The Tourism Department of the Llíria City Council has presented a new issue of the LLUM Fest ‘Llíria Universal Music’, an event that also has the active collaboration of Bologna City of Music (Italy), Turisme Comunitat Valenciana through the touristic-musical ‘MediterranewMusix’ brand, and the Edetan musical societies of the Unió Musical and the Banda Primitiva.
The event, held at the Espai Turisme Llíria, was attended by the mayor Joanma Miguel, the Councillor for Tourism Paco García, the Tourism technician Vicent Sesé and the artistic director of the festival Pascual Cabanes. LLUM Fest celebrates its fourth edition this year, which will focus its programme on a ‘Special Ensembles’ to honour the figure of Gustav Mahler, with the interpretation of several of his symphonies led by batons from municipalities that are part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
The festival begins on Saturday, November 13, at the Banda Primitiva theatre, with a performance by the Liber-Quartet formation, with the show ‘American Music Revisited’. All the concerts of the programme will be at 7:00 p.m. The seats can be reserved through the Llíria City Council APP from Monday, November 8. Tickets are free.
The LLUM Fest programme for that same weekend will yet not stop there. On Sunday, November 14, at the Teatro de la Primitiva as well, the group Edetania Camerata will perform, a group of professional musicians made up by Edetanos who combine wind and string instruments. They will perform the Symphony no. 9 by Gustav Mahler, under the direction of the Italian Nicoletta Conti, a prestigious conductor and pianist, co-founder of the Bologna International Opera Academy for Young Singers (BIOA) and the Bologna International Vocal Contest (BIVC).
The LLUM Fest will continue on Friday, November 26 at the Unió Musical. The Harmonie Ensemble group will perform, a group made up of professional orchestral and teaching interpretation from the province of Valencia, who will also delight us with a piece composed by Gustav Mahler. In this case, it will be his Symphony no. 1, conducted by Ahmed El-Saedi, Head Conductor of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, which also holds the UNESCO Creative City of Crafts seal.
The finishing touch of the LLUM Fest will arrive on Saturday, November 27, at the Unió Theatre. It will be led by Plural Ensemble, a group from Madrid specialized in 20th and 21st century music. Their particular tribute to Mahler will be through the interpretation of his Symphony no. 4, by the hand of its founder Fabián Panisello, conductor from Buenos Aires (Creative City of Design). In addition, Panisello is Professor of Composition at the Reina Sofía School of Music and serves as a visiting professor at the China Conservatory in Beijing.
The three concerts devoted to Gustav Mahler at the festival (November 14, 26 and 27) will feature their respective previous presentations on the symphonies of this prestigious European composer by Nieves Pascual, PhD in Musicology, who is currently head of the Music and Performing Arts service in the Ministry of Education and Professional Training.
Mayor Joanma Miguel has highlighted “the high-quality programming that we will be able to enjoy in this edition of the LLUM Fest, with the presence of formations and conductors of national and international projection, putting in value, once again, our UNESCO seal”.
In this sense, the Councillor for Tourism, Paco García, stated that “being part of the Creative Cities Network allows us to continue developing this type of initiative, which projects to the world the cultural wealth that the Llíria brand possesses, as a tourist resource of the first order that we are betting on promoting”.
