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Romantic. Danza Española #1. 235 measures. 3/8 time signature. 10 pages. key of A minor. Fingering by Edson Lopes. Composed around 1905, De Falla again captures the delightful elements of the guitar in its thematic execution of the motifs, renderings, expressions, and musical textures.
Carmesí Guitar Duo is formed by Spanish guitarists Paola Requena and Isabel Martínez. After developing international careers as soloists that led them to perform on stages all over the world, they began to play together, thus discovering a special affinity and a similar way of understanding music.
Paola Requena is a top prizewinner at numerous international competitions including the Francisco Tárrega Competition (Benicasim, 2007), Printemps de la guitare de Charleroi (Belgium, 2008), Andrés Segovia International Competition (La Herradura, 2008), Comarca del Condado Competition (Jaén, 2003), among others. Graduated from the Ecole Nórmale de Musique in Paris with Alberto Ponce, Paola Requena has an active presence in European concert series and since 2007, she has been recording for Spanish television broadcast by TVE1, TVE2, Clan, Antena 3, and Tele 5, among others.
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Michael Christoforidis is a professor in Musicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish music and dance, and its impact on Western culture. Other research interests include the impact of the visual arts upon musical modernism, issues of national identity and exoticism in music, and the history of the acoustic guitar. He has published two books: Manuel de Falla and Visions of Spanish Music (Routledge, 2017) and Carmen and the Staging of Spain (with Elizabeth Kertesz, Oxford University Press, 2018).
A number of other winners from various award categories will play and sing: guitarist Pepe Romero, recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger, pianists Can Çakmur, Kirill Gerstein and Cédric Tiberghien as well as tenor İlker Arcaryürek. And last not least, the audience will be able to attend the world premiere of a new work by the Composer Award winning Luxembourgish-Spanish musician Ivan Boumans, Organic Beat!