The Arts and music bands collaborate in training, dissemination and musical promotion activities
29.03.2017
The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía and the Federation of Musical Societies of the Valencian Community (FSMCV) will collaborate in musical training, dissemination and promotion activities, according to the agreement signed between both institutions.
The event included the presence of the president of the FSMCV, Pedro Rodríguez; l'intendent and artistic director of Les Arts, Davide Livermore; and the economic-administrative director of the cultural center, Francisco Potenciano. Furthermore, it also provides the Culture support of the Generalitat
Those responsible for Les Arts have volgut to highlight the gir that is given to the space “so that it continues an operatic reference, but also to reaffirm the breadth of programming and use of this space by all Valencians and Valencians for other artistic activities in a more common way like this one case, that of the concert programming of the Valencian musical societies, one of our greatest artistic and social values, a very important movement of social cohesion.”
On the other hand, the president of the FSMCV has stated that “we are satisfied with the agreement that has been signed by us because it was assumed that some of the annual programming of Les Arts would participate on a regular basis and, in all cases, the musical societies of the Valencian Community, clear representatives of our culture.”
The main objective is to unite the potentialities of the cultural complex with what the federation offers with actions such as the promotion of formations dependent on musical societies through cycles, auditions and competitions in the Arts or the dissemination among the activities carried out by the cultural center.
The agreement also provides for favorable conditions for the access of the musical societies to the usual programming of Les Arts, including with the overture to this collection of professional sessions of the Valencian Community Orchestra and the Center Plácido Domingo, in addition to the general advice of the opera performances.
Així mateix, also includes the possible participation of performers of musical societies in the musical offer of Les Arts i dotació, in the possibilities of the artistic enclavament, of infrastructure and resources for the trobades of the Jove Banda and la Jove Orquestra de l'FSMCV.
In the educational department, Les Arts and the FSMCV also stipulate the organization of master classes and other top-level training activities for the collective of musical societies linked to the protagonists of the artistic offer of Les Arts.
Bands at Les Arts
The agreement also included the development of the next editions of the cycle 'Les Bandes a Les Arts' which, annually, includes the installations of the building designed by Santiago Calatrava.
In particular, both institutions will call a competition between the musical societies belonging to the FSMCV so that they present projects with what to cover, according to the budget available in each year, the largest name of shows. A mixed committee will establish the name of the projects to be exhibited according to the quality of the projects and the availability of the countries to be presented.
The text also includes the desire to integrate in this cycle activities that coincide with the festive and cultural manifestations of the Valencian territory.
Two cultural references
The FSMCV groups 547 musical societies, with 40,000 musicians (50% from Spain), 60,000 students, 200,000 members and 1,686 formations (1,075 bands, 174 orchestras, 233 cors, 133 chamber groups...).
Les Arts, by its band, supports its artistic project at the Center Plácido Domingo, the Choir of the Generalitat and the Orchestra of the Valencian Community, the latter considered by critics as one of the best formations on the continent. Roberto Abbado and Fabio Biondi are the current musical directors of the OCV, who together with Ramón Tebar make up the trio of reference batons of Les Arts for the next seasons.
To date, the cultural enclave has opened the new ports and spaces to the bands in cycles such as 'Les Bandes a Les Arts', while, for this band, prominent figures linked to the opera theater such as Plácido Domingo or Zubin Mehta have collaborated with the renowned musical societies of the Valencian Community.
