Catalunya Música interviewed Jaume Ayats, director of the Museu de la Música de Barcelona, on April 27, 2019 to talk about the Clementi piano search project, a joint project between the Museum and the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona that aims to catalog the pianos Clementi that exist today in Catalonia.
The interview appeared on the program El Taller del Lutier.
Sunday, April 7, 2019 at the Església Vella de Ribes
From left to right, Belén Cabanes, Marina Rodríguez and José de Udaeta.
Belén Cabanes and Marina Rodríguez had the privilege of playing with the great dancer, choreographer and castanet player José de Udaeta.
The three made more than thirty concerts in many of the main theaters in Europe.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of José de Udaeta and 10 years of his dissapearance. Sant Pere de Ribes pays homage by putting his name on the street that leads to the Castell de Ribes, where the artist lived.
Among other compositions they will interpret works by Clementi
Tuesdays from 10 to 12, from January 15 to March 19, 2019
University of Barcelona (Gran Via)
January 2019
The Carolina Music Museum, Greenville, South Carolina, United States, features Clementi as composer of the month for January 2019.
At the same time, the Museum features as the instrument of the month a square piano from Longman, Clementi & Co built around 1799.
The Carolina Music Museum is the home for the world-famous Carolina Clavier Collection—more than 40 English, European, and American pianos and harpsichords dating from 1570 to 1845
Catalunya Música interviewed Marina Rodríguez Brià andJoan Josep Gutièrrez Yzquierdo on November 12, 2018 to talk about the exhibition Muzio Clementi, the Father of the Pianoforte, which was held at the Municipal Music Conservatory in Bruc Street, organized jointly by the Conservatory and the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona. The interview appeared in the General Essay program. Here you can listen to the audio
On Friday, November 9, 2018, the exhibition Muzio Clementi, the Father of the Pianoforte, was inaugurated at the Municipal Music Conservatory of Barcelona. This exhibition, initially presented at the Palau de la Música Catalana within the framework of the Maria Canals International Music Competition, goes on for the first time as an itinerant exhibition and with the intention of reaching different spaces and audiences.
In front of a large attendance, among which many students of the conservatory, the attached to the Management Team, Cristina Morales, and the president of the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona, Anna Cuatrecasas, indicated the importance of the event and thanked each part the interest and the effort to turn the project into a fact.
A luxury guest took part: Dr. Norbert Bilbeny, Professor of Ethics, in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona. Dr. Bilbeny did a brief but profound talk on the meaning of music, in line with the musical phenomenology advocated by Sergiu Celibidache.
María Rodríguez Brià, curator of the exhibition, briefly reviewed the content of the exhibition and goes interpret two works by Clementi on the Bechstein piano that presides over the “Peixera” classroom in the conservatory.
RECITAL OF MARINA RODRÍGUEZ BRIÀ, piano.
The recital “CLEMENTI and FRIENDS” took place on Friday October 5, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at the Chamber of the Atlants of the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona, organized by the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona with the collaboration of the Royal Artistic Circle.
Marina Rodríguez performed the following program:
A full report of this recital can be read here (in catalan)
The concert of Marina Rodríguez is part of the cycle Our guests, from the Royal Artistic Circle.
On Sunday, September 30th, a recital by the piano and historical keyboards player Michael Tsalka took place at the Museu de la Música de Barcelona, organized by the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona jointly with the Museum. Under the title “A different look to the roots of romanticism,” Tsalka made a tour of an unusual repertoire with special instruments: the Christian Zell clavicord (Hamburg, 1737) and the pianos Zumpe & Buntebart (London, 1776) and Miguel Slocker (Madrid, 1831). The concept of the program was based on piano composers precursors or prefiguring romanticism, such as Scarlatti, Clementi, Ries and Moscheles.
Once the program was finished, a surprise was still reserved. Tsalka invited the public to move to the museum hall where there is the piano by Frederic Mompou, in which he played a bis from this composer and another from Cécile Cheminade. With the assistants arranged randomly around the piano and in a cozy shadow, a special atmosphere was created that closed the recital with an unbeatable flavor.
The concert of Michael Tsalka opened the 2018-2019 concert season of La Música del Museu, Original Instruments in Bones Mans
