Albert Alcaraz

Albert Alcaraz‘s music was present at the XXII International Choir Festival of Dorog (Hungary) last 29 July, in the voices of Arte Vocal Choir (Villanueva de la Serena/Badajoz) Spain, during their tour in Hungary. In addition, the spanish choir also had the honor of performing a concert at the Basilica of Esztergorm, with music by spanish composers.

In the Cultural Center of Dorog Attila Jozsef, following choirs participated: Franz Schubert Vegyeskar Zselíz (Slovakia), Szlovák Asszonykórus Piliscsév, Német Nemzetiségi Dalkör Tarján, Szent Anna templo Kórusa (Esztergom-Hungary), Bányász Kórus Tokodaltáro, Gardellaca Kórus Tokod and finally, Arte Vocal Choir from Villanueva de la Serena-Badajoz (Spain), performing works by Albert Alcaraz, as ‘Aetas, carmen melodiae’ or ‘Exsultate Deo’.

The International Choir Festival of Dorog end next September 25, 2010. This year, and since last May 7, attended choral groups from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Norway and Spain.

For more information, please visit the following links:

http://www.musik-land.hu/magyar/rendezvenyeink2010.htm

http://www.hoy.es/v/20100722/villanueva/coro-arte-vocal-ejercera-20100722.html

Albert Alcaraz‘s music will resound at the ‘Quincena Musical de San Sebastián / Donostiako Musika Hamabostaldia’ (Basque Country) which will be held during the 7th August to 3 September, and which this year celebrates its 71st edition.

On the opening day, Landarbaso Abesbatza recently awarded two gold medals and one silver at the World Choir Games in Shaoxing (China), will feature music by composers of the twentieth century, as Vytautas Miskinis, Ko Matsushita, Xabier Sarasola or Albert Alcaraz, under the direction of Iñaki Tolaretxipi, founding conductor of the choir. The concert will take place in the wondefurl Plenary Hall of the City Council of Donosti.

The ‘Quincena’ celebrates several anniversaries: the 250th anniversary of the wedding of King Louis XIV of France and Navarre and Maria Teresa of Austria, which took place in San Juan de Luz, and the four composers, Mahler, Chopin, Schumann and Wolf.

However, the main reason for this release is the music and Russian interpreters, coinciding with the creation of “The Firebird” by Igor Stravinsky, one hundred years ago.

The Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Toulouse, the Orfeón Donostiarra, the Choir of the Smolny Cathedral, Loinatz Abesbatza, Koro Saenz, Conductus Ensemble, Coro Easo, NovaLux Ensemble, Alia Mvsica, among others, and also, prestigious conductors and performers like Valery Gergiev, Vasily Petrenko, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Ponkin, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Tugan Sokhlev, Vladimir Blegetsov … will meet in one of the most important musical cycles of the current scene.

In addition, there will be the world premiere of the Mass Pope John XXIII (Ecumenical Mass) for choir and organ about the basque composer Tomas Garbizu, written in 1962 and presented now by Koro Saenz and Loinatz Abesbatza.

For more information, please visit the following links:

http://www.quincenamusical.com/fileadmin/programas/programa_2010.pdf