The Córdoba Orchestra ends the 2023-2024 season with one of the most valued Spanish conductors in recent times: Víctor Pablo Pérez and one of the Spanish cellists with the most international projection at the moment, Adolfo Gutiérrez.
Thursday, June 20 and Friday, June 21the Orchestra will offer its last two concerts of the subscription season at the Gran Teatro with a program titled «Beginning and end». In the first part, The Cello Concerto in A minor by Robert Schumann, a masterpiece of great emotional depth and expressiveness, written in the last years of his life.
Closing the program is Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor, composed at just 15 years old and showing the composer’s precocious talent and mastery of the symphonic form at such a young age.
Before the summer stop, he will offer two concerts within the Guitar Festival, performing alongside guitarist Jose Antonio Rodríguez on July 4, with the absolute premiere of « The look of Romero de Torres» and on July 10 with the first mandolin soloist nominated for a classical Grammy, Avi Avital.
The Córdoba Orchestra has announced that it will present its 2024/25 season, the last week of June.
About Victor Pablo Pérez
He was born in Burgos, in 1954. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid and at the “Hochschule für Musik” in Munich, as well as in Italy and Austria. He has been Director of Opera and Concertation at the Higher School of Singing in Madrid. He stands out for the work carried out in two of the most renowned Spanish groups, and in whose formation he has had a decisive role: the Tenerife Symphony, at the head of which he was artistic director and principal between 1986 and 2006; and the Galician Symphony, which he has led since 1995. He has also been Artistic Director and Principal of the Orchestra and Choir of the Community of Madrid. He has recorded works by Mozart, Rossini, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Falla, Barbieri, Arrieta, Villalobos, Albéniz, Montsalvatge and Sorozábal, among others.
Among the awards and distinctions he has obtained, the Ojo Crítico Award from National Radio of Spain (1990), Ondas Award (1992 and 1996), National Music Award (1995), Gold Medal for Fine Arts (1999), Director Honorary of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (2006), Honorary Director of the Galicia Symphony Orchestra (2013), Adopted Son of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Island of Tenerife, Gold Medal of the Government of the Canary Islands, Corresponding Academic of the Royal Academies of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid) and Nuestra Señora del Rosario (A Coruña).
About Adolfo Gutiérrez, cello
Born in Munich, to Spanish parents, he is undoubtedly the Spanish cellist with the greatest international projection at the moment. In 2010 he debuted with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Ibermusica series performing Elgar’s Concerto, being reinvited to the series, where he gave a recital in 2012 with great success among the public and critics.
He has recently performed with the Royal Philharmonic of London with Charles Dutoit and was immediately reinvited with the RPO, this time under the baton of Edward Gardner for the opening concert of the 2013 Santander Festival, performing Elgar’s Concerto.
His latest engagements include his debut with the Gewandhaus Orchester with Riccardo Chailly, recital at the Festival, Mendelssohn at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, National Orchestra of Spain with Ton Koopman, Fort Worth Symphony in the USA with Miguel Harth-Bedoya, as well as invitations by Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony, and with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016.
In Spain he has performed in recent years with the main orchestras. Her recital tours in the USA have taken her to play in New York, Boston, Dallas, San Diego and Los Angeles.
Adolfo plays an instrument made in Cremona in 1673 by Francesco Ruggeri, generously lent by anonymous patrons with the invaluable collaboration of Thomas Wei at Florian Leonhard Ltd. London.
