2024.12.19 Concert in Córdoba
From San Sebastián, I headed south to Córdoba. We could see the Mezquita from the front of the hotel where we were staying, and it was a spectacular view.
On 19 December, we had a concert at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Córdoba. There was a fascinating exhibition going on inside the museum.
Our concert, curated by Bruno Dozza and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, focused on female composers and featured an elaborate program with pieces by Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena, Wang Lu and Annachiara Gedda for Noh voice and cello, set aside some electronic music by Saariaho.
Tradición Y Actualidad De La Música Contemporánea
19 December 2024 20:00-
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Córdoba
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) Près (1992)
Zuriñe F Gerenabarrena (1965-) “Yoru” for Noh voice and Violoncello (2018)
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) Près Ⅱ (1992)
Wang Lu (1982-) “Seven Poems” for Noh voice and cello (2019)
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) Jardin Secreto Ⅰ
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) Près Ⅲ (1992)
Annachiara Gedda (1986-) “MONONOKE” for Noh voice and Violoncello (2018)
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice) Aldo Mata (Violoncello) Angel Arranz Moreno (electronic)
We had a great time right up until the launch party. Córdoba is wonderful!
The Spanish classical music magazine “RITMO” also published an excellent review.
The Noh theatre as an axis of sound habitability by María Alonso
“After the last movement of Près, Ryoko Aoki’s last intervention, Mononoke by Annachiara Gedda (1986), closed the concert, creating a unique dialogue between the gesturality, movement and vocal nō, and the precision and musicality of Mata’s cello. A concert that far from inhabiting only the sound plane, generated a small total work of art – lights, costumes, performers, gestures, etc. – and blurred the line of the improper, the anachronistic and the unintelligible, serving as a guide for an audience open to listening. A process of discovery that brought together elements of apparent discrepancy in a narrative that transgresses the merely sonorous, and an audience that resolved its expectations in every applause.”