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The winners of the previous edition will perform in three professional concerts on 20, 22 and 23 November in Lorca, Caravaca and Cartagena |
The classical music contest Between Strings and Metals for young performers of the Region of Murcia, organized annually by the Department of Youth and the Conservatory of Music of Cartagena, has already opened the registration period for its XXI edition, whose novelties have been presented today, Monday, November 6, in the auditorium of the Conservatory of Music of Cartagena.
An act in which the councilor of Youth, Ricardo Segado, the head of the Academic Conservatory of Music of Cartagena, Celia Amaro, the representative of the Chamber Orchestra of Cartagena, Francisco Guillamón, and the president of the Youth Orchestra Symphony of Cartagena, Álvaro Valdesueiro.
CONTEST
The event has become a benchmark at the Regional level and with it is sought "one more year, continue rewarding and training young musicians, not only Cartagena but throughout the region," Segado said.
This year's prizes have an economic amount amounting to 15,350 euros distributed among the 10 categories that enter the competition: piano, string, wind metal, wind wood, singing, percussion, flamenco guitar, flamenco singing and chamber music;
these last three included on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary.
On the website of the contest you can check the bases and make the registration that is open until November 15.
In addition to the economic prize, the contest is also an optimal screening platform for your artistic and professional aspirations.
One of the great singularities of the Contest is that it offers as an added prize to its winners the opportunity to play as soloists with a professional orchestra in a series of concerts.
This year these concerts will be held: November 20 at 6:00 pm in the Auditorium of the Conservatory of Lorca, on November 22, 7:00 pm in the Church of St. Joseph of Carmelite Mothers of Caravaca de la Cruz, and the November 23 at 7:00 pm in the Auditorium of the Conservatory of Cartagena.
The details of the concerts can be found here.
In the last call a total of 191 young people were presented, year in which more people have participated, from the Music Conservatories of Cartagena, Murcia, Lorca, San Javier, Jumilla, Cieza, Caravaca and the Chaplin School of Music.
The councilman has wished that in this edition the two hundreds of participants are surpassed and to obtain "that this contest continues growing and it is referring to national level" to "continue doing great the music of the Region of Murcia".
TRIBUTE TO DEBUSSY
Following last year's initiative in which Enrique Granados was honored, in this edition the French composer Claude Debussy will be honored, whose death marks 100 years in 2018. A tribute that has already begun in the presentation of today with the performance of the pianist, Oscar Requena Toulouse, winner of the third edition of Entre Cuerdas y Metales.
Requena has interpreted 'La Puerta del Vino', which Debussy composed inspired by a postcard sent by Manuel de Falla in which he saw one of the doors of the Alhambra.
A piece "a short, very condensed sonorities close to the ocher color and warm tones in which you can hear echoes of an out-of-tune guitar and oriental melismas, and all this driven by an obsessive habanera rhythm", explained the pianist.
One of the acts of homage will take place at the Night of the Museums, which in 2018 celebrates its X Anniversary, where former winners of the contest between strings and metals will perform interpreting the piano repertoire of this composer.
AGREEMENT WITH THE YOUNG CARTAGENA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The press conference also announced that this year begins with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Cartagena JOSCT, a collaboration agreement, which will be renewed next year.
Between Strings and Metals bet on this young orchestra that has great musicians, many of them old and current participants of this contest and awarded on different occasions.
Last year a flashmob was made with them in the Mediterranean Space, which is posted on the web and social networks between strings and metals, with more than a thousand views on YouTube.
The director of the JOSCT has presented the concert that will take place next Saturday, November 11, at 8:00 pm, in the Isaac Peral Room of the Business School of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, former CIM.
The Group of Winds of the JOSCT, directed by Álvaro Pintado, will give a concert with two of the most well-known works of all the classical repertoire such as the Overture of "Las Bodas de Fígaro" by Mozart and the Seventh Symphony by Beethoven.
The program, originally composed for symphony orchestra, will sound on this occasion in a version for ten instruments.
The concert, which has been titled "Vientos de Viena" is celebrated on the occasion of the proximity of the celebration of Santa Cecilia.
EXTRAORDINARY CONCERT
In the month of March the V Extraordinary Concert will take place, where the presence of former winners of the Entre Cuerdas y Metals Competition will be recovered, which have consolidated and reaped numerous successes in their musical careers.
A musical event that in the previous edition filled the El Batel Auditorium, where you can play a high level concert with the collaboration of the Chamber Orchestra of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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