CONTEMPORARY HARP, A PERFORMATIVE ENCOUNTER. ALICIA GRIFFITHS

The rooms of the University of Navarra Museum are filled with harps to offer an encounter with contemporary music in which performers, audience, and composer experiment with the museum's architecture as another acoustic and musical element.

Price: €10. Special discounts with Youth Card and PIC card (Pamplona Iruña Card).

Proposal in exhibition halls. Limited capacity: 15 people per session
Two performances: 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. 

This performative encounter with the contemporary harp has been conceived by harpist Alicia Griffiths in collaboration with composer Ekhi Ocaña. The final performance for the harp septet will be a world premiere by the composer, created specifically for this event.

Music program

Three Improvisations for Harp, by William Mathias (1934–1992). For solo harp

Scintillation,by Carlos Salzedo (1885-1961). For solo harp.

5 Phantastereien, by Wolfgang Buchenberg (1962). For solo harp.

I.Hirngespinst

II.Dream Vision

Triumphus Aeternitatis, based on two verses by Petrarch, in two movements, by Ekhi Ocaña.

I.Blessed is he who saw her on earth.

II.When will I see her again in heaven?

*World premiere

Performers:Alicia Griffiths, Hegoa Intxauspe, Nina Bahmann, Edurne Aizpún, Ana Olaso, Raquel Ortega, and Ainara Moreno

Download the programhere.