Alicia Award for Carles Benavent, the musician who deserves every award

BarcelonaCarles Benavent (Barcelona, ​​​​1954) will receive the Alícia Lifetime Achievement Award at the gala to be held at L'Auditori on June 19 and organized by the Catalan Academy of Music. Bienavento He is a musician who deserves every award in the world. He deserves them for his mastery as a bassist and composer and for having participated in one of the most explosive musical revolutions in history, the unconstrained fusion of jazz and flamenco with an unmistakable Mediterranean flavor. He was part of groups such as Máquina! and Música Urbana. Paco de Lucía integrated him into the legendary sextet of the 1980s. He played electric bass on albums by Camarón de la Isla, helping to consolidate the depth of the electric sound in flamenco. He has been instrumental in works by Chick Corea, Joan Manuel Serrat, and Jorge Pardo, and has also built a very interesting career as a leader.

The award for Carles Benavent is the only one already known from the sixth edition of the Alícia Awards. What is already known are the nominations:

2025 Alícia Awards Nominations

Authorship Award

• Albert Guinovart for the work Gaudí Symphony
• Bernat Vivancos, Andreu Diport, Miquel de Jorge, Carles Prat and Adrià Barbosa, for the work Pacis Visio, Millenary Oratory of Montserrat
• Ferran Palau for the songs on the album Cry here
• Full Cake for the songs on the album It is a question

Record Production Award

• Dmitri Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1, by the Casals Quartet (Armonía Mundi)
• Cruy, by the Root Music Orchestra of Catalonia (Propaganda for the Fact!)
• Folklore, by Lucía Fumero (Seed Music)
• Flight., by Roger Mas and the Cobla Sant Jordi City of Barcelona (Satellite K)

Award for performance

• National Youth Choir of Catalonia
• Judit Neddermann
• Rita Payés
• Fortuny Trio

Interdisciplinary Award

• The original motion picture soundtrack They will be dust, composed by Maria Arnal
• The show Biterna, by IT Dansa, the Cor Jove Nacional de Catalunya and Arnau Obiols
• The show The night: Bonis, Magrané, Schönberg and Bloch, by Mal Pelo and the Fortuny Trio
• St. John Passion, by JS Bach, conducted by the Vallès Symphony Orchestra with dramaturgy by Sergi Belbel

Emerging Talent Award

• Lark
• Frames Percussion
• Helena Cánovas
• Mar Pujol

Live Award

• The album presentation concert Folklore, by Lucia Fumero, at the Vic Live Music Market
• The concert Mamemi… Mozart!, from L'Auditori de Barcelona, ​​​​conducted and arranged by Eduard Iniesta
• The concert A sea of music, by Jordi Savall
• The album tour Fruit of delirium, by Ocas Grasses

Internationalization Award

• Kebyart
• Queralt Lahoz
• Silvia Pérez Cruz
• Relena Cake

Award for journalism and musical dissemination

• Journalist Xavier Cervantes, head of Culture at ARA
• The program The Experts, from iCat
• The program Every morning in the world, from Catalonia Music
• The digital newspaper Cloud

Social and educational project award

• Musical flow, from the Musicians' Workshop
• Composers enter the classroom, from the Barcelona Auditorium
• Palace of Links, Palace of Music
• We are Valencia. Charity concerts for DANA

Audience Recognition Award

• Sing with the OBC!, from the Barcelona Auditorium
• The participatory musical, from School Auditions and Musicart 102
• BOCA Festival, from the NouPOP association
• You play!, from the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona