Basque National Orchestra

The Basque and Catalan orchestras to exchange their respective seasons next week.

The Basque National Orchestra will offer the concert programme 'Sorozabal/ Mahler' on 24 and 25 of November in Vitoria and Pamplona, before taking it to L'Auditori in Barcelona on 28, 2 and 30 of November.

With a programme that combines Catalan composers with classics by Debussy and Ravel, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC) will visit Bilbao on 26 November and San Sebastián on 27 and especially 28 November, the day the two orchestras will cross paths and coincide simultaneously in their two seasons.

The Music Room’s educational and social cycle continues to strengthen its determination to make the Basque National Orchestra a route to well-being, health and quality of personal and social life, doing so through innovative, pioneering and risky proposals as a way of countering inequality and exclusion. 

This new cycle has four in-house productions: two presented last season - 'Musika tantak' and 'Logelan logale' - , and two premieres - 'Nire ama antzara' and 'Arriaga bizi da' - . These and other Basque National Orchestra productions set a standard and a course towards good practices in the sector, so much so that several of them have been programmed in other festivals and with other orchestras.

The cycle has over 70 activities in total, including the second edition of the 'Musikazaleak' workshops, in conjunction with FEVAS-Plena Inclusión Euskadi, and Open Rehearsals aimed at groups and educational centres.

The Basque National Orchestra's chamber music cycle kicks off on anew 11 October with 16 new musical events. Special guests such as Miguel Ituarte and Bilboko Koral Elkartea will join the numerous groups of members of Basque National Orchestra that form the rest of the programme.