‘Concert & Screening’ in the Velodrome
The Basque National Orchestra, the SGAE Foundation and the San Sebastian Festival present the film music concert that the Basque National Orchestra is offering within the framework of the Festival.
After an absence of two years due to the pandemic, the first Saturday of the Festival, the Velodrome will open, as it has usually done, at noon for music lovers, film buffs and the general public, with a performance blending a symphonic interpretation of soundtracks and a medley of scenes from the films they belong to.
It will be an hour and a half of audio-visual delight on Saturday 17 September at 12 o’clock noon. Admission is free of charge.
Tickets for the 22-23 Season on sale
Tickets for all the 22-23 Season concerts are now on sale through the usual sales channels.
‘¡De película!’, film music with Hollywood stars
On 1 September at 20:00 in the Kursaal Auditorium, the Basque National Orchestra will turn out in its finest to perform the scores of the biggest box-office hits: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, ‘Titanic’, ‘Child's Play’, ‘The Mask’, ‘The King's Speech’, ‘Life is Beautiful’ and many more. Two dub actors will voice characters such as Jack Sparrow, Forrest Gump, George VI and Chucky and will add maximum authenticity to an exciting film music concert.
Tickets are already on sale for €25 on euskadikoorkestra.eus and at the Kursaal ticket booth.
22/23 season: From tragedy to the spirit of achievement
The Basque National Orchestra's new season takes us from tragedy to the spirit of achievement through music and its great examples: from the rawness of Shostakovich to the ghosts of Tchaikovsky, Bruckner’s greatest symphony and the most famous work by Carl Orff.
The orchestra will recover projects that were abandoned during the pandemic, such as the première of ‘Mamu kantak’ by Carpenter, a piece commissioned jointly with three British orchestras.
Basque creations will also be prominent with the première of ‘Mare Marginis’, commissioned to Ramon Lazkano, and with the closure of the project ‘Elkano: Mundubira musika bidelagun’ which will be brought by Zuriñe F. Gerenabarrena and her work ‘Lorratz’, after completing a round-the-world trip through the imagination of our composers.
Likewise, the Basque National Orchestra will foster the discovery of rarely-performed works that deserved to be listened to, such as 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' by Adams and other works by little-known authors in the Basque Country such as Veprik and Dzenitis.
In order to fulfil this goal, we will have artists of the stature of Alexei Volodin, Alena Baeva, Yulianna Avdeeva, Dinis Sousa, Roderick Cox or Frank Peter Zimmermann. And we will receive great artists from our land such as the Orfeón Donostiarra on its 125th anniversary, Easo Gazte and Easo Eskolania, Carlos Mena and soprano Jone Martínez.
Robert Trevino will continue as the chief conductor of the Basque National Orchestra.
Fernando Velázquez releases his new album ‘Viento’, recorded with the Basque National Orchestra
On 18 March Fernando Velázquez, a multi-award-winning composer and orchestra conductor, released his new album ‘Viento’ recorded a few months ago with the Basque National Orchestra, cellist Johannes Moser and the Kup Taldea choir.
The album contains three works of his own, “Concierto para violonchelo”, “Cantata de estío” and “Viento del oeste”, and is a very special release for Velázquez as it is his first musical production that is not part of a film or theatre project.
Robert Trevino goes for a fully American-flavoured programme with Bernstein and Zhou
The “Symphonic Dances” from "West Side Story" and "Symphony No. 2" by Bernstein and the "Concerto for Orchestra" by Zhou make up the new programme of concerts that the Basque National Orchestra will offer between 21 and 25 February.