Christian Vásquez and Leo Rondón meet with the Tenerife Symphony to offer the Concerto del Mar for Venezuelan Cuatro and orchestra, it will be next Friday, May 24 at the Adán Martín Auditorium in Tenerife. This concert had a pre-premiere with an instrumental ensemble formed by musicians from the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia in April 2022 and had its absolute premiere in its final version in May 2023 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia under the direction by Hernández-Silva, so this performance in Tenerife is his true premiere in Spain. Next season, programming is already planned for the seasons of a Spanish and a Polish orchestra, which will be announced in due course. In addition, Vásquez will conduct the Tenerife Symphony with Antrópolis by Gabriela Ortiz, Santa Cruz de Pacairigua, by Evencio Castellanos, and Estancia: Cuatro danzas, op. 8a by Alberto Ginastera.
In this work by Rondón, canonically organized in three movements; Parranda velera, Punto de Cruces and Estribillo de los Pescadores, highlight some of the most popular rhythms of Venezuela, such as the merengue, the parranda, the waltz and the joropo with an oriental chorus, where the four is exploited from its initial conception as a rhythmic accompaniment. to the enormous palette of possibilities that an entire generation of virtuoso Cuatro players have been able to incorporate into the instrument in recent years, integrating it into the symphonic repertoire thanks to contributions from composers such as Gonzalo Grau, Orlando Cardozo, Leonardo Lozano, Juan Carlos Sanz, etc.
After the premiere of his Concerto del Mar, Rondón is already finishing the composition of a new concerto for Cuatro and orchestra titled Concerto del Llano, which will be the second of a trilogy. He will also continue his work in the artistic organization of the PAAX GNP Festival, chaired by the Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra and which will take place again in June 2024 in the Riviera Maya of Mexico. He continues working with the maestro Alexis Cárdenas and his quartet, and with a duo with the French pianist Thomas Enhco, with whom he published an album with the Chilean tenor Emiliano González Toro, in tribute to the singer Violeta Parra. Known as Leo Rondón, Leonidas Rondón (Guama, Yaracuy, 1984), who was a prominent participant with a podium at the La Siembra del Cuatro Festival in Venezuela, has collaborated with the Quatuor Debussy, L’Arpeggiata by Christina Pluhar and the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón. Also with orchestras such as the Arctic Philharmonic of Norway, Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchester National de l’Ile de France, Symphony of the Region of Murcia, Orchestra of Valencia, Symphony of Castilla y León, Orchestra of Extremadura, Symphony of Navarra, Tunisia Symphony Orchestra or Malaga Philharmonic. For years he organized, together with maestro Cristóbal Soto, the Venezuelan Creole Music Summer Course, a Venezuelan music teaching camp in the city of Mirecourt, France. He is currently carrying out his solo project, Leo Rondón Project.
Christian Vásquez returns to the Orchester Pasdeloup in Paris. After his debut last January 2023 with the orchestra at the Paris Philharmonie, in which he conducted works by Beethoven and Dvořàk, he was again invited to conduct two concerts in the current season, the first of which took place last November 11, again at the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez of the Philharmonie, with a program titled South American Tour that included works by Gershwin, Lecuona, Gardel, Bonfiglio and Márquez, with pianist Dina Bensaïd and Patricio Bonfiglio & El Sindicato Milonguero as soloists. The second of these concerts will take place at La Seine Musicale next Sunday, April 28, 2024, and with a totally different program that includes works by French authors such as Lalo, Overture to Le Roi d’Ys, and Saint-Saëns, Danse Macabre, Grieg’s piano concerto with François Dumont as soloist and Stravinsky’s The Firebird.
This is being a period of intense activity that includes several premieres, such as the new trumpet concerto by the Colombian-Finnish composer Tuomas Turriago, with the Tampere Orchestra, with Pacho Flores as soloist, then he conducted the Galician Symphony with the Fuga Criolla, by Juan Bautista Plaza, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, and the absolute premiere of the new clarinet concerto by Pacho Flores, dedicated to Juan Ferrer, who served as soloist, and whom he wiññ also later conduct with the Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, next to La Alborada del Gracioso, by Ravel, and Pictures at an Exhibition, by Musorgski. The Clarinet Concerto by Pacho Flores is a shared commission between the aforementioned orchestras of Galicia and Murcia, and the Extremadura Orchestra.
A little later and with the Tenerife Symphony, Christian will conduct the European premiere of the Concierto del Mar for Venezuelan Cuatro and Orchestra, with the composer himself as soloist, along with works by Gabriela Ortiz, Evencio Castellanos and Alberto Ginastera.
Abraham Cupeiro presents PANGEA with the Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester under the baton of maestro Antonio Planelles Gallego next Sunday, April 28. This is a family activity that will take place in a double session at 11:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., in the Großes Haus of the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater. PANGEA is the second album by Abraham Cupeiro, recorded with the London Symphony under the direction of Dimas Ruiz. He has recently presented a new project, MYTHOS, at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo together with the Oviedo Filarmonía and directed by Fernando Briones. MYTHOS is his third and last album to date, also recorded with London Symphony and Dimas Ruiz.
About 200 million years ago on our planet there was a single gigantic continent: Pangea. This began to separate and over time gave rise to the different current continents as we know them. The journey we propose with this concert is the union through music of the different parts of the planet. Pangea is an educational and entertaining show that brings us closer to other cultures, with original music by Abraham Cupeiro and María Ruiz.
During the concert they will sound from southern Oceania with the echoes of its conch shells, to the mysterious Chinese mountains that the sound of the Hulusi draws with its melismatic melodies; great plains like those of North America, jungles like those of South America, the Peule flute of Senegal, the Bulgarian Bagpipe, the defiant Zurna and the ancient shepherd’s horns will sew the dress that will once again unite our land. With Pangea, Abraham Cupeiro proposes a trip that is a hymn to the cultural diversity of our planet.
Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord Mahan Esfahani has made it his life’s mission to rehabilitate the harpsichord in the mainstream of concert instruments, and to that end his creative programming and work in commissioning new works have drawn the attention of critics...
Christian Vásquez returns to the Galicia Symphony Orchestra on April 18 and 19 to conduct a program that includes the absolute premiere of Aurea, a clarinet concerto composed by Pacho Flores and dedicated to Juan Ferrer, who will also perform as soloist. This concert is the result of a joint commission by the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the Extremadura Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, whose premieres will take place on April 25 and 26, and May 31 and June 1, respectively. The program in Galicia also includes the Fuga Criolla, by Juan Bautista Plaza, and the Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17, Little Russia, by Tchaikovsky.
Christian Vásquez was born in Caracas in 1984, he began his music studies as a violinist and member of the renowned musical education program ‘El Sistema’. In 2006 he began his studies in orchestral conducting under the tutelage of maestro José Antonio Abreu, and that same year he was named musical director of the José Félix Ribas Youth Symphony Orchestra, in the state of Aragua. HHe was a Dudamel fellow during the season 2009/10. Following his debut with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra in October 2009, one of his first appearances in Europe, Christian Vásquez was appointed Principal Guest Conductor, a position he held between 2010 and 2013. In 2010 he was also named Music Director of the Teresa Carreño Symphony Orchestra from Venezuela, and continues at the helm since 2017, when the
orchestra changed its name to Juan José Landaeta Symphony Orchestra. Christian Vásquez became Principal Conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of the 2013/14 season, thus inaugurating an initial four-year mandate that would be extended for two more years until 2019. In the 2015/16 season he became Principal Guest Conductor of the Het Gelders Orkest (Arnhem Symphony Orchestra), beginning his tenure with a tour of the Netherlands. He was recently also named associate director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony.
Juan Ferrer is one of the most versatile and active Spanish clarinetists of his generation and the first Spaniard to be part of the juries of prestigious competitions such as the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Ghent, Versailles, Competition for Asia and Oceania in Taipei (Taiwan), or Carlino (Italy), in which he has also offered recitals and master classes, a pedagogical work that he carries out with students from all over the world and in universities in Europe and Asia. This activity has recently been endorsed by his invitation to participate as a professor at the Simón Bolívar Foundation with three annual meetings starting with the 2017-18 season. An artist of the Buffet-Crampon Paris and Vandoren Paris brand, Ferrer is part of the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, of which he has been principal clarinet since 1994, although his artistic activity has led him to offer concerts in China, Taiwan, Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Argentina and Spain, both as a soloist and in recitals as well as with chamber groups such as the Untía Trio, the Siglo XX Instrumental Group or the OSG Soloist Quintet, of the who is a member. He has performed as a guest with the Leipzig Radio Orchestra, the Liceu Orchestra of Barcelona, the Palau de les Arts of Valencia, the National Orchestra of Catalonia or the RTVE Orchestra, among many others, and has worked under the orders of some of the most prestigious batons: Gustavo Dudamel, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Harding, Sir Neville Marriner, Osmo Vänska, Guennadi Rozdestvenski, Peter Maag, James Conlon, Jesús López Cobos, Stanislaw Scrowaczewski, Dima Slobodeniouk, Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Eschenbach, Juanjo Mena or Alberto Zedda. Juan Ferrer is a Professor at the Alfonso X El Sabio University and works regularly with the youth orchestras of Galicia, Euskadi, Catalonia or Canarias. He teaches in Spain, France, China, Taiwan, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Belgium, Russia, Argentina, in addition to participating in various editions of the Ibero-American Clarinet Academy in Castelo de Paiva ( Portugal). He has recorded an album with the pianist Daniel Del Pino with works dedicated to him by internationally renowned authors, such as Salvador Brotóns, Fernado Buide, Eduardo Soutullo, Karolis Biveinis, Octavio Vázquez, Wladimir Rosinskij and Juan Durán.
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