Santander, June 15, 2022.- This morning, under the presidency of Pablo Zuloaga, Vice President of the Government of Cantabria, the Albéniz Foundation’s musical program for the summer of 2022 was presented at the Cantabria Festival Palace. Also attending the press conference were Paloma O’Shea, President and Founder of the Santander International Piano Competition and the Albéniz Foundation; Gema Igual, Mayor of Santander and Maestro Péter Csaba, Artistic Director of the Santander Encounter.
Pablo Zuloaga, who reiterated the support of the Government of Cantabria for the activities of the Santander Encounter and the International Piano Competition, stressed that “The Albéniz Foundation’s cultural summer fulfills an important mission, a task that is to bring culture closer to society. Culture is more visible and more alive. And public administrations must continue to support a sector that has had a bad time over the last few years, which is why I want to emphasize the affection with which the Albéniz Foundation imbues everything it does.”
Zuloaga stressed that “Culture will be essential to defining what we will be in the future.”
For her part, the Mayor of Santander, Gema Igual, highlighted the many years in which these two great musical events have taken place in the city. “Great culture continues to have an appointment in Santander. This year we have a lot of music to enjoy in the city. The Encounter makes the people of Santander understand music, good music, which is what we are going to have. And thank you to Paloma O’Shea for being a patron of culture, for enhancing the Santander summer and for bringing us closer to and investing in the great masters of tomorrow with an exceptional piano competition.”
The Santander Music and Academy Encounter and the Santander International Piano Competition, organized by the Albéniz Foundation with the Government of Cantabria and the Santander City Council, will offer, in just two months, a hundred concerts on the city’s most significant stages, such as the Festival Palace, the Magdalena Palace, the Church of Santa Lucía, and 19 locations in the region. The Encounter and the Competition, added to the program of the 71st Santander International Festival, will contribute to making the Cantabrian capital one of the essential European cultural events of the summer of 2022.
The SANTANDER MUSIC AND ACADEMY ENCOUNTER will take place between July 1 and 23, celebrating its 21st edition. The Encounter is a pioneering teaching and artistic activity in Spain that combines the organization of master classes by leading instrument and chamber music teachers with the celebration of concerts throughout Cantabria. This year the 62 young musicians selected to participate come from leading institutions located in cities such as Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Munich and Paris.
The Jesús de Monasterio Conservatory of Santander will host the Lessons in its classrooms Master Classes by top-level musicians: Zakhar Bron and Christoph Poppen (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Miklós Perényi (cello), András Adorján (flute), Radovan Vlatković (horn) and Claudio Martínez Mehner (piano). For the first time will be
The inaugural concert with the Encounter Symphony Orchestra and the Cantabrian conductor Jaime Martín will take place on Thursday, July 7 at 8:30 p.m. in the Argenta Hall of the Festival Palace. Dedicated to Mozart and Mahler, you will enjoy the Concertante Symphony for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and orchestra in E flat major K 297b and the Symphony No. 4 in G major.
For its part, the Chamber Orchestra will perform on July 22, bringing the performances in the Argenta Hall to an end with Valse triste for orchestra op. 44 no. 1 by Sibelius, and Le boeuf sur le toit (The Ox on the Roof) for orchestra op. 58 by Milhaud.
The Encounter’s program will pay tribute to Teresa Berganza, who maintained a close teaching collaboration in its first editions (concert to be held on July 13) and will commemorate the 225th anniversary of the birth of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert and the 175th anniversary of the death of the German composer Felix Mendelssohn.
The season ticket for the nine concerts scheduled in the Argenta Hall of the Cantabria Festival Palace will cost 45 euros and can be purchased between June 28 and July 2. Individual tickets can be purchased from Tuesday, July 5, between 5 and 10 euros depending on the area to choose.
Ticket sales at: Festival Palace Box Office, 942 243 439, www.palaciofestivales.com, taquilla.palacio@srecd.es, and via Smartphone, with the APP “Palacio Festivales”, available for IOS and Android.
The concerts in other halls in Santander and towns in Cantabria are free admission until full capacity.
“This year’s program presents a rich and varied agenda in content, making possible the good and delicate balance in essence between young people and the artists-teachers who share the stage.” For Csaba “The Encounter keeps the music alive. The young people end up becoming great professionals, and for twenty years the Encounter has been sharing that knowledge and that spirit that makes the music live on.”
“Today we have a society of many turbulences, problems, and culture is essential for us. We have the great opportunity to continue celebrating these artistic moments together with the public that seeks beauty, the beauty of enjoying the small things and that is why we are going to continue working with enthusiasm and continue to have an even better Encounter”, said Péter Csaba, artistic director of the Santander Music and Academy Encounter.
See the Press Dossier of the 21st Santander Encounter, by clicking here
