JOSEP VICENT GINER, organ

He is an organ and harpsichord player born in Denia. He studied with teachers Rynko Ottes, Javier Artigues, Josep Mª Mas i Bonet and Michael Radulescu.

He finished his studies of high level with the highest marks, among them, a special award at the end of the degree, the academic grade “Magister Artium” of the University of Vienna with the qualification “cum laude“ and the award “Premi al Mèrit Artístic del Ministeri de Ciència i Cultura Austríac”.

He regularly offers concerts in the Iberian Peninsula as well as Europe, both as organ and harpsichord player with programmes of renaissance, baroque, romantic, chamber and contemporary music (playing for the first time works of Amando Blanquer, Gordon Lawson and Josef Lammerz).

As visitor teacher he teaches seminars and courses of interpretation. He is organ professor of the Conservatory in Valencia.

FRANCESC ESTÉVEZ, conductor

He was born in Ondara. He began his music studies at the Advanced School of Music in Valencia. Afterwards, he graduated from Composition and conducting at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid (Avanced School of Music of Madrid), with the teachers Antón García Abril and Enrique García Asensio.

He furthered his studies in Conducting with the teachers Helmuth Rilling in Stutgart, Karl Österreicher and Richard Edlinger in Viena and Harold Faberman at University of Hartfort, Connecticut, USA.

In 1998 he founded the Marina Alta Orchestra (OMA), in which he is the permanent conductor and recorded 6 CDs. He has conducted the Henry Purcell orchestra of Valencia, The Mediterranean Symphonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Debrecen (Hungary), Solisti di Praga (Czech Republic), Symphonic Orchestra of Michoacán State (Mexico) and has worked with the Chamber Orchestra of Dresden.

ARMIN ROSIN, trombonist

After twenty years as the first trombone soloist in the Symphony Orchestra of Bamberg and the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart, he became university professor of trombone at the Superior School of Music of Stuttgart in 1980, where he has also taught chamber music to wind instrumentalist.

He ranks a special position as pioneer of the modern repertoire among trombone soloist worldwide. In the seventies, he made the very first trombone concerts record, then it followed fifteen more recordings, including some of the sixty compositions which were written for him.

He has worked under the under the guidance of grand music masters such as Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, Karl Böhm, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Neville Marriner, etc.

Critics think that Professor Rosin is the most important trombone soloist in Europe. He has toured all around Europe, Korea, Japan, China, The United States, Africa, Israel, etc.

JOHANNES GÖTZ, órgano

Realizó los estudios en la Escuela Superior de Música de Freiburg, con los profesores Ludwig Doerr y Stanislav Heller. Posteriormente perfecciona sus estudios en el Real Conservatorio de Bruselas con Hubert Schoonbroodt, donde obtiene el diploma de solista.

Desde el año 1992 es Kantor Regional (supervisor de la música sacra) de la Diócesis de Freiburg (Alemania).

Actua tambié nregularmente como director afrontando grandes partituras sacras como oratorios y requiems de F.J. Haydn, J.S. Bach, J. Brahms, etc. Es también responsable de la formació de los joves professionals de la música sacra en la región de Freiburg.

Realiza una intensa actividad concertística per todos los países de Europa, Russia y Siberia. Ha realizado un gran número de grabaciones en disco compacto como también para radio y televisión.

Es organista titular de la Iglesia del monasterio de Sankt Peter, en el corazón de la selva negra, una de las más bellas iglesias barrocas de Alemania del sur y director artístico del festival internacional de conciertos que allí se realizan.

CORO CANTORES SANCTIS DIEBUS

The narne of te choir translates either as ‘Singers on Holy Days’ or ‘Holiday Singers’ - and both seem appropriate. The group was formed over 30 years ago by half a dozen undergraduates in order to sing at a Christmastide Mass at St Martin’s, Salisbury, and retains its links with the church by returning to sing Mass there every year, usually in July.

The choir also meets on further occasions during the year to sing concerts and services at other churches in Wiltshire, and sometimes in more exotic locations. This is their second visit to Spain. They specialise in sacred music of the Renaissance, that Golden Age of vocal writing - despite all the religious turbulence - between 1500 and 1650.

The singers enjoy, with equal enthusiasm, performing works by acknowledged masters such as Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Victoria and Palestrina, and also exploring lesser known composers of te period. In this mission they have given first performances in modern times of works by Osbert Parsley, Giaches de Wert and Robert Ramsey.

NICHOLAS HALE, conductor

Since shortly aher its inception CSD has been directed by Nicholas Hale. He was a chorister at Wells cathedral, a Choral Exhibitioner at Clare College, Cambridge, where he read Music and he then spent 36 mostly happy years in the Music Department of Dauntsey’s School, Wiltshire.

He has recently co-edited, with Jon Riding, ‘The Wessex Psalter’, Covedale’s text (as in the 1662 Prayer Book) newly pointed and set to Anglican chant.

JOSEP Mª MAS i BONET, Organ

Josep Mª Mas i Bonet studied at the Municipal Conservatoire of Barcelona. Between 1974 and 1983 he lived in Basle (Switzerland), where he studied under Eduard Müller and Anton Heiller, and in 1979 he received the Diploma de Virtuosismo (soloist’s diploma) of the Basle Conservatoire.

In order to make Iberian Music, ranging from the XVth to the XVIIIth century and historical Catalan organs better known, he founded the International Courses on the Interpretation of Ancient Iberian Music in the year 1980. These courses are held in Torredembarra and Montblanc, where he teaches every summer. He gives music lessons in Iberian music at various European Conservatoires.

He has recorded several compact discs of Iberian music for the collection Los órganos históricos de España, released by the Auvidis – Valois label.

He has given a great number of concerts in Catalonia, throughout Spain and in almost all of the European countries, also in Turkey and South America.

He is a professor for organ and bass at the Conservatoire of the Liceo, the Barcelona opera-house, and permanent organist at the Priory Church of San Pedro in the town of Reus.

FERRAN FERRANDO, horn

Nacido en Pego (Alicante) en 1970, estudió en los Conservatorios Superiores de Alicante y Valencia, donde obtuvo las titulaciones de Trompa, Solfeo, Composición y Dirección de Orquesta. Fue ganador de los Premios Extraordinarios de final de Carrera en las especialidades de Trompa y Composición.

Actualmente es Profesor de Enseñanza Secundaria en Pedreguer; además es trompa solista de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Alicante y de la Orquesta de la Marina Alta. Miembro fundador y trompista del Quinteto de Metales “Al Vent”. Como trompista ha participado en más de una docena de CD’s.

Es profesor colaborador en el curso de verano “Vila de Teulada” y imparte audiciones pedagógicas con la Joven Orquesta de la Marina Alta, formación de la que és director desde 2006.