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Ginés Murcia tenor Torrano receive this afternoon at the hands of the Councillor for Culture, Fátima Barnuevo, and director of the choir Discantus, Angel Luis Carrillo, the prize "Golden Discantus" in an act which the celebrations begin the fifteenth anniversary of the Coral Discantus.
This prize has been awarded by a jury that was made by Council Member Barnuevo, Eugenio Santos, president of the opera company Santos and José Julián García Martínez, a journalist, as well as director of the choir.
Around the anniversary, the musical group has organized several events that will start in December 2009 and will run until August 2010.
The choir has an intense cultural activity: in addition to holding half a hundred performances a year, edits a cultural magazine (Tribune Discantus) and offers voice lessons and singing.
Also, each year presented the award Discantus Gold
The award is now given to its wide Torrano career is a recognition of the entity to the work of creation, protection and dissemination of culture in our country, and since 1995 has been giving the award to musicians, musical directors, the Mayor of Murcia and various organizations and associations, as well as the soprano Ainhoa Arteta and Fernando Argenta presenter.
The main events which celebrate this anniversary will start on December 17 with a concert at the Cathedral (Handel's Messiah) and a party with giant cake in the Plaza de Santo Domingo, Saturday 19, with a special concert carols.
Between 20 and 30 November will have Christmas concerts by the region and between January and August the following musical performances will happen:
- Friday, January 8: The Messiah, the Church of El Salvador in Caravaca.
- Friday February 26: Requiem in the Church of San Bartolomé de Murcia
- From 26 March to 4 April: many sacred concerts for Easter Murcia
- Friday 28 May: Carmina Burana, in Murcia Artillery Barracks
- Tuesday, July 6: XV Anniversary Special Concert "Con ..
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Belluga Plaza with choral versions of well known musical pieces.
- From 3 to 11 August: Concert tour the United States (New York, Washington and Philadelphia).
Remember that the Coral Discantus opened its new headquarters, located at Avenida Infante Juan Manuel, in June this year.
The musical group, founded in 1995, currently has sixty members in its official section, which join the components of the youth sections, child and candidates, whose members are prepared thoroughly before agreeing to the choir "official" .
More than 400 members comprising the entity, including also the chamber choir and club members.
Throughout his meteoric career, Discantus has become a musical entity class, which each year conducts an average of one hundred concerts, not only in Spain but has also performed in Portugal, Poland, Argentina, Germany and China .
In addition to accumulating prizes and awards in various national and international competitions, his discography has already published seven works, both music century as Spanish and Latin American carols, etc.
and coral file contains more than 400 works.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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