Sound maps.Works by Teresa Catalán

The exhibition halls will be the setting for musical performances featuring a selection of works by Navarran composer Teresa Catalán, performed by Anna Siwek (violin), Xavier Relats (flute), and Alicia Griffiths (harp).

General admission: €4.50 and reduced admission: €3

Free admission for Friends of the Museum, students, and employees of the University of Navarra.

PROGRAM

Approximate duration : 30 minutes per screening

Selection of musical pieces by Teresa Catalán

Por la Belena de San Cernin (for solo violin)

Infinite Limit (flute and harp)

Soliloquy ( solo flute)

Esparzas I (flute in G)

Esparzas II (flute and violin)

TERESA CATALÁN

Teresa Catalán, composer and Professor of Composition and Instrumentation at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, was born in Pamplona, where she studied music, graduating with degrees in Piano and Composition. Her training as a composer in Spain and Italy was influenced by her teachers Ramón Barce and Agustín González Acilu.

Doctor of Philosophy in Art and Master's Degree in Aesthetics and Musical Creativity from the University of Valencia. She has received several awards for performance, composition, and recognition of her musical career. She was a founding member of the Pamplona Composers' Group (Iruñeako Taldea Musikagileak). She has been a member of the Culture Council of the Government of Navarre and the State Council for the Performing Arts and Music. She has directed the music section of several conferences and festivals.

He has received commissions from various national and international institutions and has taught courses and given lectures at festivals, institutions, universities, and conservatories, notably at the invitation of the P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.

Author of the treatise Tempered Compositional Systems in the 20th Century, she also publishes articles in important books and magazines. Her compositions for symphony orchestra, chamber music, solo instruments, etc. are programmed at the most important international festivals (Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Argentina, Russia, USA, Netherlands, Cuba, Romania, etc.). In 2011, she was awarded the Order of Civil Merit.

INTERPRETERS

ANNA SIWEK (violin)

She was born in Poland, where she studied violin in her hometown of Lodz, becoming assistant to Professor Zenon Ploszaj at the Professional Conservatory of Music. She has received master classes from teachers such as W. Marschner, Y. Neyman, U. Wiesel, D. Beniamini, the Amadeus Quartet, the Orlando Quartet, and the Paris Trio.

Since 1990, he has lived in Spain, where he works with the Navarre Symphony Orchestra, currently as assistant concertmaster. He has taught at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in Pamplona and performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Lodz Philharmonic, the Lodz Radio and Television Orchestra, the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Pro Música Chamber Orchestra, and the Concierto Chamber Orchestra.

XAVIER RELATS (flute)

Born in Barcelona, he studied flute with Claudi Arimany, later continuing his studies in France and Switzerland, and has received masterclasses from Jean-Pierre Rampal, Aurèle Nicolet, Andràs Adorjàn, Wilbert Hazelzet, and Barthold Kuijken. His distinctions include First Prize in the Ville de Paris Interconservatory Competition in 1984, the Gold Medal from the National School of Music in Bourg La Reine in 1986, First Prize for Virtuosity from the Lausanne Conservatory in 1989, and the Concert Diploma from the Musikhochschule in Zurich in 1991. Between 1989 and 1991 he was engaged by the Bieler Symphonieorchester (Switzerland), and since then he has been a soloist with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra.

He has recorded two CDs with pianist Jordi Masó, as well as recordings for Radio Suisse Romande, Danmarks Radio, RNE, TVE, and Tele 5. He performs regularly as a soloist and with various chamber ensembles, as well as principal flute in several orchestras. In the field of teaching, he has been a flute teacher at the Vilaseca-Salou Professional Conservatory of Music (Tarragona) and the Pamplona Conservatory of Music.

ALICIA GRIFFITHS (harp)

Alicia Griffiths Turrillas was born in Pamplona into a musical family. Her grandfather, Manuel Turrillas, was a great composer of popular music from Navarre. Alicia began playing classical guitar at the age of 7 and harp at 13. She completed her secondary studies at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory in Pamplona and moved to Wales in 2006 to study harp at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she obtained a Bachelor of Music degree with a scholarship for further artistic studies from the Government of Navarre. In 2013, she completed her Master's degree in music performance with Gabriella Dall'Olio and Frances Kelly (baroque harp) at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, where she has also worked as a harp and chamber music teacher in the Junior department. In 2011, she received the John Marson Award for Harp Studies, with which she gave her debut recital at St. Martin in The Fields.

He performs regularly with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra in Lisbon, the London Mahler Orchestra, the Whitehall Orchestra, Bloomsbury Chamber Orchestra, Royal Orchestral Society, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra, Basque Country Youth Orchestra, and Norwegian National Youth Orchestra, among others. His passion lies in chamber music and he regularly performs with different ensembles and in interdisciplinary collaborations.