Mar 29, 2021 | News
The concert of the Orquestra Julià Carbonell de les Terres de Lleida, with the tenor Roger Padullés, officially opened a new edition of the Cervera Easter Festival, on Saturday 27 March.
The performance of the OJC filled the capacity of the University Auditorium, with all the localities exhausted, like the Casals Quartet concert, Sunday 28.
The OJC premiered its program “Two Universal Teachers and One for the Future: Manén, Gerhard and Bertran ”. Orchestral works such as “Miniatures” by Joan Manén and “Cançoner de Pedrell” by Robert Gerhard could be heard, two universal composers to whom the beer contest pays homage in this edition. Moisès Bertran's "Three Songs of Acadia" was also performed, composer born in Mataró on 1967 and currently established in Colombia.
The inaugural concert was attended by the head of Cervera, Joan Santacana; the chairman of the council of Lleida, Joan Talarn; the territorial delegate of the Government of the Generalitat in Lleida, Ramon Farré; the general director of Popular Culture of the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat, Blasco Angels; the Councilor for Culture of the Paeria de Cervera, Mercè Carulla; the head of the music department of the ICEC, Xavier Cester; and the artistic director of the Festival, Jordi Armengol.
The activities of the Festival began earlier with a conference entitled “Robert Gerhard. Beyond exile ", by Oriol Pérez Treviño, curator of the exhibition that opened shortly afterwards at the Museum. This exhibition can be seen in Cervera throughout the festival and until 2 May.
On Sunday the Pau Casals Quartet offered the concert entitled ‘Remembering the Renaissance Quartet’, in which an emotional thread of 100 years that has linked these two major groups. On the one hand, the extraordinary Casals Quartet i, for the other, the Renaissance Quartet, led by Eduard Toldrà, which just a century ago closed its impressive trajectory with a concert at the Palau de la Música.
Parallel activities have also followed·leles of the Festival with the screening, this Sunday afternoon, of the documentary “Joan Manén, variations without theme ”. This audiovisual work follows in the footsteps of the Joan Manén Association in its four-year journey to recover this great figure in music.. The documentary was directed by Jaime Ballada and Daniel Torres of Marcial Audiovisual.
This way, a first week of concerts closes and Cervera is already preparing for next week, in which the musical activity will resume from Thursday 1 d'abril.
The festival will continue with more parallel activities·leles, together with the performances of the artists Carles Marigó and Jaume Sangrà with their installation·#BombollaSegura, Júlia Farrés and Daniel Blanch, local desperate, Juanco-Monge Quartet, Anna Puig and Jordi Castellà, Àlex Garrobé, Symbiotic Duo, Xuriach Company and the Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana with Xavier Puig.
Information provided by the Easter Festival Press Service.
Mar 24, 2021 | News
The young engineer Jordi Barrera Ars leads the technical team of Open Cosmos, company that has developed the nanosatellite·lit Enxaneta, the first to put the Generalitat de Catalunya into orbit.
Born in Torah, he came to live in Cervera from an early age, where he studied at the Jaume Balmes school and the Antoni Torroja high school.
He then studied Aeronautical Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and specialized in Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering at Cranfield University. (England).
Established in the United Kingdom, began working at Surrey Satellite Technology, pioneering mini satellite company·beds (less than 500 kg), where he participated in several different missions.
Now it does 5 years he joined the founding team of Open Cosmos, company with equipment in the United Kingdom and Catalonia, where he leads the technical team that develops satellite·beds.
Nanosatellite·lit Enxaneta
It is the first space mission of the programa NewSpace the Government, with the aim of to Improve 5G Connectivity | throughout the Catalan territory.
But it will also have other applications, com l‘Observation of water reserves i la wildlife protection. Besides, the data obtained by the nanosatellite·from remote space stations will be used to make weather forecasts.
Of little more than three kilograms of fish, was launched into orbit from the Baikonur rocket base, al Kazakhstan. It took off inside a rocket Soiuz 2, of almost 50 meters high, together with 37 nanosatellite·Atmospheric and telecommunications beds of 18 countries.
Congratulations Jordi Barrera Ars from Cervera!
Mar 23, 2021 | News
“Neither forgetfulness nor forgiveness”, directed by Jordi Boquet Claramunt, he won the award for best short film at the Gaudí Awards for Catalan cinema, at a gala that took place on Sunday 21 March and was broadcast live on TV3.
The short film, written by Jordi Boquet and Tomàs Bayo himself, was produced by Escac Films. It is a final project of the Degree of students of the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (Chess).
It was shot between Cervera, in January of 2019, with the participation of numerous volunteers as extras, and Burjassot (Horta Nord, Valencia). It premiered at the Gran Teatre de la Passió in Cervera, in March of 2020.
The short film, “first opera” by Jordi Boquet, is inspired by the posthumous story of the young Guillem Agulló. It is the story of a family struggling to keep the memory of a murdered child intact, the Agulló and Salvador family. A family drama that aims to be a tribute to the memory of Guillem and his family and that shows and vindicates the reality of the victims of fascism in our country.
Congratulations Jordi Boquet Claramunt from Cervera!
Mar 17, 2021 | News
The Easter Festival has already launched the advance ticketing system, which can be purchased with a 20% discount on the website www.festivalpasqua.cat.
end of tickets in this link to the Festival website.
Ticket prices vary by concert. Evening concerts are priced at 15 euros. A discount is applied from the website 20% and its price drops to 12. Paral·lelament, tickets for the morning concerts can also be purchased in advance for only 5 euros.
Equally, the organization of the Easter Festival has reached different agreements with various entities and organizations such as the Carnet Jove, the TRESC Club and various media, others, to offer discounts among its subscribers. The different discount options (early entry or through these rebates with media entities or subscribers) they are not cumulative with each other.
At the same time, those interested in attending more than one concert can choose to purchase a season ticket that will allow them to see the evening concerts scheduled for only 50 euros. This year, the season ticket for morning concerts is also added, in which you can enjoy two different concerts for just one 7 euros.
The Easter Festival includes several parallel activities·leles as projections documents on Joan Manén, an exhibition, an annotated audition and a lecture on the figure of Robert Gerhard. In these cases, the activities are free, but reservations must be made in advance via the web.
Exactly, this year’s Festival revolves around these two figures in our music: Manén and Gerhard. Of the 27 March 4 d'abril, the Julià Carbonell Symphony Orchestra of the Terres de Lleida participates, the Casals Quartet, Carles Marigó and Jaume Sangrà with their installation·#BombollaSegura, Júlia Farrés and Daniel Blanch, local desperate, Juanco-Monge Quartet, Anna Puig and Jordi Castellà, Àlex Garrobé, Symbiotic Duo, Xuriach Company and the Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana with Xavier Puig.
All concerts and activities will be governed strictly following all the security and protection protocols activated as a result of the pandemic caused by Covid. 19.
The Easter Festival, organized by the Town Council of Cervera, is a meeting point for the sector of classical music in Catalonia and a showcase of classical music in Catalonia.
Jan 15, 2021 | News
This week, work has begun on rehabilitating the interior spaces of the chapels of Sant Tomàs and El Roser, in the church of Sant Domènec de Cervera, which are conditioned to accommodate cultural uses.
The work is being carried out by the local company Construcciones Codina Vall, in accordance with the project “Rehabilitation of the church of Sant Domènec - Eix Barroc for a cultural center (2a fase)”, by the architect Antoni Martí and the surveyor Cesc Rosell.
The works, which is expected to last two and a half months, have a cost of 90.424 euros, and are subsidized by the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya in the line for the conservation of buildings of remarkable cultural value.
The project gives continuity to the works carried out in the first phase, which basically consisted of structural consolidation and replacement of the church roof.
In this second phase, the works consist of the progressive functional rehabilitation of the interior spaces of the chapels of Sant Tomàs and El Roser., both finishes and installation step forecast·lations, in order to provide the building with all the requirements to host cultural activities. Col.·place stained glass windows inside the chapels so as not to lose the perception of the baroque axis.
According to the Councilor for Culture, Mercè Carulla, this performance, added to the project subsidized by the 1.5% Cultural that will be promoted shortly, "It will allow the complete refurbishment of the building to be completed and it can host all kinds of cultural events".
The 1.5% Cultural project envisages an investment of 404.297 euros for the installation·water services and infrastructure, electricity, heating and air conditioning. The contribution of the Ministry of Transport is one 59% of the budget.
Sant Domènec (s. XIV-XV) is the Gothic church of the old Dominican convent, mendicant order said of the preachers. They were built on both sides of the apse, the eighteenth century, the chapels of the Roser (of the guild of draperies and paraires) and that of St. Thomas.
The church was restored last year 2011, with works to solve the basic problems of stability and security of the building, which was in a state of significant degradation and rubble, after nearly fifty years in absolute disuse. The reconstruction of the building represented an investment of more than 1 million euros.
Jan 13, 2021 | News
Sunday 17 January, them 19 hours, the Auditorium of the University, tindrà lloc un concert de l’Orquestra de la Catalunya Interior amb el títol “Tenim Corda!”.
El concert combinarà obres de compositors clàssics amb peces d’autors catalans. Un concert d’orquestra de corda per commemorar el 125è aniversari del naixement d’Eduard Toldrà. En aquesta ocasió podrem sentir algunes de les seves cançons –amb arranjaments per a veu i orquestra de corda a càrrec de Jordi Castellà. Al seu costat també escoltarem “Anufrievo”, de la jove compositora i artista visual lleidatana Laura Farré. I la segona part estarà dedicada a dues Suites: la Suite Holberg del compositor noruec Edward Grieg i la Suite Capriol –basada en melodies i danses renaixentistes- composta per Philip Arnold Heseltine tot i haver utilitzat el pseudònim Peter Warlock.
El concert comptarà amb la presència de la soprano Montse Isanta i la direcció de Jordi Castellà.
Information provided by Santi River (Friends of Music of Cervera).
Cervera, 13 of January of 2021.
