Arturo Parra will premiere the work Pour masquer le chant des oiseaux (for MIDI guitar and computer) at the Ce vert flou event, a concert of Claude Frenette’s works featuring dance, electroacoustic music, and poetry. The show will be held Satuday January 14, 2006 at the Anaïs-Allard-Rousseau hall in Trois-Rivières (Québec) and on March 24, 2006 at the Maison de la culture Ahuntsic-Cartierville in Montréal (Québec).

Arturo Parra will play R Murray Schafer’s Le Cri de Merlin (for guitar and tape) alongside other first-rate Montréal musicians for the event R Murray Schafer in Concert. This concert-homage will be held in presence of the composer on Saturday November 26, 2005 at Concordia University’s Oscar Peterson Hall (Montréal).

Sol y sombra… L’espace des spectres, a composition by Francis Dhomont and Arturo Parra, was selected for the next edition of the ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), to be held in Barcelona (Spain) from September 5 to 9, 2005. The European premiere of the work will take place at the Auditori on September 8, 2005. Works by Daniel Teruggi, Ludger Brümmer, Beatriz Ferreyra, David Berezan, Jean-Claude Risset, Elsa Justel and Paulina Sundin were also selected.

Arturo Parra will give a concert of his new solo repertoire for guitar and vocal expressions on Friday May 20, 2005 at the Marie-Stéphane hall of Vincent-d’Indy music school (Montréal).

Composer and guitar player Arturo Parra will be performing live each night the music he wrote for the stage play Le Retable de l’avarice, de la luxure et de la mort by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, presented at the Université du Québec à Montréal on December 2 — 11, 2004.

For the “Monde parallèle Montréal 45°N//” event, organized by Lille — Cultural Capital of Europe, label empreintes DIGITALes presented a portrait of Montréal’s electroacoustic creation since 1971 through 24 works by 21 Montréal composers: Serge Arcuri, Yves Beaupré, Christian Bouchard, Ned Bouhalassa, Christian Calon, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Yves Daoust, Francis Dhomont, Paul Dolden, Louis Dufort, Gilles Gobeil, Monique Jean, René Lussier, Robert Normandeau, Arturo Parra, Mario Rodrigue, Stéphane Roy, Alain Thibault, Jacques Tremblay, Marc Tremblay, Roxanne Turcotte. Electroacoustic label empreintes DIGITALes, new media and electronic art festivals Elektra and Mutek with the collaboration of the Society for arts and technology (SAT) all teamed up to present the best of Montréal’s electronic music and video.