Robert Treviño / Mojca Erdmann (EN)
This cycle is based on three fundamental pillars: to offer quality music in a tone of relaxation and with a pedagogical character, to serve as a platform for the diversification of the symphonic work of the Orchestra members and its unique setting, the auditorium of the Miramón headquarters, turned Saturday to Saturday into a kaleidoscope through which to discover the thousand faces of music.
Sponsor: Kutxa Fundazioa
The Music Room's 2018/2019 Season will revolve around the female voice and the emotions it evokes. This voice – sung, spoken or the voice of the music itself – appears to us in a number of forms and intensities: in tender lullabies sung to babies, in great opera arias sung with power and splendour, or in the compositions by women who too often had to struggle against the incomprehension of their contemporaries. This year's programme also includes dance with the name of a woman, Marie Antoinette, and will bring back the workshops that the Basque National Orchestra has done in recent seasons with Plena Inclusión-FEVAS.
The projects this season aim to promote a dialogue between music, musicians and the public in an experience that hopes to be mutually enriching.
The Orchestra completes its activity with a wide-ranging catalogue of concerts in connection with important festivals and other cultural events and institutions
Given the importance of creating synergies which enrich its contribution to the world of culture, completing the Basque National Orchestra activity is a wide-ranging catalogue of concerts in connection with important festivals and other cultural events and institutions. This capacity for adapting to each of the musical formats programmed enables the Orchestra to relate with audiences of different styles, interests and ages, hence its ability to reach a total of 150,000 spectators every season.
The coming Season Concerts will continue to enjoy the important presence of its chief conductor, Robert Treviño who will open and close the programme as well as conducting six concert programmes. Treviño’s design envisages continuing to work with the vast symphony sound in a coherent manner, packed with meaning and with a long-term vision. Hence, for example, the recurring appearance of Mahler as a distinctive note since his early days with the Orchestra. The audience, always attentive to the Mahlerian repertoire, will on this occasion be able to enjoy the composer’s Symphony No.9, brought to them by the chief conductor, as well as the fine symphony repertoire of authors such as Elgar, Dvorak and Rachmaninoff, whose presence is explained below.
Thus, if, in last Season (2017/2018) Treviño proposed a look at concepts such as “resistance, conflict and reconciliation” through Shostakovich and Britten, for the 2018/2019 season he concentrates on the concept of “variations”: variations in constant evolution, eternal, unsure and triumphant variations. And to do it he turns the spotlight on three composers: Elgar, Rachmaninoff and Dvorak. Three great composers of difficult connection yet with shared personal experiences and emotions: uncertainty and separation from their roots. Treviño invites the audience to experience, through their art, the feelings with which all people can identify. It is intended as a message of emotion, perseverance and accomplishment.
