The Exhibition Hall of La Glorieta will host, starting tomorrow, Tuesday and until Thursday, May 30, the International Guitar Festival of Murcia, whose performances are open to full capacity.
In this way the festival offers, for free, the performances of top-level guitarists such as José Luis Ruiz del Puerto, Fernando Espí and Miriam Rodriguez & Pavor Remenár.
All of them will start at 20 hours
The festival will be opened tomorrow by José Luis del Puerto, considered one of the most solid values ​​in the contemporary Spanish guitar scene.
His extensive dedication to the dissemination of Spanish music has earned him international recognition.
He has made the absolute premiere of more than forty works and first recordings of a wide repertoire of Spanish music for solo guitar, chamber music and premiered six concerts for guitar and orchestra, among them, the recently awarded with a Latin Grammy 'Luces y Sombras' by Claudia Montero
He has performed in important festivals and audiences in Spain, Mexico, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Romania, England, Portugal, Ireland, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Morocco ...
On Wednesday it will be the turn of Fernando Espí, last Extraordinary End of Career Award of the renowned Maestro José Tomás at the Superior Conservatory Oscar Esplá in Alicante.
He is currently teaching as a guitar professor at the Manuel Massotti Conservatory of Music in Murcia.
He has been awarded in national and international competitions of recognized prestige, obtaining also prizes to the best interpretation of Spanish music.
This edition of the festival will close on Thursday 30, the duo composed by Miriam Rodriguez & Pavol Remenár.
Miriam Rodríguez studied at the Bratislava State Conservatory.
After obtaining a degree in interpretation and pedagogy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, he studied with the outstanding guitarist and pedagogue Álvaro Pierri at the University of Quebec.
In addition, he participated in several guitar competitions in Slovakia and abroad, where he won important prizes.
He performed as a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester, Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Universal Symphony Orchestra, Rzeszow Philharmonic, Virtuosi di Praga, Talich Chamber Orchestra, Fondazione Arena di Verona Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Rome, Virtuosi Pragenses, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Philharmonic of the Czech Republic, Cappella Istropolitana, Sinfonietta Slovak, West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, Classical Music Maniacs, Aeolus Quartet, Kallaci Quartet, Zemlinsky Quartet, Stamic Quartet, Mucha Quartet and others.
As a chamber music performer, he regularly performs with some great Slovak, Czech and Hungarian artists (for example, with Dalibor violinists).
Karvay and Sándor Jávorkai, Roman bassist Patkoló, cellist Petr NouzovskĂ˝, soloists of the Slovak National Opera Eva Hornyáková and Pavol Remenár).
For his part, Pavol Remenár is the soloist of the Slovak National Theater Opera in Bratislava.
His debut on the Slovak opera scene came in September 2000, when he sang the lead role of Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Since then, he has played many operatic roles
Remenár has performed in many countries such as Finland, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Austria or Japan among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia