The University of Valencia Philarmonic Orchestra, conducted by Hilari García, and the University of Valencia Choral Society, at the head of Francesc Valldecabres, star the Serenades Festival at the Cloister of "La Nau", organised by the University of Valencia together with the Music Subdepartment "CulturArts Generalitat" with the Valencia city council, through the Youth Department, Sabadell Bank Foundation and Heineken support. On Saturday 29 June, the Philarmonic's Chamber Music Section will offer a concert which will approach Baroque music from the 17th century to the audience; and on Sunday 30, the Chorus Society will pay homage, through an eclectic programming, to two important personalities of the cultural world: Verdi and Estellés
There is free entry with an invitation to the concerts (22h) that must be picked up from an hour before the performance starts at the reception of "La Nau"
The concert of the University of Valencia Philarmonic Orchestra will be starred by its Chamber Music Section with an atypical interpretation: the musicians will perform as soloists "so they will show their talent", states their director conductor. Hilari García. "the core will be the performance of concerts for soloists, that is, for two violas, two violins, four violins... performing two instrumentalists as minimum", anounces García.
According to the conductor, the Chamber Music Section wil approache itself to the 17th century with the interpretation of the greatest European Baroque composers such as Purcell, Vivaldi, Bach o Telemann, for instance, "respecting this age's style according to the Baroque interpretative patterns, but using modern instruments"
The concert will be broadcast live by the University's TV (http://mediauni.uv.es/tv).
The University of Valencia Philarmonic Orchestra, created in 1995, has made several concerts in different auditoriums: the "Palau de la Música", the Zaragoza's Auditorium, the "Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía" of Valencia, the Barcelona's Auditorium and the "Austria CenterVienna" stand out among all of them.
In 1997, it participated in several international festivals: the "FIMU" (Universitary Music International Festival) which took place in Belfort (France). In 1998 particpated in the XXVII edition of the Youth Orchestras International Contest carried out in Viena (Austria), where it awarded the first place in the Symphony Orchestra category. In 2002 it went on tour around Austria and Slovenia and they performed in the prestigious auditorium "Mozarteum" in Salzburg.
Hilari García, conductor of the Orchestra since 2011, has been the assistant head of the Genaralitat Valenciana Youth Orchestra (JOGV) and the University of Valencia Philarmonic Orchestra (OFUV) ans has conducted many national and international orchestras such as the Villena' Chapí Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Albacete (OSA), the Cordoba's Orchestra, the National Autonomous University of Mexico Philarmonic Orchestra (OFUNAM), the Symphony Orchestra RWCMD of Cardiff (UK), the Orchestre Symphonique HEMOS Genève (Suitzerland) and, lately, the Palestine Youth Orchestra (PYO), the Spanish Youth Symphony Orchestra (JONDE) and the Youth Orchestra and Chorus of Central America (JOCCA). Nowadays, he belongs to the music and dramatic arts professors group, at the Orchestra speciality.
Verdi and Estellés year's commemoration
The University of Valencia Choral Society, sets an eclectic programming which will commemorate Verdi and Estellés years. Paying attention to the nature of this programming, the concert is divided in four parts or microconcerts, and each one deals with a different thematic area, according to its conductor Francesc Valldecabres. "it is important to open the concert with Puccini's Requiem, conceived to pay homage to Verdi, as well as the last part, which we have titled "Viva Verdi!", dedicated entirely to the Italian composer's work", he adds.
"Creencias modernas" (Modern beliefs) is the first microconcert's synopsis with Puccini, Wilan, Stravinsky and McGlynn pieces. The second one commemorates the "Estellés Year" and it is titled ‘Hi ha paraules que diuen alguna cosa encara” (There are words that still mean something" and includes the interpretation of the Amadeu Vives, Matilde Salvador, Josed Vila and Luis Blanes work. "Bien lejos, bien cerca" (so far, so close) is the name of the third microconcert which the University's Choral Society will dedicate to Piazzolla's and Marcos Leite's tangos.
The University's Choral Society, founded in 1947, has awarded the first place in all the editions of the Universities' Choral Society National Contest and it has been classified among the best Choral Societies of the world to take part in the international festivals held in Lilla (1956), New York (1965), Coimbra (1973), Manila (1979), Rome (1984), (Poznan (2003), etc. It has achieved awards in Llangollen and Knocke contests. And it awarded the first place in the Universities' Choral Societies International Contest, held in Pardubice (Czech Republic) in 1984. In this festival, In 1988 it obteined the award of the best chorus in its ten editions and it was invited to this feastival as honour chorus in 1994. It has been awarded with the jury's first place in the Vivace festival 2001 from Veszprem (Hungary), and it was also awarded with the silver medal for mixed-chorus in the Choir Olympic Games 2006 in Xiamen (China) and the first place of the habaneras and the audience in the Torrevieja LIII Habaneras International Competition in 2007.
Francesc Valldecabres is the conductor of the University's Choral Society since 2012. He has been the conductor of the Aldaia'a Chorus Society (he is the conductor of the 40 anniversary currently), University of Alicante Chorus and the Group, and assistant head of the Païssos Catalans Youth Chorus. He is interested in the Valencian patrimony, he has transcribed and recovered several works from the 18th century taking a special care to P. Fuentes (1721-1768), his misereres and Christmas carols.
You can consult the concerts' whole programming CLICKING HERE.
Last update: 28 de june de 2013 09:22.
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