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The Bach Cartagena program celebrates its fifth edition this year with a total of nine days with activities throughout the city, from Wednesday 11 to Sunday 22 March.

The program, organized by the Early Music Project platform and the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, to celebrate the European Day of Ancient Music, has the collaboration of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, the University of Murcia, the ISEN, the Ministry of Education and Culture through the Institute of Cultural Industries and the Arts, the School of Music of Catalonia, and the company ALSA.

The presentation was attended by the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, the special delegate of Culture, Carlos Piñana, the conductor of the Orchestra of the University of Murcia and also director of the Bach Cartagena, Jorge Losana, and Service Coordinator of Culture of the University of Murcia, Francisco Caballero.

The mayor, David Martínez, said that "the European Day of Ancient Music is celebrated around March 21, the date on which according to the Julian calendar, Bach was born. It was held for the first time in 2013 under sponsorship of UNESCO and the European Union in order to promote and disseminate the music composed before 1750, and raise awareness of the music of the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.In Europe the REMA (European Early Music Net) has been established Work) who now organizes the European Day of Ancient Music and from Cartagena we add the Bach Cartagena program to this pan-European network ".

This year the inaugural concert will be given by the renowned violinist Lina Tur, who will be accompanied by another music virtuoso such as the musician Dani Espasa and will take place in the courtyard of the Town Halls of the Regional Assembly on March 11 , where they will offer Sonatas de Bach and Händel for violin and key.

In addition, as a novelty Losana has announced that "old music will be disseminated through an interactive video that Inés Moreno will record in collaboration with the UPCT and the Mare Nostrum Campus, framed in a program that aims to reach the youngest through interaction The program also includes Bach and kids educational concerts for students of schools and for children in municipal libraries on March 16, 17 and 18 ".

It will be precisely Inés Moreno who continues after the opening ceremony in a concert also key, with pieces of the European baroque, on Thursday 12 in that spectacular Hall Isaac Peral of the Faculty of Business Sciences of the UPCT.

Also, a Serendipia concert, a flute duo, will be held at the Museo del Teatro Romano, on Friday the 13th, with Renaissance and Baroque pieces;

the performance of the Imperfect Preterite group, which will take place in the hall of the City Hall on Saturday 14;

a Bach in the street, in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, with Marina López, on Saturday 21, and the performance of the polyphonic vocal quartet of La Cantoría, which will close the program on Sunday 22 at the Church Our Lady of Charity, with Songs from Spanish Renaissance

The spaces in which this program is developed are institutional, cultural, libraries, public schools, religious temples, or outdoor spaces.

All the activities of the Bach Cartagena program are free and open to all citizens, constituting a program of dissemination of ancient and classical music increasingly recognized and that has been finding a growing public participation for its proposals during these years.

For his part, the Councilor special delegate of Culture, Carlos Piñana, has assured that this program "opens a spring that will be full of other public proposals for culture for all: World Theater Day, International Dance Day, Festival Much More May of Emerging Art, Museum Night, Cartagena Folk Festival, or new initiatives that will soon see the light, such as what will be called "Classics in Museums", which we will soon present, among others ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena