Edition 2024

Students and teachers of the Professional Conservatory of Music of Menorca will perform solo pieces, chamber music and choir, in a unique palace, ideal for performing early music.

Violeta Florit Triay, flute  
Gerard Gilabert Solé, oboe 
Martí Camps Cortadella, clarinet
Alfonso Barros Cueto, horn
Pere Melis Taltavull, bassoon
Jorge Munuera, violoncello
Jana Gener, violoncello
Jorge Pérez, viola
Lluc Llorens, Toni Pons, Emna Alfageme, Carla García, trombones 
Marina Torres, violí
Carme Majancoses, violí
Aurora Pons, violí
Gibet Salort, violí
Arjau Ferrer, violoncel
Choir: Carme Majancoses, Roger Salord, Shenjie Zhu, Xavier Santana, Daniela Gonzalez, Dayke Criado

Professors:Isabel Juaneda, Gonzalo Lacruz, Pedro Munuera, Eva Febrer, Àlvaro Cardona, Jorge Pérez, Óliver Vinent

Imperatrix Agatha, is a program configured as a tribute to the figure of Saint Agatha, through the repertoires contained in the Tropario of Catania, a 12th century manuscript kept in the National Library of Spain.

-Lucía Marín-Maestro Verbo, voice, lyra and direction
-Fabiana Sans Arcílagos, voice, percussion and co-direction
-Ileana Ortiz Rodriguez, voice
-Fanny Constans, voice

It is a multidisciplinary scenic proposal that mixes ancient baroque English, French and Italian, music seeking a reunion between the past and the present.  

 With this concert we want to publicize a deeply rooted custom at the end of the 17th century that consisted of taking a trip through Europe, with Italy as the destination key, undertaken by young Europeans of sufficient means, when they had reached the age of majority (around 21 years old).

Interspersing brief explanatory comments between the different national styles, contextualizes the music and helps the viewer place themselves in the time of Purcell, of the Palace of Versailles and the Italian baroque, where music played a role fundamental. 

 

Laiene Alcalá Soprano, Diego Parra Baroque Violín, David Sáez  Recorders, Silvia Cantatore Viola da gamba, Teresa Merino Theorbo, Elvira Pujol Harpsichord

 

 

Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian chants.

Capella de Ministrers
Françoise Atlan, voice 
Carles Magraner, director, rebec and violas
Aziz Samsaoui, Kanún, saz and oud
Kaveh Sarvarian, nay and tombak 
Jota Martínez, citole, lute and percussion 

Video of the concert of 18th May 2023 with pieces from the German renaissance, a rather unknown repertoire that received influences from some other contemporary musical traditions, like the English, French or Flemish. With works by Neusidler, Denss and other composers. 

Joaquim Bogunyà, lute

Delirivm Musica offers us a monograph on Marc - Antoine Charpentier. A fascinating journey through five of his sacred compositions where light and shadow intervene representatively as an essential part of the music, the instrumentation, the interpretation and the text.

Dessus [violin] Beatriz Amezúa 
Countertenor [violin] Marta Mayoral 
Bass [Flute] Juan Portilla 
Countertenor [Flute] Belén Nieto 
Violin waist Calia Álvarez 
Violin quintet María Barajas 
Bassoon bass Marta Calvo 
Violin bass Alberto Jara 
 
Bass Belén Vaquero 
Treble Lorea Agustí 
Low register Paloma Friedhoff 
[High counter Hugo Bolívar 
[Bass Andrea Rey 
[Height] Fran Braojos 
[Tall] Ariel Hernández 
[Low-cut] Manuel Quintana 
[Bass] Simón Millán
 
Organ and basso continuo Jorge López-Escribano (organ and harpsichord) / Juan Carlos de Mulder (archlute) 
 
Artistic Director Juan Portilla

Baroque music of different styles. 
Works of François Couperin and Georg Philipp Telemann. Sample of bowed baroque instruments. 

Teachers concert: 
Manuel Márquez (Double bass)
Ines Moreno (viola)
Enrique Campos (violín)

The repertoire of this concert features Spanish music composed between XVI and XIX centuries, from Antonio de Cabezón to Mateo Antonio Pérez de Albéniz. The purpose of the concert is to show the evolution around harpsichord music in Spain by the hand of the awarded young performer, Inés Moreno, who has recently released the album 300 years of Spanish harpsichord music. 

Inés Moreno Uncilla, harpsichord

This concert aims to make a little celebration of the beginning of the Spring, the Early Music Day and JS Bach birthday! As a cellist, I owe JS some of the greatest joys of my life thanks to the microuniverse he created by composing the six cello suites for solo cello. Melancholy, exalted joy, deep thoughts, positive contemplation, exciting dances, moving atmospheres... Bach encapsulated so many feelings and ways of living through the sound in a couple of hours of music.

Pablo Tejedor-Gutiérrez, baroque cello and piccolo cello (5 strings)

Spanish Golden's age religious music: Francisco Guerrero, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Antonio de Cabezón... Together with Santa Teresa of Jesus poetry.

Piacere dei Traversi:
Carmen Botella, soprano and recitation
Laura Palomar, Fernanda Teixerira and Marisa Esparza, Renaissance transverse flutes

DeMusica Ensemble is an all-female vocal ensemble created in 2009 by Dr. Mª Ángeles Zapata with the aim to rescue and disseminate the work of women composers and performers.

The program is based on music manuscripts from female convents of Spain. This concert recreates the music of the vespers of Saint Peter composed by the Dominican nun Sor Josefa Pujante, found in the Monastery of Saint Ana of Murcia. Plainchant and polyphony are combined and performed using an all- female ensemble of voices and instruments.

The concert is a tribute to all women who developed their music behind the walls of a convent, and have remained hidden for centuries. It is part of the research project “Sounds of Silence: music in women’s cloisters”, funded by the City Council of Murcia and the City Museum.

Susana Almazán Gil, voice
Elena Escobar Munuera, voice
Eva Gloria Sánchez Munuera, voice
Abigail R. Horro, voice
Nuria Díez Latorre, voice

Sonia Rabasa, cornetto

Mª José Pinilla Paz-Peñuelas, sackbut

Meritxell Ferrer Quiñoneros, dulcian

Mª Ángeles Zapata Castillo, voice and direction

On-line presentation on baroque performance practice. We will discuss some topics such as rhetorics, musical structure, articulation, punctuation, and ornamentation. Held in Spanish.

Fernando Santiago, cellist and artistic director of Concert Le Phénix.