Tuesday 10 September, 2024

International stars Zukerman, Forsyth and Sietzen will feature in the new cycle of the Miramon Matinées

International stars Zukerman, Forsyth and Sietzen will feature in the new cycle of the Miramon Matinées

Tickets and season tickets are now on sale for the Basque National Orchestra’s chamber music cycle, which commences on 5 October with 16 new musical events.

The violinist Pinchas Zukerman, the cellist Amanda Forsyth and the percussionist Christoph Sietzen will present chamber concerts after the orchestra's Symphonic Season, and many groups of members of the Basque National Orchestra will make up the rest of the programme.

Saturday 5 October will see the start of the 2024/2025 Season of the Miramon Matinées, which have appeared on the Basque National Orchestra’s schedule for over three decades, presenting a quality musical alternative. The Basque National Orchestra’s chamber music cycle presents a new Season, its 33rd, as an invitation to discover the thousand facets of music in pocket format. The cycle, which has enjoyed the support of the Kutxa Fundazioa ever since its creation, will run until 31st May and includes a total of sixteen events.

Three guest soloists invited to our Symphonic Season, international stars who combine experience and youth, will play the leading roles at the key moments. On the one hand, the violinist Pinchas Zukerman, a legend with almost six decades on stage, and the cellist Amanda Forsyth. Both will participate in the Bruch / Bruckner concert program. And on the other, Christoph Sietzen, who is only 31 years old yet has already become a leading figure, will be joined by members of our orchestra to offer a monographic percussion concert that promises to be quite a spectacle. Sietzen will premiere the Concerto for Percussion by Detlev Glanert within the framework of the Symphonic Season .

Dozens of members of the orchestra have formed trios, quartets and quintets of multiple instrumental combinations to offer a varied repertoire ranging from the baroque to the present day. And they do so in a light, relaxed and quality format, lasting approximately one hour, as an opportunity for the musicians to branch out by leaving aside their usual symphonic habitat. Liberty Taldea, Eguzkilore, Borodin Ensemble, Belharra or Barrococo are just some of the groups that will take to the stage at Miramon.

Although small string ensembles will dominate the programme, it will also occasionally depart from its characteristically reduced format to present larger groups such as Miramon Brass, with 12 members of the brass section; Izai, a small chamber orchestra of 16 members; and the guest choir Kup Taldea, with dozens of voices under the orders of Gabriel Baltés..

All these proposals make up an attractive menu in which everyone will find their own particular gem. This is the full schedule of this season's Matinees:

  • 5 October: Ensemble Phantasy
  • 26 October: Kup Taldea
  • 9 November: Liberty Taldea
  • 16 November: Miramon Brass
  • 30 November: Pinchas Zukerman & Amanda Forsyth
  • 14 December: Izai
  • 11 January: Eguzkilore
  • 25 January: Romantic Group
  • 8 February: Tronboi-trifekta
  • 22 February: H.E.C.
  • 1 March: Ensemble Éclatant
  • 15 March: Euskadiko Orkestraren Perkusio-Saila + Christoph Sietzen
  • 5 April: Voragine
  • 3 May: Borodin Ensemble
  • 17 May: Belharra
  • 31 May: Barrococo

 

 

Season and regular tickets

 

The general price of a season ticket for the 16 concerts is 96 euros and 75.20 euros for those who benefit from the special rate (over 65s, under 30s, season ticket holders of other cycles of the orchestra, Kursaal Eszena, K26 and K26+ cards of Kutxabank, friends of Eureka! Zientzia Museoa and Musikene).. Tickets are now on sale by calling the offices of the Basque National Orchestra (943 01 32 32) or via its website euskadikoorkestra.eus.

Single tickets are priced at 11 euros and can be purchased at euskadikoorkestra.eus, at the Kursaal Auditorium box office and on the day of the concert, subject to availability, at the box office of the orchestra's main office in Miramon.

 

 

Free bus service

 

The concerts will be held at 11:00 a.m., at the Basque National Orchestra venue in Miramon. To attend, the orchestra will continue to provide a free bus service for the public. It leaves at 10:25 a.m. from Gipuzkoa Plaza 4 and stops at Sancho El Sabio 18 and Avda. de Madrid 34.

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