Marina Heredia participates in the New York Flamenco Festival with a programme entitled De lo jondo a Lorca that includes a selection of poems and songs that Lorca immortalised in his works, mixing the intensity of flamenco with the poetic lyricism of the author. Accompanied by her inseparable guitarist José Quevedo ‘El Bolita’, Heredia transports the audience to the deepest roots of Andalusian culture, reliving the legacy of the poet from Granada with every note and verse. The concert will take place on Friday 14 March in the Merkin Concert Hall of the Kaufman Music Center at 8pm. Marina has just had an outstanding presence at the Cartagena Music Festival in Colombia where he gave three concerts, two with the Castile and Leon Symphony Orchestra and Thierry Fisher with programmes covering works by Falla and Lorca as well as with his flamenco quintet.
Marina Heredia is definitely the most internationally demanded singer for this repertoire, just in the last two seasons she could be seen at the Konzerthaus and the Berlin Philharmonie with the Berlin Radio Symphony conducted by Pablo Heras Casado; the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, in the Laieszhalle of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, or the Lausitz Festival in Görlitz, and has sung with orchestras of the importance of the Chicago Symphony or San Francisco Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, of which she was resident artist and with which she premiered in Spain En Libertad!, a new work for cantaora and orchestra by José Quevedo and Joan Albert Amargós, commissioned and premiered by the Duisburger Philharmoniker.
Other important orchestras with which Marina has sung are the Orchestre National de Lille, Orquestra Sinfônica da Casa da Música do Porto, Ópera de Rouen, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom she recorded El Amor Brujo under the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado or the production by La Fura del Baus for the Granada Festival as well as with the Sinfónicas de Navarra under the baton of Perry So, Sinfónica de RTVE, Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia with Roberto Forés, North Macedonian Phiharmonic with Christian Vásquez or Sinfónica de Castilla y León under the baton of José Trigueros and Thierry Fisher.
Leo Rondón makes his debut with the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla to participate on 6 and 7 March in two concertante works of a markedly Latin character with Hernández-Silva and Pacho Flores, with whom he regularly collaborates. These works are Concerto Venezolano for trumpet and orchestra by Paquito D’Rivera, winner of a Latin Grammy, and Cantos y Revueltas. Fantasía Concertante for trumpet, Venezuelan cuatro and Orchestra, by the trumpeter himself, in whose recording for Deutsche Grammophon Leo also participates. The concerts will take place at the Teatro de la Maestranza at 20:00.
Leo comes from Poland to play his own Concierto del Mar, for Venezuelan cuatro with the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra of Gdansk conducted by Christian Vásquez, and will soon be seen at the Auditori de Barcelona with the Banda Municipal de Barcelona again playing in Cantos y Revueltas conducted by Pascual Vilaplana. Previously he could also be seen with the Duisburger Philharmoniker conducted by Alondra de la Parra and this season he can still be seen again in Spain playing the Concierto del Mar with the Orquesta de Extremadura and Silva.
Following the premiere of his Concierto del Mar, Rondón is now completing the composition of a new concerto for four and orchestra entitled Concierto del Llano, which will be the second in a trilogy. He will also continue his work in the artistic organisation of the PAAX GNP Festival, chaired by Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, which will take place again in June 2025 in Mexico’s Riviera Maya. He continues to work with maestro Alexis Cárdenas and his quartet, and with a duo with French pianist Thomas Enhco, with whom he released an album together with Chilean tenor Emiliano González Toro, in homage to singer Violeta Parra. Known as Leo Rondón, Leonidas Rondón (Guama, Yaracuy, 1984), who was an outstanding podium participant in the Festival La Siembra del Cuatro in Venezuela, has collaborated with the Quatuor Debussy, Christina Pluhar’s L’Arpeggiata and the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón. Also with orchestras such as the Arctic Philharmonic of Norway, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de l’Ile de France, Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Orquesta de Valencia, Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orquesta de Extremadura, Sinfónica de Navarra, Sinfónica del Vallés or Filarmónica de Málaga. For years he organised, together with maestro Cristóbal Soto, the summer course Música Criolla Venezolana, a Venezuelan music teaching camp in the city of Mirecourt, France. He is currently working on his solo project, Leo Rondón Project.
Perry So conducts this week the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra in a very interesting programme combining the work of the Navarrese Fernando Remacha (1898-1984), Jesus Christ on the Cross, with Bruckner’s 6th Symphony, for which he has assembled a cast formed by the soprano Andrea Jiménez, contralto Leticia Vergara, tenor Guillen Munguía, bass Iosu Yeregui and the Coral de Cámara de Pamplona. The concerts will take place on February 27th in the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona and on the 28th in the Teatro Gaztambide in Tudela, both days at 19:3 pm.
Perry So conducted the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie past 19 January in the Hunsrückhalle in Simmern with a programme including Mozart’s Symphony No. 31 Paris, the Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Allegro appassionato for piano and orchestra, Op. 70 by Saint-Saëns, with pianist Anny Hwang as soloist, and Francis Poulenc’s Sinfonietta. Shortly afterwards he conducted Verdi’s La Traviata at the Baluarte in Pamplona and the Kursaal of San Sebastián in a production by the Sferisterio de Macerata and in short he will conduct the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal. A dynamic and transformative presence in concert halls on five continents, Perry So is currently Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra and Music Director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Under his leadership, the Navarre Symphony Orchestra has toured to critical acclaim, widely lauded for the “artistic vitality” of its programming, and the ensemble, Spain’s oldest orchestra, recognized as currently being at “one of the finest points in its history.”
Perry So was born in 1982 in Hong Kong, where he received his early training in piano, organ, violin, viola and composition. He received a BA in Literature from Yale University with a major in Central European music and literature of the modernist period, during which time he founded an academic orchestra and conducted the university’s opera company. He studied conducting initially with James Sinclair and later with Gustav Meier at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. In 2008 he received the First Prize and the Special Prize at the 5th Edition of the International Prokofiev Conducting Competition in St. Petersburg. Following this recognition he was appointed Assistant Conductor and then Associate Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel Conducting Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artistic Collaborator of the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra, and member of the Department of Conducting at the Manhattan School of Music.
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