Madrid, April 9, 2024.- Within the framework of the commemoration of Telefónica’s centenary, María García-Legaz, head of the president’s office and head of the Telefónica Centenary Commission, and Julia Sánchez Abeal, CEO of the Reina Sofía School of Music, presented this morning the concert cycle “Telefónica Centenary”, which will bring the best classical music throughout Spain in the coming months.
The relationship between Telefónica and the School dates back to 1999, when the Spanish company began its collaboration as a patron of the Violin Chair. Its support has allowed hundreds of young musicians to train at the School in the last 25 years.
The cycle, which begins on Friday, April 12 in the Old Cathedral of Salamanca, will tour 15 Spanish cities, stopping at emblematic and spectacular venues such as the Cueva de los Verdes in Lanzarote, the Plaza del Ayuntamiento in Toledo or the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, where the public can enjoy orchestral and chamber music concerts performed by the young musicians of the Reina Sofía School of Music, directed by internationally renowned masters such as, among others, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Nicolás Pasquet, Giovanni Guzzo or Jordi Francés. All concerts are free of charge until full capacity is reached.
María García-Legaz, head of the president’s office and head of the Telefónica Centenary Commission, highlighted that “Telefónica is a company with enormous capillarity, and with that same ambition to reach as many people as possible, we want to celebrate the Centenary. Therefore, these 15 concerts in such emblematic points of our geography, showing the best of the classical repertoire with artists of this level, is a beautiful project and totally aligned with Telefónica and the Centenary”.
For her part, the CEO of the Reina Sofía School, Julia Sánchez, stated that “Telefónica and the School are natural allies, because we share the objective of connecting people. Telefónica has done nothing else in its hundred years of life and we strive every day to promote cultural and social contact through the great emotional power of music. We also share the desire for innovation and the exploration of new forms of connection between people that technology makes available to us, you are our technological partner in many of the School’s operations”.
Likewise, Julia Sánchez highlighted this cycle of concerts that have been presented today with which “se seeks to take advantage of the capacity of music to unite people, especially when it is played in spaces that, in turn, are full of meaning and history”.
