ACTIVITY

Speaker: Pablo Lorenzo Rodriguez
Biography: Doctor in History of Art and Musicology from the University of Zaragoza, he is a professor in the Human Sciences Department of the University of La Rioja, where  he teaches acting, drama and discology at the Master’s Degree in Musicology. He has published articles and monographs in various specialized magazines and publishing houses, and has collaborated in the revised editions of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the Oxford Companion to Music. In addition to his teaching and research, he does considerable work as a music critic and populariser. He writes reviews and opinions about classical music in the newspaper El País as well as a column on recordings in the magazine Scherzo, where he also publishes the blog “Canon alla rovescia”.

Speakers: Mariela Rubio and Rafa Bernardo
Biographies: Directors and presenters of the programme Play Opera in Cadena Ser radio station.
Rafa’s father was not willing to renounce opera in order to look after a child. Therefore, this child grew up listening to opera since his early childhood. The result, indescribable. Verdian.
Mariela Rubio, an addict to Bach’s preludes for well-tempered clavier, proposed Rafa a musical adventure on the radio and he inexplicably accepted. Wagnerian.

Speaker: Eva Sandoval
Biography: Musicologist and journalist for RTVE’s Radio Clásica since 2008. She has presented programmes such as Té para tres, Grandes Ciclos, Música Viva or Estudio 206. At present she directs, together with Clara Sánchez, the magazine Café Zimmermann, with interviews and live music performances, as well as the programme on contemporary culture Miramondo Multiplo, together with José Luis Besada. She presents the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Choir concerts in Los conciertos de La 2 as well as operas in El Palco, in addition to other broadcast music events. She collaborates in music magazines, regularly writes programme notes for the major Spanish music institutions, presents concerts, gives conferences, acts as moderator or participant in round tables and presents classical music records.

Speaker: LUIS GAGO.
Biography: He has been Deputy Director and Programme Manager for Radio 2 (RNE), member of the Serious Music Experts Group of the European Broadcasting Union, Coordinator of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Editor of Teatro Real. He has produced radio programmes for the BBC and is the author of numerous articles and monographs, of the book Bach (1995) as well as the Spanish version of the New Harvard Dictionary of Music. He usually prepares the subtitles in Spanish for the Royal Opera House, the English National Opera and the Digital Concert Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He is an editor and music critic for Revista de Libros magazine, music critic for El País and co-director, together with Tabea Zimmermann, of the Chamber Music Festival of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn.

Speaker: Rubén Amón.
Biography: Journalist and writer. He works for El Confidencial digital newspaper and usually takes part in different broadcasting and audiovisual media, such as Onda Cero, Antena3 and La Sexta. He has published several books on different topics, such as research on the secrets of El Prado - Los secretos del Prado (Temas de Hoy 1997); the biography Plácido Domingo: Un Coloso en el Teatro del Mundo (Planeta 2012); El Triunvirato: Carreras, Domingo y Pavarotti, Cuando la Ópera Llena Estadios (Temas de Hoy 1996) and Sangre, Poesía y Pasión: Dos siglos de Música, Ruido y Silencio en el Teatro Real (Alianza Editorial 2018).

Ponente: Carlos Imaz

Biografía: Compositor y pianista
Su trabajo estrecho con el maestro Rubén Fernández Aguirre ha hecho posible que algunos de los nombres de la lírica española más reconocidos de los últimos años hayan interpretado sus arreglos y obras propias. Su relación con la música escénica, formando parte de diversas producciones, culminó con la composición de la ópera “Caperucita Blanca” para la temporada de Abao Txiki. Durante el verano de 2022 condujo la sección de música clásica del magazine “Entre Calles” de Radio Euskadi.