Teresa Catalán: Concert-Meeting

This year, the Museum Theater welcomes Teresa Catalán, one of Spain's leading composers, in an event that will allow the audience to learn about her life and work from different perspectives.

In the first part, Teresa Catalán will be joined by manager Patxi Larrañaga and musicologist and Radio Clásica reporter Eva Sandoval. These three friends will gather on stage at the theater, where Mario Prisuelos will perform some of the composer's most representative piano works.

In the second part, the audience will be able to continue enjoying Teresa Catalán's work in her dance role with the performance of Gravity 0º, a creation by the Elephant in The Black Box company, based on the work La danza de la princesa (The Princess's Dance) performed by dancer Valentina Pedica.

Total duration of the Meeting-Concert: 60 minutes

Free admission with invitation, available at the box office

SELECTION OF PIANO PIECES BY TERESA CATALÁN

Broken Toys (1995)

Elegy No. 3 (2007)

The Dance of Red Joy (2013)

Aldonza and Crésida (2015)

Works by TERESA CATALÁN performed on piano by MARIO PRISUELOS

Duration: 30 minutes

PARTICIPANTS IN THE MEETING

TERESA CATALÁN (COMPOSER)

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.

EVA SANDOVAL

Since 2008, he has been part of the staff at Radio Clásica de RTVE, where he has presented and directed or co-directed magazine programs featuring interviews and musical performances. Tea for three and Music on the go; specialized programs Last Light, Schubert songs and Comedy melodies, and music selection spaces Summer mornings and afternoons, Summer nights, Ocean views and Reflections in the waterSince January 2010, he has been directing the monographic program. Great Cycles and since October 2013 Live music, a program about contemporary music. In October 2016, he began co-directing the program. Room 206 with live musical performances.

She has contributed to various music magazines and since 2007 has regularly written concert program notes for various institutions. During the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons, she was the scriptwriter and presenter of educational concerts for schoolchildren organized by the Caja Madrid Foundation at the National Music Auditorium and the Auditorium of the Carlos III University in Leganés.

PATXI LARRAÑAGA

After a period as a composer, his professional career has developed in the areas of management (head of cultural activities at the Cervantes Institute in Rome; music, theater, and dance technician at the Cervantes Institute headquarters), training ( director of the Center for Performing Arts Technology – National Institute of Performing Arts and Music), and criticism ( Madrid Leisure Guide – cercadelacerca.blogspot.com) in the performing arts. He is an architect. Since 2014, he has been working at the INAEM headquarters, assigned to the PLATEA program.

MARIO PRISUELOS (PIANO)

Mario Prisuelos made his international debut at the Feuchtwangen Piano Festival as part of the acclaimed Musikzauber Franken in Germany, where critics praised his "great talent and strong communicative power." Since then, he has embarked on an intense concert schedule, performing in recitals, as an orchestra soloist, and in chamber groups, with debuts in venues in Vienna, Milan, Paris, London, Florence, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Miami, etc. He is a regular guest at major festivals throughout Europe. He has made recordings for Verso, Sonoris, RTVE, and Hrvatski Croatian Radio, among others.

Considered one of the most important pianists of his generation, he recently completed an extensive tour of the United States that saw him make his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as giving concerts at venues including the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, the Ircam-Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Zagreb Music Academy.

Photograph ©Michal Novak