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Juan Manuel Cañizares, the Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer, stands alongside international luminaries such as Paco de Lucía, Peter Gabriel, Al Di Meola, and others. The performer holds the distinction of being the first and only flamenco guitarist invited to play with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (directed by Sir Simon Rattle).
J. M. Cañizares’s career spans more than four decades. He collaborates with world-renowned ensembles, including the Dresden Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra and Chorus, and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. He has won numerous prestigious awards—the “Premio Nacional de Guitarra” (1982), the “Premio de la Música” (2008), and the “Premio Flamenkas Hoy” (2000, 2011, 2013). The guitarist collaborated closely with Paco de Lucía and has worked with a wealth of other widely acclaimed artists—Enrique Morente, Camarón de la Isla, Serrat, Alejandro Sanz, Mauricio Sotelo, Leo Brouwer, John Paul Jones, and Peter Gabriel.
As a composer, J. M. Cañizares has worked with the Spanish National Ballet and created soundtracks for the films “La Lola se va los Puertos” with Rocío Jurado and Paco Rabal, “Flamenco,” and “La Jota” (dir. Carlo Saura). The musician has contributed to over 100 albums and released 14 albums featuring him as the primary composer or performer. Also noteworthy is the world premiere of his flamenco concerto “Al-Andalus” for guitar and orchestra. “Al-Andalus” is a work dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía and was presented at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. Commissioned by the Spanish National Orchestra and Chorus (OCNE), it was performed under the baton of Josep Pons. According to the renowned composer and critic Tomás Marco, the work was received with thunderous applause.
Beyond performing, J. M. Cañizares teaches and researches flamenco. Since 2003, he has taught at the prestigious Catalonia College of Music, the “Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya” (ESMUC), and leads masterclasses both in Spain and abroad.
Viktoras Paukštelis is often celebrated as an artist of a uniquely dual nature, presenting audiences with a profound synthesis of his two talents: painting and playing the piano. For this artist, music and visual art are intricately intertwined, each breathing life into the other. The unpolished impulsiveness of his painting lends an experimental courage to his presence on the stage, while his visual work with colors to create form becomes a kind of hearing, beautifully transferred into the realm of his pianism. On the classical stage, such an intimate synthesis of two art forms is without parallel.
Program:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) – “French Suite” No. 5 in G major
Performed by: Viktoras Paukštelis
Juan Manuel Cañizares – Añorando el Presente
Enrique Granados – Andaluza
Joaquín Rodrigo – Aranjuez ma Pensèe
Juan Manuel Cañizares – Imagen
Juan Manuel Cañizares – Mozárabe
Juan Manuel Cañizares – El Abismo
Performed by: Juan Manuel Cañizares
Juan Manuel Cañizares – Suite for Guitar and Piano “Las Lunas de Madrid”
Luna de la Esperanza
Luna del Desco
Luna de la Nostalgia
Luna de la Alegria
Performed by: Juan Manuel Cañizares, Viktoras Paukštelis
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