{"id":407,"date":"2021-05-16T16:53:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2024-03-06T00:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:03:40","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/?page_id=407","title":{"rendered":"BIO"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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XAVIER VIDAL<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Composer and Novelist<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A SHORT BIO<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Born and raised in beautiful and eternal Barcelona (I’m a Catalan), some years ago I moved to Paradise, to the amazingly beautiful New Zealand, where I live with my family (now I’m also a proud Kiwi).<\/p>

When I was younger, I attended medical school and became a doctor, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US and there I obtained two Master degrees from Harvard University. Later, I served as General Manager for several multinational biotech companies and international healthcare advertising agencies, working for clients and projects all over the world.<\/p>

But throughout my life, Music and Literature were always my passions, my faithful travel companions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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music is the language the heart speaks<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Music has always been with me.\u00a0 I have been writing Music since I can remember (and I have a very good memory). A self-taught piano player (a never-ending quest) since I was a kid, I even developed my own rudimentary number-based notation system to write down my compositions. Later in life, I attended adult night classes at a local music school to learn enough notation to write my music sheets in a more professional-looking way.\u00a0<\/p>

I believe that Music is the language the heart speaks, and I always wanted to learn and speak that language. That’s why Music should always touch the heart of the listener, it should always play those inner heartstrings we all have.<\/p>

I have written music scores for a variety of projects in many different styles, including orchestral pieces, TV ads, corporate videos, short film scores, fashion shows, and musical theater shows (my main passion)<\/p>

I am a graduate of NMI (New Musicals, Inc. Hollywood, CA), where I attended both the Core Curriculum Program and the Fringe Curriculum Program in Music Theater.\u00a0<\/p>

Musical theater is my passion. I have written several musicals, MOCTEZUMA’S REVENGE, (a full-length musical, for which I wrote music, lyrics, and book), THE LAST DORTHAL (an internet web series, for which I wrote the music, with book and lyrics by Wayne Self), and THE CURE (a short musical for which I wrote the music, with book and lyrics by BK Wells, premiered at the Broadwater Theater – Hollywood, in July 2019)<\/p>

I’m currently writing several new musicals and involved in a variety of creative musical projects.<\/p>

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words are the music the heart WRITES<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Since my youth, I have always been an avid reader, and I soon found a love for writing as a way to express emotions and tell stories, something that music and literature allowed me to do.<\/p>

I believe that words, like musical notes, are the music the heart writes, and there’s nothing more pleasing than reading them and being carried away into wonderful new worlds.<\/p>

Through the years I have written pieces for different fields, like screenplays for short films, theater plays, musical theater books, or newspaper articles, but novels have always been my main literary interest.<\/p>

My novels deal with a wide variety of surprising subjects, some set in the present time, some in historical settings, but always offering plenty of adventure, honesty and passion.<\/p>

As a foreign correspondent in New Zealand for the digital edition of the newspaper La Vanguardia<\/em>, (Barcelona, Spain), I have written several articles on NZ-related subjects.<\/p>

I also published a short story in the anthology book “Murder The Audience Wrote” (published in 2016 by Editorial C\u00edrculo Rojo).<\/p>

My novel UXMALA was selected as Finalist in the VII HISPANIA Historical Novel Literary Prize (2019) in Spain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

I’m the author of five novels (which I always write in Spanish and English versions), and I am currently working on several new ones, in addition to some sequels and the next installments in an upcoming series.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a9 Xavier Vidal 2024. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XAVIER VIDAL Composer and Novelist A SHORT BIO Born and raised in beautiful and eternal Barcelona (I’m a Catalan), some years ago I moved to Paradise, to the amazingly beautiful New Zealand, where I live with my family (now I’m also a proud Kiwi). When I was younger, I attended medical school and became a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"disabled","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":179,"href":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8897,"href":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/8897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaviervidalworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}