Agustí Charles (Manresa, 1960) is a very relevant personality in the world of contemporary Catalan musical creation. Doctor in art history and professor of composition at the Aragon Conservatory of Music, he is the author of an extensive and diverse catalogue, which embraces opera, symphonic, choral, chamber music and solo production; his work is distinguished by a writing of high technical demands, a great expressive density, the occasional use of electronics with a purely expressive objective and a deep reflection on the voice and the text, especially visible in operatic production.

His creative career has developed in parallel with a first-rate pedagogical task. As professor of composition at the Conservatory of Music of Aragon and the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, he has been a teacher of a whole generation of Catalan composers, including Raquel García Tomás, Joan Magrané, Luis Codera, Marc Migó, Octavi Rumbau, Miquel Oliu, Helena Cánovas, Lucas Peire and a long list of others who today project their work both inside and outside the country.

Agustí Charles’ catalogue reveals a constant desire to explore new paths in contemporary musical language, with particular attention to the dramatic dimension of sound and the construction of great formal architectures. His operas and vocal works, often based on highly intense literary texts, dialogue with the European tradition while proposing a radically contemporary perspective.

The Palau de la Música Catalana will host several works representative of different moments in his creative career, such as the saxophone quartet Übergang (1988), Primary colors (2006), No és res urgent (2017-18) and the absolute premiere of Black e-voices, the breath of time, a book of madrigals that is combined with music by Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Morley and Bennet.

La seva presència com a compositor convidat de la temporada 2026-27 del Palau de la Música Catalana representa, doncs, el reconeixement a una trajectòria sòlida i coherent, i alhora l’oportunitat de situar en primer pla una veu essencial del nostre temps.