Sound Maps: Works by Teresa Catalán

The exhibition rooms will be the stage for musical performances with a selection of works by the Navarrese composer Teresa Catalán performed by Anna Siwek (violin), Xavier Relats (flute) and Alicia Griffiths (harp).

General admission: 4,5€ and reduced admission: 3€.

Free admission for Friends of the Museum, students and employees of the University of Navarra.

PROGRAM

Approximate duration 30 minutes per show

Selection of musical pieces by Teresa Catalán

Por la Belena de San Cernin (for solo violin)

Infinite Limit (flute and harp)

Soliloquy (flute solo)

Esparzas I (flute in G)

Esparzas II (flute and violin)

TERESA CATALAN

Teresa Catalán, composer and Professor of Composition and Instrumentation at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, was born in Pamplona where she studied music, graduating in Piano and Composition. In her training as a composer in Spain and Italy, her teachers Ramón Barce and Agustín González Acilu stand out.

D. in Philosophy of Art and Master in Aesthetics and Musical Creativity from the University of Valencia. She has received several awards for interpretation, composition and recognition of her musical career. She was a founding member of the Pamplona Group of Composers (Iruñeako Taldea Musikagileak). He has been a member of the Council of Culture of the Government of Navarre and of the State Council for the Performing Arts and Music. He has directed the music section of several Meetings and Festivals.

He has received commissions from various national and international institutions and has given courses and lectures at Festivals, Institutions, Universities, Conservatories, highlighting the work done at the invitation of the P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

Author of the treatise Sistemas compositivos temperados en el siglo XX, she also publishes articles in important books and magazines. Her creations for symphony orchestra, chamber music, solo instruments... are programmed in the most important international festivals (Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Argentina, Russia, USA, Holland, Cuba, Romania...). In 2011 he received the decoration of the Encomienda de la Orden al Mérito Civil.

PERFORMERS

ANNA SIWEK (violin)

She was born in Poland where she studied violin in her hometown, Lodz, becoming assistant to Professor Zenon Ploszaj at the Professional Conservatory of Music. She has received master classes from masters such as W. Marschner, Y. Neyman, U. Wiesel, D. Beniamini, Amadeus Quartet, Orlando Quartet and Trio Paris.

Since 1990 she has been living in Spain where she works in the Navarra Symphony Orchestra where she is currently the assistant concertmaster. He has taught at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in Pamplona and has participated as a soloist in orchestras such as the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lodz Radio-Television Orchestra, the Navarre Symphony Orchestra, the "Pro Musica" Chamber Orchestra and the "Concierto" Chamber Orchestra.

XAVIER RELATS (flute)

Born in Barcelona, he studied the flute with Claudi Arimany, then furthered his studies in France and Switzerland and has received master classes from Jean-Pierre Rampal, Aurèle Nicolet, Andràs Adorjàn, Wilbert Hazelzet and Barthold Kuijken. His distinctions include the First Prize of the Ville de Paris Interconservatoire Competition in 1984, the Gold Medal of the National School of Music of Bourg La Reine in 1986, the First Prize of Virtuosity of the Lausanne Conservatory in 1989 and the Concert Artist Diploma of the Musikhohschule of Zurich in 1991. Between 1989 and 1991 he was hired by the Bieler Symphonieorchester (Switzerland), and since then he is soloist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra.

He has recorded two CDs with pianist Jordi Masó, and has also recorded for Radio Suisse Romande, Danmarks Radio, RNE, TVE and Tele 5. He performs regularly as a soloist and with various chamber ensembles, as well as first flute in several orchestral ensembles. In the field of teaching, he has been professor of flute at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Vilaseca-Salou (Tarragona) and at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Pamplona.

ALICIA GRIFFITHS (harp)

Alicia Griffiths Turrillas was born in Pamplona into a musical family, her grandfather, Manuel Turrillas was a great composer of popular music from Navarre. Alicia started playing classical guitar at the age of 7 and harp at 13. She completed her secondary studies at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in that city and moved to Wales in 2006 to study harp at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she obtained a Bachelor of Music degree, with a scholarship for further artistic studies from the Government of Navarra. She completed in 2013 her Master studies in music performance with Gabriella Dall'Olio, and with Frances Kelly (baroque harp) at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, where she has also worked as a harp and chamber music teacher in the Junior department. In 2011 she received the John Marson Award for Harp Studies, with which she gave her debut recital at St. Martin in The Fields.

He plays regularly with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra and has been part of the Orquestra Fundación Gulbenkian de Lisboa, London Mahler Orchestra, Whitehall Orchestra, Bloomsbury Chamber Orchestra, Royal Orchestral Society, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Orquesta Sinfónica de las Islas Baleares, Joven Orquesta del País Vasco, and Joven Orquesta Nacional de Noruega, among others. His passion lies in chamber music and he plays regularly with different ensembles and in interdisciplinary collaborations.