CONTEMPORARY HARP, A PERFORMATIVE ENCOUNTER. ALICIA GRIFFITHS

The halls of the Museo Universidad de Navarra are filled with harps to offer an encounter with contemporary music in which performers, audience and composer experiment with the Museum's architecture as another acoustic and musical element.

Price: 10€. Special discounts with Youth Card and PIC card (Pamplona Iruña Card).

Proposal in exhibition rooms. Capacity limited to 15 people/session
Two performances: 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

This performative encounter with the contemporary harp has been devised by harpist Alicia Griffiths with the collaboration of composer Ekhi Ocaña. The final performance for the harp septet will be an absolute premiere by the composer, created specifically for this meeting.

Musical program

Three Improvisations for Harp, by William Mathias (1934-1992). For harp solo

Scintillation, by Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961) for solo harp.

5 Phantastereien, by Wolfgang Buchenberg (1962). For harp solo.

I. Hirngespinst

II. Traumgesicht

Triumphus Aeternitatis, on two verses by Petrarca, in two movements, by Ekhi Ocaña*.

I. Se fu beato chi la vide in terra

II. Or che fia dunque a rivederla in cielo?

*Absolute premiere

Cast: Alicia Griffiths, Hegoa Intxauspe, Nina Bahmann, Edurne Aizpún, Ana Olaso, Raquel Ortega y Ainara Moreno

Download the program here.