The conductor, writer and José Luis Temes National Music Award will be the speaker who will open the first session of the Spanish Music Course entitled ‘The way to the vanguard. Thomas Marco‘, which will be held this Friday, February 5 at the El Albéitar Theater. Due to the current curfew in Castilla y León, andl Course will begin at 3:30 pm; and the screening of the audiovisual Selene, with free access and open to the public until full capacity is reached, will take place at 6:00 p.m. Invitations can be collected fifteen minutes before at the Theater box office.
The Iberian Orchestra Association is launching this Course, as a parallel activity to the Spanish Music Festival, thanks to the sponsorship of the City Council of León, Fundación Siglo and INAEM, and the collaboration of the Area of Cultural Activities of the University of León. ANDhe Course consists of five sessions from February to June 2021 and it is face-to-face, although it will also be broadcast via streaming to facilitate the participation of students from all over the world. Aimed at university students, music professionals from all walks of life and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of Spanish music, participation in the Course is recognized with 1 ECTS (free credits) and Enrollment can be done through the Festival website www.festivaldemusicaespanola.es .
Synopsis:
At the end of the 50s of the last century, a generation of authors emerged in the Spanish compositional scene who are aware of the new currents of rupture that are blowing in the world -Boulez, Nono, Stockhausen, Cage …- and claims a new Spanish music, out of respect for the previous generation. They know that they have almost everything against them, but in just two decades they will travel a huge road, with fruits of immense value. Six decades have passed since then, but his music remains today very unknown to the Spanish amateur and scholar.
Tomás Marco was younger than those pioneers, but in a very precocious way he stands at that very tip of the spear. Their budgets and their music will not be, however, the same as those of their elders, so it has something of an isolated or independent case. In that difficult status, he will move to the very present.
The presentation will be accompanied by the screening of the audiovisual Selene, created by José Luis Temes himself within the Luz Project, illuminated Spanish symphonism. Composed more than half a century ago, Selene was not only his first opera but a prophetic work in Spanish music: it amazes his use of technological means, his freedom of libretto (the music is absolutely fixed, but the libretto is free) and his singular relationship between music and scene. Luz 9 “Selene” tries to recreate her spirit and freedom, but from a more lyrical perspective than the public can think of in a so-called “avant-garde” work.
Speaker and audiovisual director:
José Luis Temes was born in Madrid in 1956. He studied mainly with professors Julián Labarra, Federico Sopeña, Enrique Llácer, José María Martín Porrás and Ana Guijarro. Graduated from the Conservatory of his hometown, he directed the Madrid Percussion Group between 1976 and 1980: and the Círculo Group between 1983 and 2000.
In the 1980s made the leap to conducting. Since then he has worked with practically all the Spanish orchestras, and also with other European ones (London Philharmonic, Belgrade Radio, Rome RAI, Lisbon Gulbenkian…). He has directed in countless cycles and festivals throughout Spain and in cities such as New York, London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Vienna, Zagreb, Budapest, Belgrade, Lisbon, etc. Temes has directed the premiere of some 340 works and recorded more than a hundred albums.
As a disseminator he has offered more than 400 conferences. He is the author of numerous books and essays, including an extensive TRatado de Solfeo Contemporáneo, the first biography in Spanish of Anton Webern, two volumes on the lost history of the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid and El Siglo de la Zarzuela (Siruela, 2014).
When he completed his forty years as a director in 2016, mainly focused on the Spanish Musical Heritage, ancient and contemporary, he published a memory book of characters and situations, with the title of I would like to be so high … In the field of narrative, to his first book of stories (Three stories for Ita, 2010), followed by Al treading your garden in 2012 and Amores a mares (2017).
In 2009 received the National Music Award in attention “to his immense work as a conductor.”
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