Joan Gómez Alemany begins his Degree in Composition with Oliver Rappoport (Conservatori del Liceu) and completes it with Clemens Gadenstätter (Kunstuniversität Graz). He holds a Master's degree in Composition (KUG) with Franck Bedrossian and a Master's degree in Opera and Musical Theater (KUG) with Gadenstätter. He is also a graduate in Piano, beginning at the Conservatori Superior de València Joaquín Rodrigo and finishing at the Conservatori del Liceu. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València, where he also obtained his doctorate Cum Laude with a thesis on artistic interdisciplinarity. From 2018 to 2020 he studied privately with Pierluigi Billone. He also received classes from composers Mark Andre, Raphaël Cendo, Brian Ferneyhough, Ashley Fure, Dmitri Kourliandski, José Manuel López López, Michael Maierhof, Hèctor Parra, Alberto Posadas, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Yann Robin, José María Sánchez-Verdú, Rebecca Saunders, Mauricio Sotelo, among others. Gómez Alemany combines musical creation, visual arts and cinema in continuous dialogue, with the writing of essays and criticism mainly on music and art.
Gómez Alemany has written music for several short films, notably L'Arrivée de Peter Tscherkassky and Millares 1970 by Elvireta Escobio and Manolo Millares. Some of his sound and visual works have been exhibited in museums such as the Centre Pompidou, IVAM, MuVIM, CCCC Centro del Carmen, Fundación Antonio Pérez - Contemporary Art Center of Cuenca, Fundación Luis Seoane, MARCO in Vigo, MACA in Alicante, Les Drassanes in València, etc., highlighting his individual exhibition titled Between the Visual and the Sonic. Reappropriation of Matter and Material at Fundación la Posta and Limits of Limitation on the website of the Chamber Orchestra of the Auditorium of Zaragoza ("Enigma Group"). He has given lectures and participated in panels and presentations at the Universitat de València, Universitat Politècnica de València, MuVIM, Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània (OCCC), Galería Punto, Casa de Cultura de Xàtiva, La Central (Museo Reina Sofía), Conservatori Superior de València and Castelló. He has collaborated in several specialized journals, such as Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Melómano, Eufonía, AusArt (UPV/EHU), Itamar (UV), BRAC (UB), Procedimentum, Espacio Sonoro, Obiettivo Contemporaneo, Mikrokosmos and Sul Ponticello, where he wrote monthly in his own section Interactions, from 2018 until the magazine's closure in 2024. He now writes monthly for Revista Ritmo. Gómez Alemany has been coordinator and author of the book Valencia and Abstraction, Constructions with Geometry and Color. Life and Creative Trajectory of Artist Vicente Gómez García (1926-2012) and also Vicente Gómez García, on the Tenth Anniversary of His Death, an artist for whom he has curated three exhibitions for the MuVIM Museum, Museum of Fine Arts of Xàtiva and Cultural Hall of Xàtiva. He has also curated an exhibition of Avelino Saavedra for the OCCC. Together with Alfonso de la Torre he has written the book Letters Around Manolo Millares, Pablo Palazuelo and Others, as well as Fernando Zóbel. The Reasons for Beauty and Salvador Victoria. Painting is the Music of the Spheres, with Paco Yáñez he co-wrote Cartographies of Contemporary Music. Essay, Criticism and Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. All the aforementioned books have been published by EdictOràlia. He has also been coordinator of the digital book A book about Festival Mixtur for the commemoration of its tenth anniversary. As an individual author he has published the books FOUR ESSAYS ON CINEMA. Docufiction, Video-Letter, Video-Opera and Interdisciplinarity for Generis Publishing and Music and Sound in Filmmaker-Composer Charles Chaplin: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of His Thought and Artistic Work (from Sound to Image) for Editorial Académica Española. He has written various CD liner notes for the labels Ondine Records, Liquen Records, IBS Classical and KRB Studios.
He has collaborated with art critic Alfonso de la Torre with musical proposals for the exhibitions he has curated, such as Black Queens of the Fundación Martín Chirino, Art and Spirituality. Imagining the Extraordinary from the BBVA collection and WITH HANDS, SIGNS GROW from the 59 Biennale di Venezia. As for visual arts, Gómez Alemany specializes mainly in the field of cinema, photography and painting, in continuous hybridization. His filmography consists to date of more than 10 short films, 3 medium-length films and 4 feature films. Among his short films, it is worth highlighting Songbook and Ballad Collection of Absences about Miguel Hernández and in collaboration with poet Manel Rodríguez-Castelló; CONTINUUM XXI: TRACES in collaboration with composers Alberto Arroyo, Alberto Bernal, Sergio Blardony, Manuel Sánchez García, Carlos Rojo, José Mª Sánchez-Verdú and the ensemble Continuum XXI; the short film inspired by La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Weapon of the Devil, Head of Sin, Destruction of Paradise which premiered at the Berlanga Hall (Madrid) and has been part of his chamber opera. Among his feature films, De Rerum Natura stands out, which premiered at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UPV) and his second Time and Space. A Day Rises, 2018-2022 (premiered at the Filmoteca de València) with painter Josep-Marí Gómez Lozano, whom he has filmed for years repainting a painting by Vicente Gómez García for the exhibition The House of the City and Good Government in the Exhibition Hall of the Valencia City Council.
This project was born with the aim of establishing a connection between contemporary composers dedicated to creating avant-garde art and the public interested in it. Contemporary art faces various challenges—undoubtedly numerous ones—with one of the most recurring being the lack of "understanding" with which the potential audience for contemporary art justifies their disinterest in artistic manifestations.Contemporary music is not exempt from all these conditions and, at the same time, it is not immune to possible solutions that help normalize current repertoire in the demands of music lovers and integrate it into the cultural programming of cities and concert halls.Undoubtedly, when a creator speaks about their work with the passion of the creative act and delves not only into their creative processes but also into their motivations and expressive needs, a greater connection with the public is achieved and the path toward acceptance of the work is cleared. It is the project of four saxophonists passionate about their instrument and contemporary music. The members of LUMINA Ensemble combine their efforts for the respectful and committed achievement of high-level musical performances. Lumina refers to the light that continuously permeates our land and shapes us as human beings. Light as a means of union between people who converge in a common project and as a metaphor for our way of understanding musical performance, with proposals through contemporary music.The ensemble's main objective is the dissemination of repertoire composed from the 21st century onwards. Essential to achieving this goal is collaboration with composers and the premiere of works written for this group, proposing the saxophone quartet as a unique instrument full of timbral and expressive resources at the service of new creation.Lumina's infinite curiosity about performative action has led them to perform in various concert halls, festivals and concert series both in Spain and in other countries in our region such as the ENSEMS festival (Valencia), the Contemporary Festival of Alicante (ADDA), Kuraia Festival (Bilbao), Contemporary Music Festival (Córdoba), Mostra Sonora (Sueca), International Organ Festival – FIOB (Benidorm), Concerts d´Advent (Alcoi) or their recent participation in the Organistic Festival of Salento (Lecce – Italy), Festival Due Mare (Gallipoli – Italy). They have a first recording titled Terra Lucis, and have participated in Mexican composer Samuel Cedillo's album for the Kairós record label.Lumina Ensemble is the dedicatee of numerous pieces by renowned authors such as Jesús Torres, Zulema de la Cruz, Eneko Vadillo, Sonia Megías, Oliva Carrión-Arteta, José del Valle, Iluminada Pérez, Ximo Cano, David Leal, Sara Blanco, José Vicente Fuentes Castilla, Diana P. Custodio, M. Eugenia Luc or Voro García.Lumina Ensemble is composed of: Pablo de la Fuente (soprano saxophone), Javier Carrillos (alto saxophone), Pablo Pardo (tenor saxophone) and José Antonio Suay (baritone saxophone).
