The Córdoba Orchestra closes the season with the baton of maestro Víctor Pablo PérezCORDOVA
The Córdoba Orchestra ends the 2023-2024 season with one of the most valued Spanish conductors in recent times: Victor Pablo Perez and one of the Spanish cellists with the most international projection at the moment, Adolfo Gutierrez.
On Thursday, June 20 and Friday, June 21, the 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. Close the program, Symphony No. 1 in C minor by Felix Mendelssohn, composed with only 15 years and that shows the composer’s precocious talent and his mastery of the symphonic form at such a young age.
Before the summer breakwill 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.
Program
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) – Concerto for cello and orchestra in A minor, Op. 129 (1850)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) – Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11 (1824)
Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas, cello
Víctor Pablo Pérez, director
About Victor Pablo Pérez
He was born in Burgos, in 1954. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid and in the Hochschule für Musik of 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 his work played in two of the Spanish groups with more renown, and in whose formation he has had a decisive role: the Tenerife Symphony, at the head of which he was artistic director and director between 1986 and 2006; and the Galician Symphony, which he has led since 1995. He has also been artistic director and head of the Orchestra and Choir of the Community of Madrid. He has recorded works of Mozart, Rossini, Prokofiev, Dvorak, Falla, Barbieri, Arrieta, Villalobos, Albéniz, Montsalvatge and Sorozábalamong 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).
The cellist Adolfo Gutiérrez.
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 cycle, where he offered a recital in 2012 with great success among the public and critics.
He recently performed with the Royal Philharmonic of London under 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 commitments include, his debut with the Gewandhaus Orchester with Riccardo Chailly, recital at the Festival, Mendelssohn from the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Spanish National Orchestra with Ton Koopman, the Fort Worth Symphony in the USA with Miguel Harth-Bedoya, as well as invitations from 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.
The cellist plays an instrument made in Cremona in 1673 by Francesco Ruggerigenerously lent by anonymous patrons with the invaluable collaboration of Thomas Wei at Florian Leonhard Ltd. London.
