Marina Heredia will sing at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival next Saturday, August 2nd, accompanied by some of her regular collaborators: José Quevedo ‘Bolita’ on guitar and Roberto Jaén on percussion. Once again, they are special guests of Avi Avital and his Between Worlds Ensemble. The program features arrangements of classical compositions by Falla, Albéniz, and Granados, along with flamenco and other popular music pieces, in new arrangements created especially for the project, premiered at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin in November 2022 and has been released on Deutsche Grammophon this past June 2025.
Mandolinist Avi Avital has long enjoyed crossing musical borders. Between Worlds is an exploration of different genres, cultures, and musical worlds: at the center of the project is the Between Worlds Ensemble, founded by Avital in 2014 and made up of ten classically trained musicians equally at home in non-classical repertoire. For each of the three Between Worlds programs, this core group has been joined by several artists or an ensemble representing a specific cultural and geographical region from around the world, in programs that include classical pieces as well as traditional and folk music in newly created arrangements. “The feeling of being at home in places that seem strange and even discovering aspects of oneself is an idea I find very moving,” says Avital. “That philosophy is at the heart of this project.” To open the series, Marina Heredia, one of the most fascinating voices in flamenco today, joins the Between Worlds Ensemble, alongside José Quevedo “Bolita” and Roberto Jaén in a program dedicated to the music of the Iberian Peninsula.
Marina Heredia has become the most sought-after singer internationally to perform repertoires that combine flamenco with classical music and other musical styles, both popular and folk, in which she moves like a fish in water. Among her most notable projects is En Libertad. El Camino de los Gitanos (In Freedom. The Way of the Gypsies), a new work commissioned by the Duisburger Philharmoniker from José Quevedo and Joan Albert Amargós, which premiered with the commissioner in 2023, was revived in Spain by the Galicia Symphony Orchestra in 2024, and is already scheduled for September 18th with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and in 2026 with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra. Her upcoming engagements include invitations to sing Falla’s El Amor Brujo with the San Diego and Philadelphia Orchestras.