CONDUCTED BY PORTUGUESE CONDUCTOR VITOR MATOS, WILL PERFORM BEETHOVEN’S “SYMPHONY NO. 6” AS WELL AS SEVERAL LYRICAL WORKS.
The Orchestra “Llíria City of Music” will offer a concert this coming Sunday, at 19.00 hours, in the church of the Assumption of the town. The City Council of Llíria is once again bringing together, ex profeso, musicians from the musical societies of the municipality for this extraordinary performance. Admission is free until full capacity.
The Councillor for Culture, Paco Gorrea, said that “we return to offer, within our agenda, a concert with a very attractive program, which will interpret the musicians of our bands, with the international collaboration of the Portuguese conductor Vitor Matos, from Leiria, which is also Creative City of Music by UNESCO, and accompanied by the mezzo-soprano Lorena Valero”.
In the first part, the Orchestra “Llíria City of Music”, with Lorena Valero, will offer excerpts from well-known pieces from the opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet, “La canción de la paloma” by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri and the aria “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix” from the opera Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Finally, he will perform Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 6”, called “The Pastoral”, one of the few works of programmatic music by the composer, in which he recreates, through its four movements, scenes of country life.
About Vitor Matos
Vitor Matos is a tenured conductor of the Guimarães Orchestra and assistant professor at the Department of Music of the Institute of Letters and Human Sciences of the University of Minho, as director of the Bachelor of Music course.
He has an intense activity in the field of conducting, conducting the North Orchestra, the Studio Orchestra, the Minho Chamber Orchestra, the Academic Orchestra of the University of Minho, the Kaiserslautern Conservatory and Theater Orchestra and Radio South of Germany, the orchestras of the Superior Conservatories of Vigo and Katarina Gurska of Madrid, with which he has developed a program of works from the Baroque to the contemporary era.
Mezzo-soprano Lorena Valero
Disciple of Margarita Lilova, kammersängerin and professor at the University of Singing in Vienna. She has been taught by Ghena Dimitrova, Dolora Zajick, Jerzy Artisz, Roberto Scandiuzzi and Helmut Deutsch. She stands out powerfully on stage for her strong musical and theatrical personality with which she brings her characters to life. Defender of the Spanish repertoire and the género chico.
