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Richard Galliano is the driver of the new era of the accordion.
Outstanding disciple of maestro Astor Piazzolla, Galliano mixed with French roots music with modern jazz.
Throughout his long career he has played with jazz greats.
It contends that his style has changed the history of the accordion, to incorporate it into contexts that had previously ignored.
On the other hand, speak of Michel Portal is a journey through one of the flagships of the European musical scene.
The work of this giant seems to have no limits: indispensable interpreter of contemporary composers has signed performances as a chamber musician, has composed his own jazz records and vital his role as creator of soundtracks, has won three French movies Cesar .
If separately, Portal and Galliano are great monsters of the music, together they will enjoy the public in an intimate concert, full of talent.
Both in the Old Cathedral, at 23:00 pm tomorrow, Sunday 20 July.
Tickets at 10 Euros.
The old cathedral is characterized by receiving delicacies in the form of concerts.
Meetings full of magic, as proposed by an old acquaintance of the public Cartagena, as Richard Galliano (Cannes, 1950) participated in the latest edition of the Jazz Festival in the city.
If then he played with Gary Burton, accompanied today makes another great contemporary jazz: Michel Portal.
There are many similarities between the two artists.
Do not forget that it was the very Astor Piazzolla who, twenty-five years ago, invited the French as a bandoneon soloist in the stage version of Night's Dream Shakespeare summer.
Their friendship lasted until his death in 1992 the Argentine master.
Piazzolla always knew jazz and tango interacted with ease.
And Galliano was part of that perception, as demonstrated by the record in 1997 as a duo with Michel Portal disk Blow Up, which received major awards, including the Victoire de la Musique or the Boris Vian Prize from the Academie du Jazz
Born in Bayonne in 1935.
Clarinetist and saxophonist, one of the talents of Michel Portal is intelligently handled both the classical and jazz.
He has worked with the greats of contemporary music (Berio, Kagel and Stockhausen) and founded the group of free jazz Portal Unit or, later, New Phonic Art His first César for Best Original Soundtrack of the three who received was for the film The Return of Martin Guerre by Daniel Vigne.
He has performed with Rostropovich, Maria Joao Pires, John Surman, Francois Tusques, Sunny Murray, Joachim Kuhn, Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette and Charlie Haden, as well as working for Carolyn Carlson.
For its part, says that Galliano has been one of the great innovators of the accordion, which has incorporated all sorts of scenarios beyond the chanson.
He learned his father, Lucien Galliano, who taught herself to play the piano.
He graduated with excellence in 1969 after studying counterpoint, harmony, and trombone at the Conservatoire de Nice.
He has played with Chet Baker, Ron Carter, Joe Zawinul, Michel Petrucciani, Al Foster, Jan Garbarek, Toots Thielemans or Charles Aznavour.
In 93, the Jazz Academy awarded the prize for best musician Django Reinhardt jazz and Django d'Or for best recording for his album Viaggio.
And after Blow Up, recorded Passatori, Gallianissimo hits collection, Face To Face and Piazzolla Forever Concerts before, at La Scala in Milan, with Michel Portal.
The Sea Lyrics
23h.
Insomnia: Franco-Spanish poetry encounter: Linda Maria Baros, Jean Portante, Lionel Ray, Ignacio Elguero, Castilla y Jeannine Hector Alcaraz.
Coordinator: Juan de Dios García
Music: Passion Catherine (vocals) and Cy Williams (guitar), jazz-session on issues of Boris Vian.
Pub Library, Paseo del port.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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