VESPRES D'ARNADÍ baroque orchestra
Vespres d'Arnadí is an ensemble specialized in the performance of Baroque music played with period musical instruments created in 2005 under the direction of Dani Espasa and Pere Saragossa. The aim of Vespres is to offer versions full of emotion, freshness and spontaneity using, in addition to their own criteria, different resources bequeathed in treatises, chronicles and other historical sources.
Its name recalls the concerts in the eighteenth century that were usually offered in the evenings (Vespres in Catalan language) as a 'dessert' for the distinguished dinners in the homes of nobles and bourgeois families. Pumpkin, sugar and almonds are the ingredients of Arnadí, one of the oldest desserts in Valencia.
With an intense concert activity, the group performs in important venues and festivals in Europe such as Peralada, Barcelona, Seville, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Madrid, Halle, Prague, Ostrava and Madeira, among others.
Vespres d'Arnadí records with Musièpoca label the albums 'Pièces de Simphonie' by Charles Desmazures, 'Misa en Re Mayor' by Josep Mir i Llussà and 'Anna Maria Strada', a tribute to Haendel's favorite sopano, records that receive the compliments from specialized critics. At the end of 2018, the group's fourth album was released with Aparté label, entitled 'L'Alessandro amante' with the countertenor Xavier Sabata.
Precisely Xavier Sabata is one of the prestigious artists with whom the baroque formation establishes steady and successful collaborations, as well as the mezzo Sonia Prina and Vivica Genaux, sopranos like Núria Rial, María Hinojosa and Marta Mathéu, and the tenors Juan Sancho and Emiliano González Toro, to name a few examples.
Vespres d'Arnadí will soon perform the program 'Virtue & Virtuosity' with Prina and Sancho at Espacio Turina in Seville, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerts at Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.
Vespres d'Arnadí gets helps from the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the Institut Ramon Llull for their concerts abroad.
DANI ESPASA
Undoubtedly one of the most versatile musicians in modern music today. Born in La Canonja (Tarragona), Dani Espasa studies music at the conservatories of Tarragona and Barcelona and architecture at the E.T.S.A. of Barcelona. He works as a composer, pianist and musical director of dance and television (TV3 and TVE) and above all, of theater, collaborating with directors such as Lluís Pasqual, Calixto Bieito, Josep Maria Flotats, Joan Ollé, Sergi Belbel and Jordi Prat i Coll. He also maintains a close collaboration with singers such as Lídia Pujol and Maria del Mar Bonet.
Espasa conducts the contemporary music ensemble Bcn216 and premieres piano pieces by composer Joan Albert Amargós. In 2000 he began his harpsichordist studies at Barcelona Conservatory with M. Lluïsa Cortada, continuing with Béatrice Martin at the Escola Superior de Mùsica de Catalunya (ESMUC), where he also studies chamber music with Jordi Savall, Pedro Memelsdorff , JP Canhiac and Manfredo Kraemer. He takes courses with Pierre Hantaï and Olivier Beaumont and collaborates with groups such as the 1750 Academy, Mala Punica, La Hispanoflamenca, Les Sacqueboutiers and La Caravaggia.
Dani Espasa performs at prestigious music festivals and concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnaggie Hall in New York, Madrid National Auditorium, Barbican Center in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Auditorium in Rome, Liceu in Barcelona, Summerstage in Central Park of New York, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Cairo Opera House, Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago or the San Joao National Theater in Porto.
Since 2003 he becomes pianist and harpsichordist collaborator of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC), as well as professor of improvisation and chamber music at the ESMUC and artistic director of the concert series at the Monastery of Pedralbes (Barcelona).
PERE SARAGOSSA
Born in La Vila Joiosa (Alicante), he begins his studies at Ateneo Musical in his hometown and later at the conservatories of Alicante, Valencia and Barcelona, where he obtains a higher degree in oboe. After nine years as a member of the Valles Symphony Orchestra, he begins his baroque oboe training, achieving the qualification of Interpretation of Early Music in the specialty of historical oboe by Alfredo Bernardini.
In 2006 Pere Saragossa creates Musièpoca, a concert agency specializing in early music, which since 2009 becomes a record label. He later forms the Renaissance group Lucentum XVI, based in La Vila Joiosa, which performs music from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Invited by prestigious European baroque orchestras with which he collaborates in important festivals and auditoriums throughout the continent, he makes different recordings including the opera Tito Manlio by Vivaldi, conducted by Ottavio Dantone, and the three albums with Vespres d'Arnadí already named.
Since February 2016 he has been a professor of historical oboe at the Conservatory of Castellón.
Website Vespres d'Arnadí
Its name recalls the concerts in the eighteenth century that were usually offered in the evenings (Vespres in Catalan language) as a 'dessert' for the distinguished dinners in the homes of nobles and bourgeois families. Pumpkin, sugar and almonds are the ingredients of Arnadí, one of the oldest desserts in Valencia.
With an intense concert activity, the group performs in important venues and festivals in Europe such as Peralada, Barcelona, Seville, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Madrid, Halle, Prague, Ostrava and Madeira, among others.
Vespres d'Arnadí records with Musièpoca label the albums 'Pièces de Simphonie' by Charles Desmazures, 'Misa en Re Mayor' by Josep Mir i Llussà and 'Anna Maria Strada', a tribute to Haendel's favorite sopano, records that receive the compliments from specialized critics. At the end of 2018, the group's fourth album was released with Aparté label, entitled 'L'Alessandro amante' with the countertenor Xavier Sabata.
Precisely Xavier Sabata is one of the prestigious artists with whom the baroque formation establishes steady and successful collaborations, as well as the mezzo Sonia Prina and Vivica Genaux, sopranos like Núria Rial, María Hinojosa and Marta Mathéu, and the tenors Juan Sancho and Emiliano González Toro, to name a few examples.
Vespres d'Arnadí will soon perform the program 'Virtue & Virtuosity' with Prina and Sancho at Espacio Turina in Seville, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerts at Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.
Vespres d'Arnadí gets helps from the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the Institut Ramon Llull for their concerts abroad.
DANI ESPASA
Undoubtedly one of the most versatile musicians in modern music today. Born in La Canonja (Tarragona), Dani Espasa studies music at the conservatories of Tarragona and Barcelona and architecture at the E.T.S.A. of Barcelona. He works as a composer, pianist and musical director of dance and television (TV3 and TVE) and above all, of theater, collaborating with directors such as Lluís Pasqual, Calixto Bieito, Josep Maria Flotats, Joan Ollé, Sergi Belbel and Jordi Prat i Coll. He also maintains a close collaboration with singers such as Lídia Pujol and Maria del Mar Bonet.
Espasa conducts the contemporary music ensemble Bcn216 and premieres piano pieces by composer Joan Albert Amargós. In 2000 he began his harpsichordist studies at Barcelona Conservatory with M. Lluïsa Cortada, continuing with Béatrice Martin at the Escola Superior de Mùsica de Catalunya (ESMUC), where he also studies chamber music with Jordi Savall, Pedro Memelsdorff , JP Canhiac and Manfredo Kraemer. He takes courses with Pierre Hantaï and Olivier Beaumont and collaborates with groups such as the 1750 Academy, Mala Punica, La Hispanoflamenca, Les Sacqueboutiers and La Caravaggia.
Dani Espasa performs at prestigious music festivals and concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnaggie Hall in New York, Madrid National Auditorium, Barbican Center in London, Musikverein in Vienna, Auditorium in Rome, Liceu in Barcelona, Summerstage in Central Park of New York, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Cairo Opera House, Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago or the San Joao National Theater in Porto.
Since 2003 he becomes pianist and harpsichordist collaborator of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC), as well as professor of improvisation and chamber music at the ESMUC and artistic director of the concert series at the Monastery of Pedralbes (Barcelona).
PERE SARAGOSSA
Born in La Vila Joiosa (Alicante), he begins his studies at Ateneo Musical in his hometown and later at the conservatories of Alicante, Valencia and Barcelona, where he obtains a higher degree in oboe. After nine years as a member of the Valles Symphony Orchestra, he begins his baroque oboe training, achieving the qualification of Interpretation of Early Music in the specialty of historical oboe by Alfredo Bernardini.
In 2006 Pere Saragossa creates Musièpoca, a concert agency specializing in early music, which since 2009 becomes a record label. He later forms the Renaissance group Lucentum XVI, based in La Vila Joiosa, which performs music from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Invited by prestigious European baroque orchestras with which he collaborates in important festivals and auditoriums throughout the continent, he makes different recordings including the opera Tito Manlio by Vivaldi, conducted by Ottavio Dantone, and the three albums with Vespres d'Arnadí already named.
Since February 2016 he has been a professor of historical oboe at the Conservatory of Castellón.
Website Vespres d'Arnadí