Baldur Brönnimann Conducts the Sinfonietta of the Reina Sofía School of Music

• On Monday, April 26, the Sinfonietta will be in Auditorium 400 of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in a concert organized by the CNDM. The following day, Tuesday, April 27, it will perform in the Sony Auditorium of the Reina Sofía School of Music.

Madrid, April 16, 2021.- The Reina Sofía School of Music presents, for another year, the concerts of the Sinfonietta, its orchestral ensemble focused on contemporary music, directed on this occasion by the maestro Baldur Brönnimann.

On Monday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m., the first concert will be held in Auditorium 400 of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Organized by the CNDM, and thanks to the support of the Fundación Cisneros – Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, the concert highlights the intersection of music with the other arts, underscoring the connections that exist between both forms of creation,

On Tuesday, April 27, the second concert will take place in the Sony Auditorium of the Reina Sofía School of Music, at 7:30 p.m., which will be recorded by RTVE for the program “Los Conciertos de la 2”.

The concerts are entitled “Free in sound”. From the Colombian composer Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom, who died tragically in a hang gliding accident, his Quatre pantomimes pour six, which are inspired by wordless theater, will be heard. From the theater we move on to painting, specifically, to the canvas of Norham Castle, Sunrise, by the landscape painter William Turner, which inspired the British George Benjamin to compose At First Light. The Argentine composer nationalized Uruguayan Gabriela Paraskevaídis presents in Free in sound, prisoners in sound part of a poem by the Argentine Juan Gelman. The program culminates with Schönberg’s Chamber Symphony, a composer who served as inspiration for the work of the Venezuelan painter Jesús Soto, of which the Reina Sofía has a wide representation thanks to the donation of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

The first concert will be preceded by a brief introduction by the Director of External Relations of the Reina Sofía School of Music, Álvaro Guibert, and the second by a brief chat with Maestro Brönnimann.

The School’s Sinfonietta, which has the collaboration of the BBVA Foundation, is facing its tenth year of life. This musical ensemble was created with the advice of the director and composer Peter Eötvös and has been directed by the maestros Stefan Asbury, Pascal Rophé, Peter Rundel, Zsolt Nagy, Baldur Brönnimann, Jorge Rotter, Johannes Kalitzke, in addition to Eötvös himself.

With the tours of its Sinfonietta, the School seeks to achieve three objectives: to offer its students the opportunity to work on contemporary music guided by the best specialists; to bring this repertoire, which contains so many masterpieces, closer to society; and, finally, to contribute to the intersection between the different arts.