The competition that Cervera dedicates to Catalan classical music has presented the official program for this 14th edition, which will take place 21 al 30 of March in various spaces of the city.
This year he has scheduled 10 thanks to which you can enjoy two different concerts for just one, which will end up being specified in a total of 14 concerts.
Catalan musical traditions and the fact of giving prominence to our country's composers and performers, will be the main axes of the programming.
Besides, during the Festival two personalities of our music will also be remembered: the composers Ricard Lamote de Grignon (125th anniversary of his birth) and very especially Josep Valls i Royo (25th anniversary of his death), exiled to France on 1939 and that he never lived in Catalonia again.
The objectives of this edition
The artistic direction of Jordi Armengol proposed in this new edition to consolidate the Cervera Easter Festival within the extensive range of festivals that we find throughout Catalonia, continuing to affirm the personality so distinctive and characteristic that the fact of being dedicated to Catalan classical music and everything that surrounds it gives it.
It also wants to make an impact on this marked idiosyncrasy of the Festival and maintain its status as an inescapable reference in the Catalan musical world. Equally, wants to deepen research and knowledge of our musical heritage, both the past and the present, so that we can properly claim our composers and performers.
Another objective is to encourage public attendance and the discovery of music made in Catalonia by all levels of society with a very ambitious price and discount policy so that everyone has access to it.
An extensive and varied program
The Festival will start on 21 of March with the traditional school concert, which will be in charge of LleidArt Ensemble with "The adventures of the Bol and the Ling". This performance aims to bring music closer to the little ones and for them to become the new festival audience of the future.
The inaugural concert will take place on Saturday, 23 March, at the Paranimf with the Julià Carbonell Symphonic Orchestra of the Lands of Lleida directed by Salvador Brotons. The next day, 24 March, the percussionist Núria Andorrà will surprise us with her show "Nu.A".
After a short break, the musical activity of the Easter Festival will resume on Thursday 28 March, with the concert that Arnau Tomàs (cello) and Mercè Hervada (Pianist) will dedicate to the 25th anniversary of the death of Josep Valls i Royo.
Friday, 29 March, this year's local concerts will be premiered. These are short performances that take place in spaces in the old town of Cervera and that are repeated 2 cops (a session at 11,30 hours and the other at 13 hours). This way, the public can attend both musical productions (first one and then the other, in the order you prefer). The Municipal Auditorium will host Albert Guinovart's concert with "El piano català. Three different poetics". At the same times, but at Casa Sabater on Carrer Major, Blooming Duo will present "New sounds for tradition". To close the day on Friday, the evening concert will be performed by the National Youth Choir of Catalonia directed by Mireia Barrera with "The wealth of Catalan choral music".
Saturday, 30 March, it will be the last day of the Festival and it will also start with local concerts. The Auditorium will host "Resonances of silence" with Sílvia Vidal (piano) and Ramon Humet (bol tibetan, quartz bowls and gong). In the same hours, in other words that is, them 11,30 and the 13 hours, but in the church of Sant Joan, the Dichos Diabolos will bring us closer to “Nigra Sum. Music for the Virgin of Montserrat”.
To close the day and also this year's Festival, the Paranimf will host an evening concert directed by Xavier Puig with Marta Bonet (soprano), Martha Infante (mezzo-soprano), David Alegret (tenor), Jordi Serrano (baritone), the Chamber Choir of the Enric Granados Auditorium in Lleida and the Terrassa Orchestra 48. The concert will be dedicated to "Francesc Andreví and Ramon Carnicer: two people from Lleida in Madrid".
All the information and sales of tickets and season tickets at Festival website.