An ensemble founded in Seville in 2014 by the musicians Gustavo A. Domínguez Ojalvo and Pedro Rojas Ogáyar, that views contemporary and classical music as a set of paradigms that are shifting and in crisis at present, which entails both a responsibility and an opportunity for the performers: participating in a redefinition of music that is emerging through dissemination and approaching more diverse audiences.
With a meticulously planned, varied, and imaginative programme, and in collaboration with a cast of artists adapted to each proposal, Proyecto Ocnos brings us closer to the musical panorama of the 20th and 21st centuries, putting a focus on the most recent composers and establishing collaborations with performing artists from different disciplines. Its most recent projects notably include the hybrid between chamber opera and interactive concert El sueño del Sr. Rodari (2018) which premiered at the Spanish Academy in Rome; The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (2019), an opera piece by Fabrizio Funari based on a novel of the same name with composition by Germán Alonso and starring Niño de Elche; the musical and interdisciplinary investigation Hafune (2020); the opera Marie (2021), co-produced by the Teatro Real and the Teatro de la Abadía and directed by Rafael R. Villalobos; and Chillar todo el día (2021), a guided improvisation opera starring Isabelle Duthoit and with play-writing by Ana Sánchez Acevedo which, based on the story by Kafka Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk, questions the role of art in society.