teaching
After Cage Composition Workshop, in dialogue with Festival After Cage
After Cage Composition Workshop is an intensive working space aimed at composers in advanced training or recently graduated, who wish to develop a new original work within a context of personalised mentorship, critical reflection, and direct collaboration with performers specialised in contemporary music.
The workshop is conceived for a small group of active participants (maximum 9), allowing for individualized guidance and a level of technical and artistic rigor suited to emerging professionals.
Key information:
- With Javier Torres Maldonado as a permanent guest composer.
- Initiated and coordinated by composers Juan José Eslava (Artistic Director), Guillermo Cobo, and Carolina Cerezo.
- Ensemble E7.2 in Residence, with Pilar Fontalba (oboe), Iván San Miguel (contrabass) and Andreu Rico (percussion).
- Applications open until March 25, 2026.
- Application Deadline: March 25, 2026.
- Opening session: April 25.
- Online phase: May–July 2026.
- On-site phase: August 23–29, 2026 (accommodation included).
Organised by: Artistic Collective E7.2
Main collaborators: Escuela Municipal de Música del Valle de Egüés; Ayuntamiento del Valle de Egüés.
For detailed information and to submit your application, please visit:
👉 https://colectivoe72.es/composition-workshop/
news
encounter project
Some Encounter film samples have been accepted by the FluxusMuseum in Greece (as part of a recent call for experimental art videos).
A Good Company Arts' video-dance project (Aotearoa New Zealand), in collaboration with Foundación-Museo Jorge Oteiza, Taonga Pūoro artists, and Trio Zukan. Main collaborators: Colectivo artístico E7.2. Premiere preview for 2027 TBA.
Fields: contemporary dance, contemporary music, basques and Maori traditional instruments and cultures.
Direct link:
https://fluxusmuseum.tv/2026-award/?id=33
Comming soon
2026-10: [no title]
For flute, clarinet, alto, guitar, harpsichord, kantele.
Commission by Ensemble Nomad (Tokyo), in collaboration with SuperPluck Trio (Helsinki).
2026-01: el otro lado de las cuerdas
Museum of Spanish guitar Antonio de Torres, Almería, Spain. Recital by Rody van Gemert, guitar.
Work in progress: new version of el otro lado de las cuerdas, in a performative installation format. Main collaborators: Rody van Gemert; Julián Ávila; Colectivo E7.2; lamai. Premiere of the piece planned in October 2026.
Recently
ESZKU
- 2025-09-24. 19h00: poetics in Eszku. An encounter with Trio Zukan, Juan José Eslava and artistic collective E7.2
- 2025-09-25. 12h00: Eszku (premiere)
in Jorge Oteiza Foundation-museum
A collaboration with Trío Zukan.
Collaborators: Colectivo E7.2; Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza, Trío Zukan
An interdisciplinary project
Links:
https://colectivoe72.es/aftercage-2025/
https://www.museooteiza.org/actividades/festival-after-cage-24-25-octubre/
Press: https://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/cultura/2025/10/22/after-cage-cerrara-edicion-otono-10249622.html
2025-10-18, at 19h00: el otro lado de las cuerdas in the 'Rock Church', Helsinki, Finlandia.
Information of the concert here.
Information from the Temppeliaukio Church
Program
Rody van Gemert, guitarist.
For classical guitar. A collaboration with guitarist Rody van Gemert and luthier Uwe Florath.
2025-09-21: el otro lado de las cuerdas in Festival Kitaranova. Helsinki, Finlandia.
Rody van Gemert, guitarist. Link to the program of the festival: https://kitaranova.fi/
For classical guitar. A collaboration with guitarist Rody van Gemert and luthier Uwe Florath.
La estructura: a text by Enrique Pérez Arco, in dialogue with El umbal de una línea III, for saxophone and electronics.
Recently, an unexpected yet powerful encounter occurred between a recent text by the writer Enrique Pérez Arco and a piece of music from a few years ago: The Threshold of a Line III, for Saxophone and Electronics.
At the writer's initiative, this encounter has led to a publication in the digital newspaper La gaRceta de la Ribera.
The publication includes the text as well as its recording, in dialogue with The Threshold of a Line III.
Link
Work in progress
A Good Company Arts' video-dance project (Aotearoa New Zealand), in collaboration with Foundación-Museo Jorge Oteiza, Taonga Pūoro artists, and Trio Zukan. Main collaborators: Colectivo artístico E7.2. Premiere preview for 2027 TBA.
Fields: contemporary dance, contemporary music, basques and Maori traditional instruments and cultures.
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De cerca
A performative piano project, in collaboration with pianist Lluïsa Espigolé.
Commissioned by the Baluarte Foundation and the Government of Navarre, it premiered as part of the Pamplona Artistic Gatherings in 2022. The project continues to grow.
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[no title]
Commissioned by Ensemble Nomad and SuperPluck Trio, for flute, bass clarinet, alto, guitare, harpsichord and kantele.
Premiere scheduled in Automne 2026.
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Festival After Cage
Since 2014, the artistic team E7.2 (a team of composers, instrumentalists, a stage director, an architect, and a cultural manager) has organised the After Cage International Festival of Musical Experimentation in Pamplona.
After Cage is a space for radical artistic creation and research, bringing together artists from diverse fields, always centred around investigative music and art committed to life.
