SUMMER PROGRAM ANDCONCERT SERIES OFLATIN AMERICAN &IBERIAN ART SONG

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Celebrating its seventeenth edition, the festival is devotedto the study of the history and interpretation of the LatinAmerican and Iberian art song. In 2021 it presents eightconcerts, both live and streamed, with artists fromCatalonia and Latin America.

Although streaming is new tomany, Barcelona Festival ofSong incorporated it in 2013, when it held interactiveconcerts between São Paulo and Barcelona, usingInternet2 infrastructures. In 2021, in addition to streamingthe concerts, the festival continues to championinnovation in music by incorporating the XAVE COINcryptocurrency, a resource that aims to democratizeaccess to music.

The lineup of the 2021 festival is incredible. It opens onJuly 8th with the recital La casa del lucero in which thefamous soprano Patricia Caicedo and pianist ManuelRuíz pay tribute to Colombian composer Jaime León(1921-2015) on his centenary.

On July 9th, mezzo-soprano Poliana Alves and pianistThiago de Freitas fromMinasGerais and soprano JulianaStarling and harpist Soledad Yaya from Sao Paulo, Brazilwill present the recital Recomendação, a program ofsongs by Brazilian composers.

On July 13th, in the emblematic Sala de Llevant of the BibliotecadeCatalunya, theGreek pianist NikosStavlas, presents the recitalHaikus for piano, performing pieces by Mompou, León andpremiering the works of fellow Greek Theofilos Lambrianidis.

On July 14th, Mexican mezzo-soprano Daniela Cortés, pianistManuel Ruíz and Dr. Enid Negrete perform Marchita el alma, arecital-conference dedicated to the Mexican composer ManuelPonce (1882-1948).

The final concerts will feature the course participants, who areprofessional singers from the U.S., Colombia, and Mexico. OnJuly 15th, former participants from different parts of the UnitedStateswill performat theAmbassadorsConcert,whileonJuly16that the Biblioteca deCatalunya, wewill listen to the programEl goigde cantar.

On July 17th at the Reial Cercle Artístic, we will hear the programCants de l'ànima with the participants of the 2021 courseperforming songs in Catalan, Spanish and Portuguese bycomposers from both sides of the Atlantic. As is tradition at thefestival, the cycle Dues cançons d'amor, by the Americancomposer Brian Field, based on poems by the Catalan CarlesDuarte i Montserrat, will be premiered.

With its innovative line up, in 2021, the Barcelona Festival of Songonce again combines its vocation to preserve the Iberian and LatinAmericanmusical heritagewith its innovative spirit, allowingmusicto reach all corners of the planet.

Organized byMundoarts, the festival relies on the collaboration oftheBiblioteca deCatalunya, theReial CercleArtístic, the InstitucióCultural del CIC, the Taller de Músics, GoMusic, the Residènciad'investigadors and the Barcelona City Council.

Throughout his life, he conducted hundredsof orchestras, among them the

Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogota, anorchestra that under his lead rose to anextraordinary level of quality. He had an

important career as a pedagogist and as acomposer. Most of his work is vocal, songsfor voice and piano based on texts of themost important poets from Colombia andEcuador. His songs reflect his multipleinfluences, the experience of a Pan-

American musician with solid training in theWestern classical repertoire and with

knowledge of the music of his time thatwas produced in his native countries,

Colombia and the United States.

Jaime León is one of the most importantPan-American composers of art song of the

20th century. In 2021, the BarcelonaFestival of Song celebrates his centenarywith concerts, recordings, publications, a

website and a documentary.

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JAIME LEÓN1921-2015

composer, conductor & pianist

Born in Cartagena de Indias on December 18, 1921,Jaime León studied piano from childhood. He began

higher education at the National Conservatory ofColombia and finished it at the Juilliard School of Music

in New York where he studied on scholarship,graduating in 1944. There he continued his studies inconducting and soon began to conduct, first with the

National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia and later asmain conductor of the American Ballet Theater

Orchestra in the United States.

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LA CASA DEL LUCEROHomage to Jaime León

Patricia Caicedo, sopranoPatricia Caicedo is a soprano and musicologist whose scholarship andperformances center Latin American and Iberian art song. She hasreleased eleven albums and published numerous scholarly editions ofscores and books.She is also an avid performer of these works, having performed all overthe world in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festivalof Song, which focuses on the performance and study of LatinAmerican and Iberian art songs in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese.Patricia holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the UniversidadComplutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor’s degree from theEscuela Colombiana de Medicina. Patricia is an Executive BoardMember of the International Music Council of UNESCO..patriciacaicedo.com

MANUEL RUÍZ, pianoBorn in Barcelona, he began his musical studies in Caldes de Montbui andcontinued them at the Conservatorio del Liceo de Barcelona under PedroVallribera.Discipleof theconcert pianistCecilioTieles, he received theprizeof Honor of the Superior Grade of piano.He worked on the vocal and chamber repertoire with the maestro ÀngelSoler and was a disciple of the teacher and pianist Yiya Díaz with whom hestudied the Body-Art method in depth. He is a repertoire pianist andprofessor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo de Barcelona.He collaborates regularly with the Choir and Orchestra of the Gran Teatrodel Liceo and with numerous singers.

A mi ciudad nativa - Luis Carlos López (1879-1950)Evocación – Daniel Lemaitre (1883-1962)Cartagena - Adolfo Mejía Arr. Jaime LeónCanción de cuna - Eduardo Carranza (1913-1985)La casa del lucero - Eduardo Carranza, 1913-1985Todo pasó - Rafael Maya (1897-1980)A ti – José Asunción Silva, 1865-1896Siempre – Alfredo Gómez Jaime, 1878-1946Más que nunca – Maruja Viera , 1922Algún día – Dora Castellanos, 1924La campesina – Isabel Lleras Restrepo, 1911-1965Canciones InfantilesI. Pequeña pequeñita –Francisco Delgado Santos (*1950)II. El muñeco dormilón – Francisco Delgado Santos (*1950)III. Viaje – Renan de la Torre (?)IV. Caballito de madera – Francisco Delgado Santos (*1950)V. La tunda para el negrito – Adalberto Ortiz (1914-2003)VI. El columpio – Renán de la Torre (?)

Juliana Starling,mezzo-sopranoSoprano Juliana Starling has a Master's Degreeand Doctorate in Singing, both from the StateUniversity of SãoPaulo "Júlio deMesquita Filho"-Unesp, andaBachelor'sDegree inSinging fromthe State University of Campinas-Unicamp. Shereceived vocal guidance from the teachers:Hermínia Russo; Martha Herr; Vânia Pajares,Elvira B. Crimi (Santa Cecilia Academy - Rome/Italy); Rita Patané e Maria Luisa Cioni, in Milan/Italy. She has performed at important venuesincluding Sala São Paulo; Teatro Municipal deSão Paulo; Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro;Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Kurhaus inWiesbaden, Bad Schwalbach und Limburg(Germany), São Goar / Germany and at thePalácio Foz in Lisbon.

She has sung as soloist in numerous concerts,operas and oratorios. Since 2008 she has beena member of the Municipal Lyric Choir of theMunicipal Theater of SãoPaulo. Since 2018, shehasbeendeveloping the projectRecuerdas,withthe Argentine harpist Soledad Yaya.

She has been a professor of the Bachelor'sDegree in Music (Singing), at the Institute of Artsof the State University of São Paulo "Júlio deMesquita Filho" - Unesp, since 2017.

SoNGS & POEMS FROM BRAZIL

RECOMENDAção

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SOLEDAD YAYA, arpa

PROGRAM1. Uma saudade, Rachel Peluso2. Assim falou o poeta, Najla Jabôr3. Canção dos olhos, Najla Jabôr

4. Singela canção de Maria, Babi de Oliveira5. Recomendação, Babi de Oliveira6. Meu corpo, Neide Almeida

7. De las cuatro hojitas, Renée Fonna Sizudo8. Serenata, Renée Fonna Sizudo9. Baile, Renée Fonna Sizudo

10. Luar do meu bem, Claudio Santoro11. Cantiga do ausente, Claudio Santoro12. Amor em lágrimas, Claudio Santoro

Born in Argentina, she began her harp studieswith Professor Dorita Zenobi, in theConservatory of Music of Córdoba, herhometown. She obtained first place in theNational Harpist Competition and received ascholarship from the Mozarteum Argentina,graduating in symphonic harp.

Soledad has been a member of the AcademicOrchestra of the Colón Theater and of theStable Orchestra of the Argentine Theater, ofLa Plata. After being invited by the São PauloState Symphony Orchestra-OSESP toparticipate in tours in Europe, the United Statesand South America, he settled in São Paulo /Brazil. There he graduated in harp, at theFacultat Santa Marcelina.

She is a professor at the Bacarelli Institute.Together with the soprano Juliana Starling sheforms the duo Recordas.

Poliana Alves -mezzo-soprano

THIAGO de freitas - piano

La mezzosoprano Poliana Alves es doctora en Música - Prácticas Interpretativas- Canto, de la Universidad Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).Como cantante de ópera ha sido solista en numerosas óperas que incluyen Didoy Eneas, Suor Angelica y Cavalleria Rusticana. También ha cantado como solistaen numerosos oratorios entre los que se destacan la Cantata 78 de Bach, elRequiemdeMozart, laCantatadeNataldeR.Tacuchian. Haactuadocomosolistacon la Orquesta Sinfónica de la Unicamp (OSU) en obras como El Amor Brujo dede Falla, La Novena sinfonía de Beethoven y La Mort de Cléopâtre de H. Berlioz.Es investigadora,enfocadaen temas interpretativosde lamúsicaclásicabrasileña,con énfasis en el canto en portugués en los siglos XVI, XIX y principios del XX. Esprofesora de canto en el Instituto de Artes - Curso de Música de la UniversidadFederal de Uberlândia / MG - Brasil.

Born in Santo André, São Paulo, he began his piano studies at the age of 16at the Conservatório Municipal Cacilda Becker. He holds a Master of Artsand a Bachelor of Arts in Piano from the Department of Music of theUniversity of São Paulo. Thiago actively participates as a collaboratingpianist in workshops and master classes and has performed in variouschamber ensembles with renowned artists. He has received several awardsin piano competitions including second place in the Luis ThomasceckNational Piano Competition in the Professional Piano Solo category in 2009,and in 2010 second place and Honorable Mention for Best Performance of aClassical piece. Currently he is Accompanying Pianist at the course Instituteof Music Arts of the Federal University of Uberlândia / MG - Brazil."

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1. Henrique Oswald (1852-1931) – poema: Solone MontiAve!

2. José Amat (1818-1881) – poema: Gonçalves DiasComo eu te amo

Por um ai3. Edmundo Villani-Côrtes (1930)

Valsinha de Roda4. Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez (1897-1948)

poema Cecília MeirellesBerceuse da onda

5. Osvaldo Lacerda (1927-2011)Três Miniaturas de Cassiano Ricardo

I – RelógioII – Serenata sintética

III – No Circo6. Waldemar Henrique (1905-1995) – Lendas Amazônicas

Manha-Nungára – (Lenda nº 7)7. Matintaperêra – (poema:Antônio Tavernard - Lenda nº 4)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) – folcloreNhapopé

8. Ronaldo Miranda (1948)Três Canções Simples - poema: Orlando Codá

Noite e Dia9. Carlos Alberto P. Fonseca (1933-2006)

poema:UmbandaOgun de Nagô

10. Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993)texto autoral onomatopáico

Den-Báu

SONGS AND POEMSFROM BRAZIL

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Visca l'amorIsai Jess Munoz, tenor

Isaí Jess Muñoz serves as Professor of voice and opera at the Universityof Delaware and as Vice President of The National Opera Association ofAmerica. Since 2015, . In performance, he has appeared with leadingorganizations including the Israel Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic,Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Verbier Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival,New York City Opera, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater onBroadway. Dr. Muñoz is featured on 14 audio recordings. His latest soloalbum titled "Visca L'Amor: Catalan Art Songs of the XX and XXICenturies," is a BBC Music 5-Star honoree and is available on BridgeRecords with worldwide distribution through Naxos. Dr. Muñoz is agraduate of theCincinnati College-Conservatory ofMusic, theManhattanSchool of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook www.JessMunoz.com

oksana glouchko, piano

Dr. Oksana Glouchko serves on the piano faculty at the University ofDelaware, and has formerly served as instructor for undergraduate pianoperformance at Stony Brook University (2009-2012). Dr. Glouchko hasbeen a featured soloist at the Bloney Festival (Switzerland), Mozart Fest(Malta), and International Festival and Institute at Round Top (USA).Winner of the Claudio Arrau International Competition in Chile, TheNational Competition of Russian Composers, and the Glinka NationalPianoCompetition in Smolensk, she holds degrees in piano performancefrom the Buchman-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University andStony Brook University. Additional honors include fellowships and grantsfrom theAmerica- Israel Cultural Foundation, theColton Foundation, andthe Buchman-Heyman Foundation. www.OksanaGlouchko.com

Eduard Toldrà (1895–1962)La rosa als llavis

Si anéssis tan lluny..Mocador d’olor

I el seu esguard…I el vent deixava dintre la rosella…

Seré a ta cambra amigaVisca l’amor

Ricard Lamote de Grignon I Ribas (1899–1962)Cants Homèrics

A les Muses i a Apol.lóA ZeusA Afrodita

Narcís Bonet (b. 1933)Haidé

Com una florVes qui t’ho havia de dirJo porto el teu pensament

Frederic Mompou Dencausse (1893–1987)Combat del Somni

Damunt De Tu Només Les FlorsAquesta Nit Un Mateix VentJo Et Pressentia Com La Mar

Elisenda Fábregas (b. 1955) *Imitació del focInici de campanaEscolto la secreta…Pluja brodadaArdent hymne

Joan Comellas (1913–2000)Les Paraules Sagrades

Alleluia (I)Alleluia (II)Ave MariaBenedictusAlleluia (III)

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Frederic Mompou (1893-1987)Prelude no.6 para la mano izquierda

Jaime León (1921-2015)Para la mano izquierda

Theofilos Lambrianidis6 Haiga (estreno mundial)

Jaime León (1921-2015)Tema y variaciones

Frederic Mompou (1893-1987)Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin

nikos stavlas, pianoBorn in Greece, Nikos earned his Ph.D. in piano under thesupervision of Keith Potter and Andrew Zolinsky at GoldsmithsUniversity in London.

His doctoral thesis focuses on the study of the work Ludwig van,a title sharedbya filmandacompositionby theArgentinedirectorand composer Mauricio Kagel. He graduated from the University ofMacedonia and went on to earn a master's degree in piano from theRoyal College of Music, London, graduating with top honors.

He has won numerous competitions, performed as a soloist withorchestras inGreece, theUKandAlbania.Hehasgivenchambermusicconcerts on important stages in Greece, Albania, Italy, Spain, Belgium,Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. Nikos lives inLondon and has been part of the group of teachers at the BarcelonaSong Festival since 2014.

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HAIKUS FOR PIANO

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marchita el almaCanciones de Manuel Ponce, 1882-1948

Originally from Saltillo Coahuila, Mexico, Daniela began hermusical studies at the Escuela Superior de Música de laUniversidad Autónoma de Saltillo, where she was part of theOpera Workshop and made her debut as a soloist with thePhilharmonic Orchestra in the Zarzuela Luisa Fernanda.She has taken part in numerous competitions andworkedwithimportant teachers. She is currently studying a Bachelor'sDegree in Singing at the Centro Municipal de las Artes inMazatlán and is a student of soprano María Katzarava.

In 2020, she came third in the first edition of Katzarava's VoiceFestival, andsecond in the1stNationalCompetitionofSingingand Performance held by Opera Irreverente. She is a granteeof the Arte contra violencia Foundation.

Adiós mi bienAh, qué bonitoA la orilla de un PalmarA tus amigosCerca de miCuiden su vidaDolores hayEl olvidoLa pajareraPor ti mi corazónPor ti mujerMarchita el alma

daniela cortes, mezzosopranonoMANUEL ruíz, piano

ENID NEGRETE, conferencistaWith a PhD in Performing Arts from the AutonomousUniversity of Barcelona, Enid has worked as a producer andstage director for theater and opera. She is president of theArt Against Violence Foundation dedicated to supportingartists with limited resources, providing professional trainingand disseminating Mexican art in Catalonia.

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AMBASSADORSCONCERT

Since its foundation in 2005, the festival hasreceived hundreds of singers from around theworld who come to Barcelona motivated by thedesire to learn the repertoire of artistic song inSpanish, Catalan and Portuguese.

When they return to their countries they becomeambassadors of our music, performing andteaching it in some of the most important musicalinstitutions in the world.

The festival is proud of their achievements and forthis reason today it pays tribute to them by makingthemtheprotagonistsof aglobal concert broadcastfrom different countries.

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The participants of theBarcelona Festival of Song2021 will perform songs bysome of the most renownedcomposers and poets from

Latin America and theIberian peninsula, in a

concert where we'll celebratethe joy of singing!

EL GOIG DE CANTAR

The participants of the BFOS 2021 are:

Annabella Capaccio, soprano - USAArabella Vera, soprano - MéxicoAsael Cuesta, contratenor - ColombiaDiana Carreón, soprano, MéxicoKatie McCullough, soprano - CANADAIvanna Vargas, soprano - USAStephanie Monteiro, soprano - USAYayra Sánchez, soprano - Puerto Rico

CANTS De l'ànima

ORGANIZED BY: With the support of:

14 de juliol - 20:30h CETMARCHITA EL ALMACanciones de Manuel PonceDaniela Cortés i Manuel RuízEnid Negrete, conferencistaBiblioteca de Catalunya iLivestream

15 de juliol - 22h CETAMBASSADORS CONCERTConcert d´antics participants delBFOS. Livestream

16 de juliol - 20:30h CETEL GOIG DE CANTARParticipants del BFOS 2021Biblioteca de Catalunya iLivestream

17 de juliol - 20:30h CETCANTS de l'ànimaConcierto de clausuraAlumnos BFOS 2021

8 de juliol - 20:30h CETLA CASA DEL LUCERoHomenaje a Jaime LeónPatricia Caicedo i Manuel RuízBiblioteca de Catalunya i Livestream

9 de juliol - 22h CETRecomendaçãoPoemas y canciones de BrasilPoliana Alves i Thiago de FreitasJuliana Starling i Soledad YayaLivestream des de Brasil

10 de juliol - 22h CETVISCA L´AMOCançons catalanesIsai Munoz i Oksana GlouchkoLivestream des dels EEUU

13 de juliol - 20:30h CETHAIKUS PARA PIANONikos StavlasBiblioteca de Catalunya i Livestream

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