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“Superb storytelling from four great communicators” The Strad 1st Prizewinner and Audience Prizewinner at the 9th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in 2017 and hailed as “brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating” by The Scottish Herald, the Maxwell Quartet is now firmly regarded as one of Britain’s finest young string quartets, with a strong connection to […]
Spanish clarinettist Maximiliano Martín combines his position as Principal Clarinet for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with solo performances, chamber music concerts, and expert classes around the world. Martin has made his debut as a soloist and chamber musician at prestigious venues such as the BBC Proms Cadogan Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, the Library […]
TPO creates a visual, emotional, tactile, immersive theatre. In its shows, the protagonist is the stage space, the images, the sounds and the body. Thanks to the special use of digital design, the shows are transformed into ‘sensitive environments’ where you can experience the fine line between art and play. Dancers, performers and the audience […]
A career of thirty-four years endorses the career of Josep Capdevila as Sergio Dalma, an essential singer. The artist from Sabadell has amassed over four million copies sold over more than 30 years, packed with hits that are part of the national imagination. An authentic name and voice. An essential performer for the Spanish music […]
The Catalan countertenor Xavier Sabata trained as an actor at the Theatre Institute of Barcelona before studying singing ath the Higher School of Music of Catalonia and the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe, where his teachers were Hartmut Höll and Mitsuko Shirai. Opera productions have taken him to the world’s most prestigious opera theatres, including the Teatro […]
The Ensemble Sonido Extremo is a group of performers that is committed to the dissemination of culture and art through music. The group, based in Extremadura, defines its activity within reflection about the many languages of music that coexist in our age. Their interests are also focused on that plurality and on the combination of […]
This Viennese duo has been delighting their audience for years with the still rare combination of harp and organ. The programmes that Julia Christine and Valentin Lukan perform in churches and concert halls encompass everything from the Baroque to the present day and they focus on the romantic transcriptions of major orchestral works for the […]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 8 Variaciones sobre Come un agnello, en la mayor, K460 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Suite del ballet The Nutcracker (El Cascanueces) (arr. Pletnev) March (marcha)Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy (danza del hada de azúcar)TarantellaIntermezzo Trepak (Danza rusa) The Tea (Danza china) Pas de Deux (Paso a dos, Andante Maestoso) -Pausa- Ludwig […]
Albert Vila is one of the most outstanding guitarists of his generation. He began his musical studies at the “Taller de Musics” Barcelona. In 1999 he was accepted into the Conservatory of Amsterdam and studied with Jesse Van Ruller. In 2004 he was awarded with the first prize in the Dutch Jazz Competition for his […]
From street hawker selling slippers to internationally recognized choreographer, Cheng Tsung-lung succeeded Lin Hwai-min as Artistic Director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan starting in 2020. Cheng took his first dance class at the age of 8. Upon graduation from the Dance Department, Taipei National University of the Arts, he joined Cloud Gate in […]
Cloud Gate is the name of the oldest known dance in China. In 1973, choreographer LIN Hwai-min adopted this classical name and founded the first contemporary dance company in the greater Chinese-speaking community. In 2020, CHENG Tsung-lung succeeded LIN as the company’s Artistic Director. Cloud Gate has set out to engage with local history, […]
The naked voice”, as the singer María Berasarte is described abroad, is the Basque artist with the greatest international impact at the present time. María lives in a constant state of change, development, and above all, emotion through unexpected and elegant simplicity. She is torn apart and dazzles in a minimalistic way with an enveloping […]