The Symphony Orchestra is already rehearsing its recital, conducted by Javier Castro, who will will open the new season this November 22 until April 28. The Eduardo del Pueyo Auditorium will host during these months styles as varied as classical, contemporary or early music, film music, choral music and opera. All the concerts will be held in the center, except for two that will take place at the Mozart Hall and one, the Piano Duets “Pianorama”, which will take place in the Luis Galve Hall of the Zaragoza Auditorium. Outside Zaragoza, the music will also reach the Palacio de Congresos de Huesca and, for the first time, to the Torre del Salvador Auditorium of Teruel.
This year the CSMA presents 28 concerts, divided into three cycles: 17 Great Concerts, 7 in the Atmospheres cycle and 4 in the Family cycle.. According to Peris, this last cycle aims to bring music to the youngest: “Families go on stage with our musicians and it is a very special moment where we open the doors of the center for a family day”. As a novelty, the percussion group of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain will play for the first time in the Eduardo del Pueyo Auditorium.
Alberto Meijón, pianist and CSMA graduate student and assistant professor at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, is now the leader of the Artistic Promotion Area. He wanted to emphasize the importance of having a musical education of this caliber, adding that “music allows you to do a lot of things and in the United States they are very clear about that.“.
As highlighted by the center’s director, the small milestones already announced last year are being fulfilled, and this season it is the turn of the New York-based violinist Alicia Rando from Teruel and cellist David BaronaThe event is the result of the new lines of programming that this higher education center seeks to establish with its most outstanding former students, who will present titles and academic co-productions of a high level.
Daniel Salvatore and María Luisa Baldassari, the Ensemble Oniric -Joven Performers Award Fundación Juan March-, the Sinfonietta CSMA and its reinterpretation of Mozart’s operas, the Academy of Ancient Music with the master cembalo David Palanca or the duo Stoyan-Serrano -Young Soloists Award CSMA-, among others, will make up this year’s program. nourished and varied cast of guest artists..
In her turn, the Regional Minister of Education, Culture and Sport of the Government of Aragon, Tomasa Hernández, highlighted “the quality of the training provided by CSMA, as one of the best in the world. the most renowned music centers of the current scene”. and thanked the “effort” made by the institution to “continue opening the center to the public in that vocation to infect the public with the excitement and passion for music”.
For all concerts admission is free until full capacity is reached. This year, the CSMA has set up a large screen in the hall of the center that will allow, in case of full capacity, the projection of all concerts live.