Imprimir2011
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Pablo González presents the new OBC season to the public
On 25 May 2011, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC) and its resident conductor, Pablo González, will be presenting the new season to the public for the first time. During an event, the stars of which will be the conductor and musicians from the orchestra, concert-goers will hear excerpts from some of the most well-known and popular works that will be performed over the coming 2011-12 season.
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L’Auditori honours Bob Marley with a concert of songs by the Jamaican singer
L'Auditori commissioned singer and composer Natxo Tarrés, recognised for his work as frontman with the group Gossos, to create this show. Tarrés created the band The Wireless especially for the occasion. The show is a biographical and visual stroll to a reggae beat that gives us a sense of Marley's life through his songs and poetry. To be performed on Friday 13 May.
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L’Auditori presents the Cantània Beceroles by composer Enric Palomar, with lyrics by Màrius Serra
The work commissioned from composer Enric Palomar with lyrics by Màrius Serra will be staged at L’Auditori over 22 concerts, starting on 2 May 2011, and performed by 16,280 primary-aged school children during May and June 2011. The cantània will be performed 46 times in Catalan cities and 7 times in Spanish cities, with a total of 38,480 children and 700 schools.
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The instrumental group bcn216 as guest of honour at the Cairo Contemporary Music Days 2011 to be held between 28 April and 3 May
Catalan contemporary music was the guest of honour at the first edition of the Cairo Contemporary Music Days in the shape of the instrumental group, bcn216. The group will be performing a Catalan repertoire by composers such as Agustí Charles, Benet Casablancas, Oliver Rappoport and Luis Codera and Mallorca's Mateu Malondra.
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L’Auditori introduces Bach to the youngest generation
On 26 April L’Auditori presented The Sound of Bach. A total of 18 schools concerts and 12 family concerts were held, conducted by saxophonist Llibert Fortuny. Children aged 1 year and over were able to listen to arrangements of pieces and fragments of music by Bach thanks to a process that uses new technology and live music.
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The Thirty-Fourth Barcelona Ancient Music Festival honours Bach
Entitled Variations on Bach, between 1 and 12 April the Festival held a dozen concerts and other activities to showcase the vast and growing legacy of the German composer. The Festival welcomed performers such as Benjamin Alard and Alexandre Tharaud. A concert was also held at the Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar and, through l’Antiqva, in some of the most emblematic courtyards and squares in the Barri Gòtic.
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The Museum of Music to stage an exhibition of Baschet Instruments
The exhibition entitled Sound Sculptures opened on 31 March. Baschet instruments. Comprising 30 unique instruments, this is the most innovative contribution of the twentieth century to the field of music acoustics. As well as the exhibition, there will be a number of sessions during which experts in these instruments will play them for the public. This exhibition will run until 19 December 2011.
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The Robert Gerhard Centre presents the Gerhard Programme for this season
On 29 March, the Robert Gerhard Centre presented the programme for this season. One of the star concerts will be performed by the Arditti Quartet. Also of particular interest were the concerts by the OBC and conductors Víctor Pablo Pérez and Josep Caballé Domènech and L'Auditori's resident group, bcn216, and their interpretation of some of the leading works from the Gerhard chamber music catalogue, conducted by Ernest Martínez Izquierdo.
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The Modern Music Season at L’Auditori opened 2011 with the presentation of the new album by saxophonist Dani Nel•lo
On 21 January 2011, Dani Nel•lo opened the Modern Music programme for the first quarter of 2011. During the season, we will continue to enjoy new music proposals co-produced with all the festivals held in Barcelona over this period: the Festival Barnasants, Tradicionarius, the Festival de Cajón and the Festival Mil•lenni.
2010
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Start of the New Talents 2010 cycle
On 9 January, the Auditori started the New Talents 2010 cycle which was once more intended to be a platform for disseminating and promoting young performers of great projection and musical maturity, and also for stimulating originality in concert approaches.
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The Municipal Band starts 2010 with a first performance of Taverna-Bech
The program that the Barcelona Municipal Band offered on 24 January in the Auditori was opened by the work Caprici no. 2 for piano and wind by the composer Francesc Taverna-Bech.
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The Bali percussion leads the 3rd "Music of the Museum" cycle
On the island of Bali, dance and theatre form and inseparable whole which narrates and preserves the tales of their culture and collective memory. Of divine origin according to tradition, these arts are usually accompanied by instrumental group called gamelan. In March 2009, the Music Museum received the donation of the Balinese instrument called the gamelan from the Republic of Indonesia, and the museum offered it to the public with an audition on 24 January within the third Music of the Museum cycle.
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Sell-out of the recital by Alba Ventura
The young Catalan pianist Alba Ventura has sold all of the tickets for the concert on 10 February in the Oriol Martorell Hall in L’Auditori. This was the first performance of the Catalan artist proposed by the Auditori to take part in the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) Rising Stars cycle.
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Bcn216 returns with Goebbels
After the dedications to John Cage and Arvo Pärt and the Encàrrecs 2009 concert, the contemporary music group bcn216 returned to the Auditori on 17 February to present Goebbels, a concert in which the instrumental group performed "Songs of wars I have seen" by the German conductor and composer, led by the Estonian Anu Tali, precisely for whom Goebbels wrote the piece in this program in 2007.
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Llama and Aleix Tobías opened the 5th Percussion Festival
On 5 February, Llama and Aleix Tobías opened the 5th Percussion Festival in L’Auditori. The special achieved by the Israeli Ravid Goldschmidt on the (a melodic percussion instrument invented in Switzerland in 2001 from the idea of the steel drums of Trinidad and Tobago) along with the crystalline voice and the sensitivity of Sílvia Pérez, known for her participation in projects such as Las Migas and Refree, made Llama’s concert a delight for lovers of relaxed music full of feeling.
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Juan Perro presents a new band and new songs
After six years, Santiago Auserón returned to the stage on 2 March in the Auditori as Juan Perro once more, the alter ego which brought him success with an aphrodisiac cocktail of rock, Caribbean rhythms, blues and jazz.
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José James opens "Jazz in the Auditori – Counter bass Cycle"
José James on 7 March opened “Jazz a L’Auditori – Cicle ContraBaix" by presenting his latest record Black Magic, which received help from masters of beat such as the Californian Dj Flying Lotus, Dj Moodyman and the Japanese MC Dj Mitsu.
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The whole family climbs on the stage with "T'EnCANTArà: film music"
Has anyone ever dreamt of performing on the stage of the L’Auditori? Well on 14 March all of the family can do so thanks to "T'EnCANTArà: film music", a participative activity promoted by L’Auditori:Educa which enables families with children of over 8 to rehearse and perform well known film songs in Hall 2 Oriol Martorell.
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Smash Sons opens the New Sounds’10 Festival
The New Sounds Festival of contemporary musics, this year with the name of "Shadows and spectres” was formed by a total eight concerts from 6 to 28 March.
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The OBC presents the forthcoming symphonic season
On 23 March, the new lead conductor and artistic director of the OBC, Maestro Pablo González, gave a press conference in which he presented the symphonic season 2010-2011 of the Barcelona and Catalonia National Symphonic Orchestra (OBC) in the Auditori. The season will include a total 31 different programs, plus some concerts off-season.
2009
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L’Auditori will have a forth hall
On 17 February, and press conference was held to present the future Hall 4 of L’Auditori, which was made necessary by the number of activities programmed. It will be built thanks to the Extraordinary Fund of local investment promoted by the State. It will be located in the part of the building giving onto carrer Ribes and will have a capacity for 168 places and will also be used for the different resident musical groups in the Auditori to rehearse, as well as being a place for small public concerts.
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L’Auditori presents the 14th Worldwide Music Festival
The 14th edition of the Worldwide Music Festival was presented on 23 September and plans a change of direction, as from now on it will be aimed at one geographical area, which this year will be black Africa. The Music Museum brought the Auditori the exhibition “Musical instruments from Equatorial Guinea” to the lobby of the Oriol Martorell Hall.
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The season of family concerts starts with "El més petit de tots" (the youngest of all)
On 24 October L’Auditori:Educa gave the start to the family concert season with El més petit de tots, a concert aimed at children from 3 to 10 months.
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The 1st cycle of concerts in the Robert Gerhard Centre
The Robert Gerhard Centre for the promotion and dissemination of Catalan musical heritage in the Auditori started its first cycle of concerts on 3 November in the Enric Granados Auditorium in Lleida with "Il Piú Bel Nome", by Antonio Caldara, and on 6 December in the Auditori with the Vespres d’Arnadí group and "Pièces de Simphonie" by Charles Desmazures.
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Franz-Paul Decker conducts the Municipal Band
The Municipal Band wore gala dress on 6 December to receive one of the best loved conductors of the city, Franz-Paul Decker, who has conducted the OBC hundreds of times as the main conductor and as a guest. He was now coming back to Barcelona to conduct the Band with the repertoire he best masters: German music.
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Utopias mark the El so Original de Jordi Savall (The original sound of Jordi Savall) season
The Auditori and the Ancient Music International Centre Foundation (Fundació Centre Internacional de Música Antiga - CIMA) on 16 December gave the first performance of El So Original in the Tinell Hall. This year's season has at utopias as its main line. The season was formed by six innovative, creative programmes from mediaeval times to Baroque.
2008
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4th International Percussion Festival of Catalonia
On 1 February, the fourth edition of the International Percussion festival of Catalonia organised by the Auditori started with a concert by the Armand Sabal-Leco Sextet.
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New director of the Ancient Music Festival
The new director of the Ancient Music Festival, Jan Van den Bossche, was presented in May in the place of Mari Carmen Palma who had held the post for the last 31 years. Born in Belgium, Van den Bossche is the former director of the Ancient Music Festival of Utrecht.
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Advantages for Friends of L’Auditori
The Auditori Friend program starts in June. Everyone can ask for the Friend of L’Auditori pass free, which allows them to receive personalised information and benefit from promotional offers and discounts when buying tickets, monthly draws, participation in special activities, etc. In the first six months, we were already 12,000 Friends of L’Auditori.
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The BCN 216 group opens the season
The 2008-2009 Auditori season opened on 17 September with a concert by the resident contemporary group BCN 216. Each year the Auditori season starts with a concert from one of its different program lines.
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13th Worldwide Music Festival
On 3 October in Hall 2 Oriol Martorell, the 13th Worldwide Music Festival was opened in the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
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New season of Family Concerts
On Saturday 10 November the new season of Family Concerts was started. This is organised by the L’Auditori:Educa department at weekends so families with children are able to attend. Each of the concerts produced by L’Auditori:Educa has different sessions spread over one or more days. A total 83 family concerts are offered with 48,000 places, and aside from the even more numerous 104,000 places in the L’Escola va L’Auditori cycle, with 240 sessions of the same concerts in reading hours for children to attend with their schools. They are also presented around the Spanish state with the co-operation of the Fundació la Caixa (63 school concerts and 12 family concerts in 11 pounds) and some places abroad.
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The Robert Gerhard Centre is born
With a concert dedicated to the composer Carles Baguer the activity started in the new Robert Gerhard Centre for the promotion and dissemination of Catalan musical heritage, created in the Auditori with the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Government of Catalonia. It has a wide range of activities in concerts, editions and recoveries coordinated by Oriol Pérez Treviño.
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Success of the L’Auditori:Apropa social programme
The L’Auditori:Apropa social programme, which is intended to give access to groups of disabled or people in a situation of social exclusion through specialised entities, closed the year with a balance of 8,995 places used by such users in 252 concerts.
2007
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The Choral Cycle begins
The new Auditori Choral Cycle started on 13 January with a concert given by the Coral Cantiga choir. From January to July each season, the cycle opens a door to choral creation and brings in groups from around the country.
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The Music Museum opens
On 10 March, the new Music Museum at the Auditori opened its doors. This is the third large piece of the building along with the concert halls and the Higher School of Music of Catalonia (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya - ESMUC). This is the only public Music Museum in the Spanish state. It is not limited to presenting the valuable historical collection, but also programs a wide range of activities for all kinds of audiences.
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The Barcelona Arab Orchestra, resident at L’Auditori
In July the Barcelona Arab Orchestra was chosen as the resident group for the Auditori in the field of worldwide musics in order to contribute to giving access to immigrant groups. The cultural wealth of the newcomers and their participation in the culture of the receiver country is a way for multiculturality to be integrated and recognised.
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The new season of the Municipal Band starts
The new season of the Municipal Banned at the Auditori started on 25 November with 11 concerts on Sunday mornings in Hall 2 Oriol Martorell. This time the Band will have guest international soloists.
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L’Auditori with the greats of Europe
In December, the Auditori was admitted as the first and only member in full right from the Spanish state of the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO), an association of sixteen of the main European auditoriums. Beyond the international prestige this gives, it allows the Auditori to take part in joint programmes, joint productions and exchanges.
2006
Press conference 7th March 2006
In March 2006, the Auditori presented the new line of Modern Music with the objective of promoting and offering quality music of the genres: singer-songwriter, pop-rock, jazz, flamenco, traditional music and ethnic.
The Auditori has become the centre of the Ancient Music and World Music Festivals
The Auditori and the “la Caixa” Foundation on 28th February signed a collaboration agreement establishing a commitment to co-produce the Ancient Music and World Music Festivals in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and to hold both festivals in the Auditori.
On 9th October 2006, the Sala 2 Oriol Martorell of the Auditori will be opened
The opening of the Sala 2 Oriol Martorell of the Auditori will take place on the coming Monday 9th October. The Quartet Casals, the resident group of the chamber music cycle of the Auditori, proposes a programme that this year had to include the commemorated W. A. Mozart and a true classic of the 20th century, Ravel, to accompany the first performance of the work commissioned to Jordi Cervelló for the occasion.
The Quartet Casals
2005
26/01/2005
In January the Auditori held the opening event of the Year of the Book and Reading, with a concert with the title Visions of Quixote, which offered a selection of works surrounding this character, performed by the Young Catalonia National Orchestra (JONC), conducted by Manuel Valdivieso.
20th, 21st and 22/05/2005
In May, the composer Henri Dutilleux personally attended the performance of his concert for cello and orchestra "Tout un monde lointain" in the Auditori, performed by the OBC with the soloist Anssi Karttunen, under the conducting of Ernest Martínez Izquierdo.
press conference: 15/11/2005
In November, it was announced that Eiji Oue would be the new leading artistic manager of the OBC in the place of Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, following the first four-year mandate of the previous conductor, which he preferred not to renew.
18/12/2005
In December, the OBC performed in the Vienna Musikverein, one of the most famous classical halls in the world, with a programme that included El amor brujo by Manuel de Falla, conducted by Ernest Martínez Izquierdo.
Executive commission 07/11/2005
The Strategic Plan 2006-2010 of the Auditori was approved by the governing institutions, the Government of Catalonia and the City Hall, with the aim of continuing the progression of the OBC, of expanding the programme, of starting a new process of decentralisation throughout Catalonia, of preparing a social project and consolidating the City of Music project.
Eiji Oue, leading artistic manager of the OBC
2004
17/06/2004
In June, the OBC, conducted by Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, shared the opening concert of the Festival Sònar 2004 with several DJs in the Sala 1 Pau Casals of the Auditori.
14/05/2004
The musical programme of the Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004 was started with a concert in the Auditori with Mstilav Rostropóvitx to conduct the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten. .
26, 27, 28 /03/2004
The pianist Martha Argerich performed in the OBC season in March with the Concert for piano by Schumann, under the conducting of Franz-Paul Decker.
02/04/2004
The monumental work ‘Des canyons aux etoiles’ by the French composer Olivier Messiaen was led in April by Ernest Martínez Izquierdo with the
OBC symphony season.From 14/05/2004 to 02/08/2004
A very broad range of concerts was programmed by the Auditori within the cultural offer of the Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004, structured in four different cycles: Music for peace, Music for cultural coexistence, Symphonic Choir Concerts and Family Concerts.
September 2004
This season, the Auditori Educational Service reached 110,000 spectators and began to programme its family and school concerts in other cities of Catalonia.
01/07/2004
Jordi Savall led the world first performance of "Da pacem Domine" in the Auditori, the work commissioned to the composer Arvö Part for the Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004.
24/10/2004. Course inauguration
The 2004-2005 course was the first of the Senior Music School of Catalonia (ESMUC) in its new facilities in the Auditori building.
Sonar 2004
2003
24, 25, 26 /01/2003
The pianist Alicia de Larrocha chose the Auditori to hold a concert in January to bid farewell to Barcelona in her long artistic career, in which she performed the Concert for piano and orchestra no. 23 by Mozart under the conducting of Franz-Paul Decker.
11, 12 th, 12st and 13 /04/2003
All of the concerts for piano by Beethoven were programmed over three days in April, played by Radu Lupui with the conducting of Lawrence Foster.
3, 4 th, 12st and 5 /10/2003
The first concert to open the season, led by the new OBC lead conductor Ernest Martínez Izquierdo in October, received the violinist Shlomo Mintz in the Concert for violin and orchestra by Sibelius.
12/06/2003
The opening concert of the Sònar 2003 Festival was held in Sala 1 Pau Casals of the Auditori with the Matthew Herbert Big Band.
07/05/2003
The composer Enric Palomar and the singer Miquel Poveda in May presented the assembly "Poems from the exile of Rafael Alberti", within the Visions cycle programmed by the Auditori, later produced in record version.
Miquel Poveda
2002
September 02
For the first time, there were more than 10,000 subscriptions to the OBC season, in a permanent progression of public in recent years.
From 23/01/2002 to 01/02/2002
In January, the OBC made a tour of the United States with 8 concerts in different cities, closing in the Carnegie Hall in New York.
Approved by the Board of Governors 08/05/2002, Press presentation 25/06/02
Ernest Martínez Izquierdo was appointed the new lead conductor of the OBC in May in the place of Lawrence Foster.
March 2002
In March, the Auditori received its millionth spectator, after three years of activity.
From 18 to 24 /07/2002
In July, the OBC made an international tour with performances in the BBC Proms festival in London (24/07/2002), Germany (20 and 21/07/2002) and the Concertgebouw hall in Amsterdam (18/07/2002), under the conducting of Lawrence Foster.
Closure in the Carnegie Hall in New York
2001
2, 3, 4 /02/2001
More than 450 performers, between musicians and singers, took part in the three concerts offered in February of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, a monumental symphonic work for choir, this time led by Salvador Mas.
23, 24, 25 /02/2001
The Orfeon Donostiarra took part in February alongside the OBC in the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi, with a programme that included a selection of the works by the composer.
23 and 24 /03/2001
In March the North-American composer Elmer Bernstein led his musical works for cinema in the symphonic version performed by the OBC within the season’s annual dedication to this genre.
season presentation: 17/10/2001
The second season of cycles programmed by the Auditori XXI included seventy concerts structured in ten thematic cycles.
Presentation of Strategic Plan preliminary report: Executive C. 19/02/2001
The Strategic Plan 2002-2005 gave priority to Auditori performances around the social extension of its activity, to increase attendance, develop the Educational Service, culminate the equipment as a city of music, balance the budget and correct the deficit.
Elmer Bernstein
2000
Start: 04/11/2000
In November 2000, the OBC organised the cycle "Forbidden Music" (Entartete Musik) with three programmes dedicated to the composers prohibited by the Nazi regime in Germany and a documentary exhibition in the foyer related to the period.
4, 5, 18, 19 /11/2000 and 2 and 3 /12/2000
The Brodsky Quartet gave six concerts in November and December of all the string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich, within the Auditori XXI programme.
13/11/2000
On 13th November, the first concert was held of the new Auditori Educational Service, offering 91 sessions in its first season in the three cycles "L'Escola va a Auditori", "Concerts en família" and "De Aula a Auditori".
29/01/2000
The annual edition of the Goya awards organised by the Spanish Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences took place in January in the Auditori.
Annual edition of the Goya awards
1999
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22/03/1999
The opening concerts of the Auditori was held on 22nd March 1999, with an OBC programme that included, amongst other works, and initial fanfare composed for the occasion by Joan Guinjoan, the overture of The master singers by Wagner and the Short Concert for piano by Xavier Montsatvatge, performed by Alicia de Larrocha.
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9, 10, 11, 23, 24 and 25 /04/1999
The performance of all the concerts for piano and orchestra of Beethoven by the soloist Christian Zacharias took place in two different programmes in April 1999.
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From 22/03/1999 to 18/04/1999
The range of events organised to celebrate the opening of the Auditori went on until 18th April, with a total twenty-five concerts representing the variety of genres on the programme.
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20/09/1999 and 21/10/1999
The Barcelona Festival of Contemporary Musics in its six edition in 1999 was integrated in the cycles and meetings organised by the Auditori, this time to offer the public the most recent tendencies.
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From 5 to 22/11/1999
The OBC began to offer its habitual concerts in the Auditori for the children’s school audience, just like the entity Joventuts Musicals for the same kind of audience.
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Ibercàmera: Radu 10/05/1999 Project 15/05/1999
The concert cycle by the private programmer Ibercàmera was held partly in the Sala 1 Pau Casals of the Auditori from the time it was started, and also the International Guitar Festival organised by the company The Project and the other programmers such as Promoconcert, Euroconcert, Barcelona Clàssics and Festival del Mil.leni.
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21/06/1999 and following
Part of the events organised every 21st June by the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) for the Day of Music was called to the Auditori, which held an open day on this occasion.
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22/03/1999
The Auditori opening was presided by king Juan Carlos and queen Sofia, with the leading Catalan authorities and a broad representation of civil society and music lovers.
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31/05/1999
On 31st May the Max awards for Scenic Arts were given in a ceremony organised in the Auditori by the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE).
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Date 11/11/1999
The Ministry of Education of the Government of Catalonia and the Auditori signed an agreement to start the project of setting up the New Higher School of Music of Catalonia in this building (ESMUC).
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Sept. 1999. Opening concert: 10/11/1999
In September 1999, the 81 concerts were presented of the ten different programming cycles of the Auditori, baptised Auditori XXI, with Josep Lloret as the artistic director.
Opening concert
Educational service
Book of honour
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