2019 05 17: Extraordinary Doctorate Prize for the flautist Montserrat Gascón

The flautist Montserrat Gascón has received the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize for her thesis “Une flûte en cristal. Claude Laurent’s glass flutes (1774-1849)” at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. According to his thesis, Claude Laurent was one of the greatest flute constructors of the nineteenth century and his incomparable instruments. Laurent was a decisive character for the evolution of wind instruments, unjustly unknown at present. His great contribution was not only the use of glass in order to solve problems with changes in humidity and temperature, but the introduction of a new sound and its technical innovations. Thus, the new system for fixing the mechanism in the tube, which was universally extended and which we still use today in most wind-wood instruments, allowed the adoption of complex mechanisms, such as the patented one by Theobald Boehm in 1832.
Gascón forms a duet with Marina Rodríguez Brià and has participated as a speaker in two of the courses organized at the University of Barcelona (Els Juliols i Gaudir UB) in collaboration with the AMCB.
From here, our most cordial congratulations.

2019 05 17: Extraordinary Doctorate Prize for the flautist Montserrat GascónRafael Bonet2020-04-28T15:42:48+02:00

2019 05 13: The project “Giving life to the historical pianos of Catalonia” selected by Impulsa Cultura 2019

Our project “Giving life to the historical pianos of Catalonia” has been selected by the Fundació Catalunya Cultura within its private sponsorship program Impulsa Cultura 2019. From the AMCB we trust to be deserving of the confidence of the companies and entities committed to the Cultural and artistic training in our country. You can see the ad at the following link.

2019 05 13: The project “Giving life to the historical pianos of Catalonia” selected by Impulsa Cultura 2019Rafael Bonet2020-04-28T15:42:48+02:00

THE CLEMENTI’S PIANO OF THE MASIA D’EN CABANYES AT CATALUNYA MÚSICA

Catalunya Música interviewed Marina Rodríguez Brià on May 11 to talk about the visit and conference on May 18 at the Masia d’en Cabanyes. The conference will deal with the wardrobe piano made by Clementi and the lives of Muzio Clementi and Josep Anton de Cabanyes.

The interview appeared in the program El Taller del Lutier.

THE CLEMENTI’S PIANO OF THE MASIA D’EN CABANYES AT CATALUNYA MÚSICARafael Bonet2020-04-28T15:42:48+02:00

THE SEARCH OF CLEMENTI PIANOS AT CATALUNYA MÚSICA

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.

THE SEARCH OF CLEMENTI PIANOS AT CATALUNYA MÚSICARafael Bonet2020-04-28T15:42:48+02:00

HOMAGE TO JOSÉ DE UDAETA

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

HOMAGE TO JOSÉ DE UDAETARafael Bonet2020-04-28T15:42:48+02:00

Complementary Training Course Gaudir UB

The birth of the romantic piano.

A musical journey with Clementi.

Taught by Marina Rodríguez Brià.

Guest professors: Montserrat Gascón and Joan Josep Gutiérrez

Tuesdays from 10 to 12, from January 15 to March 19, 2019
University of Barcelona (Gran Via)

Complementary Training Course Gaudir UBRafael Bonet2020-04-28T15:42:49+02:00

Clementi composer of the month at the Carolina Music Museum

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

Clementi composer of the month at the Carolina Music MuseumRafael Bonet2020-04-28T15:42:49+02:00

THE EXHIBITION IN THE CONSERVATORI AT CAT MÚSICA

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

THE EXHIBITION IN THE CONSERVATORI AT CAT MÚSICARafael Bonet2020-04-28T15:42:49+02:00

INAUGURATION OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE CONSERVATORY

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.