The University of Navarra Symphony Orchestra is made up of university-aged students. Each academic year offers the opportunity to expand knowledge and experience within a high-quality symphonic ensemble. Its activities take place throughout the academic year under the guidance of top-level professionals and culminate in public performances, often in collaboration with leading professionals from the music scene.
Inspired by the orchestras of the most prestigious universities in the United States and Central Europe, it consolidates the presence of the arts and music in the university environment and has established itself as a leading youth orchestra. It is currently working to strengthen ties and exchanges with other national and international universities through music.
Are you passionate about music? Have you studied music and do you play an instrument?
The University of Navarra Symphony Orchestra will be seeking new musicians for the ensemble during the 2022-2023 academic year:
• Concerts:
November 26, 2024 - 7:30 p.m. MUN Theater
-In-person auditions: September 17
Open auditions for all instruments
September 17 from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the University of Navarra Museum
Biweekly rehearsals alternating strings and wind instruments, Tuesdays from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. from September to November and January to March.
Registration via the form
For questions and inquiries, please contactalumnosmuseo@unav.esor call: 683671734 (Santi)
Consult course requirements for 24-25
Artistic talent program
Musicians from the Symphony Orchestra, the University of Navarra Choir, or the Theater Training Program can enroll in the Artistic Talent program to earn credits throughout their degree program.
This program makes it easier to balance studies with artistic talent and a passion for music. Thanks to this initiative, conflicts between rehearsals or performances and internships, work, classes, or exams are avoided.
Borja Quintas
Director of the University of Navarra Symphony Orchestra
The conductor of the University of Navarra Symphony Orchestra has been invited to conduct some of the world's most important orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra and the New Russia Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has worked in a wide variety of genres, including extensive opera work in Russia, accompanying singers of the stature of María Bayo, María José Montiel, and Alexander Vedernikov, and paying special attention to 20th- and 21st-century music, leading the Studio for New Music Ensemble in Moscow and conducting numerous premieres.
In Spain, he has done important work with young symphony orchestras, including the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, the Community of Madrid Youth Orchestra, the JMJ Symphony Orchestra, and many others. He has also conducted choral groups such as the Orfeón Donostiarra and the Escolanía de El Escorial. In his symphonic programs, he has shared the stage with soloists such as Oxana Yablonskaya, Valery Sokolov, Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, Nikita Borisoglebsky, and Alexander Trostiansky.
Since 2012, he has been a patron of the Eutherpe Foundation. He also teaches orchestral conducting at the Aragón Conservatory of Music and the Katarina Gurska Conservatory. He is the director of the Russkaya Opera Theater in Moscow.
Teachers
Borja Quintas. Director
Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Conservatory of Music of Aragon and the Katarina Gurska Higher Education Center. Director of the Russkaya Opera Theater in Moscow. He graduated in Orchestral and Opera Conducting from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow under Professor Vladimir Ponkin. As a pianist, he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Professor Joaquín Soriano and at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Viktor Merzhanov. He has made several recordings for prestigious record labels and has collaborated with the main media outlets in Spain and Russia. He has performed in the most important concert halls in Spain, Russia, England, Austria, France, Belgium, and Italy, as well as in the Middle East and Asia in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.
Raffaela Acella. Professor
Violin teacher at the Conservatory and Municipal School of Music in Irún since 1996 and also Director of the Symphony Orchestra of the same Conservatory. She has been living in the Basque Country since 1987.