Marina Heredia presents En Libertad! El Camino de los Gitanos (In Freedom! The path of the gypsies) at the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra of Granada, on September 18th, as part of the 1st Granada Flamenco Biennial, with the Granada City Orchestra conducted by José Trigueros, José Quevedo ‘Bolita’ on guitar and Paquito González on percussion. This work, composed jointly by Joan Albert Amargós and José Quevedo, was commissioned by the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, with which it premiered on June 28th and 29th, 2023, with Amargós himself conducting. It had its Spanish premiere in A Coruña on May 24th and 25th, 2024, with the Galicia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of José Trigueros, and it is also scheduled to be performed with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra in January 2026, again under the baton of Maestro Trigueros. Marina, wha was at the New York Flamenco Festival on past March, is also scheduled to perform with the San Diego Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra in the United States, singing Falla’s El Amor Brujo, on both occasions conducted by Rafael Payare.
Marina Heredia is undoubtedly the most sought-after singer internationally for this repertoire. In recent seasons, she has appeared at the Konzerthaus and the Berlin Philharmonic, alongside the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin; the Laieszhalle of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg; the Lausitz Festival in Görlitz; the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival; the New York Flamenco Festival or the Cartagena International Music Festival.
She has sung with orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orquestra Sinfônica da Casa da Música do Porto, the Rouen Opera, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom she recorded El Amor Brujo (The Witch’s Love) under the direction of Pablo Heras-Casado and the production of La Fura del Baus for the Granada Festival under the baton of Manuel Hernández-Silva. She has also performed with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra and Thierry Fischer, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra and José Trigueros, the Navarra Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Perry So, the RTVE Symphony Orchestra under the direction, again, of Hernández-Silva, the Murcia Region Symphony Orchestra with Roberto Forés, and the North Macedonia Philharmonic with Christian Vásquez.