Calp celebrates, starting next year Friday May 2, the second edition of the Calp Piano Festival that will bring together prestigious pianists from the international scene. Concerts will be held at 20:00 p.m. every Friday in May at the Saló Blau with free admission.
The festival will start on May 2, with the performance of the prestigious pianist of Bulgarian origin Plamena Mangova who has developed a brilliant international career. Trained with Marina Kapatsinskaya at the Sofia State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and later at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, she has performed with some of the most prominent orchestras, such as the Berlin Staatskapelle, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio France, Luxembourg, and Tokyo, the Belgian National Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid, and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, among others. She has received numerous awards, including second prize in the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Competition in 2007, as well as recognition in other competitions such as the Paloma O'Shea Piano Competition in Santander and the Vittorio Gui Chamber Music Competition in Florence.
El Friday May 9 the Alicante native will perform Carla Gómez He completed his Advanced Music Degree, specializing in piano performance, at the Óscar Esplá Conservatory in Alicante with Professor Mª Dolores Costa. He has given concerts in Valencia, Murcia, Seville, the Canary Islands, Ghent (Belgium), Bari (Italy), and Warsaw (Poland), where he played with the National Philharmonic, as well as in the main halls of Alicante and its province, as a soloist, in chamber groups, with orchestras, and with bands.
The Calp Piano Festival will once again feature the Hungarian István I. Székely, who will act the May 16, following the success of his performance last year. A professor at the Katarina Gurska Conservatory in Madrid and the Franz Liszt Center for Young Talents in La Nucía, he has won several awards in national and international competitions. He is an internationally renowned concert pianist and teacher, having been invited to teach at various art faculties and conservatories in Austria, Hungary, Israel, Serbia, Colombia, and Spain. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the 'Ciudad de Alicante' Piano Competition, the Denia International Piano Festival, the Franz Liszt Center International Piano Competition, the Great Piano Masters Competition, the Alicante International Piano Competition, and the Sombor Philharmonic Orchestra in Serbia.
El May 23 A performance by one of the most relevant Valencian pianists on the current piano scene is planned, Ruben TalonIn fact, critics consider him one of the best pianists of his generation and one of the most promising young pianists in Europe. He has won numerous national and international competitions in Spain, France, Italy, Austria, and the United States, and has been recognized with awards.
special awards in the interpretation of works by Manuel de Falla, Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff or the Exceptional Talent Award in Salzburg.
The Calp Piano Festival will close with a novel performance, a four-hand concerto, by the Russian Natalia Kuchaeva y the man from Malaga Jorge LechadoNatalia Kucháeva, born in Moscow, completed her postgraduate studies at the Gnessin Academy in Moscow with maestro Vladimir Tropp. She has won numerous international competitions in Russia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, and Spain. She has also collaborated with the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville as a repertoire master. She is currently a repertoire professor at the Alfredo Kraus Chair of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.
Jorge Lechado, for his part, is a professor of piano at the CSM in Málaga. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Joaquín Soriano and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he completed his postgraduate studies with pianist Pavel Nersessian. He has been awarded and is a finalist in several national and international competitions.
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The Councilor for Culture, Guillermo Sendra, stated that the department "has made a very significant effort to surpass last year's level" and highlighted internationally renowned pianists such as Plamena Mangova, who "performs on the world's best stages and will also perform on the Calp stage," as well as István I. Székely, "who left a huge impression on the audience after his performance last year." He added that the other performers "will also surprise the audience with the high quality of their performances."
