The Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Navarra is formed by students of university age. Each academic year offers the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and experience within a quality symphonic ensemble. Its activity is carried out throughout the year by top level professionals and culminates in public performances, often in collaboration with leading professionals of the music scene.
Inspired by the orchestras of the most prestigious universities in the United States and Central Europe, it consolidates the presence of the arts and music in the university environment and has come to consolidate itself as a young orchestra of reference. It is currently working to strengthen links and exchanges with other national and international university institutions through music.
Are you passionate about music, have you studied music and do you play an instrument?
The Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Navarra will be looking for new musicians for the ensemble during the 2022-2023 academic year:
- Concerts:
November 26, 2024 - 7:30 pm. MUN Theater
On-site call: September 17
Open call for all instruments
September 17 from 15:00 to 20:00 at the Museo Universidad de Navarra
Fortnightly rehearsals alternating string and wind, Tuesdays from 19.30 to 21.30 from September to November and January and March.
Registration through the form
For doubts and queries alumnosmuseo@unav.es or by phone: 683671734 (Santi)
See course rules 24-25
Artistic talent program
Musicians from the Symphony Orchestra, the University of Navarra Choir or the Theater Training Plan can enroll in the Artistic Talent program to earn credits throughout their careers.
This program makes it easier to combine studies with artistic talent and passion for music. Thanks to this initiative, situations of overlapping between rehearsals or performances and practices, work, classes or exams are avoided.
BORJA QUINTAS
Conductor of the University of Navarra Symphony Orchestra
The conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Navarra has been invited to conduct some of the most important ensembles in the world, such as the London Symphony Orchestra or the New Russia Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has worked in the most diverse genres, including an intense operatic activity in Russia, accompanying singers of the stature of María Bayo, María José Montiel or Alexander Vedernikov and a special attention to the music of the XX and XXI centuries, leading the "Studio for New Music Ensemble" in Moscow and with numerous premieres.
In Spain he has done important work with young symphonic ensembles, including the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España, the Joven Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Orquesta Sinfónica JMJ, and many others. He has also conducted choral groups such as the Orfeón Donostiarra or the Escolanía de El Escorial. In his symphonic programs, he has shared the stage with soloists such as Oxana Yablonskaya, Valery Sokolov, Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, Nikita Borisoglebsky or Alexander Trostiansky.
Since 2012, he has been a trustee of the Eutherpe Foundation. He also teaches as Professor of Orchestra Conducting at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska. He is Director of the Russkaya Opera Theater in Moscow.
Teachers
Borja Quintas. Director
Professor of Orchestra Conducting at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska. Conductor of the Russkaya Opera Theater of Moscow. He graduated in Orchestra and Opera Conducting at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Professor Vladimir Ponkin. As a pianist he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Professor Joaquín Soriano and at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Viktor Merzhanov. He has made several recordings for prestigious record labels and has collaborated with the main media in Spain and Russia. He has performed in the most important halls in Spain, Russia, England, Austria, France, Belgium and Italy and in the Middle East and Asia in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.
Raffaela Acella. Professor
Violin teacher at the Conservatory and Municipal School of Music of Irun since 1996 and also Director of the Symphony Orchestra of the same Conservatory. She has been living in the Basque Country since 1987.