An initiatory journey
Sara Agueda

 Friday / 9 Feb / 19:00 and 20:15h
 40 min
 10€ Non-numbered, the audience attends the show standing up
Exhibition rooms

Sara Agueda with her harp and her voice invites us to travel through sound. A journey that becomes a vehicle to know the world and its cultures. 

Travel is one of the protagonists of the exhibition A Promised Land. From the Age of Enlightenment to the birth of photography. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travelers discovered images, tastes and smells on their expeditions, but what happened to listening? What did the music of those instruments that appear on Egyptian papyri and friezes sound like?

The harp, since more than 2000 B.C., has been a fundamental instrument of Egyptian culture. What would that music sound like? How did those artists imagine it?

Engravings allow us to make different interpretations of the world represented. On the other hand, photography narrows this margin of imagination and shows reality more accurately. Once again, the harp comes into play and becomes an indispensable instrument in mid-19th century France and Great Britain. An instrument that enjoys an undisputed sovereignty, that inspires and moves, that enlivens travels and captivates the romantic nature. Harpists like the British John Thomas or the Romance Française entertained unexpected soirées . It was the music of meetings and salons where journeys to a promised land were imagined .
 

BIOGRAPHY

Sara Agueda began his studies at the Arturo Soria Conservatory in Madrid. In 2005, he entered the higher grade of music at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Zaragoza (CSMA) and at the same time he began his career as a stage musician in the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (CNTC).

This experience leads him to carry out more and more in-depth research on music in the theater. He develops his final project on the importance of the harp in the theatrical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain and deepens the study of the harp of two orders with the harp teacher Nuria Llopis. His taste for early music led him to the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña (ESMUC) to complete his training by completing the Degree and Master's Degree in Historical Performance at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) with the harpist Mara Galassi.

As a soloist she has an increasing presence in national and international festivals. In them she integrates the voice to recreate the theatrical practice of the Golden Age. In addition, she actively participates as a performer, composer and designer of sound spaces in theatrical productions and dramatized readings.