Agustín González Acilu
In memoriam

 Friday / Mar 15 / 19:30h
60 min
16 y 18€
MUN Theatre 

The Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra and the Museo Universidad de Navarra pay tribute to the Navarrese maestro Agustín González Acilu with the premiere of his third symphony. The concert will be preceded, at 18.00 h, by a meeting between Teresa Catalán and Rafael Moneo.

Born in Alsasua, Agustín González Acilu (1929-2023) was one of the most significant composers in contemporary music in our country. Belonging to the Generation of '51, at the time of his death he had become the last resistant of a generation and an era. He was an erudite, rigorous and multi-awarded composer whose history is not far from that of his contemporary colleagues (De Pablo, Halffter, Bernaola...). In 1998 he received for the second time the Premio Nacional de Música in recognition of a whole life dedicated to composition and the real significance of his production in the panorama of our time.
 

ARTISTIC FILE

Symphony Orchestra of Navarra
Conductor: Borja Quintas

With the collaboration of students from the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra.

MUSICAL PROGRAM

I
Julio Gómez (1886-1973)
"Prelude" from the Suite for Orchestra in A [7'].

Fernando Remacha (1898-1984)
Festival poster [16'].

Teresa Catalán (1951)
The empty victory [13'].

II
Agustín González Acilu (1929-2023)
Symphony nº 3 [36'] (world premiere)
(world premiere)

BIOGRAPHIES

Symphony Orchestra of Navarra

In its one hundred and forty years of existence, the OSN/NOS has been invited by the main auditoriums, opera seasons and festivals both in Spain and abroad. As a reference interpreter of Pablo Sarasate, its recording of the complete works of the famous Navarrese composer with violinist Tianwa Yang was unanimously praised by international critics. Likewise, the series of recordings with maestro Antoni Wit constitutes one of the phonographic milestones in his history. 

It currently presents to the public of Navarra an annual season of subscription concerts in Pamplona, Tudela and Tafalla and develops an important social and educational activity throughout the region through the program Sinfónica en Navarra. It collaborates with the Museo Universidad de Navarra for the co-production of contemporary music concerts.

Currently integrated in the Baluarte Fundazioa Foundation and financed mainly by the Government of Navarra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra/Nafarroako Orkestra Sinfonikoa, founded by Pablo Sarasate in 1879, is the oldest active group in the Spanish symphonic panorama.
 

Borja Quintas

The prolific conductor Borja Quintas develops his career in the most diverse projects and places, being his two most active countries Russia and Spain. He has performed in most European capitals and in the Middle East in countries such as Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan, conducting some of the best orchestras in the world, such as the London Symphony Orchestra or the New Russia Symphony Orchestra.

He has always combined the symphonic world with the lyric, and cultivated different genres such as theater, flamenco, sacred drama or audiovisual media. He has collaborated with artists as diverse as Roque Baños, Kuzma Bodrov, Dmitry Krymov, Lucas Vidal, Lucero Tena, Valery Sokolov or Ara Malikian and has had the honor of accompanying the most acclaimed voices of the international scene, such as Plácido Domingo, Javier Camarena, María Bayo or Ainhoa Arteta, among many others. He has also made an important immersion in the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with recordings for labels such as Naxos.

Strongly committed to young symphonic ensembles as a driving force for artistic and social change, he is currently Artistic Director of the JMJ Symphony Orchestra, Choir and Escolanía JMJ, the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Navarra, the Orquestas Sinfónica y Filarmónica del CSMA and the Orquesta Sinfónica UCAM. He has also conducted the Russkaya Opera Theater of Moscow, the Children's Choir of the Community of Madrid and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Soria.

He also teaches as Professor of Orchestra Conducting at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and as Academic Director of the Master of Conducting at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska, having among his dozens of students young people of great current projection.

He received scholarships from various entities such as the Barrié de la Maza Foundation, and was fully trained as a conductor at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Professor Vladimir Ponkin, obtaining the Red Diploma of excellence.

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15 MAR / 18:00 Around Agustín González Acilu. Teresa Catalán and Rafael Moneo

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