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Nacer y morir

Andrea Jiménez, soprano, and Rinaldo Zhok, piano

A piano concert player and also a composer, although he was based in Madrid, Joaquín Larregla never lost his ties with Navarre. The influence of the Autonomous Community is reflected in a great deal of his work, which is based on Navarrese folklore. His two zarzuelas, La Roncalesa and Miguel Andrés, are set in Navarre and contain musical fragments taken from oral tradition. Miguel Andrés was performed for a long time in the tributes to old age that were held in the Taconera park. Additional works of his based on folklore include his zortzikos Nacer y morir, Laurak-bat and Navarra montañesa.

Recording date

14 to 18 September 2020.

Performers

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.

Documents

Nacer y morir
15/03/2021