Performed by: Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra / Nafarroako Orkestra Sinfonikoa
El Dominó Azul was the first zarzuela composed by Arrieta. According to Barbieri, Camprodón handed in the libretto for a zarzuela to Gaztambide, who stepped in to make sure that the text was sent to Arrieta to be put to music. The work made its debut on 19 February 1853 to great critical and public acclaim.
This zarzuela was chosen by Arderius to inaugurate the Zarzuela Theatre season in 1882. On its revival, Arrieta composed a new overture based on the most popular motifs of El Dominó Azul. Critics from this period thought that the new overture significantly enriched the show. Proof of this composition’s success was its publication, in its piano reduction, by Isidoro Hernández. However, the overture could not be played again as the orchestral score was lost and only the conductor’s script remained in the Spanish National Library.
During the description of the Huarte fund, kept in the Music and Performing Arts Archive of Navarre, the orchestra score of Recuerdos del Dominó Azul en Forma de Obertura was identified, and so the work could be recovered and performed once again.
From 5 to 9 September 2022.
Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra
The current Navarre Symphony Orchestra was founded by Pablo Sarasate in 1879, making it the oldest working orchestra in Spain. It is currently part of the Baluarte Foundation, an institution funded mainly by the Government of Navarre and, as such, it is the province’s official orchestra. The Navarre Symphony Orchestra (OSN) has been around for almost one hundred and forty years, playing in major auditoriums, opera seasons and festivals, both in Spain and abroad. Highlights include playing at the Champs Elysées Theatre and the Châtelet Theatre in Paris several times, plus a concert tour organised by the Universal Music record label encompassing important European concert halls. The orchestra is the benchmark ensemble for the works of composer and violinist Pablo Sarasate and their recording of this Navarrese composer’s complete works for Naxos, featuring the violinist Tianwa Yang, has been unanimously praised by international critics. With the same recording label, the OSN performed a programme of recordings with the Polish orchestra director Antoni Wit, lead conductor from 2013 up to the 2017-2018 season. The OSN plays for the public during an annual concert season in the cities of Pamplona and Tudela, in the Baluarte Auditorium and the Gaztambide Theatre, respectively, and it performs an important social and educational role throughout the province.
Jesús Echeverría
Director
Born in Olite, he received a scholarship from the Gipuzkoa Provincial Government to study conducting at the Vienna Conservatory with Julius Kalmar. In 1987, he won a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he furthered his training as a conductor with teachers such as Sir Colin Davis, Colin Metters, George Hurst, John Carewe and Horst Neuman. He completed his studies by winning the South Hall Memorial Prize in Conducting. He studied composition with Agustín González Acilu, Francisco Escudero, Tomás Marco, Javier Darias, Cristóbal Halffter and Mauricio Sotelo.
At the age of 23, he set up the Donostia Chamber Orchestra and, during his time in London, he founded The European Sinfonia.
He has conducted and recorded opera, zarzuela and symphonic-choral music in Spain, Poland, Japan, Latvia, Italy and Switzerland and he has conducted groups such as the Basque National Orchestra, the Latvian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra or the Navarre Symphony Orchestra where he was the Associate Conductor between 2015 and 2018.
He has received awards such as the INJUVE Composition Prize from the Navarre Institute of Sport and Youth, in 1998 and 1999, the International Pablo Sorozábal Composition Award for his work Quartet for Strings Nº 2 – Tétares or first prize for musical composition awarded by the Government of Navarre for his work Ennea III. In 2000, he received the 18th Joaquín Turina Award for musical composition, from Seville City Council, for his work Requiem Sine Verbis for a large orchestra, and the 15th Ciutat d’Alcoi Composition Prize, for Coplas.
He is currently the analysis professor at Musikene - the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country and resident conductor for the La Rioja Symphony Orchestra.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
A sera is one of Emilio Arrieta’s compositions using texts by the poet Adela Curti. Probably composed around 1844, Arrieta was living in Milan at the time, where he was studying composition with Nicola Vaccai. The Milan Conservatory clearly favoured lyrical composition, with benchmark composers such as Rossini, Donizetti and particularly in Arrieta’s case, Bellini. The composition of this song reflects this Bel Canto influence, in the piano accompaniment, the embellishment of the typical melody in this style and the difficulty of the vocal line.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer..
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
This piece did not appear in Arrieta’s song catalogue until it was unearthed during archival processing of the composer’s work. A te, of which the only copy is kept in the Music and Performing Arts Archive of Navarre (AMAEN), was composed by Emilio Arrieta on 12 May 1851. At this time, Arrieta was in Italy for the re-release of Ildegonda at Milan’s La Scala opera house. After this fresh performance, the work was included in the Italian theatre circuit. During this stay in Italy, Arrieta composed L’oasi. As opposed to A te, L’oasi was widely played and was even published in Spanish.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra / Nafarroako Orkestra Sinfonikoa
Emilio Arrieta is above all known as a composer of stage music. The Milan Conservatory, where Arrieta trained, was strongly focussed on the lyric genre and, when he returned to Spain, the music world was engrossed in setting up the Spanish National Opera. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that much of his creative work centres on music for the stage and his greatest success came in the lyrical genre.
Despite this context, Arrieta’s catalogue also includes examples of symphonic music such as Capriccio for orchestra with 18th century music taken from works by Gaspar Sanz. In 1881, several events took place to celebrate the bicentenary of the death of Calderón de la Barca. On 23 May, the Music School held a commemorative concert where Arrieta revealed La Mejor Corona, using the text by López de Ayala, and Capricho para orquesta.
14 to 17 September 2021.
Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra
The current Navarre Symphony Orchestra was founded by Pablo Sarasate in 1879, making it the oldest working orchestra in Spain. It is currently part of the Baluarte Foundation, an institution funded mainly by the Government of Navarre and, as such, it is the province’s official orchestra. The Navarre Symphony Orchestra (OSN) has been around for almost one hundred and forty years, playing in major auditoriums, opera seasons and festivals, both in Spain and abroad. Highlights include playing at the Champs Elysées Theatre and the Châtelet Theatre in Paris several times, plus a concert tour organised by the Universal Music record label encompassing important European concert halls. The orchestra is the benchmark ensemble for the works of composer and violinist Pablo Sarasate and their recording of this Navarrese composer’s complete works for Naxos, featuring the violinist Tianwa Yang, has been unanimously praised by international critics. With the same recording label, the OSN performed a programme of recordings with the Polish orchestra director Antoni Wit, lead conductor from 2013 up to the 2017-2018 season. The OSN plays for the public during an annual concert season in the cities of Pamplona and Tudela, in the Baluarte Auditorium and the Gaztambide Theatre, respectively, and it performs an important social and educational role throughout the province.
Jesús Echeverría
Director
Born in Olite, he received a scholarship from the Gipuzkoa Provincial Government to study conducting at the Vienna Conservatory with Julius Kalmar. In 1987, he won a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he furthered his training as a conductor with teachers such as Sir Colin Davis, Colin Metters, George Hurst, John Carewe and Horst Neuman. He completed his studies by winning the South Hall Memorial Prize in Conducting. He studied composition with Agustín González Acilu, Francisco Escudero, Tomás Marco, Javier Darias, Cristóbal Halffter and Mauricio Sotelo.
At the age of 23, he set up the Donostia Chamber Orchestra and, during his time in London, he founded The European Sinfonia.
He has conducted and recorded opera, zarzuela and symphonic-choral music in Spain, Poland, Japan, Latvia, Italy and Switzerland and he has conducted groups such as the Basque National Orchestra, the Latvian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra or the Navarre Symphony Orchestra where he was the Associate Conductor between 2015 and 2018.
He has received awards such as the INJUVE Composition Prize from the Navarre Institute of Sport and Youth, in 1998 and 1999, the International Pablo Sorozábal Composition Award for his work Quartet for Strings Nº 2 – Tétares or first prize for musical composition awarded by the Government of Navarre for his work Ennea III. In 2000, he received the 18th Joaquín Turina Award for musical composition, from Seville City Council, for his work Requiem Sine Verbis for a large orchestra, and the 15th Ciutat d’Alcoi Composition Prize, for Coplas.
He is currently the analysis professor at Musikene - the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country and resident conductor for the La Rioja Symphony Orchestra.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
Song composed for the text by Luigi Carrer. María Encina Cortizo dates the work around 1844, while Emilio Arrieta was training at the Milan Music School. The song has a more piano-focussed prelude, but as soon as the voice comes in, Arrieta demonstrates his command of the Bel Canto style, a hallmark of the Milan school.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
Although this score can be found in Emilio Arrieta’s fund, it is not included in the composer’s catalogue because it has not been signed. Beyond the work’s existence in the actual fund, signs such as its composing style and the similarity of the handwriting to other compositions that he did sign all point to Emilio Arrieta. The author of the text is Felice Romani, a librettist frequently used by authors such as Donizetti or Bellini.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Composed for a text by Adela Curti, this song dates from around 1844, when Arrieta was training in Italy. Once he was back living in Spain, he changed the lyrics using another poem by Adela Curti, Il pargoletto spento, to dedicate it to Isabel II. He lowered the key by one tone to adapt it to the queen’s pitch. After a second rework, it became known as La hija del proscrito, this time with lyrics by Juan Federico Muntadas.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
La beltá is one of the many works that Emilio Arrieta dedicated to Queen Isabel II. The first manuscript was preserved and indicates that Arrieta composed an initial version of this song when he was training in Milan. As in many compositions dedicated to the queen, the pitch of the work adapts better to deeper voices than the rest of his songs. The text of La beltá was taken from the Il filosofo di campagna libretto by Carlo Goldoni.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
Song dedicated to Virginia Ferni, a very successful Italian soprano, composed in 1877 and published by Andrés Vidal. Arrieta became director of the National Music School on 16 December 1869. Although he achieved major success in his first few years in this role, particularly releasing Marina as an opera in 1871, his work as a composer of stage music declined considerably from 1875 onwards. Despite this, Arrieta kept up great cultural work and continued publishing compositions such as La niña abandonada.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
Song written approximately between 1860 and 1870. It was composed for a text by Antonio Fernández Grillo. This period was a turning point concerning how Arrieta conceived his songs. Although he had kept the piano in the background so far, to accompany the voice, in songs composed from 1860 onwards, the piano became more relevant. This greater independence regarding the vocal line was strengthened by a greater use of piano-based resources.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
This romanza was composed around 1844 for a text by Antonio Gazzoletti. The song is in a Bel Canto style which characterised the composer’s early period. Little is known about Arrieta’s musical production during his training, beyond a Gloria and the opera Ildegonda. Several songs from the late 1890s which were composed by Arrieta during this training period have been found during the process of cataloguing different funds. La rimenbranza is one of these unpublished songs.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Andrea Jiménez, soprano, and Rinaldo Zhok, piano
In 1873, Emilio Arrieta wrote a dramatic ballad entitled La sombra. This work, composed for piano and voice, was gifted to subscribers of El Arte, as announced on November 18. The text was written by Antonio Arnao (1828-1889) and the poetry was dedicated to his wife, Sofía Vela. The music critic Antonio Peña y Goñi referred to the ballad as "a descriptive, beautiful declamation, tinged with the most delicate colours and full of feeling and spontaneity.” Regarding its style, he pointed out "in this ballad, Arrieta starts a movement progressing towards the great modern doctrines of Gounod".
14 to 18 September 2020.
Andrea Jiménez
She began her musical studies at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in Pamplona, specialising in violin and singing. With a scholarship from the University of Bern (Switzerland) and the Government of Navarre, in 2016 she was part of the Swiss Opera Studio of the University of Bern. At the same time, she worked at the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn in the 2017/18 season, performing the roles of Brigitte in Iolanta by Tchaikovsky, Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe by Lehár, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni by Gazzaniga in Swiss theatres, under directors such as Vladislav Karklin or Jérôme Pillement. Among her performances, she has stood out in roles such as that of Fräulein Silberklang in Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor, Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Serpina in Pergolesi's La serva padrona, or Adina and Giannetta in Donizetti's L’elisir d’amore.
Rinaldo Zhok
Born in Trieste (Italy), he began learning piano at the age of 7 under his mother’s teaching. He continued his studies with Clara Lenuzza at the Giuseppe Tartini State Conservatory in Trieste. He completed his education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, under the guidance of the famous duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen, specialising in piano duo together with Cristina Santín. As a soloist, he continued his training at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (Germany), where he obtained his second Konzertdiplom under the guidance of Boris Bloch. He also studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy), graduating cum laude under the guidance of Sergio Perticaroli and Stefano Fiuzzi. He continued his training in courses imparted by such teachers such as Lazar Berman, Riccardo Zadra, Dario De Rosa, Mauro Minguzzi and Pier Narciso Masi. He has performed numerous concerts in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, France, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary and Norway, both as a soloist, in chamber ensembles and with orchestras. He has also collaborated with young artists such as Massimiliano Miani, first soloist clarinet of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, and violinist Ana María Valderrama. Since 2014, he has played piano duo with Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro.
He has received awards in numerous competitions (F. Mendelssohn International Competition for young pianists 2003 - 1st prize; the International Piano Competition Halina Czerny-Stefańska in memoriam, Poznan, 2008 - 4th prize; International Piano Competition Performance Without Limits, Lodz, 2013 - 1st prize). He has recorded two piano music CDs, premiering music by Italian composers Mario Zafred and Antonio Bibalo. Since 2013, he has been an artist for Odradek Records, where he debuted with a CD recording of Franz Liszt's paraphrases and transcriptions of Giuseppe Verdi's music.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
This seguidilla was commissioned for Angiolina Ortolani and it was first played at a benefit concert for the soprano herself in April 1857. The text is by José Selgas and the song was published the same year by Casimiro Martín. This seguidilla was composed by Arrieta after receiving a letter from Barbieri berating him for not knowing about this type of popular song. In Los ojos de las niñas, Emilio Arrieta demonstrates the popular touch he could bring to his music, always in a stylised way, influenced by the author’s Italian education.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
Originally written for a tenor voice, this song was composed in May 1852 for the chorus of Serenata morisca by José Zorrilla, from the oriental poem Granada. This is one of first works where Arrieta was clearly inspired by popular Spanish music and the first based on a text in Spanish (on other occasions, he translated songs composed for text in Italian). Arrieta made a few changes to the text. Serenata morisca was composed by Arrieta when he returned from a trip to Italy.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano
Another song composed during Emilio Arrieta’s formative years, based on a poem by Adela Curti. This is a song with a sea-faring theme that, in the form of a barcarolle, demonstrates the Bel Canto style featured in early Arrieta songs. After small changes, Arrieta used the music from Voga! to provide music for Sobre el lago, a poem by Juan Federico Muntadas. This last version in 1878 was included in the Álbum de autógrafos musicales dedicated to King Alfonso XII and Queen Mercedes of Orleans for their wedding.
November 27 and 28 2021.
Sonia de Munck
Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.
Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.
She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.
She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Miguel Huertas
Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.
He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.
He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.
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Performed by: Andrea Jiménez, soprano, and Rinaldo Zhok, piano
Emilio Arrieta was one of the most important Spanish musicians of the 19th century. In his early days, his career was tied to the Crown. Later on, with Gaztambide, Eslava and Barbieri, he spearheaded different initiatives to promote the creation of the Spanish national opera. On December 25, 1884, an earthquake struck the province of Granada. There were about 800 fatalities and around 1,500 injured. On January 25, 1885, while serving as director of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, a concert was held in the centre's newly opened auditorium in support of the victims of the earthquakes in Andalusia. Among other works from foreign authors, Arrieta premiered ¡Pobre Granada! whose text was written by José Estremera.
14 to 18 September 2020.
Andrea Jiménez
She began her musical studies at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in Pamplona, specialising in violin and singing. With a scholarship from the University of Bern (Switzerland) and the Government of Navarre, in 2016 she was part of the Swiss Opera Studio of the University of Bern. At the same time, she worked at the Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn in the 2017/18 season, performing the roles of Brigitte in Iolanta by Tchaikovsky, Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe by Lehár, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni by Gazzaniga in Swiss theatres, under directors such as Vladislav Karklin or Jérôme Pillement. Among her performances, she has stood out in roles such as that of Fräulein Silberklang in Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor, Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Serpina in Pergolesi's La serva padrona, or Adina and Giannetta in Donizetti's L’elisir d’amore.
Rinaldo Zhok
Born in Trieste (Italy), he began learning piano at the age of 7 under his mother’s teaching. He continued his studies with Clara Lenuzza at the Giuseppe Tartini State Conservatory in Trieste. He completed his education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, under the guidance of the famous duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen, specialising in piano duo together with Cristina Santín. As a soloist, he continued his training at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (Germany), where he obtained his second Konzertdiplom under the guidance of Boris Bloch. He also studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy), graduating cum laude under the guidance of Sergio Perticaroli and Stefano Fiuzzi. He continued his training in courses imparted by such teachers such as Lazar Berman, Riccardo Zadra, Dario De Rosa, Mauro Minguzzi and Pier Narciso Masi. He has performed numerous concerts in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, France, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary and Norway, both as a soloist, in chamber ensembles and with orchestras. He has also collaborated with young artists such as Massimiliano Miani, first soloist clarinet of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, and violinist Ana María Valderrama. Since 2014, he has played piano duo with Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro.
He has received awards in numerous competitions (F. Mendelssohn International Competition for young pianists 2003 - 1st prize; the International Piano Competition Halina Czerny-Stefańska in memoriam, Poznan, 2008 - 4th prize; International Piano Competition Performance Without Limits, Lodz, 2013 - 1st prize). He has recorded two piano music CDs, premiering music by Italian composers Mario Zafred and Antonio Bibalo. Since 2013, he has been an artist for Odradek Records, where he debuted with a CD recording of Franz Liszt's paraphrases and transcriptions of Giuseppe Verdi's music.
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