Madrid, January 21, 2025. The Reina Sofía School of Music collaborates with the National Mint and Stamp Factory by offering the ‘Young Talents’ cycle, a series of four chamber music concerts in the auditorium of the Museo Casa de la Moneda in Madrid.
The four concerts of the cycle will take place at 7:00 p.m. for four consecutive Thursdays, starting on January 23 and ending on February 13. Admission to all of them will be free until full capacity is reached.
The Dúo Contrapunto, formed by the clarinetist Olivér Kusztós (Hungary, 2003) and the pianist Mariam Chitanava (Russia, 1998), will be the protagonists of the first concert of the series this Thursday January 23. The program they will perform includes works by Weber, Brahms and Bernstein.
On January 30, it will be the turn of the trumpeter Óscar Julián Tapie (Colombia, 1999) and the Trío Fanny Hensel, a trumpet group whose members are Alba García (Spain, 2003); Marc Ferrando (Spain, 2005) and Francisco José Lopes (Portugal, 2001). On stage, they will offer a recital with works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries by the composers Johann Friedrich Fasch, Alessandro Marcello, Vassily Brandt, Henri Tomasi, George Enescu and Arthur Honegger. They will all be accompanied on the piano by the professor and pianist Marharyta Kozlovska.
As the third act of this series, on February 6, the stage of the Museo Casa de la Moneda Auditorium will host the Trío Victoria, a new ensemble from the Reina Sofía School, created in 2024, which receives classes from Heime Müller, professor of the String Quartet Department. Its members are Joaquín Hernando (Spain, 2006) violin; Amalia Bosch (Spain, 2007), viola and Hugo Domínguez (Spain, 2008) cello. They will bring us closer to the Baroque and early Classical periods with works by Bach and Beethoven.
In the last concert of the ‘Young Talents’ cycle, on February 13, the winds will be the protagonists. The Scarlatti Quintet of Casa de la Moneda will offer a concert with works by Franz Danzi, Malcolm Arnold, Jacques Ibert, Julio Medaglia and Paul Hindemith. Created at the Reina Sofía School of Music in 1996 thanks to the patronage of the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, with its different formations it has performed throughout its history in halls such as the Petit Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Auditorium of the Casa de la Moneda, the Casa de Cantabria, the Palacio Marqués de Salamanca, the Synagogue of El Tránsito in Toledo or the Professional Conservatory of Music of Osuna. In the current academic year it is formed by Miguel Flores (Spain, 2003), flute; Lucía Talavera (Spain, 2005), oboe; María Castillo (Spain, 2000), clarinet; Kaleb Bou (Ethiopia, 2004), bassoon and Paula Cerdán (Spain, 2022), horn.
