– On Sunday, March 6, at the Sony Auditorium of the Reina Sofía School. The following day, at the Auditorium 400 of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in a concert co-produced by the CNDM within its “Series 20/21” cycle, and with the collaboration of the Cisneros Foundation – Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection.
Madrid, February 28, 2022.– The Reina Sofía School of Music presents, once again, the concerts of the Sinfonietta, its orchestral ensemble focused on contemporary music, conducted on this occasion by the German composer and conductor Johannes Kalitzke.
The first concert will be held on Sunday, March 6 at the Sony Auditorium of the Reina Sofía School of Music at 7:30 p.m. At the same time, on Monday, March 7, the second concert will take place in the Auditorium 400 of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Co-produced by the National Center for Musical Diffusion (CNDM) within its “Series 20/21” cycle, and thanks to the support of the Cisneros Foundation – Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, the concert highlights the intersection of music with the other arts, underscoring the connections that exist between both forms of creation.
The concert program is entitled “Dreams“, and Johannes Kalitzke will once again lead the Sinfonietta of the Reina Sofía School to perform the tribute O King that Luciano Berio dedicated to Martin Luther King and the Concerto for nine instruments by Anton Webern, an extreme work in terms of constructive rigor and maximum difficulty.
In addition to these two pieces, the world premiere of Un mar de sueño, Suite No. 1 from the opera El público by Mauricio Sotelo, commissioned by the CNDM and the Música para una Escuela program of the Reina Sofía School of Music, will be performed, and, to culminate, the Chamber Symphony by Schreker, in which sound plays a fundamental role.
Yeraldín León and Paola Leguizamón (mezzosopranos) and Agustín Gómez (tenor) will accompany the orchestral ensemble as soloists.
The School’s Sinfonietta, which has the collaboration of the BBVA Foundation, is facing its eleventh year. This musical ensemble was created with the advice of the conductor 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, as well as 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.
