The agreement was signed on October 24 by Mr. Patricio Gutiérrez Pérez, Director and concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of the Canary Islands and by Ms. Paloma O’Shea, Founding President of the Reina Sofía School of Music, in whose facilities they met together with Angel Luis Quintana, first solo cello and coordinator of the OCC academy, and Óscar Colomina i Bosch, dean of the School.
The OCC thus joins other musical institutions at a national and international level that collaborate in the training and development of the young talents of the Reina Sofía School.
The first planned collaboration between both institutions will take place in the concert that the OCC has scheduled at the National Music Auditorium of Madrid on May 29, 2025, on the occasion of the Canary Islands festivity. This concert will also be dedicated to the figure of Armando Alfonso (1931), who was director of the OCC between 1968 and 1970 and who has confirmed his attendance at the concert.
Patricio Gutiérrez, director of the OCC, professor of violin and university doctor, was a student at the Reina Sofía School of Music between 1993 and 1996, being a disciple of the beloved and missed José Luis García Asensio, concertmaster of the English Chamber Orchestra for many years and with whom he had the privilege of being able to work and deepen the chamber orchestra repertoire. During that period, Patricio Gutiérrez was also a founding member of what is currently one of the great string quartets most recognized internationally, the Casals Quartet, which emerged precisely from the Reina Sofía School of Music.
