Marina Heredia will perform Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo with the Casa da Música Orchestra in Porto under its principal conductor, Stefan Blunier, next 25 March at 21:30 p.m. at the sumptuous auditorium built by Rem Koolhaas, after the success of her Berlin debut with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pablo Heras Casado.
Recently, Marina has participated in a concert tour around Galicia with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia under José Trigueros, presenting a new orchestration by the conductor himself of the Canciones Españolas Antiguas, compiled and harmonized by Federico García Lorca.
Marina Heredia has become the most internationally requested cantaora to perform El Amor Brujo by Manuel de Falla, which she has sung in some of the most prestigious international venues with important ensembles such as the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. In Europe she has performed it with the Rouen Opera and the Orchestre National de Lille, and more recently in Spain at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Palacio de Festivales in Santander, Auditorio ADDA in Alicante, Cidade da Cultura in Santiago or the Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada, with orchestras such as the Sinfónica de Galicia, RTVE Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada or ADDA Orchestra, and under conductors such as Manuel Hernández-Silva, Josep Vicent or Pablo Heras Casado, with whom she has also recorded it for Harmonia Mundi.
Manuel Hernández-Silva and Serbian violinist Robert Lakatoš meet again, this time with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, to offer Wieniawski’s Concerto No. 1 along with the overture A Life for the Tsar, by Glinka, and Kalinnikov’s Symphony No. 1. The concerts will take place at the Centro Cultural Abanca in Vigo and the Auditorio de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela on March 16 and 17, respectively. Hernández-Silva and Lakatoš had already performed Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 together with the Navarre Symphony Orchestra and the Malaga Philharmonic. Other visits by Lakatoš to Spain involved James Judd and the RTVE Orchestra with Korngold’s violin concert, and Nicholas Milton and the Navarra Symphony with the Serenade for violin, strings and percussion by Leonard Bernstein.
Robert Lakatoš has won numerous international awards, including first prizes at the Pablo Sarasate Competition (Pamplona, Spain, 2015), Mary Smart Concerto Competition (New York, 2013), and Societe Generale Serbia (Belgrade, 2009), as well as second prizes at Jeunesses Musicales Romania (Bucharest, 2012) and Andrea Postacchini (Fermo, Italy, 2012). Robert Lakatoš develops his concert career as a soloist and chamber musician performing in Europe, Israel and the United States. As a soloist, he has appeared with numerous orchestras including the Spanish RTVE Orchestra, Navarra Symphony Orchestra, Malaga Philharmonic, Minas Gerais Philharmonic, Krakow Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de la UAN (Mexico), Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, New York Summit Festival Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra and the Janáček Camerata. So far, he has collaborated with conductors such as Philip Greenberg, Fabio Mechetti, Gabriel Feltz, Manuel Hernández-Silva, Nicholas Milton, James Judd, James Tuggle, Lior Shambadal and Antoni Wit. He has made recordings for radio and television in his country and abroad and holds the position of Violin Professor at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where he studied and was awarded as Best Young Artist in 2016 by the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and the Vojvodina Academy of Arts and Sciences. Robert plays on a 1709 Stradivari violin from the collection of bow maker Vladimir Radosavljevic, whose bow he also uses.
Marina Heredia will perform El Amor Brujo by Manuel de Falla with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra) under conductor Pablo Heras Casado in two legendary venues of the Geman capital, such as the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus. These concerts will take place next 10 and 11 March, respectively. Marina has recently offered a series of five concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia in various cities of the Galician region such as Santiago, A Coruña, Ourense, Lugo and Pontevedra, with a program that included a selection of Canciones Españolas Antiguas, compiled and harmonized by Federico García Lorca.
After this debut with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marina Heredia will travel to Portugal to perform El Amor Brujo with the Orquestra da Casa da Música de Porto under Stefan Blunier, next 25 March. Soon afterwards, she will sing at the Palacio de Carlos V within the Granada Festival. Next 2022/23 season will see Marina performing again El Amor Brujo at the opening season concert of a Spanish symphony orchestra, as well as in Switzerland and Germany, where she will offer several concerts along the season as a resident artist of an important German orchestra, closing her residency with the world premiere of a work composed especially for her.
Marina Heredia has become the most internationally requested cantaora to perform El Amor Brujo by Manuel de Falla, which she has sung in some of the most prestigious international venues with important ensembles such as the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. In Europe she has performed it with the Rouen Opera and the Orchestre National de Lille, and more recently in Spain at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Palacio de Festivales in Santander, Auditorio ADDA in Alicante, Cidade da Cultura in Santiago or the Auditorio Manuel de Falla in Granada, with orchestras such as the Sinfónica de Galicia, RTVE Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada or ADDA Orchestra, and under conductors such as Manuel Hernández-Silva, Josep Vicent or Pablo Heras Casado, with whom she has also recorded it for Harmonia Mundi.
