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Adresse
Carrer de l'Onze de Setembre, 2
17257 Torroella de Montgrí
Spain
http://www.festivaldetorroella.com
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Tel: +34 972 760605
Fax: +34 972 760648
torroella@joventutsmusicals.cat
http://www.festivaldetorroella.com
C. Onze de Setembre, 2
17257 Torroella de Montgrí
Administration
Tel: +34 972 760605
Fax: +34 972 760648
torroella@joventutsmusicals.cat
C. Onze de Setembre, 2
17257 Torroella de Montgrí
Tickets
Tel: +34 902 101212
http://www.telentrada.com
C. Primitiu Artigas, 6
17257 Torroella de Montgrí
Festival de Músiques de Torroella de Montgrí
Musical tradition in Torroella de Montgrí has its origins in the Middle Ages, when the town was granted a royal charter. In the 15th. century, the establishment of a renowned musical chapel at the church had a profound influence on musical life in Torroella. Subsequently, several choirs and cobles came into being, and these remained fully active from the 18th. century to the Civil War of 1939-45, filling every corner of the town with music.
The Festival has maintained Western classical music as the mainstay of its yearly programme, although other types of music, non-Western cultures and non-musical activities have been included in recent years. It is a policy designed to highlight the musical heritage of Catalonia and the rest of Europe, but also including the great variety of traditions and human experience that the word "music" has come to represent in the modern world.
Ce festival est un membre de L'EFA depuis 1992.
Programme de Festival
Each EFA member manages its own Calendar. In case there is no programme availabable for this year, please visit the festival's own website.
L'Histoire du festival
The Torroella de Montgrí International Festival of Music (www.festivaldetorroella.com) its beginnings in a series of five concerts held in 1980, in the historic settings of the Gothic church of Saint Genis, the Gothic-Renaissance porticoed main square of the town and a former Augustinian monastery dating from the end of the 17th. century.
International recognition of the high quality of the Festival came in 1993 in Pessaro, Italy, when Torroella was admitted to the renowned European Festivals Association, an organisation which includes over 80 world-famous European festivals.
655 concerts have been given over the thirty-one years the Festival has been in existence, with audiences totalling more than 300,000 listeners. Among the soloists that have taken part in the Festival are violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Viktoria Mullova, Pinchas Zukerman, Ruggiero Ricci, Dimitri Sitkovetsky, Alberto Lysy, Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Renaud Capuçon and Isabelle Faust; flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal; singers Teresa Berganza, Victoria de los Ángeles, Jaume Aragall, Barbara Hendricks, Renata Scotto, Katia Ricciarelli, Thomas Quasthoff, Núria Rial, Sara Mingardo, María Bayo, María Hinojosa, Marta Infante, Nathalie Stutmann, Philippe Jarousky, Magdalena Kozena, Gemma Coma-Alabert, Sandrine Piau, Deborah York and Patricia Petibon; pianists Joaquín Achúcarro, Philippe Entremont, Bella Davidovich, Itamar Golan, Katie & Marielle Labeque, Olga Kern, Fazil Say, Boris Berezovsky, Alice Sara Ott, Grigory Sokolov, Eric le Sage, Rudolf Buchbinder, Alessio Bax, Ronald Brautigam and Piotr Anderszewski; viola players Bruno Giuranna, Gérard Caussé and Enrique Santiago; viola da gamba player Jordi Savall; cellists Mischa Maisky, Radu Aldulescu, Natalia Gutman and Ophélie Gaillard; flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal; double-bass player Franco Petracchi; harpist Nicanor Zabaleta; guitarist Narciso Yepes and saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
Orchestras have included the Minsk, Riga, Tallinn, Novosibirsk, Ostrava, Gottwaldow, Philharmonics, the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, the Catalan National Youth Orchestra, the German Federal Youth Orchestra, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra, the Liceu Opera House Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, the Virtuosi di Roma, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, I Solisti Italiani, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Soloists Chamber Orchestra, the Josef Suk Chamber Orchestra, the Virtuosi di Praga, the Riga Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Toulouse National Chamber Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Prague Sinfonietta, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Berg Chamber Orchestra and the Polish Chamber Orchestra.
Among the noted ensembles and conductors in the field of early music that have performed at Torroella are the Capella Reial de Catalunya, conducted by Jordi Savall, Fabio Biondi with L’Europa Galante, Musica Antiqua Köln and Reinhard Goebel, Il Seminario Musicale with Gérard Lesne, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Gottfried von der Goltz, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, under Paul McCreesh, the Cámerata Renacentista de Caracas, the Real Cámara with Emilio Moreno, the Capella Savaria, The King’s Consort, directed by Robert King, The Tallis Scholars, the Prague Madrigalists and Musica Antiqua, Musica Aeterna, The Sixteen Consort and Players, Il Giardino Armonico, with Giovanni Antonini, the Palladian Ensemble and the Namur Chamber Choir with the Ensemble La Fenice, conducted by Jean Tubéry, L'Arpeggiatta, conducted by Cristina Pluhar, Ars Longa conducted by Teresa Paz, Concerto Italiano conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, the Harmonie Universelle conducted by Florian Deuter, the Al Aire Español with Eduardo López Banzo, Concerto Köln conducted by Werner Ehrhardt, the Ensemble Zefiro with Alfredo Barnardini, the Ricercar Consort with Philippe Pierlot, the Orfeo 55 conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, the Dunedin Consort with John Butt, the Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Dantone and the Tasto Solo with Guillermo Pérez.
The main choirs and vocal ensembles that have performed at the Festival are the Escolania de Montserrat, the Choirs of King’s and St John’s Colleges, Tölzer Knabenchor conducted by Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, Cambridge, the St. Petersburg Glinka Chapel Choir, the Jeunesses Musicales World Youth Chorus, the Kodaly Choir, the Moscow Patriarchal Choir, the Prague Radio Chamber Chorus, the Orfeó Català, the Palau de la Música Chamber Choir (Barcelona), the Choir of the Liceu Opera House, the Choir Stagione Armonica, The Hilliard Ensemble and the Prague Children’s Choir.
World Music concerts have been given by soloists and groups of the standard of Ravi Shankar (India), Miriam Makeba (South Africa), Alim Qasimov (Azerbaijan), Houria Aïchi (Algeria), the Gypsies of Rajasthan, Carmen Linares, Maria del Mar Bonet, the Nuovo Compagnia di Canto Popolare (Italy), the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus, the flamenco guitarist Manolo Sanlúcar, Nahamia Doumbia (Mali), Cristina Branco (Portugal), Oumou Sangare (Mali), Savina Yannatou (Grece), Miquel Gil, Pep Gimeno El Botifarra, Sarband (Turkey) and Lucilla Galeazzi (Italy).
