Performers:
Pablo Sosa del Rosario, flute
Alejandro Fariña Martín, clarinet
Hugo Rodríguez Arteaga, bassoon
Ricardo Rodríguez García, French horn
Short description:
The Spanish wind quartet Academia de los Afectos is one of the highlights of the 2018/2019 season of the "Motif" concerts. The four artists live and work in the Netherlands, where they are among the most sought-after specialists in early music, but all of them are native to the Canary Islands and will present music by the extremely popular Canarian composer Theobaldo Power.
The concert is organized with the kind support of the Cervantes Institute in Sofia.
The Artists:
Academia de los Afectos was created by the complicity of some students colleagues from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag in 2014. These young musicians have enthusiasm to create an Early Music Ensemble intended to express and convey the emotions to the public. This ensemble on period instruments invites to meet and enjoy a historical recreation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The interest about recovering this repertoire and passion for music characterize this ensemble and make it a special opportunity to enjoy this music. They have received coaching by very important early music experts as Eric Hoeprich, Donna Agrell, Wilbert Hazelzet, Kate Clark or Frank de Bruin.
The group has already performed several times in different festivals, such as “Bach Festival, Puerto de la Cruz” (Tenerife, Spain), “Ciclo de Jóvenes Intérpretes” (Gran Canaria, Spain) and they also have performed in diverse places around the Netherlands. Academia de los Afectos has been selected as a Fabulous Fringe Ensemble and they will play in the next Early Music Festival in Utrecht and the Early Music Festival in Brugge.
All his members work with the most remarkable groups in the European Early Music scene.
Biographies:
Pablo Sosa:

He takes part of The Goldfinch Ensemble, who got the first prize in the International Händel Festpiele Gottingen Competition in 2016 and the second prize in the International Early Music Competition in Loire Valley, with William Christie chairing the jury in 2015. Their international career was launched in 2015 when they played in festivals throughout Europe such as Festival de Sablé (FR), Festival de Ambronay (FR), Festival di Natale Pavia (IT), York Early Music Festival (ENG), Lagos Early Music Festival (PT) among others. Also, they have been selected for the EEEmerging project, a program supported by the European Union to support promising young European ensembles. In April 2017, the Goldfinch Ensemble will receive the ‘Chapelconcert Chamber Music Prize’ (Goirle).
He has played in some early music orchestras and ensembles like Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, Australian Romantic&Classical Orchestra, Bach Orchestra and Choir of the Netherlands, Armonia Atenea, Luthers Bach Ensemble among others.
Alejandro Fariña:

He is also interested in historical informed performance practice. For this reason, he is studying in the class of Eric Hoeprich at the Koninklijk Conservatorium (The Hague). Also he has received lessons from Lorenzo Coppola, Nicola Boud or Guy van Waas. He has already played with different early music ensembles such as Trondheim Barokk Orchestra, Barockorchester der HFK Bremen, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Orchestra of the 18th century and La Academia de los Afectos. He has worked together with Valery Gergiev, Philippe Herreweghe, Victor Pablo Pérez, Marcin Sompoliński or Kenneth Montgomery.
Hugo Rodríguez:

He plays in ensembles as the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Die Kölner Akademie, MusicAEterna, Capella Cracoviensis, Lutherse Bach Orchester, Les Vents Atlantiques, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Vox Luminis and more several groups. He has worked together with Frans Bruggen, Teodor Currentzis, James Coonlon, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alfredo Bernardini, Marcus Creed, Harry Christophers, Alessandro de Marchi, Michael Alexander Willems, Pietro Rizzo, more active conductors.
Nowadays, he performs with several of the mentioned and other ensembles. On the research field, he is coworking on study of early small-sized bassoons and also on the Romantic performance practice on wind instruments.
Ricardo Rodríguez:

He performs regularly as an early horn specialist with ensembles such as Europa Galante (Italy), the Freiburger Barockorchester (Germany), Ensemble Pygmalion (France), Le Cercle de l’Harmonie (France), Il Pomo d’Oro (Switzerland), MusicAeterna (Russia), Arion Orchestre Baroque (Canada), Das Neue Orchester (Germany), Millenium Orchestra (Belgium), the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla (Spain), Trondheim Barokk (Norway), Opera Settecento (United Kingdom), and Forma Antiqua (Spain). Additionally, he is the professor of natural horn and orchestral repertoire at the Centro Superior de Enseñanza Musical Katarina Gurska, in Madrid.
In addition to his work on the natural horn, he has worked with several Spanish orchestras such as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Español, and the Orquesta Nacional de España. Abroad, he collaborated with Spira Mirabilis (Italy), the Geneva Camerata (Switzerland), and the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra (Vietnam).
He studied at the conservatories of Tenerife, Joaquín Turina in Madrid, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, and the Brass Academy of Alicante, under the supervision of Manuel Antonio Fernández and Nuri Guarnaschelli. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Early Music, with specialty in natural horn performance, from the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña and the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, under the guidance of Javier Bonet.
Programme:
Eugène WALCKIERS (1793-1866)
Quartet for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn, op. 48
I. Allegretto
II. Andante
III. Scherzo. Poco presto
IV. Finale. Allegretto non troppo
Kaspar KUMMER (1795-1870)
Trio for flute, clarinet and bassoon, op. 32
I. Allegro
II.Andante grazioso, Trio
III. Rondo. Allegretto
Teobaldo POWER (1848-1884)
(Arranged by Hugo Rodríguez Arteaga)
Expresión
Cantos Canarios
Stacatto
Tickets
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