The new Ibercamera private classical music cycle, which will be held between November this year and May 2024 at the Girona Auditorium, will mark the debut of the French National Orchestra, the Lyon National Orchestra and the SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra.
Symphonic concerts play an important role in this season’s line-up, which includes nine concerts, one more than last year. The president of Ibercamera, Josep Maria Prat, points out that it is “the most symphonic season” in the history of the cycle, which started in 2008.
Who will kick off this program is the Lyon National Orchestra (11/19), which under the baton of the Danish conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, will feature the Israeli violinist Pinchas Zukerman, who will perform the Concert for the first time in Girona for violin by Elgar.
Another of the debuts at Ibercamera Girona will also be performed by another French orchestra, the Nacional de Francia (05/25) which will perform songs by Fauré, Debussy and Ravel. “It is a great event for Girona”, indicates the president of the entity, Josep Maria Prat. The pianist Alexandre Kantorow will perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor.
Curiously, Ibercamera has never brought French orchestras to Girona before, although it has in other places, and this year it will present the public with these two debuts.
The third big name that will perform for the first time in this classical music cycle in Girona will be the SWR Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra (02/11), conducted by Colombian conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, who will perform Beetthoven’s ‘La Pastoral’ and ‘La consecration of spring’ by Stravinsky.
The concerts of this symphonic season are completed by the Hungarian National Philharmonic (01/21), which will also mean the first performance of the Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic in the city, and the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra (03/17), under the baton of Hungarian Ádám Fisher, with the 5th of Malher. The young German soprano Anna Lucia Richter (04/14) will interpret, in the first performance of her Ibercamera, the lieder of Malher and Brahms.
Among the chamber music concerts, the one by the pianist Ignasi Cambra stands out, which he repeats for the third time; other regulars such as the Gerhard Quartet and the violinist Helena Satué.
Since Ibercamera arrived at the Girona Auditorium for the first time in 2008, a total of 130 concerts have been programmed, more than 63,000 tickets have been sold and the public has been able to enjoy more than 6,500 musicians.
Some data, which according to the director of Ibercamera, Josep Maria Prat, have helped to place Girona “in a very prominent place on the international symphonic circuit” and have “consolidated Girona’s philharmonic tradition”. The number of annual subscribers is close to 700.
