The Córdoba Orchestra focuses on attracting young audiences with discounts and a tailored programRafa Alcaide
Essencethis is how the new commitment of the Córdoba Orchestra is defined, which this Wednesday presented the program of the season 2024/25, in which a series of discounts will be applied aimed at attracting new audiences to classical music and, especially, connecting with young people. What of Essence represents an opportunity for all audiences to rediscover the catalog of great Central European works and discover solos and new compositions who are currently making strong progress.
As for the prices, Manager Roberto Palmer has reported that the governing board has approved today the rates, which will mean the extension of the 50% discount on passes and tickets for young people up to the age of 35, who will be able to use the Youth Cultural Pass. The Orchestra has updated prices, with increases that will be especially noticeable in the purchase of individual seats. On the other hand, the mezzo subscription, which includes six concerts, will be cheaper, especially for young people, seniors and the unemployed, and in the complete subscriptions that correspond to the twelve concerts on Thursdays, three zones have been divided depending on the place in the public. Discounts of 10% on season tickets and up to 15% on single seats for people over 65, unemployed and groups will be maintained. Family concerts will also benefit from the price drop. The seat will be more expensive and other areas will have more affordable pricesThe main objective is to bet on the mezzo subscription, whose price drops by an average of 9%, according to Palmer.
The tandem of young talent that is currently guiding the steps of musical training, the director Salvador Vazquez and manager Roberto Pálmer, with the support of the experience of Juan Miguel Moreno Calderón, has firmly set out to give a 360-degree turn to an orchestra that, after a period of uncertainty, faces a new stage with things very clear.
2024/25 season program
Salvador Vázquez has revealed the keys to the program of subscription, extraordinary and family concerts for the season that will begin in September, with the opening concert at the Góngora Theater, in which the director will take a tour of the most significant works and composers of this program, as a presentation and roadmap. From there, the twelve subscription concerts, which will begin with one titled The year 1808, in reference to the date on which the 5 Beethoven Symphony, a revolutionary piece identifiable by audiences from all over the world that will be played at the Gran Teatro for the occasion with two soloists from the Cordoba Orchestra as protagonists, Isel Rodríguez on violin and Nazaret Kiourtkchian on double bass.
Pieces of the wingspan Beethoven’s fifth symphony or Tchaikovsky’s fourth, as well as Mozart’s Concerto for violin and orchestra number 5, among others, will be played in the concerts of Abono 1, in 3 (Classics ma non troppo), 10 (allegory of destiny), eleven (Romantic universe) along with premiere works such as the piece by the young Andalusian María Jesús Amaro Le Revé de Daphne, which will be present at the Abono 2 concert (Introspection and vitality). In it Puccini year, The Córdoba Orchestra has prepared a tribute in its Subscription 5 concert (Eternal glory), in which under the direction of Salvador Vázquez, the mass of glory will be played together with the Opera Choir, the tenor Enrique Parra and the baritone Alfonso Mujica.
Juan Miguel Moreno intervenes during the presentation of the new season of the Córdoba Orchestra.
Six concerts with the main conductor and six with a guest conductor
In total, according to the director, there will be eleven pieces that the Córdoba Orchestra will perform for the first time, there will be six concerts conducted by the director and another six by guest conductors of great international renown such as Francisco Valero-Terribas, Alexandre Da Costa, Pablo González, Manuel Hernández Silva, who will direct the concert With a romantic soul with pianist Emin Kiourtkchian, Teresa Rivero and Catherin Larsen-Maguire. presence of the woman will also be very prominent this season, led by great directors and composers.
The Abono 6 concert (Dear teacher), in January 2025, it will be a posthumous tribute to Lorenzo Palomo and in it the sound will sound Concerto for marimba and orchestra Composed by the Cordoba composer for guitar and premiered in New York, and adapted for the orchestra.
The season includes four extraordinary concerts. The Opening Concert, the Christmas Concert, in which the voice of soprano Leonor Bonilla and popular pieces by A. Moreno Pozo from Córdoba will sound; the New Year’s Concert, which mixes pieces of Viennese music and lyrical music in Spanish, and the Holy Week Concert, in which the Córdoba soprano Lucía Tavira, the baritone Javier Povedano and the Ziryab Choir will perform under the direction of Salvador Vázquez a program of brother music and composers from Córdoba.
The program is completed with three family concerts, first Vitalwith Lolo Fernández as narrator, “a therapy for the public and for the orchestra,” according to the director; Stand Up, Musicwith humor as the protagonist and Ana Hernández as narrator and Leonora and the sixty coffee beansdirected and narrated by two women: Jhoanna Sierralta and Belén Otxotorena.
