Ritual
Isabel Villanueva

 Friday / 16 Feb / 19:30h
 60 min
 14 y 16€
MUN Theatre 

Isabel Villanueva and her viola. A musical meditation. A mystical exhibition. An intimate conversation from the honesty and fragility of the human being. 

Isabel Villanueva, the internationally acclaimed violist from Navarre, performs in this concert a wide range of compositions adapted for viola. All of them united by the ability to take us to the territory of ritual, of the encounter with what is beyond us. 

From the medieval works of Hildegard von Bingen(O Virtus Sapientiae) to the baroque pieces of Johann Sebastian Bach(Partita n.2, BWV 1004 and including the Ciaconna) and Heinrich Ignaz Biber(the Passacaglia that closes the Rosary Sonatas), including several miniatures by György Kurtág(Games, Signs and Messages).

It is the result of the need to capture a vital process, the fruit of my evolution in recent years. Music has a component of healing and reunion in the deepest part of us. This work has reconnected me with a deep part of me in an important moment of my life.

ARTISTIC FILE

Artistic direction, music selection, interpretation
Isabel Villanueva
 

PROGRAM 

HILDEGARD VON BINGEN (1098-1179)
'O Virtus Sapientiae' (arr. Villanueva)

GYORGY KURTÀG (1926)
Signs, Games and Messages
To Imre Foldes at 60
Perpetuum mobile
In Nomine - all'ongharese

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Partita No.2 BWV 1004'.
Allemanda
Corrente
Sarabanda
Giga
Ciaccona

GYORGY KURTÀG (1926)
Signs, Games and Messages
In Memoriam Blum Tamàs

HEINRICH IGNAZ BIBER
1644-1704
Passacaglia
 

BIOGRAPHY

Isabel Villanueva (Pamplona, 1988)
She has developed a global career that has taken her to perform in more than 25 countries with major orchestras in Latin America, Russia, the Middle East, China and Europe. In 2013 she became the first foreign violist to perform recitals in Iran. Intense, vital and imaginative, she carries out an overflowing activity as a soloist, pedagogue, creator of innovative projects to bring classical music to new audiences.

His innovative spirit has led him to create pioneering projects with artists such as choreographer Antonio Ruz(Signos, 2021), jazz pianist Moisés P. Sánchez(Raíces, 2020) and flamenco singer Rocío Márquez. Likewise. Villanueva is the creator in 2018 of Viola Power, a transversal brand that seeks to connect and create a community of viola lovers.

He has received numerous awards throughout his career. "El Ojo Crítico" Award for Classical Music from RNE 2015, Classical Music Culture Prize 2019 awarded by the Community of Madrid, MIN Award for Best Classical Music Album of the Year 2018, among others. She is currently professor of viola at the Royal College of Music in London since September 2022.