The dancer and choreographer Sara Baras, the composer Paco Ibáñez, who has just turned 89, the American vocalists Dee Dee Bridgewater and Catherine Russell or the fashion group The Tyets are some of the prominent names in the new programming of the season of winter and spring at the Girona Auditorium, which will begin on January 14 with the performance of Mexican tenor Javier Camarena.
Until June, 33 proposals have been programmed, between modern and classical music, of very varied and diverse styles "so that there is a place for everyone", according to the director of the Auditorium, David Ibáñez. One of the main highlights will be the premiere in Catalonia of the performance of Sara Baras' company, which on its 25th anniversary will pay tribute to the genius of the guitar Paco de Lucía with the Vuela show. It will not be the only premiere that Girona will host this season.
The Auditorium will also offer the only performance in Catalonia by the New York blues-jazz singer Catherine Russell and the absolute premiere of fellow vocalist, winner of three Grammy awards, Dee Dee Bridgewater, who will be accompanied by the Girona Jazz Project, the resident orchestra of the Marfà musical creation center. Both concerts are part of the Black Music Festival.
From world music, the performance of the Senegalese singer Faada Freddy stands out - the only one in Catalonia - and, in the classical section, the audience will be treated to an old acquaintance from the Auditorium, the German violinist Isabelle Faust, who will play Bach's Sonatas and Partitas and will premiere a work commissioned by the composer Joan Magrané in the intimate space of the cloister of Girona Cathedral.
Still with the classical repertoire, the program includes the performance of the French violinist specialized in the interpretation of baroque music Amandine Beyer, who will offer the Rosary Sonatas; the concert by Manresa soprano Núria Rial and Trio Fortuny with the Mal Pelo dance company, with a special program on La nit transfigurada, by Schönberg.
The Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, under the baton of the Finnish director Susanna Mälkki, will play Quadres d'una exhibição, by the Russian composer Mussorgsky and orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. Actors Jordi Boixaderas and Sílvia Bel will interpret Bach's La Passione according to Sant Joan, with texts by dramatist Sergi Belbel, together with the Vallès Symphony Orchestra and the chamber choir of the Diputació de Girona.
In terms 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-concursor of Eufòria, on tour with the 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 groups that have played the most, The Tyets, authors of the popular sardana-reggaeton Coti x Coti, will not be missing, on tour with their second album Épic Solete. Christina Rosenvinge will present Los versos sáficos, an album in which she reinterprets the verses of the Greek poet Sappho, and the renowned artist Paco Ibáñez will present Érase una vez..., a concert in which he vindicates humanism in the face of the barbarism of the 21st century.
