"VIVE LA FRANCE!" - ACADEMIA

500th anniversary of the Siege of Logroño

TEACHERS: Silvia Márquez Chulilla: harpsichord and direction Guillermo Peñalver: flutes Sophie Wedell: baroque violin Antonio Clares: baroque viola Guillermo Turina: baroque cello Daniel Garay: historical percussion

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In this new edition of the Semana de Música Antigua de Logroño, with the aim of strengthening a growing effort to reach out to new audiences, an Academy is being created for the first time, open to instrumentalists and the curious alike who wish to make a first acquaintance with the language of Renaissance and Baroque music, or to explore it in greater depth.

To achieve this aim, the members of La Tempestad – led by their director and harpsichordist Silvia Márquez Chulilla – will work throughout the week with the Academy's participants on the preparation, understanding and study of a specific programme. This will involve separate rehearsals with each of the ensemble's specialists, as well as various meetings with other professionals, before the result is presented at the concert that closes the activity. The Academy of the Semana de Música Antigua de Logroño – coordinated by Jorge Nicolás Manrique and Rioja Filarmonía – thus offers a new space for communication, study and dissemination of early music. It will allow both participants and the general public to enjoy this repertoire with renewed interest and, in addition, establish Logroño as a new meeting point, with early music as the bond that unites.