Spanish artists participating at Utrecht Early Music Festival 2016, 26 August – 4 September
The Utrecht Early Music Festival 2016 will take place from August 26 to September 4. The festival, which has been held in the city of Utrecht since 1982, will focus in this year’s edition on the musical history of the Republic of Venice, a city where new music was created and spread to the rest of Europe.
Several Spanish artists will be participating: bass-baritone singer Josep Cabré (Barcelona) and his quartet La Colombina will perform different madrigals, paying a tribute to the founder of the Venetian School, the Flemish composer Adrian Willaert; Seville harpsichordist Javier Núñez will be playing dance music composed by Giovanni Picchi, the only Venetian to write music for the harpsichord, and the renowned Catalan musician Jordi Savall and his early music group Hespèrion XXI will offer a special concert including several pieces spanning a thousand years of the Republic of Venice’s musical history.
Furthermore, the group “L’Apotheose” has qualified for the semi-finals of the “Internationaal Van Wassenaar Concours”, an international contest to promote young and emerging bands and artists of early music hosted for the second time by the Utrecht Early Music Festival. The members of this group come from Madrid and Frankfurt. Both the semi-finals and the final are free to the public.
For more information, dates and times you can visit the Website of the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2016.
