Schumann and Brahms’ music arrives at CASYC on November 5th

It will be in a concert for vocal quartet and four-handed piano

The Department of Culture has scheduled a concert for next November 5th, at 7:30 pm, which will take place at the CASYC entitled “Liebesleder. Love songs “. The musical event will bring together two great composers of German romanticism and two of their most original and surprising works: the Spanish love songs, Operation. 138 by Schumann and so on Waltz of love songs, ON. 52 by Brahms.

Composed with a difference of 20 years between them, however, they coincide for the particularity of their instrumentation, completely original and unusual for the time: four-handed piano and vocal quartet. Both Schumann and Brahms believed in domestic music (House music) as a means of learning and entertainment. Both cycles were conceived as social entertainment, an extremely pleasant way to spend a musical evening in the intimacy of the home. Schumann called a “cycle for one and more voices” a singing recital with the dramaturgy resulting from the vocal play. It was a small and discreet response to the gigantic dimensions of Wagner’s experiments, which threatened to engulf the musical world as Schumann knew it.

In the concert that will host the CASYC, the pieces will be performed by a vocal quartet composed of Marimar Fernández Doval (soprano), Serena Pérez (mezzo-soprano), Manuel Gómez Ruiz (tenor), Jesús M. García Aréjula (bass). At the piano, four hands, there will be Ana Gobantes de Miguel and Jorge Robaina, all accompanied by Marta López Mazorra (rhapsode).

Marimar Fernandez Doval, as a soloist specializing in early music, has collaborated with Spanish and foreign groups (the group SEMA, Al Ayre Español, La Capilla Peñaflorida, Zarabanda, Parnaso Español, the Ensemble Barroque de Limoges, The Extempore String Ensemble, La Tirana Española, Ensemble Durendal), with musicologists such as Alicia Lázaro, Luis Robledo, José Rada or Louise K. Stein and with directors such as Christophe Coin, Eduardo López Banzo, Andrew Lawrence-King and Manuel Vilas. As a soloist he has participated in music forums in Spain and Europe, having also toured Italy, Brazil and Mexico.

Serena Pérez has participated in several opera productions, both in the Netherlands and in Spain: Orpheus by Monteverdi (Hope), Sister Angelica by Puccini (abbess), Cinderella de Massenet (Haltière), The abduction of Lucretia the British (Bianca), So do all of them by Mozart (Despina) e Radamisto by Handel (Radamisto), among others. Recently he was part of the first Baroque Academy of the Granada Festival, participating in the production The queen of the fairies by Purcell. This season she made her debut at the Oviedo Opera playing the Second Lady in The magic Flute by Mozart. She has been awarded in several competitions, she stands out the Teatro de la Maestranza Prize of the Ciudad de Logroño International Singing Competition, which allowed her to make her debut at the Colosseum in Seville with the production of Agrippina (Handel) directed by Enrico Onofri.

Manuel Gómez Ruiz, participated in masterclasses with Thomas Hampson and Wolfram Rieger (Schubertiade Hohenems); Thomas Quasthoff and Justus Zeyen (Schubertiade Schwarzenberg); John Mark Ainsley and Sir Thomas Allen (Leeds Lieder); and Malcolm Martineau (LIFE Barcelona). He has sung in numerous European venues and in his operatic appearances he stands out The Fake Giardinera by WA Mozart (Il Podestà), the first Berliner of The three wishes by B. Martinu (Serge / Adolphe), his Hamburg debut as Bastien in Bastien and Bastienne by WA Mozart at the Laeiszhalle, or the revival and recording of the opera Between the two quarrels the third enjoys by G. Sarti. He received the Richard Wagner Verband Berlin – Brandenburg Scholarships, Deutschlandstipendium, the Leonardo Scholarship from the BBVA Foundation, the 2015 Joven Canarias Award from the Canary Islands Government and the 2017 Gran Canaria Award in the Music category of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Gran Canaria.

Jesús María García Aréjula has a repertoire that includes numerous cantatas by JS Bach, as well as Baroque and classical operas and oratories. He has performed in numerous national and international festivals, including the Ravenna and Cremona Festivals (Italy), the Freiburg Musiques Sacrées Festival (Switzerland), the Donostiarra Music Fortnight, the Maastricht Sacred Music Festival, the Religious Music Week of Cuenca, the Laus Polyphoniae in Antwerp, FEMAS in Seville, Bilbao Ars Sacrum, Île de France Festival, Noirlac Abbey Festival, St. Wenceslas Music Festival in Ostrava and Hong Kong Arts Festival.

Ana Gobantes de Miguel has offered concerts in Spain, France, Holland, Portugal, Belgium, as well as for RNE and has made world premieres at the UIMP, the FIS and the Marcelino Botín Foundation. You soloist invited by Amproband to perform as a world premiere the concert for piano and band of “Incendio de Santander, Memoria and In Memoriam” Op.147 by Antonio Noguera. You promote the music composed in Cantabria in the environment of the Güell-López family with concerts at the Palacio de Sobrellano in Comillas and at the Palau Güell in Barcelona.

Jorge Robaina is the winner of various national and international prizes such as the “Pegasus” prize and the “Bosendorfer” prize in Vienna, and the prize for the best accompanist pianist of the “Fundación Jacinto Guerrero” international singing competition in two consecutive editions. He has performed in places like the National Music Auditorium, the Festpielhaus in Salzburg, the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, the Carnegie Hall in New York, etc. Since 1992 he has been working at the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid as a professor of vocal repertoire. He forms a stable duo with the Mezzo Marta Infante with which he has performed in national and European venues.

Marta López Mazorra is an actress and theater director trained at the School of Dramatic Arts of the Santander Festival Palace and with dance, piano and song studies. He expanded his training in Madrid and Barcelona with several teachers and played roles in works by Lorca, Moliere, Shakespeare … and contemporary theater on national and international tours (Germany, Japan, Scotland, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Canada, etc.) with prestigious shows and companies such as Els Joglars. She is the director of the I and II Camargo International Street Circus Festival, CIRCAM. She combines her life as an actress and director with poetry and her facet of rhapsody and has numerous poetry and live music performances in her repertoire.