The dancer and choreographer Sara Baras, the singer-songwriter Paco Ibáñez, who has just turned 89, the North American vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater and Cahterine Russell and the fashion group The Tyets are some of the notable names in the new winter season programming and spring of the Auditori de Girona, which will start on January 14 with the performance of the Mexican tenor Javier Camarena.
Until June, 33 proposals have been scheduled, between modern and classical music, of very varied and diverse styles “so that everyone has a place,” according to the director of the Auditori, David Ibáñez. One of the main highlights will be the premiere in Catalonia of the performance by the Sara Baras company, which on its 25th anniversary will pay tribute to the guitar genius Paco de Lucía with the show Vuela. It will not be the only premiere that Girona will host this season.
The Auditori will also offer the only performance in Catalonia by the New York blues-jazz singer Catherine Russell and the absolute premiere of the vocalist, winner of three Grammy awards, Dee Dee Bridgewater, who will be accompanied by the Girona Jazz Project, the resident orchestra at the Marfà musical creation center. Both concerts are part of the Black Music Festival.
From the music of the world, the performance of the Senegalese singer Faada Fredy stands out - the only one in Catalonia - and in the classical section, the public will be treated to an old acquaintance of the Auditorium, the German violinist Isabelle Faust, who will play Bach sonatas and partitas and will premiere a work commissioned by the composer Joan Magrané in the intimate space of the cloister of Girona Cathedral
Continuing with the classical repertoire, the program includes a performance by the French violinist specialized in the interpretation of baroque music Amandine Beyer, who will offer Biber's Rosary Sonatas; the concert by the Manresa soprano Núria Rial and the Fortuny Trio with the Mal Pelo dance company, with a special program on Schönberg's The Transfigured Night.
The Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, under the baton of the Finnish director Susana Mälkki, will play Cuadros de una exposizione, by the Russian composer Mussorgsky and orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. Actors Jordi Boixaderas and Sílvia Bel will interpret Bach's La Pasión según San Juan, with texts by playwright Sergi Belbel, together with the Valles Symphony Orchestra and the Diputación de Girona chamber choir.
In the key of modern music, the program includes Mazoni's concert, which in 2023 has commemorated 20 years on stage with the Temps mort tour; Triquell, ex-participant of Eufòria, on tour with his debut album, and Menorcan pianist Marco Mezquida with Tornado, an album he has conceived with drummer Ramon Prats and double bassist Masa Kamaguchi.
One of the most popular groups will not be missing, The Tyets, authors of the popular sardana-reggaeton Coti x Coti, on tour with their second album Èpic Solete. Christina Rosenvinge will present The Sapphic Verses, an album in which she reinterprets the verses of the Greek poet Sappho, and the renowned singer-songwriter Paco Ibáñez will present Once Upon a Time..., a concert in which he vindicates humanism in the face of the barbarism of the 21st century.
