Join us on May 27th for a live concert celebrating American minimalist music.
Throughout the winter and spring we have offered courses, concerts and events inspired by the production of the Teatro Real starting in April with the opera Nixon in China by John Adams. We inaugurated the programming season on January 13 with a spectacular concert entitled Liquid Soundscapes: A concert of minimalist American music. Due to the high demand, we have asked the musicians to return to close the spring season with a variation of the program they did in January.
Liquid Soundscapes features works by the first generation of American Minimalist composers: John Cage, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, and Paul Lansky. The program has been designed to offer the public an introduction to the variety of these renowned composers. In January, for the first time, he brought together the percussionists of BOOST Drum Set with the pianist Dubravka Vukalovic and flutist Anna Buczkowska. Don't miss the opportunity to see these musicians play together again!
Whether you're a minimalist music devotee or curious about experiencing minimalist music for the first time, this concert promises to be a sensory delight. Minimalism is, by definition, music that uses a limited range of materials and tends to rely on repetition of phrases and rhythms. Music often invites us to focus on mesmerizing patterns and rhythms in a new way, changing our perceptions. The works featured in this concert share a sensual immediacy and playfulness that people easily connect with.
At the end of the concert a Spanish wine will be served.
To read more about the concept of minimalism, Press here.
Works in the program:
John Cage- Living Room Music, Dreams
Philip Glass – Taoist Sacred Dance, Étude No. 6, Love Divided By, Japurá River, Arabesque in Memoriam
Steve Reich – Clapping Music, Music for Pieces of Wood
John Adams- chinese gates
Paul Lanski – Threads
Important information:
About the interpreters:
Since its creation in 2013, the repertoire of BOOST Drum Set covers different music and styles: electronic, contemporary, classical and ethnic. His commitment to contemporary music makes the work of young composers an important part of his repertoire along with the most significant pieces written for percussion (solo or ensemble) or percussion combined with other instruments. Throughout their career, they have offered concerts throughout Spain and participated in the MusaE project, in Las Noches del Monumental and in the Music for the Third Millennium cycle of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum. They currently perform concerts for schoolchildren from the Fundación Juan March, with their project “Noise, Pulse, Rhythm: The World of Percussion”. BOOST Percussion Group plays exclusively with Marimba One instruments and REMO heads.
Born in Croatia, pianist Dubravka Vukalovic He regularly performs as a soloist and chambermaid artist throughout Europe, as well as in Asia, North and South America, Russia, and the Middle East. She received her first piano lessons with teacher Olimpija Vojvoda at the music school in her hometown of Varaždin. She continued her musical education in Moscow and in Lausanne. After her debut with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14, she in 2000 won first prize at the Zagreb International Competition. Since then she has offered numerous concerts in theaters and at international festivals. Her collaborations with the French violist Christophe Desjardins, with the Swiss-French ensemble Namascae, with the conductor Eduardo Leandro or with the Bahia Symphony Orchestra (Brazil) are noteworthy. She is part of the successful piano duo D & B with her husband Bruno Vlahek. She has made recordings for radio and television stations in Croatia, Spain, the Netherlands, Russia and China, and for Radio and Radio Suisse Romande (Espace 2). She regularly conducts master classes in different countries of the world.
Anna Buczkowska He graduated from the Higher Conservatory of Krakow (Poland), specializing in transverse flute. She completed her studies at the Rueil National Conservatory, Malmaison (France), as a student of Philippe Pierlot. She won first prize for chamber music at the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory, first prize at the UFAM International Competition in Paris and first prize for wind chamber in Bydgoszcz (Poland). She has been a student of Severino Gazzelloni, PL Graf and A. Marion in improvement courses.
He is currently responsible for the Music department at the Santa María de los Rosales de Aravaca School. She is a member of different chamber groups, collaborates with both national and international orchestras and has made recordings for RTVE.