Like all instruments, the clarinet has evolved through history and so has its sound. This concert with Lorenzo Coppola and Cristina Esclapez offers a wonderful opportunity to discover the historic clarinet alongside the piano.

A clarinet and piano concert performed by the students of the Historic Clarinet masterclass at Proto-fest. We will be able to enjoy the work carried out during the masterclasses given by Lorenzo Coppola and the pianist Cristina Esclapez.

XUP-XUP started out from the idea of three chefs preparing a meal with few ingredients: the poetry of the objects accompanied by live music brings to life each one of the elements participating in the creation of a dish of spaghetti.

A show which encourages playing and uses everyday elements to create a dish full of surprises. A children’s show with live music ideal for children from 0 to 5 years old.

XUP-XUP presentation video

The Piano Quintet by Shostakovich is one of the most emblematic Chamber music pieces of the twentieth century. An excellent opportunity to hear this composition played here by a great group of musicians based in the United Kingdom.

Ethno Catalonia is a project run by the Joventuts Musicals de Banyoles association. Every year they bring together between thirty and forty young musicians from around the world to share the traditional music from their home countries.

The youngsters participate in a residential course for ten days characterized by its open and horizontal organization and intercultural sensitivity. Each participant brings a traditional composition to show the rest of the group. This builds up a repertoire of folk music representing every continent, which the musicians rehearse and perform in public on a concert tour of Catalonia.

A unique opportunity to enjoy a wonderful musical journey through traditional music from around the world in a project based on the essential values of dialogue, tolerance and comprehension where music is a universal language capable of crossing any frontier.

*At the end of the concert there will be a food truck area.

Ya Henna (traditional Egyptian song), Ethno Catalonia 2016

Chamber music, viola and violin concert performed by students who have attended Rivka Golani’s masterclasses at Proto-fest. The perfect opportunity to see the work they have carried out. Accompanied by Inés Reguero on the piano.

Participatory Concert with singers and instrument players – students, amateurs and professionals – performing the result of the work carried out during the Proto~fest masterclasses.

They will perform Ramon Llull, visions de Randa, an unpublished work by Felip Pedrell which was recently recovered by David Matheu. It was one of the last large-scope compositions Pedrell wrote.

A world premiere led by the renowned conductor Francesc Valldecabres and stage director Mireia Andreu.

The intimate connection between poetry and music in the Spanish Golden Age with a special focus on texts about love.

The performance includes poems by some of the most significant poets of that time such as Garcilaso de la Vega, Lope de Vega, Jorge de Montemayor and Joan Boscà. The musical pieces are from a variety of sources including important compilations like the Cancionero de Medinaceli and Recopilación de sonetos y villancicos a cuatro y a cinco voces by Juan Vázquez, among others such as the Calàbria and Casanatense song collections.

The sixteenth century was a period of splendour in both literature and music; a time when, despite the decisive Italian influence, Spanish poets and musicians maintained their own characteristics when writing, avoiding excessive affectation and sensuality and searching for seriousness and solemnity.

Hermosa Cathalina (Anònim) performed by Qvinta Essençia

Concert by the Tortosa Chamber Orchestra (OCTO) with the prestigious viola soloist Rivka Golani, conducted by Ricardo Forner.

The concert programme includes excellent pieces for orchestras with viola as well as works by past and present composers from the Terres de l’Ebre region all played in the spectacular setting of the Renaissance period Reials Col·legis (Royal Colleges) in Tortosa.

A concert of organ music by Joan Seguí, organist at the Santa Maria del Mar church in Barcelona. During the concert, Joan will play music from around the court of King Philip II of Spain during the 80 Years’ War -1568-1648-, showing the musical influences among the most significant composers from the two warring countries. 

A splendid concert, and an example of why we wish for a new organ for Tortosa Cathedral. Rossend Aymí, the last organist at the cathedral, will attend the concert and we will be able to share and exchange opinions with him afterwards.

N. de Grigny – Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux (Himne sur le Veni Creator) performed by Joan Seguí 

Concert of Renaissance period singing by the Historic Singing masterclass students from Proto-fest. The concert will be based on the work carried out during Pilar Moral’s masterclasses. Josep Mateu will play the harpsichord.

La dolça melodia is a programme of music dedicated to the composer and chapel choir master Pasqual Fuentes Alcàsser. Studying the composer, his music and texts, gives us an insight into eighteenth-century Valencia, a reality not too different from the present day. It is the history of a city of contrasts, of remarkable stories and everyday ones, in which we can recognize ourselves and feel identified. Performed here by the Música Trobada group and the soprano Cecilia Aymi, La dolça melodia is an excellent example of his work.

The music of Pasqual Fuentes Alcàsser
Pasqual Fuentes’ compositions are surprising and captivating for a variety of reasons: the vast quantity of work he produced, the quality and use of a new musical language, the strong influence of the Italian style of music, his use of the Valencian language in some pieces, his elaborate vocal compositions, or the use of popular and traditional music. Furthermore, among the hundreds of pieces he wrote, we can find delightful gems such as the Missa per a la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats, from 1767.

Fuentes’ music can be found in many archives around the Spanish peninsula such as Cadiz Cathedral, the Escorial Monastery, Tarragona Cathedral, the National Library of Catalonia, Girona Cathedral, and the archives of Valencia.

Research carried out by Música Trobada has led to the recovery of about twenty of his compositions, many of which have been included in two recordings: lamentations and short popular pieces (villancets) in Valencian. The group has also performed his music at the Zarzuela Theatre in Madrid, and at festivals in Vélez Blanco, Peníscola and the Pyrenees.

Amor y bravura (Georg Friedrich Händel) performed by Música Trobada

The quartet Accent>Ensemble was born thanks to the initiative of a group of musicians living and working in the Terres de l’Ebre region who are passionate about chamber music. Each member of the group has already enjoyed their own personal music career separately before forming this joint project. The objectives of the quartet include the research, sharing and enjoyment of chamber music from any period.

Among the varied musical interests they have taken a deeper look at, Accent>Ensemble are currently working on recovering the previously unpublished musical heritage of women composers who were disciples of the composer Felip Pedrell -1841-1922-. They have recovered compositions by Ll. Casagemas, Ll. Bosch, N. Freixes and A. Armengol. For this concert, Accent>Ensemble will perform with an invited artist, the renowned soprano Teresa Garrigosa, who is leading the research into women composers from our region.

Teresa Garrigosa will also give the talk Women Composers, which will take place before the concert.

Lluïsa Casagemas, Spain’s first women composer -TV3 News-
Premier of A la clara nit by Felip Pedrell -Accent Ensemble-