18 Musicians", will be interpreted entirely and without changes.

L'Auditori Barcelona and the Sonar festival organization have invited Carles Santos to join the project, who has confirmed immediately his interest in participating as a personal homage to Steve Reich, one of his most admired composers and of whom he has already interpreted part of his work on other occasions.

Should anyone wish a refund for this concert they should contact Ticket Office at L'Auditori or Telentrada.com.

About Carles Santos
Santos was born in Vinarós, Castellón, in 1940, and is a very unusual artist. An extremely gifted pianist, composer, painter, photographer and performer from a very early age, he played the piano fluently at 5 years old and was performing works by Bartok, Webern and Schoenberg when he was 20. Influenced by John Cage - who he met during his stay in the U.S.A. in the 1960s - and by the Fluxus art collective, his career has been defined by innovation on stage, the inclusion of 'actions' in his concerts and a constantly evolving creativity and artistic evolution. He has worked on films as a composer, scriptwriter and performer with Pere Portabella; he founded the Grup Instrumental Català (GIC); he has premiered countless pieces at major theatres, festivals and concert halls all over the world and has received numerous awards and decorations (the Cross of Saint George, the Government of Catalonia's National Composition Prize, several Max prizes, etc.). Santos was one of the central figures at the Nit Sónar Festival in Frankfurt in 2007, with a show entitled "Ebrofalia copulativa," in which his piano duetted with nothing less than a trial bike, ridden by four-time world champion in the sport Adam Raga. Santos, an admirer of Steve Reich, showed off his provocative and iconoclastic spirit in 1970 when he tried the patience of the exclsuive audience at the French Institute in Madrid by playing the same 6 notes of Reich's "Piano Phase" for 1 hour and 45 minutes, and was finally thrown off stage to widespread astonishment.