Singers awarded the scholarship awarded annually by the Fundació Salvat offer a concert today at the Sant Pau Modernist Venue (8pm) together with the Bachcelona Consort. The space designed by Domènech i Montaner will host the performance of the cantata BWV 115 Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit and BWV 55 Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht, two works of great depth that Bach composed to be performed precisely on these dates. The profits will go to the Fundació Ana Ribot in its fight against Alzheimer's.
The Salvat Bach Scholarship, which seeks the training and promotion of young solo singers around Bach's vocal music, grants each year one soprano, one alto, one tenor and one low register voice. Interpreters that he considers prepared to take on a major musical project like the one scheduled tonight.
This project of these scholarships with a training component was started in 2014 by the BZM Foundation and is currently led and sponsored by the Salvat Foundation, with artistic direction and the collaboration of two entities such as the BCB Association and the Bachcelona Foundation.
The project has featured such renowned voices as the countertenor Carlos Mena, the soprano Katharine Fuge, the baritone Stephan MacLeod, the tenor Benjamin Bruns and the soprano Miriam Feuersinger.
On this occasion, the concert uses award winners from different editions: the Portuguese soprano Rita Morais, winner of this year's scholarship and who could be heard in her debut at Life Victoria as LIFE New Artist; the countertenor Dani Folqué (winner of the 2018 edition), who began learning music at the Escolania de Montserrat; the Australian tenor Matthew Thomson (2017), originally from Melbourne but currently residing in Barcelona, and the bass Lluís Arratia... "It is a reunion with former winners of the Salvat Bach Scholarship", points out Daniel Tarrida, director of the Bachcelona Festival who in this concert will assume the organ.
He is accompanied as part of the Bachcelona Consort by Katy Elkin (oboe), David Gutiérrez (traverso), Cristina Altemir (violin), Núria Pujolràs (viola) and Dimitri Kindynis (cello).
