May 2010

Madrileños for Haiti Concerto

José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Beate Altenburg, Angel Blue

Spanish Classical Orchestra

Next Tuesday May 4th. José Miguel Pérez Sierra, conductor, Beate Altenburg, Cello y Angel Blue, Soprano, together with the Spanish Classical Orchestra will join for the very first time to collect funds for the Haiti citizens.  The concert will be held at 19:30 in the Simphonic Hall of the Auditorio Nacional of Madrid.

The programmed works for the concert are the following ones

1ª Parte

Sanctuary of the Heart. Albert Ketèlbey (1875-1959)

Moon Dances. Vakhtang Kakhidze (1959-) *

2ª Parte

Porgy and Bess. A Symphonic Picture. George Gershwin (1898-1937). 

Orchestrated by Robert Russel Bennett (1894-1981)

Somewhere from West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Malambo from Danzas de la Estancia. Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)

* Premiere in Spain

The tickets will be available at the box offices of the Auditorio Nacional, Teatro María Guerrero, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatro Pavón from April 7th on and in short through  ServiCaixa.

This project has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the following companies

Music Awards 2010. Double Nominee

Ara Malikian, Daniel del Pino, Susana Cordón and the

Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra

The violinist Ara Malikian, the pianist Daniel del Pino, the soprano Susana Cordón and the Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra has been nominee as the Best Players of Classical Music in the Musical Awards 2010 which grant the Academy of Arts and Science of Music for their work "No Seasons".

Joan Valent

Nominee as the Best Author of Classical Music

Joan Valent, who born in Mallorca, has been nominee as the Best Author of Classical Music for his work "Quatre Estacions A Mallorca" which is included in "No Seasons".

To all of them our gratitude for converting again Non Profit Music in an international reference and our congratulations for being the only spanish orchestra double nominee as the Best Players of Classical Music.

December 2009

IV World AIDS Day Concert

Ara Malikian / Daniel del Pino

Once again and on the occasion of the awareness campaign carried out by Doctors Without Borders in the World AIDS Day, a concert will be held the first of December at 19:30, in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio Nacional of Madrid. Ara Malikian and Daniel del Pino will present MINDS togheter with another violin and piano works written in the XXth.

The programmed works for the concert are the following ones

I Part

Fernando Egozcue (1959)

Agua y vino

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)

Sonate pour violon et piano

Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)

Nocturne and Tarantelle

II Part

Lera Auerbach (1973)

Postlude for violin and piano

Jorge Grundman (1961)

What inspires poetry. Sonate for violin and piano

Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)

Le boeuf sur le toit pour violon et piano

The tickets are already available at the box offices of the Auditorio Nacional, Teatro María Guerrero, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatro Pavón and from October 27th on at ServiCaixa.

October 2009

Minds

Ara Malikian and Daniel del Pino

The violinist Ara Malikian and the pianist Daniel del Pino present their new project in Super Audio CD format. It consists of material from the twentieth and twenty-first century and includes world premiere recordings of pieces written by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Lera Auerbach (1973-), Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967), Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), Fernando Egozcue (1959-), Marjan Mozetich (1948-), Jorge Grundman (1961-) and Elena Kats-Chernin (1957-).

This project will be on sale from the middle of October. It will be performed in concert next first of December in the IV World AIDS Day Concert, which will be held in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio Nacional of Madrid. 

September 2009

Three Portraits With Shadow

Jesús Amigo, Lola Casariego

Extremadura Symphony Orchestra

A concert will be held next September 17th at the Palacio de Congresos of Badajoz in order to present the last work by the mezzo-soprano Lola Casariego and the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jesús Amigo. This project, made in Super Audio CD format too, includes world premiere recordings of pieces by these three composers from Madrid: Julián Bautista (1901-1961), Ernesto Halffter (1905-1989) and Rodolfo Halffter (1900-1987). Although the CD will not be on sale until the middle of October, it will be available for the first time at the concert, in aid of Medicus Mundi.

May 2009

No Seasons

Ara Malikian conducts the

Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra,

Susana Cordón and Daniel del Pino

Conducted by the prestigious violinist Ara Malikian, the third work of the Non Profit Music Chamber Orchestra tries once again to move the public which is not familiar with instrumental contemporary music. On this particular occasion, Malikian is accompanied by the soprano Susana Cordón and the pianist Daniel del Pino. In Hybrid SACD, stereo and 5.1 Multi-Channel format, the following works about the four seasons are presented:

Joan Valent (1964-)

Quatre Estacions A Mallorca

for Violin, Piano, String Orchestra and Percussion

Jorge Grundman (1961-)

Four Sad Seasons Over Madrid

for Soprano, Violin, Piano and String Orchestra

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Four Seasons in Buenos Aires

Arr. Leonid Desyatnikov (1955-)

for Violin and String Orchestra

April 2009

Aram Khachaturian. Violin Concerto

Masquerade Suite

Ara Malikian, Jesús Amigo

Extremadura Symphony Orchestra

The first combined work of Ara Malikian and the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jesús Amigo, is released April 2009. The CD includes the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and the Masquerade Suite by the composer Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978).

This one is the first Hybrid CD audio format recording of the Non Profit Music Foundation. This enables the listening in stereo in CD players and both in stereo and 5.1 Multi-Channel format in SACD players, achieving an unbeatable audio quality.