Cartagena International Music Festival celebrates 10 years

Par Penny Homer, 17 janvier 2016

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Critique faite à Plaza San Pedro Claver, Cartagena, le 13 janvier 2016

Chávez, Sarabanda para orquesta de cuerda

Gnattali, Concierto para arpa y orquesta de cuerdas

Vivaldi, Concerto pour violoncelle en fa majeur, RV 410

Barber, Adagio pour cordes, Op. 11

Copland, Three Latin American Sketches

Piazzolla, Pieza para bandoneón y orquesta de cuerdas

Piazzolla, Adios Nonino

Ravel, Tzigane

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Emmanuel Ceysson, Harpe

Santiago Cañón-Valencia, Violoncelle

Rodolfo Mederos, Bandonéon

Maxim Vengerov, Violon

Orpheus CO and Vengerov deliver superb Mozart at Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 7th November

The star violinist and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra bring their two-night traversal of Mozart’s complete works for violin and orchestra to a stunning conclusion.

****1

Orpheus’ musicians play with restrained romanticism

Edward Sava-Segal, 10th October

One of the most charming attributes of Montgomery's Strum is the way different individual voices rise from and fall back into a seductively colored sound canopy.

****1

Orpheus performs string sextets on top of a car park in New Jersey

Edward Sava-Segal, 3rd October

The players demonstrated again the unity of an impromptu ensemble, although made up of instrumentalists that have played numerous times together.

****1

No conductor? No problem at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 21st May

Less is more in a brilliant performance by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and star soloist Jan Lisiecki at Prague Spring.

****1

Montgomery première shines among the classics

Rebecca Lentjes, 27th October

During Jessie Montgomery's Records from a Vanishing City, musical styles from avant-garde jazz to Angolan lullabies quarreled and overlapped, keeping our ears pricked for the duration of the piece.

***11

After a deluge, Bach

Timothy Robson, 27th August

A strong thunderstorm delayed the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Blossom Music Center debut, but despite their fine playing, the venue proved too large.

***11

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Penny Homer

Penny Homer graduated from the University of Nottingham with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2003, where she was also a choral scholar at St Barnabas Cathedral. She is keenly interested in arts and education, and her work across both includes stints at Akademi South Asian Dance UK and Benslow Music Trust. Additionally she worked for Edition Peters in their sales department before joining the Association of British Choral Directors as their Training Manager. Penny currently sings at Eton Lower Chapel, St Andrews Fulham Fields, Wimbledon Choral Society, Londinium and Vocal Constructivists, and continues her vocal studies with Ian Kennedy.

Orpheus CO helps Cartagena International Music Festival celebrates 10 years