Next events:
14th September 2024, 18h30, Dorfkirche Kleinhüningen, Basel (Switzerland). OLVIDADAS concert with the Ensemble Cantaderas.
20th-25th September 2024, Ravensbrück, Recording the CD OLVIDADAS with the Ensemble Cantaderas (recorded by German National Radio Deutschland Funk Kultur, at the textile factory inside the concentration camp walls).
26th September 2024, 19h, Berlin. Concert OLVIDADAS organised by the Spanish Embassy in Berlin, at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche.
4th October 2024, Villajoyosa (Alicante) Factum est silentium, with Manuel Vilas and Efrén López at the 10th edition of the Festival de Música Antigua “La Vila del Joy”
Courses in the ESCUELA DE MÚSICA MEDIEVAL Y DE TRADICIÓN ORAL for the 2024-2025 course are already published (October 2023-June 2024).
The programme of this 8th edition of courses can be downloaded by clicking here: Escuela’s programme 2024-25.
17th-19th October 2024. Artistic residency in Faura (Valencia) with Proyecto EVOCA and two collaborators: the dancer and musician Marc Vilajuana and the musician and artist Carolina Égüez. 19th October will take place the artistic mostra with the work of the residency.
25th and 26th October 2024, 6th edition of the cycle “LOS SONIDOS DE OTROS TIEMPOS, HOY”, this time consecrated to “«La música del Romancero. Desde sus orígenes hasta hoy»”. With specialists coming to talk about collection and reconstruction of romances, their evolution, their music, their compilation, their pedagogical potential… And specialists to sing them and to make us sing them. All the information in:
VIª edición del “CICLO LOS SONIDOS DE OTROS TIEMPOS, HOY”: La música del Romancero. Desde sus orígenes hasta hoy.
CICLO LOS SONIDOS DE OTROS TIEMPOS, HOY. Concierto de Ars Atlántica “ROMANCERO XVI” y presentación del libro “Historia del Romancero en tres actos”, de Jimena Menéndez Pidal, editado por Elvira Ontañón y Víctor Pliego (2024). (Concert tickets at ENTRADIUM)
28th November, "CXV. La cantiga más larga" in Taboada, Lugo, together with the harpist Manuel Vilas.
February 2025, 5 days course for teachers together with the calligrapher Esperanza Serrano, at the ISMIE. Instituto Superior Madrileño de Innovación Educativa: PALEOGRAFÍA MUSICAL Y CALIGRAFÍA DE LOS SIGLOS IX-XIII. (Abierto a profesorado de Enseñanzas artísticas de régimen especial, profesorado de conservatorios, profesorado de educación Primaria, Secundaria y Bachillerato de Enseñanzas artísticas, Educación Plástica y Música).
16th March 2025, 18h30, “SUTIL”, a programme of ARS SUBTILIOR music from Italy and France with FA SUPER LA project in trio with Enrique Pastor (dir.) and Óscar Gallego (XXXIV Festival de música antigua y sacra “Ciudad de Getafe”).
1st-4th May 2025, 4 days course at the CENTRAD (Centro de Artesanía e Deseño) in Lugo for the 3rd edition of the Medieval Music Course “Sons dos camiños”, imparting medieval singing. (Inscriptions and more info in: info.centrad@deputacionlugo.org; 0034 982 21 0066).
24th May 2025, OLVIDADAS
Inscriptions for the concert: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LqmuVvfrkCs7aWwQn-b7smK9IJzdPaVyT8aDWwx40vg/viewform?edit_requested=true
All information in: http://cedros.edaddeplata.org/docactos/20250506DD_Olvidadas_def.pdf
6th June 2025, 19h, Final concert of the Escuela de Música Medieval y de Tradición Oral (ILE) for the anual courses 2024-2025 (Xth-XVth c. music)
3rd July 2025. OLVIDADAS back in Ravensbrück, a concert of Cantaderas Ensemble in the textile fabrique to remember the Spanish women deported to this concentration camp.
18th-24th July 2025, at the course Early Music Morella, imparting: Canto de los Carmina Burana,
31st July-3rd August, “X TALLER DE MÚSICA MEDIEVAL La primera monodia notada en la Edad Media (s. IX-X) - Santa María la Real” (Aguilar de Campoo, Palencia). More info in this pdf.
The programme of the ESCUELA DE MÚSICA MEDIEVAL Y DE TRADICIÓN ORAL for the 2025-2026 course are already published (October 2025-May 2026).
The programme of this 10th edition of courses can be downloaded by clicking here: Escuela’s programme 2025-26. ON-LINE INSCRIPTIONS HERE.
6th December 2025, Sankofa Espai-Intercultural, Valencia, Byzantine and Gregorian chants meeting in a concert: ”Conversando con melismas” with Christos Kanellos.
21st December 2025, 19h, Ateneo de Madrid, “Chantador de joi d’amor”, in duo with Manuel Vilas (harp) programmed in the Ciclo de conciertos Manuel de Falla. Tickets here.
4th March 2026. Vitoria-Gasteix. A talk at the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU). La música del Románico: De los manuscritos que la conservan y de su interpretación, organized during the IXth edition of Jornadas Alavesas de Arte Románico. “La música y el arte en los siglos XI-XIII”.
27th-29th March 2026. Curso de la AIZ (Asociación Ibérica de la Zanfona), Casavieja (Ávila). “Las producciones monódicas y polifónicas de la Escuela de St. Martial de Limoges (s. XI-XII).
4th April 2026. “Conversando con melismas” A concert in duo with Christos Kanellos (Gregorian vs izantin chant) in Uclés (Cuenca): https://monasteriodeucles.es/cultura/
23rd-26th April 2026, 4 days course at the CENTRAD (Centro de Artesanía e Deseño) in Lugo for the 4th edition of the Medieval Music Course “Sons dos camiños”, imparting medieval singing, together with Begoña Olavide (psalteries and rotas), Manuel Vilas (medieval harps), Peppe Frana (medieval plucked instruments) and Francisco Luengo (medieval violes and organistrums).
7th May 2026, CXV. La cantiga más larga, together with Manuel Vilas, at the Symposium IMAGO MUNDI IN CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARÍA in Barcelona (UAB), Sala d'Actes de la Facultat de Filosofia i Llletres.
5th June 2026, 19h, final concert of the ESCUELA DE MÚSICA MEDIEVAL Y DE TRADICIÓN ORAL, in its 10th edition of courses.
14th June 2026, 13h, Proyecto EVOCA singing Les filles del tro (Ermita de Santa Llúcia) in Valencia (Spain).
11th July 2026, OLVIDADAS, with Cantaderas Ensemble, in Huesca (Spain).
17th-23rd July 2026, at the course Early Music Morella, imparting: Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum.
30th July-2nd August 2026, “XI TALLER DE MÚSICA MEDIEVAL La primera monodia notada en la Edad Media (s. IX-X), IIª pars” - Santa María la Real, Aguilar de Campoo, Palencia. More info in this pdf.
28th August, OLVIDADAS, with Cantaderas Ensemble, in St Martin de Ligugé abbey (France).
Courses in the ESCUELA DE MÚSICA MEDIEVAL Y DE TRADICIÓN ORAL for the 2026-2027 course are already published (October 2026-June 2027).
The programme of this 11th edition of courses can be downloaded by clicking here: Escuela’s programme 2026-27.
31st October 2026, Proyecto EVOCA will be singing “Filie Tonitrui” in Basel (at the festival TEXTUR)
27th November, Noviembre 27, Valladolid, “La tradición vocal en la Edad Media“, a conference in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes, in the cycle “El acervo común”.
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BERNART DE VENTADORN-CHANTADOR DE JOI D’AMOR. A CD released on March 2020 of this great troubadours’ music, with voice and medieval harp, together with Manuel Vilas (ETCETERA RECORDS).
You can listen to some fragments of the disc in an interview at the Spanish national radio of both of us talking about the CD in this podcast of La Dársena, Radio Clásica, RNE, 2nd April 2020.
As festas do anno, the first CD of the ensemble Cantaderas (Arion), with Medieval and Spanish oral tradition repertoires, has been released on October 2020. Already presented in Basel (Switzerland) on September 19th 2020, the presentation in France, at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, has been postponed to November 2022.
You can listen in this link to the interview with Yolanda Criado, in the radio broadcast LA RIPROPOSTA (Radio Clásica-Radio Nacional de España) of the 10th October 2020, presenting this new CD “As festas do anno”.
Photo: Juan Mantilla