- This new edition is part of the commemorative events for the 30th anniversary of the Reina Sofía School. The celebration of the School’s 30th anniversary has the collaboration of Asisa.
- From January to May, the cycle will host four concerts at the National Music Auditorium (Madrid).
- The Freixenet Chamber Orchestra of the School, under the baton of the renowned Hungarian conductor Sir András Schiff, will put the finishing touch to the cycle at the Teatro Monumental in June.
Madrid, December 23, 2021.- The XXVI edition of the concert cycle La Generación Ascendente of the Reina Sofía School of Music kicks off next January. This cycle is one of the best exponents of the School’s objectives, since it combines the maturation of talented young musicians with the dissemination of classical music in society on a stage of maximum demand.
Throughout the cycle, the most outstanding students of the School will have the opportunity to take to the prestigious stage of the National Music Auditorium and the Teatro Monumental to offer the public great works from the repertoire, in recitals, chamber groups or orchestral formations.
The series will be inaugurated by the performance of Eva Arderíus, cello and Rafael Kyrychenko, piano, who will offer a recital with works by Scriabin, Ravel and Rachmaninov at the National Auditorium on January 20 at 7.30 pm.
The Enagás Schumann Trio will take to the stage of the Chamber Hall of the National Auditorium a few days later (February 3, 7:30 p.m.). Alexis Hatch, violin; Alejandro Viana, cello and Nathalie Schwamova, piano, make up this trio that receives classes from Márta Gulyás, professor of the Piano Groups department, and will perform works by Tchaikovsky.
In April, the recent winner of the Jascha Heifetz Competition (Lithuania, 2021), Javier Comesaña, will offer a violin recital, accompanied on the piano by Ricardo Ali Álvarez (April 27, 7:30 p.m.) with works by Bach, Ysaÿe, Messiaen and Schubert. Comesaña, who plays an instrument made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1765, ceded by the Frizt Behrens Stiftung, will perform works ranging from the Baroque to the 20th century, under the title “Amor post mortem.”
The cycle will continue in May, on Wednesday 25 (7:30 p.m.) with a song recital by the students Annya Pinto, soprano (awarded in the III Compostela lírica Competition), Olga Syniakova, mezzo soprano (first prize of the VIII Alfredo Kraus International Singing Competition), Paola Leguizamón, mezzo soprano (awarded with the first female prize of the Maria Callas International Competition of São Paulo, Brazil) and Agustín Gómez, tenor (awarded in 2021 in the XXV Mirna Lacambra Escola d’Òpera de Sabadell Competition). The four performers will be on the stage of the Chamber Hall together with the accompanying pianist Duncan Gifford of the “Alfredo Kraus” Singing Chair Ramón Areces Foundation of the Reina Sofía School of Music.
As the end of the cycle, on June 25 (7:30 p.m.), the Freixenet Chamber Orchestra of the School, under the direction of the maestro Sir András Schiff, principal conductor of this orchestral formation created in 1993, and with Tomás Alegre as piano soloist, will offer a concert with works by Mozart and Schubert at the Teatro Monumental.
La Generación Ascendente is a cycle organized by the Reina Sofía School of Music in collaboration with the INAEM-Ministry of Culture and Sports, the National Music Auditorium and Radio Televisión Española.
