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title: "Spanish premiere of ‘Concerto Venezolano’ by Paquito D’Rivera"
description: "Pacho Flores (trumpets), Leo Rondón (Venezuelan cuatro) and the Orquesta de Valencia, conducted by Manuel Hernández-Silva, will perform the Spanish premiere of Paquito D'Rivera's Concerto..."
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date: 2022-01-24
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tags: ["Project of shared commissions", "New trumpet concerts", "Manuel Hernandez-Silva", "Pacho Flores", "Orquesta de Valencia", "Paquito D'Rivera", "Concerto Venezolano", "Leo Rondón"]
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# Spanish premiere of ‘Concerto Venezolano’ by Paquito D’Rivera

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Despite the cancellations and delays due to the pandemic, Pacho Flores has been able to keep pace with the premieres of the new trumpet concerts within the **project of shared commissions** that he has been promoting over the last five years. Since the premiere of Arturo Marquez’s [*Concierto de Otoño*](/?p=6307) on September 2018 by the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México and Carlos Miguel Prieto, 12 of the 21 foreseen premieres of this project have already taken place. The premiere of [*Historias de Flores y Tangos*, by Daniel Freiberg](/?p=10305), last 23 October, is the half-way mark on the premiere calendar, which will receive a great boost—should Omicron allow it—in 2022, in which we will see the last premieres of Paquito D’Rivera’s *Concerto Venezonano* (Spain and US) and Roberto Sierra’s [*Salseando*](/?p=9407) (Brasil and France), as well as Daniel Freiberg’s second premiere.

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**The program also includes *Cantos y Revueltas: Fantasia Concertante for trumpet, Venezuelan cuatro and strings,* by Pacho Flores, and the Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39, by Jan Sibelius**

This concert also means the debut of Manuel Hernández-Silva with the Valencia Orchestra, one of the Spanish few with which he had not yet worked. Hernández-Silva has held four tenures as Principal Conductor in our country: Murcia Region Symphony, Cordoba Orchestra, Malaga Philharmonic and Navarra Symphony Orchestra, and has become the conductor with more presence in this project, with three premieres in Spain and three others in France, Norway and Sweden.

 
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Cantos y Revueltas* was premiered with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Hernández-Silva and Leo Rondón in January 2018 on a concert tour in Galicia, whose live recording gave rise to a double CD/DVD for Deutsche Grammophon. Since then, it has been often performed in Spain (Murcia, Malaga, Navarra, Extremadura) and it has already been premiered in the US, Mexico, Colombia and the United Kingdom. After this concert in Valencia, it is scheduled in Norway and Sweden. *Cantos y Revueltas* is actually a double concert in which the Venezuelan *cuatro* has a leading role, to whose development Leo Rondón, the soloist who premiered and recorded it, played a great part, and who will also be present in Valencia.

**The *Concerto Venezolano*  is a commission by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería (Mexico), the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (UK), the Orquesta de València (Spain) and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra (USA)**

After the premieres of *Concierto Venezolano* in Mexico (Orquesta de Minería under Carlos Miguel Prieto) and the United Kingdom (Liverpool Philharmonic under Domingo Hindoyan), this third premiere in Valencia with Hernández-Silva will be the continental European premiere that precedes the end of the cycle two weeks later with the San Diego Symphony and Rafael Payare in the US. The concerts of this project of shared commissions are specifically written for the extraordinary conditions of Pacho Flores and the varied instruments provided by the Valencian house STOMVI, which has developed new four-piston prototypes in new keys that greatly expand the tessitura and range of colors and timbres of this instrument, and, therefore, also the expressive possibilities it offers to the soloist. As an example, this is the list of instruments that would be needed to face the complete cycle of new concerts: Trumpets in B flat, C and D, cornets in F, B flat and E flat, soprano cornets in F, G and A, and, of course, a flugelhorn in B flat, which is, at the express request of Pacho, present in all of these new works.

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Pacho Flores with Vicente Honorato, General Director of STOMVI

**This premiere is part of a project of shared commissions for new trumpet concerts by important composers such as Arturo Márquez, Roberto Sierra, Christian Lindberg, Daniel Freiberg, Efraín Oscher and D’Rivera himself.**

An important detail to highlight about this project is that these works remain permanently in Pacho’s repertoire. Márquez’s concert, for example, has had further premieres in Poland, Colombia, France, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic after the first premieres by the orchestras that participated in the initial commission, and has been programmed especially in the USA (Louisiana, Colorado, Maine, Buffalo, Ohio) ,Spain (Galicia, Navarra, Cordoba) or Chile, with a total of more than 30 performances in just four years, and this in the midst of a global pandemic.

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D. Freiberg, A. Márquez, P. D’Rivera, P. Flores and C. M. Prieto during the recording of Mestizo for Deutsche Grammophon

The *Concerto Venezolano* was recorded the same week of its premiere in Mexico in 2019, together with that of Arturo Márquez and two other concerts by composers who also participate in this project —not the works belonging to the project but rather previous ones: *Concierto Mestizo* de Efraín Oscher, premiered a decade ago (Caracas, 2010) with Bolívar and Hindoyan, and *Crónicas Latinoamericanas* by Daniel Freiberg, which is really an adaptation for trumpets of a concert originally written for clarinet by Paquito D’Rivera and premiered by the WDR Funkhausorchester and Wayne Marshall. The trumpet version was premiered by the Het Gelders Orkest from the Netherlands, conducted by Christian Vásquez. The release of this album was delayed by the pandemic, but it will finally be presented in the summer of 2022 and will be the 6th in Pacho’s discography—the 5th for Deutsche Grammophon—, after *Cantar* (2016), *Entropía* (2017), *Fractales* ( 2018) and *Cantos y revueltas* (2019). Pacho also appears as a guest soloist on several of Christian Lindberg’s recordings and acts as producer and conductor on the album *Egregore*, by trumpeter Fabio Brum for Naxos.

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