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Mendelssohn y Brahms: apoteosis del Romanticismo en un concierto para recordar

By Tatiana Aráez, 18 June 2019
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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 17 June 2019
Programme
Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Brahms, Symphony no. 1 in C minor, Op.68
Performers
Leonidas Kavakos, Violin, Conductor
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
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Tatiana Aráez
Tatiana Aráez
Tatiana Aráez Santiago es licenciada en piano y música de cámara por el RCSMM. Complementa su formación con la licenciatura en Historia y Ciencias de la Música y realiza el Máster en Música Española e Hispanoamericana recibiendo una beca de colaboración con el Departamento de Musicología, en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Becada por el MECD, lleva a cabo en la actualidad su tesis doctoral sobre la figura y obra de Joaquín Turina. Es además licenciada en Filología Inglesa por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, estudios finalizados en la University College London, y posee el Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica.