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The two artists offer this concert with a desire to introduce the exceptional fusion of the piano, the Spanish dance, and the virtuoso castanets within the framework of classical music.
They are the successors of the art of José de Udaeta, with whom they offered over forty performances on important European stages, as Berlin Opera Unter den Linden or Aalto Opera Essen, among others. They won the prix “Premio de la Crítica” in the Flamenco Festival of Jerez 2004.
In April 2019 they have been invited to take part in the events to honour maestro José de Udaeta. The two performers bring the audience closer to the sound of castanets of different materials, shapes, and periods. Through a varied repertoire consisting of Spanish and Classical music, Flamenco contemporary dance and rhythmic texts specially created for the different musical pieces, they have the will to share the sound possibilities of the piano with this small and so rare instrument. With a small yet sonorous percussion instrument as the castanets and the embracing sound of the piano, they have created a programme that welcomes different styles, freely following a tradition—the clicking of castanets.
Works by Granados, Clementi, Antoni Soler, Albéniz, Flotats, Falla, Malats, Scarlatti, Bach.
(Music Museum of Barcelona, 2015)
Sitges. Festival DONA-Art en femení, 2020- Flotats: https://youtu.be/Tj3HujN6EVw
Sitges. Festival DONA-Art en femení, 2020- Clementi: https://youtu.be/7h3FQfoI2DY
Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, 2019- Soler: https://youtu.be/SyHJo6iW-wE
Museu de la Música de Barcelona- Haydn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzXtsZCN8Y
Teatre Principal de Vilanova- Albéniz: https://youtu.be/mZ6y9MDRYUk
Press
Marina Rodríguez and Belén Cabanes captivated and delighted the audience gathered in the gardens of the Casino Prado Suburense ... the piano and castanets concert was one of the shows that sold out.... The previous contributions and explanations made sense of a show that grew to wrap the souls of all present. "(Isidre Roset and Juan. L’Eco de Sitges, 10 September 2020)
(Suzanne Zellinger, ¡Anda! Zeitschrift für Flamenco 120, 2015)
JOINT BIOGRAPHY
Belén Cabanes, dance & castanets
Marina Rodríguez Brià, piano
From 1999 to 2005, they were partners of the great dancer and concert castanets, José de Udaeta, in the shows The Secret of the castanets and Spanish Caprice. With him, they performed in very important concert halls and opera houses of Germany, as: Würth Museum in Schwäbisch Hall, Festivals of Ludwigsburg 1999 and 2002, Aalto Opera in Essen, Opera of Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Opera of Stuttgart Staatstheater.
They have also performed at the National Theatre of Catalonia, at the Expo 2000 in Hanover, Teatro Libero Palermo, the Philharmonic Society of Bilbao, Palau de la Música in Valencia, Teatro Principal de Burgos, Floriade 2002 in Holland, Festival Porta Ferrada in Sant Feliu de Guixols 2001 and 2002, Isaac Albéniz Camprodon Festival 2002, Cultural Center of the Caixa de Terrassa 2003 and 2004, among others. With The Secret of the castanets in 2004 were awarded the prestigious Critics Award of the Flamenco Festival of Jerez. In 2002, they recorded this repertoire for the program Nydia by Catalonia Television, Channel 33.
Belén Cabanes and Marina Rodríguez have acted in other concerts, such as the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, at the Conservatoire of Manresa, the Cultural Nights of St. Pere Sallavinera (Barcelona), the Grafenegg Festival (Austria), the Flamenco Festival of Düsseldorf or in the Nikolaisaal of Potsdam (Germany).In 2004 they founded the trio Anima Nua, along with cellist Anna Mora, who have acted in the Pau Casals Auditorium of El Vendrell, the Cercle del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Metropol in Tarragona, or the Principal Theatre of Burgos. In 2010 they performed at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid as part of the festival "Ellas crean".
On 31 July 2011, the two artists have released their new show “Ivory Birds”.
In 2015 they have presented “Big and small percussions: Keys and Castanets”, with original historical instruments in the Music Museum of Barcelona.
Fotos: Museo de la Música de Barcelona
INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHY
Belén Cabanes, dance & castanets
Belén Cabanes was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú and trained in Barcelona under Rosa García and Enrique Burgos. In 1991 she qualified at the Real Conservatorio de Danza y Música de Madrid and obtained the Revàlida Superior del Mètode de Castanyoles de Concert d’Emma Maleras for castanet- playing.
From 1992 to 1995 she danced with the Ballet Teatro Español de Rafael Aguilar, playing the role of Bernarda Alba in the production “Rango”. In March 1992 she premiered with the same company at the Teatro Lírico Nacional de la Zarzuela in Madrid alongside prestigious sopranos Teresa Berganza and María Bayo.
In 1996 she joined the harp duo Gioccarpa with Janet Paulus and Elisabeth Colard (Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi) as concert musician and dancer. That same year she also collaborated in the recording of Tanganera by guitarrist Víctor Valls as “foot and castanet percussionist” and subsequently performed at its Barcelona premiere at the Luz de Gas venue and also performed at the Sant Cugat Catalan Poetry Festival under the direction of Lluís Homar in collaboration with poets Alex Susanna and Marta Pessarrodona.
In 1997 she jointly created the Flamenco Camerata with guitarrist Andreas María Germek and Flamenco singer José Parrondo and toured extensively with the group in Germany and Austria.
Subsequently, she joined the contemporary Flamenco “2D1” Company under the direction of Juan Carlos Lérida and performed at L´Espai in Barcelona and the Sitges International Festival (2002). She was awarded the prize for “Best Dancer” at the “IX Certamen Coreográfico de Danza Española y Flamenco de Madrid” for the choreography “Costumbre” (Custom), which was also awarded second prize in the choreography section.She has continuously performed with the legendary castanet-player José de Udaeta since 1999 in his acclaimed show El secret de la castanyola (The secret of the castanet).
She jointly created the “Castanyola Contemporània” show together with guitarist Andreas María Germek.
In 2006 participates as a musician recording the CDs "Tanganera", by the guitarist Victor Valls. Belen also participates recording the CD dedicated to the Spanish composer Enric Granados. Those CDs are part of an educational collection of Bellaterra Music Productions.
Classical for Castanets “Anima Nua", with Anna Mora and Marina Rodríguez, by castanets, has appeared among other places in the Teatro Principal de Burgos, Tarragona Metropol Theatre, Cercle del Liceu in Barcelona, the International Music Festival in the Monastery of Sant Cugat and headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid.In March 2011 she plays in Musikverein in Viena, with the Tonkünstleroschester, conducted by Andrés Orozco and introducing the orchestrated version of the show “Flowers Time”.In 2014 she was invited to the great Classical Music Festival GMMF in South Korea. Belen played with the great cello player, internationally well-known Lluís Claret.
She has been invited for many years to teach workshops in several European schools. She has also danced in many Dance Festivals all over the continent. In 2015 gets the diploma of Superior Degree in Dance Pedagogy from the School of Dance of the Theatre Institute of Barcelona. Since 2003 she is a professor in the Dance Conservatory “Institut del Teatre de Barcelona”. In February 2018 she was an invited artist in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics (South Korea). In November that year, she was the driving force of the Tribute to José de Udaeta and Emma Maleras, presented by the MAE (Museum of the Performing Arts) at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.
In 2020 she begins a new adventure with "Jazztanyoles" with the great jazz pianist Elisabet Raspall. In July she participated as a performer and witness of the last years of the artistic life of José de Udaeta, in a museum and interpretation center project in the Castle of Sant Pere de Ribes, where José de Udaeta lived his last 50 years. Also, in 2020, she collaborated in the show “La Galeria”, by the young creator and dancer José Maldonado with a castanet show for the 2021 Jerez Festival.
MARINA RODRÍGUEZ BRIÀ, PIANO
Marina Rodríguez Brià was born in Sant Vicenç de Castellet (Barcelona) and studied at the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Música of Barcelona, the Conservatoire National de Musique, Danse et Art Dramatique of Perpignan, and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and holds a degree in Music and in French Philology. She has broadened her studies with different international courses and has been awarded several prizes in piano, chamber music, and poetry contests.
She has performed in concert halls such as the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin), Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, The Sage auditorium in Gateshead (England), Nikolaisaal in Potsdam, L’Auditori of Barcelona, Opera of Stuttgart, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, Palau de la Música of Barcelona and Valencia, Aalto Opera in Essen, Casa da Musica in Oporto, Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, Teatro Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile, Instituto Cervantes and Fundación March in Madrid, and at the international festivals of Grafenegg (Austria), Düsseldorf, Expo-Hannover, Ludwigsburg, Festival Chopin of Valldemossa, and the Gaudí 2nd World Congress, among others.She has collaborated with the following orchestras: Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona (OBC), Filharmonia de Cambra, Orquestra del Teatre Lliure, Orquestra de cambra catalana, and Orquestra de cambra de la Simfònica Europea.
Together with Joan Josep Gutiérrez, she forms a piano duet including music from the 18th to the 21th century, with performances at numerous concert series and national and international festivals in Spain, Germany, and Colombia. Together with baritone Jerzy Artysz, she has performed at different festivals with a repertoire of Polish and German lied.
From 1999 to 2005, she was part of the live show El Secret de la Castanyola with José de Udaeta and Belén Cabanes, being noteworthy their performances at prestigious opera theatres and halls in Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Spain.
She has created several live shows such as Girasons (comissioned by L’Auditori of Barcelona and selected at Festival Teatralia), Le vaisseau- piano ou la Reine des Fictions, and L’habitació de les joguines, and the commented concerts Viatjant amb el piano al cap, Concert de piano amb sorpreses musicals, and Spanish Piano Music, among others.
She has recorded on several occasions for Radio Nacional, Catalunya Ràdio, Catalunya Música, TV3, Canal 33, TV1, TV2, Südwest Rundfunk, RAI, and Radio France. She has published more than ten albums with works of Russian composers, Romantic dances for piano duet, Spanish music for piano solo, and a monographic album of Albéniz, among others. She is a pianist but also a connoisseur of the historical pianoforte, instrument with which she also records and gives concerts.
Scholar of composer Muzio Clementi, she has recorded two albums with works by this author, the latest one —Clementi on a Clementi & Co. square piano. Ultramarina Creations, Barcelona, 2015— being performed on an original Clementi pianoforte of 1824. She has given the lecture “Clementi, músic i constructor” at the Music Museum of Barcelona. At the University of Barcelona, she has given the courses “Un viatge musical amb Clementi” (2016) and “El naixement del piano romàntic” (2019) within the course series Gaudir UB and has coordinated two summer courses in relation with this topic within the series Els Juliols at the same university.
In 2017, she was invited to the United States to participate in the conference of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America, playing the opening concert and giving a lecture-recital. She has also given concerts of Spanish music in Columbia (South Carolina). She has actively participated at the events of the Jornada Clementi 2017 at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and the Music Museum of Barcelona, as well as at the exhibition Muzio Clementi, The Father of the Pianoforte (of which she was the curator) at the Palau de la Música within the framework of the Maria Canals International Music Competition of Barcelona 2018. She is a founding member of the Muzio Clementi Association of Barcelona.
With Montserrat Gascón, in 2018 they premiered the recital Voices of Wood and Crystal with a fortepiano and a crystal flute, both original instruments from the 19th century, in the framework of the 19th Early Music Festival Tiana Antica. In the same year she premiered the piano recital Clementi & Friends at the Royal Artistic Cercle in Barcelona. She has published her poetry book “Soc una projecció pòstuma” at Ultramarina Creations (2018).
In 2019 she has been invited at the Geelvinck International Fortepiano Festival in Holland, where she has given several solo piano recitals and a lecture-recital at the Sixth International Geelvinck Fortepiano Symposium.
