Next November 19 at 7 p.m. at the Auditorium ADD of Alicante It will be the Santa Cecilia Concert 2024 offered by the Alicante Conservatory Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaume Pascual Sirera. The work will be carried out “red piece“of the famous composer José Zárate, Considered by critics, musicologists and performers as one of the most important composers of current Spanish and European art,
He is the author, among other works, of “Alonso de Quijada” for orchestra or the important “Pequeña Cantata de Navidad” premiered in December 2022 at the Real Basílica de los Desamparados in Valencia. According to what the composer himself communicated to ABC The Valencian Community, very affected by the terrible events at DANA last October, offers all its solidarity to the victims. The maestro will be present at said concert to show his support for the entire Community and honor the patron saint of musicians.
Zárate has one of the strongest lineups in the current Spanish music scene, being a key name in the history of music that is being written in the transition from the 20th to the 21st century. Composer, pianist and teacher, he is the first European doctor In Musicology who received this distinction at the Spanish University (Marta Cureses: “Música para piano de José Zárate”. Jaén, 2019).
The composition of this work was born at the time of the IV National Congress of Music Societies, held in Toledo in November 2005, as a commitment by all to a better understanding, approach and dissemination of new Spanish music.
About the piece, and in general about the music of Maestro Zárate – in the words of the academic Dr. Cureses in his articles and books dedicated to his musical production – the composer states that “language is at the disposal of the shape ; the form is subordinated to the strength of the dialogue and expressiveness, and the music remains at the disposal of the performer.
These annotations by the composer contain several principles that have been developed on an evolutionary basis in terms of conceptual reasoning in different works. Among these principles stands out the meaning of construction based on a sound vocabulary functionalist sign. When Zárate speaks of a language at the disposal of the form and of a form subject to the force of the dialogue between the sound channels, he ratifies a compositional approach in which it can be observed, as in the well-known expression of the ‘architect Louis Sullivanthat “form” follows “function”, since this is the criterion that the composer applies in his creative practice.
