Musikagileak programs for Wednesday in Musikene a concert that includes works by the composers with whom ‘Kaierak’ begins
SAN SEBASTIÁN, 1 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Musikene Higher Music Center of the Basque Country and the Eresbil Basque Music Archive have created a collection of books on living Basque composers entitled ‘Kaierak – Basque Composers of the 21st century’, which begins with two publications dedicated to Ramón Lazkano and Teresa Catalan.
Musikene and Eresbil collaborate in this “pioneer” project that delves into the dissemination of current music from the Basque Country. The collection starts with two titles dedicated to Ramón Lazkano and Teresa Catalán and will soon have a third book focused on the figure of Félix Ibarrondo.
The director of Musikene, Miren Iñarga, stressed that this new project reaffirms Musikene’s “concern” and his “commitment” to “make the Basque musical heritage known, also endowing it with an internationalizing ambition.”
The director of Eresbil, Pello Leiñena, has indicated that “for Eresbil the presentation of the collection of Kaierak notebooks carried out in collaboration with Musikene represents a new step in the revaluation of the work” of the Basque composers, since it offers a “comprehensive and rich look at the activity of the composers represented “.
‘Kaierak’ is a collection of trilingual notebooks (Spanish, Basque and English), created with the aim of “bringing together in a rigorous, clear and concise way Basque composers of international prestige through an interview and an article analyzing their work” . The interview focuses on aspects of the professional development and contexts of the author’s career, as well as other issues that help bring the figure of the creator closer to the reader, while the article addresses the language, writing and work of the protagonist.
In addition, each book includes a catalog of works and a chronology that summarizes his life, as well as discography and bibliography. The creator from San Sebastian Ramón Lazkano (1968) and the Navarrese composer Teresa Catalán (1951) are the protagonists of the first two notebooks, which are already available on the musikene website ‘www.musikene.eus’.
In the case of the book dedicated to Lazkano, the ethnomusicologist Elixabete Etxebeste participates as the author of ‘Some questions and some answers from an interview’ and the musician Dan Albertson, who signs the analysis article entitled ‘Trapped between clouds and clay: the rooted wanderer ‘.
In the case of Teresa Catalán’s book, the composer and conductor Jesús Echeverría is the author of the article ‘Music and mythology, a sonorous and mystical path of symbiosis’. The doctor in journalism and music Mari Jose Cano shares the authorship of the book with the interview entitled ‘Engagement is the engine of music’. Etxebeste, Echeverría and Cano are both Musikene teachers. CONCERT
The Basque-Navarre Association of Musikagileak composers has scheduled a concert for this Wednesday February 3 in Musikene that includes works by the three composers with whom the Kaierak collection begins.
The meeting is part of the contemporary music circuit organized by said association and will be performed by the Bilbao Sinfonietta directed by Iker Sánchez. The master from Irune will lead the flutist Xabier Calzada, the clarinetist Javier Roldán, Teresa Valente on the cello and Alfonso Gómez on the piano, a meeting that will open with ‘Boreas’, composed by Félix Ibarrondo in 1987.
‘El bird de Estinfalo’, a 1998 work by Teresa Catalán and ‘Errobi 2’, written by Lazkano in 2008, complete the presence of these three composers. The meeting also includes the absolute premiere of the work ‘Bariolage sauvage’ by the Toulouse creator Mikel Chamizo, ‘Biribilketa’ by Gabriel Erkoreka and ‘The repeated differences’ by Brais Novoa. Admission to the concert, at 7:00 p.m. in the Musikene auditorium, is free until full capacity is reached.
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