List of musicians and ensembles represented by Fal Parsi Music. 

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ORCHESTRA

Humboldt Orchestra

The Humboldt Orchestra is an ambitious project that combines cultural and human integration, documented performances and the development of new repertoires. And always with period instruments. We cover a wide repertoire from baroque to contemporary music. The foundation and institutionalisation of this new ensemble is the logical and consequent step of a successful artistic collaboration between different orchestras of the Sistema Nacional de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles de Venezuela (El Sistema) and the German flautist and conductor Michael Form in collaboration with the double bass player Jonathan Álvarez Cermeño, a Venezuelan musician with a notable presence in the musical life of Spain.

Actually, there are two ensembles: the Humboldt Orchestra, a group of between 15 to 60 instrumentalists, according to the required programme, dedicated to the performance of a wide symphonic repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music, with an emphasis on the classical style around 1800. Historically informed practice or performance is an integral part of their work for any style, and the Ensemble Humboldt, a ‘da Camera’ ensemble of no more than 10 musicians, focuses on the rediscovery of works written for instrumental staff and/or vocal accompaniment with this characteristic, circa 17th and 18th century.

‘Schubert's ‘Symphony No. 5 in B flat major’ already showed the interpretative quality of the young musicians, convincing the demanding Oviedo audience who did not hesitate to applaud after each of the movements. Balanced, and with a volume always well cared for (special mention for the very delica-dísimo final of the ‘Andante con moto’), the twenty musicians shone in the ‘Menuetto, allegro molto’, thanks to the extraordinary lightness and fluidity that they knew how to imprint on each measure’.

Jonathan Mallada. La Nueva España, 2024.

1. Schubert's Octet.
2. Meeting in Paris.

ENSEMBLES 

Aux Pieds du Roy

The ensemble Aux Pieds du Roy was founded in 2005 with the aim of devoting itself intensively to the research and performance of French chamber music from around 1700. The old French pied is a unit of measurement that was used, among other things, to determine different pendulum lengths, from which very precise musical tempos could be derived. The pendulum was the Baroque precursor of the classical metronome and was mainly used in French treatises of the 18th century to determine the exact tempo of dance movements.

The preposition ‘aux’ in the name of the group should be understood as an ironic allusion to the fact that in the concerts d'appartement of King Louis XIV, the musicians in the royal flats played at the feet of the monarch, so to speak. Moreover, Roy du Soleil himself was known to be one of the best dancers in his kingdom.

In 2007, a commission from the Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland facilitated an extensive research project entitled ‘Towards a new rhythmic plasticity on the interaction between music and belle danse during the French baroque’. The artistic result is an award-winning CD recording of Marin Marais' Pièces en trio for Ambronay Editions and Harmonia Mundi France. Since 2008, the ensemble has been invited to play at the Salle Gaveau and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Schwetzingen Festival (Germany), the Early Music Festival in Innsbruck (Austria) and other important festivals in France and Italy. After Michael Form and his duo partner Dirk Börner received a Diapason d'Oren 2013 for the CD Bach remixed, he worked with Ensemble Aux Pieds du Roy on the album Speculation on J.S. Bach, an ambitious programme of reconstructed chamber music, for which the group received another Diapason d'Or in 2019.

‘Aux Pieds Du Roy offered us a marvellous programme that recreated sonatas or concertos from transcriptions of pieces for organ or harpsichord, together with other beautiful versions of Bach's choral preludes’.

Scherzo magazine. Manuel de Lara. Scherzo February 2024.

‘Descendu de l'orgue et sorti de l'église, le choral ‘O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß’ accueille une prière domestique et suave. The skill of the arrangement would be nothing without the alchemy of timbres and the sensibility of the phrasing’.

Diapason, Februar 2019

‘Passé la surprise de tempos souvent plus rapides que de coutume (mais admirablement souple), leur telle intégrité force l'évidence : cette apparente mise à distance porte plus loin l'intensité musicale qu'une arbitraire liberté. They know how to seduce us without recourse to the manner, by the quality of the sound alone... For the perfection of the style, all flute players should discover this new record’.

Diapason

‘The combination of recorder, violin, gamba and harpsichord gives the three trio sonatas and final, resonant ‘Concerto a 4’ a lightness and transparency well suited to the predominantly dancelike movements’.

Grammophone, Mai 2018

‘This is very beautiful and carefully written music performed in a magisterial fashion by the flautist Michael Form, whose refined reading of the works results in exquisite phrasing and tone, qualities that enhance the sense of extraordinary refinement... Dirk Börner on keyboard is certainly impressive, his mastery in the bass is astonishing with a clear and at the same time subtle articulation that sounds magnificent’.

Goldberg

Current programmes:

1. Bach Remixed.
2. Vivaldiana.
3. Albinoni. Homage to a Venetian nobleman.
4. Speculation on J. S. Bach.
5. Bach's Labyrinth.

Da Tempera Velha

Current programme:

1. The Palacio Songbook (Dossier available soon).

 The Palacio Songbook 

Foto: © Marius Burgelman photograpy

Dionysos Now!

Dionysos Now! es el conjunto vocal del director artístico Tore Tom Denys (tenor). Es un conjunto bastante joven (fundado en 2020) con un timbre muy personal y con gran atención al contenido textual y a la articulación. Reúne a cantantes con la experiencia internacional necesaria en polifonía con conjuntos de primera línea como Collegium Vocale Gent, Huelgas ensemble, The Tallis Scolars, Les Musicien du Louvre,... Redescubrir al compositor Willaert es una misión importante para Dionysos Now!

El descubrimiento de esta música renacentista se une así a la polifonía contemporánea en nuevas composiciones.

Dionysos Now! crea catedrales resonantes donde los bloques de construcción parecen fundirse en el todo, con una música radiante que genera una energía efervescente que es mucho más que la suma de sus partes individuales.

Partiendo de este maravilloso fenómeno -típico de la música polifónica del siglo XVI- Dionysos «Now!» quiere establecer el vínculo con la actualidad y desvelar y compartir la belleza relevante de estas técnicas y enfoques musicales y de canto de 500 años de antigüedad con el oyente del siglo XXI.

"Toda la polifonía está interpretada con tanta intensidad y emoción como delicadeza, con esa maravillosa resonancia y conjunción de esta escuela de interpretación. No se podía hacer mayor uso de esta hermosa música, tratada como una obra de orfebrería".

Manuel de Lara Ruiz (Scherzo)

"Su articulación es admirable y poseen un gran equilibrio entre las distintas voces. Estos elementos proporcionan una proyección cristalina de las letras en la que puedes centrarte en cada voz individual y seguirla a la perfección. Los cantantes de Dionysos Now! están claramente familiarizados con el repertorio de Willaert y esto se traduce en una experiencia auditiva sublime".

Helena Gaudeus (Klassiek Centraal)

"La poco conocida Pasión de San Juan de Adriaen Willaert es la única obra que se conserva de la Pasión de Cristo. Con esta grabación quiero demostrar que en el Renacimiento se produjo una innovación compositiva que pretendía hacer más interesante musicalmente la recitación de la Pasión el Viernes Santo (que entonces se cantaba tradicionalmente al unísono, en canto gregoriano). La Pasión se compone de una manera innovadora, polifónica pero homo-rítmica: cada voz canta el mismo texto al mismo tiempo. De este modo, el texto sigue siendo muy inteligible y el oyente queda cautivado por la forma en que se presenta la historia".

Tore Tom Denys

Programas actuales:

1) La Pasión según San Juan de Adriaen Willaert se presenta en dos versiones:

A. Pura polifonía, solo la Pasión a 6 voces (55 min.).
B. O en combinación con 3 piezas de Ligeti para clave, de Catalina Vicens (75 min.)

2)  El legado de Adriaen Willaert: Maestro, mentor, escuela, amigo. (7 cantantes) 

3) La Missa praeter rerum serium para 7 voces de Cypriano de Rore combinada con otros compositores, incluidos Willaert y sus alumnos.

4) Polifonía para un Papa: de la Missa Papae Marcelli 7 cantantes.

5) A. Willaert, Missa Mente Tota/motetten/madrigalen 6 cantantes.

7) Orlando di Lasso, Lagrime di San Pietro 7 cantantes.

Il Fervore

‘(...) the work of the instrumental group Il Fervore, made up of a roster of musicians of exceptional quality who regularly collaborate with the best early music ensembles (...) Il Fervore combined energy and delicacy in the symphonies and were the perfect accompanists for Jone Martínez and Ana Vieira Leite in the vocal parts. This was the perfect finale to an edition of the Festival Internacional de Arte Sacro de la Comunidad de Madrid which we can describe as sensational for the originality, quantity and quality of its offerings’.

Scherzo Magazine, Imanol Temprano Lecuona. April, 2023

‘(The) Church of Santa Maria de la Asunción hosted the inaugural concert of the Marcos (Santander International Festival) (with) the musicians of Il Fervore, one of those young groups born with the spirit of enthusiasm and energy that early music is experiencing in our country. Jesús Merino and Lorena Padrón on violin, Raquel Massadas on viola, Bruno Hurtado on cello, Julio Caballero on harpsichord and Rafael Arjona on theorbo and baroque guitar were, together with Lucía Caihuela, the architects of the absolute revelation that the music of this evening would be for many’.

Asier Vallejo Ugarte. Torrelavega. August, 2024

Current programmes:

1. Fire rises to its element. Operas at the court of Philip V.
2. Tyrant love. Zarzuela arias and baroque opera. 
3. Divino splendore. Oratorios in the Italy of Charles of Bourbon.  
4. Santa Clotilde (1733)*. Oratorio in two parts for 4 solo voices. Francesco Corselli (1705-1778). * Premiere in modern times. 

Foto: © Fundación Juan March

Robert Silla & Il Maniatico Ensemble

This is an open, flexible and interdisciplinary group led by the eclectic oboist and conductor Robert Silla. Together with IBS Classical, they have recorded the entire collection of Cayetano Brunetti's unpublished sextets for oboe and strings, a jewel of the chamber music repertoire and part of Spain's national heritage which until now had disappeared. This recording has received critical acclaim, receiving the ‘Exceptional’ seal from the magazine Scherzo, the ‘Gold Seal’ from the magazine Melómano and 5 Diapasons from the prestigious French magazine Diapason and the first Anaclase prize.

Robert Silla (Valencia 1982), oboe soloist of the Orquesta Nacional de España, professor at Musical Arts Madrid and Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, director of il Maniatico Ensemble, artist of the Marigaux oboe brand and artist of the IBS Classical label.

He won his first position as principal oboe in the Orquestra Simfónica do Porto-Casa da Música at the age of 22 and only a year later he joined the Orquesta Nacional de España where he is still playing today.

He has been guest principal in the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Milan with Riccardo Chailly, Musicaeterna, Camerata Bern, Ban-Art, among others.

He received the extraordinary end-of-degree prize from the oboe department of Dr. Vicente Llimerà and the Euterpe prize for the best academic career. He furthered his studies with Emanuel Abbühl at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Mannheim and with Maurice Bourgue, and holds a master's degree in musical research from the International University of Valencia.

‘On the present occasion, El Maniatico is a splendid string quintet with two violas, which bring a greater range of smoothness and gravity to the overall timbral balance. Silla, who does not forgo playing his Marigaux 901, takes immense pleasure in plunging into this music. He tackles the passages of rare figurations guided by a mirific impetus. Outward clarity and precision are taken for granted. His sound is gentle, nuanced, highly expressive... grandiose. A must-have album’.

Alejandro Santini Dupeyrón, Melómano Magazine.

Current programme:

1. Oboe Sextets by Cayetano Brunetti.

2. The consolidation of the Concerto.

3. The genius of Bach: the trio sonatas in concert.

IPSUM FEMINA

Ipsum Femina nació en 2019 con la preparación de una lectura dramatizada con música en directo sobre la mística medieval Marguerite Porete, dentro de un ciclo dedicado a la mística en el Museo de Arte Medieval de Vic. Para dar vida a su historia, el escritor y dramaturgo Jordi Lara creó el texto para la actriz Gisela Figueras, con la idea de incorporar la sonoridad envolvente de un órgano portativo medieval. Así surgió la colaboración con la intérprete e investigadora Cristina Alís Raurich, y lo que comenzó como una lectura dramatizada pronto tomó cuerpo como un sólido espectáculo músico-teatral.

En 2020, la instrumentista María de Mingo se unió al proyecto con la cítola. La combinación de ambos instrumentos se convirtió en un pilar fundamental del espectáculo, enriqueciendo su universo sonoro. Además, tanto Cristina como María asumieron un papel escénico, entrelazando música y dramaturgia en una propuesta más inmersiva. El repertorio musical, cuidadosamente seleccionado, transporta al público a los siglos XIII y XIV, recreando con fidelidad los paisajes sonoros del tiempo de Marguerite a través de instrumentos históricos.

En 2023, sentimos la necesidad de incorporar una voz que diera vida a los bellísimos textos poéticos de las obras medievales que interpretamos. Así se unió al proyecto el tenor Víctor Sordo, quien debutó con nosotros en la versión en castellano del espectáculo durante el Festival Mirabilia de la Catedral de Cuenca. Desde entonces, Ipsum Femina ofrece dos versiones del espectáculo: con o sin la presencia vocal de Víctor Sordo.

A lo largo de nuestro recorrido, hemos contado con el valioso asesoramiento de la Dra. Rosamaria Aguadé, cuya tesis doctoral estuvo dedicada a El espejo de las almas simples, la obra clave de Marguerite Porete. Su investigación y traducción de este texto nos han permitido sumergirnos en la vida de Porete y en el fascinante mundo de las beguinas medievales, comunidad a la que se cree que pudo haber pertenecido la autora. La influencia de Marguerite trascendió su tiempo: su libro siguió copiándose y difundiéndose después de su muerte, dejando una huella imborrable en la historia del pensamiento místico.

Desde su creación, Ipsum Femina ha llevado su espectáculo por toda la península, con 22 representaciones en diversos escenarios, consolidándose como un proyecto artístico que une rigor histórico, emoción y belleza en cada función.

 Programa actual:

1. El Libro de Marguerite.

La Guirlande

“We find moments of intense vocal emotion combined with greatly sophisticated instrumental passages of“We find moments of intense vocal emotion combined with greatly sophisticated instrumental passages of18th Century Mexico and Spain.Luis Martinez used his instrument […] with an exceptionally flexible and warm playing, becoming the perfectpartner for the soprano Alicia Amo. […] Alicia Amo has an ideal voice for this kind of repertoire, which shemasters in a virtuosic manner and with an intelligent, effortless and lively embellishment of the ornamentalmelodic substance.The ensemble of six instrumentalists, with both soloists leading, is made up of two violins, violoncello, lute,double bass and harpsichord, sound in an homogenous way giving meaning to the proposal.This recording is an exciting discovery for all lovers of Spanish baroque music!”.

Wolfgang Reihing on Toccata. January 2022

“In-between the vocal pieces […] La Guirlande introduced several instrumental ones: the Sonata de 8º tono“In-between the vocal pieces […] La Guirlande introduced several instrumental ones: the Sonata de 8º tonoby José de Nebra – very scarlattian, wonderfully performed by the harpsichordist Joan Boronat –, someVersos de segundo tono by De Jerusalem – in which the Australian violinist Lathika Vithanage proved why sheis considered to be one of the finest specialists on her instrument to have emerged over the last few years,ably supported by her colleague Aliza Vicente – and the Sonata Nº6 op. 2 in G minor for flute and continuoby Pietro Antonio Locatelli, which gave the leader of the ensemble, Luis Martínez Pueyo, a chance to show hisskills, always with an admirably produced sound emission, crystalline and refined.The soprano Alicia Amo sang with the exquisite sweetness that is so characteristic in her, overcoming withlittle difficulties any problems that came in her way – some of them which were indeed tricky – […]. Bothsinger and ensemble performed to the very highest level, without the slightest flaw or weakening: bothviolins were magnificent, the flute was splendid and the basso continuo was sumptuous, comprising theaformentioned Joan Boronat, Ester Domingo – violoncello – and Pablo FitzGerald – archlute and guitar –”.

Eduardo Torrico on Scherzo. March 6th, 2020

Current programs:

1. Solo pour la flûte traversière.

2. Duetti a Due Flauti Traversi.

3. Bach & Sons.

4. Appropriato all´Organo.

5. Un puerto seguro.

6. Esterhaza.

7. Haydn en Londres.

8. En el nombre del padre. 

9. Le Concert Spirituel.

10. Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst.

11. Spanish Travelling Virtuosi.

12. Cristal Bello.

13. No llores, dueño mío.

14. Pastor amoroso.

15. Incipit Lamentatio. 

Foto: © Noah Shaye

 Orpheus Musicus

Orpheus Musicus is a group dedicated to the historical interpretation of music from the 17th and 18th centuries. Founded by violinist Sergio Suárez, Orpheus Musicus has the mission of tackling little-known repertoires in order to rescue and disseminate the European musical heritage of this period. To this end, they have a cast of experienced and committed musicians, with flexible instrumental formations far removed from the traditional baroque orchestra. In addition, they claim the universal character of early music and the desire to appeal to the widest possible audience.

‘It is clear that the best thing about Musica Scotica is simply everything, starting with Laura Martínez's beautiful voice...’.

‘Led by their brilliant conductor, Sergio Suárez, the equally brilliant musicians of Orpheus are overflowing with enthusiasm. An album, therefore, dazzling’.

Alejandro Santini Dupeyrón, Revista Melómano, 2023.

Current programmes:

1. Música Scotica.
2. Melopeia Sacra.
3. Varatio.
4. Alessandro Scarlatti: Stabat Mater.

Phaedrus

Programas actuales:

1. The King's Flutes.
2. Adonia.
3. Le Diamant et La Marguerite.
4. Espíritu Santo

Foto: © Puerta 3 Producciones

Thaleia

Thaleia es una agrupación dedicada a la interpretación y divulgación de música barroca escrita por mujeres, fundada en 2021 por Ángela Lobato del Castillo y Laura Martínez Boj. Siguiendo criterios de interpretación historicista, queremos completar el vacío en las programaciones tradicionales de conciertos que obvian la existencia de compositoras o las añaden de modo anecdótico. Defendemos el valor de la creación femenina a través de la presentación de nuestro repertorio, nuestros intérpretes, nuestro liderazgo, nuestra identidad visual y nuestra investigación. Como miembros de la Fundación Mount Parnassus, apoyamos la unión de mujeres por la música, creando redes de apoyo con talentos afines.

"(…) el grupo Thaleia, que se pone así bajo la advocación de la musa de la comedia y de la poesía bucólica. Buena advocación, por cierto, esta última para afrontar la interpretación de una serie de arias de aire pastoril y galante de la mano de dos compositoras dieciochescas.

Laura Martínez Boj las defiende con ardor, buen sentido de la acentuación y amplio dominio de la coloratura, con sobreagudos muy timbrados.

Rocío Hernández nos da a conocer la Sonata en Sol mayor, de lenguaje netamente clásico. Versión limpia, ágil y de soberbia claridad, con unos precisos y preciosos trinos en el Andante central.

Andrés Moreno Mengíbar. Scherzo, mayo 2023.

 Programas actuales:

1. Maria Antonia, o il Trionfo delle Donne
2. Canoro Pianto
3. Donne del Seicento (a cinque)
4. Donne del Seicento (a tre)

Voz Latina

The Voz Latina Ensemble was born in Cremona in 2011 on the initiative of the Argentinian musicians Maximiliano Baños, singer, and Luciana Elizondo, violist. Its aim is to deepen and interpret the Italian musical repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, exploring the world of baroque music in its relationship between text and music, based on the ‘theory of affects’ and recalling the visual principle of ‘chiaroscuro’ with the aim of enhancing the dramatic tension of the works performed, through strong musical contrasts that find justification in the text represented.

Among the main objectives of the Voz Latina Ensemble are the study and dissemination of the Latin American Baroque repertoire through the recovery and enhancement of its musical heritage and the journey of music in Latin America from the European Renaissance to the present day, to what we know today as Latin American folklore.

The Ensemble is made up of musicians from various European and Latin American countries and has performed numerous concerts in Italy, France, Slovenia and Argentina.

Current programmes:

1. Caravels of Music. Music of the Spanish Golden Age.
2. Virgen Morenita.  

SOLOISTS

Cristina Alís Raurich

Cristina Alís Raurich is an acclaimed performer and musicologist dedicated to medieval music, and a leading international specialist on the organetto, the medieval portative organ. Her deep historical knowledge and technical virtuosity have established her as a unique and essential figure in this field. Her artistic and academic work, combined with her ability to connect with the public, position her as a singular artist in early music.

She brings a unique perspective to early music, fusing academic research and artistic excellence. Her dedication to the organetto (medieval portative organ) and her tireless work in the recovery of historical repertoires make her an essential choice for any medieval music program that seeks uniqueness, depth and historical rigor.

Cristina is recognized for her pioneering work on the organetto. In collaboration with historical organ builder Walter Chinaglia, she participated in the reconstruction of a unique model of a 13th-century portative organ. This project was documented in the short film El viento en las manos, which illustrates her dedication to the historical recovery of this instrument. Her repertoire includes both medieval music and contemporary works, which demonstrates her ability to transcend eras and styles.

"Wonderful, she won over the audience from the first minute".

Manuel Prevot

"Virtuous hands that work with impossible ingredients".

Jose An. Montero - La Circular

Current programs:

Organetto Fascination (the three spirits of the Organetto) and Mulierum (Music in the female Cistercian convents in Gothic Iberia).

Michael Form

Current programme:

1) Bach Solo for Recorder with intermission.

2) Bach Solo for Recorder short version.

Foto: © Rey Sayoux

Isabel Dombriz

Considered by the critics as an elegant, suggestive pianist with a very varied range of timbres and colours, Isabel Dombriz stands out for her ability to tackle works of great difficulty with an impeccable technique, always imprinting her own character.

The recording of her CD DANTE for the Ibs Classical label with piano works by F. Liszt, C. Debussy, M. Ravel, M. Bustamante and P. Mariné, has been recognised with the Melómano de Oro. She has performed, among others, at the Festival de Arte Sacro de la Comunidad de Madrid, at the Sala Manuel de Falla in Granada, at the Festival Internacional de Música ‘Villa de Medinaceli’, at the Palacio de Cibeles, at the Casino de Madrid, at the Festival Creixell Classic, at the Festival Internacional de Panticosa...

Her latest audiovisual project FANTASTIK includes works by composers W. A. Mozart, Biedrich Smetana, Max Reger, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Anton Bruckner, Manuel de Falla and Laura Vega, and is published in CD format as UTOPÍA on the Lindoro label.

‘Isabel Dombriz has always represented for me one of the most extraordinary talents produced by the Spanish keyboard. It is possible to find in her the purity of touch, the brilliant, the solid, the refined, the dream, the determination, and above all the transport that this young artist reflects. Listening to her means a journey into higher spiritual regions, as her pianism is never empty but full of characters, figures and experiences that make the listening unforgettable.

Isabel Dombriz will undoubtedly be one of the great pianists of the future’.

Aquiles Delle Vigne

‘Some interpretative readings that stand as authoritative approaches and that augur for the concert pianist assured success in the choice of this repertoire’.

Germán García Tomás, OPERAWORLD (2017)

‘Isabel Dombriz proved to possess an impeccable technique at the service of a mature and eloquent musicality’.

Álvaro Menéndez Granda, CODALARIO (2018)

Current programme:

Utopía

Foto: © Daniel Miguel (2020)

Joan Martí-Frasquier

During 2023, coinciding with the 300th anniversary of the composition of Johann Sebastian Bach's six Suites for solo cello, Joan Martí-Frasquier, on baritone saxophone, has recorded an album in homage to those suites.

‘Its powerful, deep, intense and rich sonority, together with the enormous versatility of the instrument, are the keys that allow Martí-Frasquier to develop a daring and original language’.
Melómano Digital, 01-2019.

‘Undoubtedly, all this is what places Joan Martí-Frasquier as one of the references in the world of contemporary saxophone and new music’.
All Music, 05-2019.

Current programmes:

1. Suites. Spotify
2. My classics.
3. Dialogo della musica antiqua et della moderna. (Coming soon)
4. THIS IS NOT A FAD! Morphosis Duo. A programme of 100% women composers.

José Ramón García

Considered by critics as one of the most promising Spanish pianists of the moment, José Ramón García (Albacete, 1993) has given concerts all over Spain, as well as in several European and North American countries.

He has been invited to take part in several festivals such as the ‘Rafael Orozco’ Piano Festival in Córdoba, ‘Schubert Club Series’ in Connecticut (USA), ‘Áureo Herrero’ and ‘Las Navas del Marqués’ Festival in Ávila, ‘PianoCity’ in Madrid, ‘Pola de Lena’ in Asturias or in the Requena Festival as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the ‘Ciudad de Requena’ Foundation.

He has won awards in more than thirty national and international piano competitions, including First Prize in the International Piano Competition Compositores de España and the National Competition of Juventudes Musicales de España, Second Prize in the International Piano Competition ‘Frechilla-Zuloaga, Third Prize at the International Competitions ‘Ciudad de Ferrol’, ‘Parnassós’ (Mexico) and the National Piano Competition ‘Ciudad de Albacete,’ or the Fifth Prize and KAWAI Prize for the best Spaniard at the International Piano Competition ‘José Iturbi’ (Valencia).

‘José Ramón García is one of the most promising names in Spanish piano. Trained between the USA and Spain with some of the most important artists of the present, he combines his extraordinary technical ability with a symploké of virtues and a depth of spirit that are increasingly difficult to find. Winner at the age of 18 of the Concurso Internacional de Piano Compositores de España, he combines the interpretative aspect with that of composer and teacher’.

Aurelio Martínez Seco. Codalario Magazine, October 2023.

Current programmes:

1. Between Light and Shadow: The Duality of the Human Experience.
2. The Piano in Waltz Form.
3. A Journey through Evocation and Innovation.

Jorge Jiménez

1. Rethinking Bach Bach: The Cello Suites.

2. Rethinking Bach Bach: The Goldberg Variations.

Inés Moreno

Inés Moreno (b. 1995 Madrid) took her first harpsichord lessons at a music school, the Centro Integrado de Música Padre Antonio Soler, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, first with Denise de La-Herrán and later with Jordan Fumadó. She then went to Switzerland and studied harpsichord and historical performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She completed a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in Musical Performance with Andrea Marcon; a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy with Jörg-Andreas Bötticher; and supplementary studies in Improvisation with Dirk Börner.

Inés Moreno won first prize at the 92nd Juventudes Musicales España Competition in 2018; second prize ex-aequo at the International Music Competition for Clavicembalo“Paola Bernadini” of Bologna (2019); the Prize “Video Contest Music Greetings” organized by the Musik Akademie Basel (2020) and the Soloist Prize of the Xth Contest Música Antigua of Gijón in video format (2021). Inés Moreno combines her work as a soloist and accompanist in Spain and across Europe with her work as a teacher. She is a co-founder of the Ensemble Vivalma and a member of the Ensemble I Discordanti, as well as collaborating with her father, José Miguel Moreno, and her uncle, Emilio Moreno.

In 2023, Inés performed Francis Poulenc’s Concert Champêtre as a soloist together with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra.

Inés currently teaches harpsichord at the music school in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

"In addition to the first prize, the Madrid harpsichordist Inés Moreno Uncilla has won all the special prizes of the Competition: the Acadèmia 1750 Special Prize for the best soloist, which consists of a concert as a soloist with the Academia 1750 orchestra; the Bachcelona Special Prize for the best performer of baroque music, which consists of a concert at the 2019 edition of said festival; the Úbeda and Baeza Early Music Festival Special Prize and the Espurnes Barroques Festival Special Prize, which is awarded to the winner of the First Prize and entails a contract for the next edition of both festivals; and finally the GEMA Special Prize, which consists of a showcase at the FEIMA Fair organized by the Association of Spanish Early Music Groups (GEMA)".

Beckmesser, December 2018.

"The participation of Inés Moreno Uncilla (in the Early Music Festival of Úbeda and Baeza), harpsichordist winner of the 1st Early Music Competition of Juventudes Musicales de España, with a program that included some rarer composers such as Zipoli and Storace, and where she shone in the pieces of Alessandro Scarlatti".

Ritmo. December 2019.

Programa actual:

1. Mozart / Bach.   

José Luis Nieto

José Luis Nieto, pianist, has just recorded ‘Pasión de Falla’ in Mexico after a tour of 80 concerts and conferences in Spain, the United States, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, England, Morocco, Panama, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico and Nicaragua. For 2024 he has created a new Chopin-centred programme: ‘Etudes and Nocturnes’.

‘... an artist who is different from what we are used to and who will be much talked about. A wide range of colour and contrasts that yesterday thrilled New York audiences in an impulsive context of Russian technique, Spanish passion and European music’.

OUT TIMES (NEW YORK, USA).

Current programmes:

1. Chopin.
2. Falla.

Foto: © Dolores Iglesias / Fundación Juan March

Alberto Urroz

Current programme:

1. Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations BWV 988.   

DUETS

Cantos del Aire

Current programmes:

1. Une soirée a la maison García.
2. Spanish folk songs and Sephardic romances.
3. Spanish folk songs.

And in trio formation with Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet d'amore.

Programme:

1. María Malibrán, une soirée à l'italienne.
   

Alvarado-Abramovich

Current programme:

1. Huehuetenango: musics of an interrupted songbook. 

Sebastián-Suárez

Duo formed by Alfonso Sebastián, harpsichord, and Sergio Suárez, violin.

Current programme:

1. F. Montali & Ch, Reynaldi, the violin in Madrid in the middle of the 18th century.

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 Syncronos Duo

Current programme:

Of the Human and the Divine.

TRÍO

Foto: © Clara Brunet (2023)

El Gabinete de Música

Trio formed by Soko Yoshida, violin, Lukas Hamberger, violin and Carlos Leal Cardín, violoncello.

The Gabinete de Música focuses its activity on the performance of 18th century chamber music, with special emphasis on the recovery and dissemination of Spanish musical heritage. Its name comes from the ‘room or chamber in the palaces or houses’ - according to the first Spanish dictionaries - in which the musical evenings or academies took place. Formed within the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, El Gabinete de Música has performed in Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Its members regularly collaborate with groups of the highest prestige such as La Cetra Barockorchester, Capricornus Consort, Freiburger Barockorchester, Nederlandse Bachvereniging or Ensemble La Centifolia.

Current programmes:

1. The Spanish Corellians
2. String trios in Enlightenment Spain.
3. Adagio & fugue, the traces of Bach in Viennese Classicism.
4. Brunetti & Boccherini, quintets with two violas.

CUARTETOS

Trifolium Quartet

 Current programmes:

1. Al mio caro Amico...
2. Punctus contra punctum: from Palestrina to W. A. Mozart. 
3. The string quartet in Enlightenment Spain.
4. Music at the Court of Charles IV.
5. Towards a new language.
6. Requiem by W. A. Mozart. Version for string quartet by P. Lichtenthal.
7. A ‘Royal Academy’ (I): music in the palace. The string quintet in enlightened Spain.
8. A ‘Royal Academy’ (I): music in the palace. The string quintet in enlightened Spain.
9. A ‘Royal Academy’ (II): music in the palace. The string quintet in enlightened Spain.
10. L. Boccherini: Quintets with guitar. Popular music in the aristocratic academies.
11. The hidden legacy of Charles IV.
12. Luigi Boccherini: Stabat Mater (1st version - 1781).

Carlos Gallifa & Galatea Ensemble

Group formed by the violinist Carlos Gallifa and the Galatea Ensemble (Pablo Zapico, baroque guitar; Javier Aguirre, cello; Alfonso Sebastián, harpsichord).

‘Certainly, the historicist timbre of the Galatea Ensemble greatly favours these scores, which unfold richly movement by movement. These four instrumentalists offer us a worthy reading that is seasoned with multiple sonorities’.

Marco Antonio Molín Ruiz. Melomaniac, 2022.

Current programme:

1. Stars in the firmament. Chamber music around J. S. Bach.

Synthèse Quartet

Inspirados por la idea de “síntesis” como la unión de diferentes elementos que, al combinarlos desarrollan un resultado único, atribuyen el nombre de “Synthèse” a la formación.

 Programas actuales:

1. Barroco Actualizado. Intertextualidad a cuatro voces.
2. El Árbol de las Artes.
3. Postales desde el otro lado del mundo.
4. Show "Música para todos". Espectáculo Musical para todos.
5. Dossier general.

JAZZ 

Foto: © Larisa López

Lucía Rey

 Current programmes:

1. Lucía rey Trío
2. Lucía Rey Quartet
3. Lucía Rey Quintet

Constanza Lechner

1. The Mini Piano Concerto, pedagogical-family concert.
2. Via Gismonti.
3. Lechner Piano Trío.

Federico Lechner

1. Satie for Two.
2. Sheila Blanco & Federico Lechner Tango Jazz Trio.
3. Ligeti & Ligeti.

Foto: © Alicia Albiñana

Ander García

Basque double bass player Ander Garcia offers music recognisable for its originality and great personality, created from Basque folklore and the most contemporary jazz. Ander performs songs on voice and double bass and improvises based on a balance between the two cultures. His repertoire is made up of his own compositions and traditional Basque songs that have accompanied him on his five albums as a leader. Biscayan dance rhythms and the improvisation of the Bertsolaris are fundamental references in this project. With a long experience as a jazz musician (the list of collaborations includes artists such as Rodney Kendrick, Jorge Pardo, Rhonda Ross, Lucia Rey, Chris Kase, Noa Lur and Javier Paxariño among others), Ander has taken his music to numerous festivals in Latin America, Africa and Europe.

‘In his third album as a leader, Ander García, one of the most active young double bass players in our country, drinks directly from the folklore he grew up with: traditional Basque music. And he doesn't do it as if it were a genre to pay homage to, but rather he takes melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements from that tradition to expand his jazz language, building a personal and exciting work’.

Yahvé M. de la Cavada for Scherzo magazine (February 2018).

‘Jazz of the highest quality with Basque roots’.

Alejandro Cifuentes, Cuadernos de Jazz.

Current programme (duo, trio or quartet):

1. Hiru 

Isa BoCa Jazz Trio

‘Isa BoCa trio Jazz band’ is a musical formation that, although recently formed, dates back to 2011, is formed by Javier Martín on guitar, Andrés León on bass and Isa Bo Ca on vocals. Learning in jazz, with jazz and for jazz... seasoned with other good music, and good times, approaching their own vision to jazz and bossa standards.

Isa BoCa Trio offers us in their concerts an exciting and inspiring journey through rhythms and melodies from the songbook of the north, centre and south of the American continent.

The warm and captivating voice of Isa BoCa, accompanied by Javi Martín on guitar and Andrés León on bass, tells and sings stories that seek to live music moving emotions, approaching the touch of other latitudes and offering a personal touch that never abandons the passion for jazz that once united them.

Current programme.

Foto: © ferdiPé2024

Carmen Vela Quartet

Current programme:

1. En continuo (Ongoing). 

FLAMENCO 

Foto: © Gerónimo Navarrete

Sebastián Cruz

Sebastián Cruz, cantaor from Huelva with 20 years of musical career.

Sebastián Cruz, along with a cast of outstanding musicians, offers a new vision of the music he loves most, full of sincerity, courage and sensitivity, capable of astonishing and moving in equal parts while writing another blank page in the book of flamenco. An example of flamenco without complexes, settled, adult, detached from paternalism and adolescence.

Sebastián has created new styles of cantes, something tremendously difficult and extraordinary in flamenco, tanguillos, malagueña, soleá, fandangos or an absolutely new taranta share space with other traditional cantes, accompanied, of course, in a surprising and modern way thanks to the courage of musicians free of prejudices and music lovers without barriers.

‘Today we live in a time in which we are exposed to the most diverse influences, which we have to process artistically. This is what Sebastián Cruz's album Zarabanda symbolises. My best friend, the painter Thom Argauer, once said that for him there are three important musical currents: Coltrane's jazz, Bach's baroque music and Camarón de la Isla's flamenco. Sebastián Cruz has now used these three basic colours and forms like Picasso and mixed new tones. Sebastián loves not only flamenco, but music without borders, he is open, he listens without prejudices, he lets himself be inspired, he has never lost his curiosity since he was a child. I believe that Sebastián Cruz has been waiting, without knowing it, for the discovery of impressive baroque music. But the album Zarabanda is not a mixture of baroque and flamenco, but the materialisation of a music that had been slumbering inside him for a long time and that the film All the mornings of the world has awakened with a kiss. Sebastián's openness and willingness to listen to his inner self have made this album possible. Sometimes all it takes is a spark to light the fire’.

Stefan Winter

‘Flamenco is a music in full movement, in ‘Arroyos Sonoras’, Sebastián Cruz has created a new style of soleá.’
Rafael Riqueni. Flamenco guitarist and composer.

‘Sebastián's ability to consolidate different currents in his art is, to say the least, impressive. If an artist is defined by his work, Sebastián Cruz stands out as one of the greats’.
Fernando Alday. Music critic.

‘We are dealing with a cantaor who has been influenced by baroque music (...) to compose a whole experience that has undoubtedly transformed his approach to classical flamenco styles, of which he was already an accredited connoisseur’.
Fermin Lobatón. Flamenco writer and critic.

‘Yes, in flamenco there are marvels like this (...) there are artists who, in the midst of hostile environments, inadequate at least, develop an extreme, special sensitivity, they build a world for themselves’.
Pedro G. Romero. Artist, curator and researcher.

‘The result is a difficult, harsh and unexpected work, but above all beautiful and, ultimately, moving. We don't quite know where he has been all these years, but it is clear that now we will always want him close to us’.
Fernando Neira. Journalist and music critic.

Current programme:

 1. Zarabanda. (Rider)

CANTARES NUEVOS 

Diana Baroni & Ensemble Vedado

1. Mujeres.
2. Madre Selva.

PRODUCTIONS WITH SCENOGRAPHY

Foto: © María Alperi / Fundación Juan March (2024)

CABARÉ PIERROT 

Cabaré Pierrot (Dossier available soon).

  Trailer

Silvia Nogales

Current programmes:

1. Seda (Silk).
2. The voices of Cervantes.
3. The six maidens of Juan Ramón Jiménez.

NEW PRODUCTIONS

BEETHOVEN IN A TAVERN

A journey through the soundscapes that Beethoven created in one of his most original compositions. From the green hills of Scotland and the enchanting Irish meadows, to the corners of Spain and Germany. Beethoven, in his creativity, took these traditional songs and elevated them to new heights with his unrivalled talent for composition.

Each piece not only reflects the inherent beauty of these songs, but also the deep humanity and emotion that Beethoven infused into each song.

Performers:

Sonia de Munck, soprano
Alfredo García, baritone

Hermeneia Trio:
Julio Alexis Muñoz, piano
Rou Cibrán Pérez, violin
Nuria Rosa Muntañola, cello

Programme:

 

Fotografias: ©Michal Novak, ©David Ruano, ©Ana Beltrán

NOSOTROS (WE)

‘In this shared journey we navigate through cities, we create interculturality, we get closer to ourselves through the history of poetry and music. We become heirs to the best of the past in order to look to the future with hope. We start from melancholy to rescue the emotion of hope’.

Luís García Montero

Nosotros - A journey through music and words.

With a script by Luis García Montero, Nosotros is a monologue between Mario Gas, actor and director, and Rosa Torres-Pardo, piano, where Mompou's Música callada will be the starting point for a journey through some of the music and lyrics of our sentimental memory. Thus, a nocturne by F. Chopin will lead us to a French song of our youth and this, in turn, will take us to a tango or a fandango, even to composers of today such as Ricardo Llorca and Sonia Megías.

Performers:

Rosa Torres-Pardo, pianist
Mario Gas Cabré, actor and theatre director
Luis García Montero, poet and essayist

Programme:

NOSOTROS (WE)