A Granados Celebration: Concerts, Events, and Publications

A GRANADOS CELEBRATION:  FROM BARCELONA WITH PASSION
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
(1867-1916)

150 Years of Granados

Enrique Granados New York, 1915 or 1916

A PARTIAL LIST OF
CONCERTS, SYMPOSIUMS, PUBLICATIONS
IN THE USA, SPAIN, UNITED KINGDOM AND JAPAN

2016–2017

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NEW YORK

December 8, 2015

○ Song and Dance Music by Enrique Granados

Belén Gómez, soprano
Anna Tonna, mezzo soprano
Anna de la Paz, classical Spanish dancer
Borja Mariño, piano

Instituto Cervantes
211 E 49th St
NY, NY 10017
$10 ($5 for IC members)
7 PM

December 10, 2015

○ Vocal and Dance Works by Enrique Granados

Belén Gómez, soprano
Anna Tonna, mezzo soprano
Anna de la Paz, classical Spanish dancer
Gustavo Ahualli, baritone
Diane Lesser, english horn
Borja Mariño, piano

Hispanic Society of America
613 W 155th St
NY, NY 10032

Admission Free
7 PM
Reservations required:  friends@hispanicsociety.org

March 10, 2016

The Life and Music of Enrique Granados (1867-1916):
A Centennial Celebration

International Conference

Speakers from Spain, United States and other countries.

Keynote Speaker
Dr. Walter Aaron Clark
author of Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano (Oxford, 2010)

The Skylight Room (9th Fl.)
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016

March 10, 2016

 Perspectives Ensemble

(in residence at the Foundation for Iberian Music),
performs the works of Enrique Granados
with guests Douglas Riva (piano) and Anna de la Paz (dance).

Perspectives Ensemble’s participation is generously supported by the Danièle Doctorow Prize for Music
and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation

Featuring the world premiere of
Romanza sin palabras: Homage to Granados,
by Benet Casablancas

Ángel Gil-Ordoñez, Director

Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016

Admission Free

March 24, 2016

○ José Menor, piano

Carnegie Hall
Weill Recital Hall
881 7th Ave
NY, NY 10019

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April 14, 2016

○ Chamber Music by Enrique Granados

Erica Kiesewetter, Violin
Wolfram Koessel, cello
Douglas Riva, piano

Hispanic Society of America
613 W 155th St
NY, NY 10032
6 PM

Admission Free-Reservations required:  friends@hispanicsociety.org

April 29, 2016

○ Piano Masterpieces by Enrique Granados
with Douglas Riva, piano

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave
NY, NY 10016

7:30 pm
$35 ($25 Morgan members)

May 12, 2016

○Douglas Riva Performs the Piano Works of Granados

Hispanic Society of America
613 W 155th St
NY, NY 10032

7 PM
Free; Reservations required:  friends@hispanicsociety.org

November 18–19, 2016

○”Granados: Composer, Pedagogue, and Virtuoso”

November 18: A Concert of  Granados and Liszt
featuring the world premiere of Granados’ Concierto Patético (arr. Sergi Casanelles)

Steinway Hall
1133 Avenue of the Americas

6:30 PM

November 19: The Pianists of NYU Steinhardt Play Granados

NYU Steinhardt
35 W. 4th St, Room 303

1 PM

November 19: “Reconstructing the Concierto Patético”
a discussion panel with Sergi Casanelles and José Menor

“Granados: Virtuoso and Teacher”
a panel with Eduardus Halim, Adam Kent, and José Menor
moderated by Isabel Pérez Dobarro

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Sq. South

4 PM

CLOSING OF THE GRANADOS CENTENARY IN NEW YORK

February 2, 2017

Cant de les estrelles Concert Preview

Voices of Ascension

Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave

6:30 PM (reception to follow)

Free

February 9, 2017

○ Song of the Stars: A Celebration of Catalan Music
Including Granados’ Masterpiece:  CANT DE LES ESTRELLES

Voices of Ascension

Dennis Keene, Director
with Douglas Riva, piano

Church of the Ascension
Fifth Ave at 10th St
New York. New York

February 23, 2017

Art Into Music Into Performance

Goyescas and the world premiere of Wiprud’s Sargent’s Women

Yoonie Han, piano
accompanying discussion with art historian  Gail Levin

Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10010
(enter at 25th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues)

7 PM

$35 ($25 CUNY students)

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WASHINGTON, D.C.

Fall, 2016

○ Piano Works by Enrique Granados

Lecture-Recital with Douglas Riva, piano
Masterclass for Piano Students

Open Rehearsal: First Reading of Newly Published Orchestral Works by Granados

Georgetown University Orchestra,
Ángel Gil-Ordoñez, Director

Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.

TBA: Fall 2016 or Spring 2017

○ Song of the Stars: A Celebration of Catalan Music
Including Granados´ Masterpiece:  CANT DE LES ESTRELLES

Cathedral Choral Society
Reilly Lewis, Director
with Douglas Riva, piano

National Cathedral
Washington, D.C

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ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

March 20, 2017

○Lecture/recital on Cant de les estrelles

Including excerpts from Falla, Mompou, Albéniz and more Granados

Douglas Riva, piano
Susana Rivera, literary scholar

Keller Hall
Center for the Performing Arts, University of NM

12:15–2 PM

Free

March 22, 2017

○Lecture/recital for the Albuquerque Piano Teachers Association

Douglas Riva, piano

Piano Werkes
4640 Menaul Blvd. NE

10 AM

Free

March 23, 2017

○UNM Musicology Colloquium, Keynote Address
Walter A. Clark

Waters Room, Zimmerman Library
University of NM

2:00–3:30

Free

March 24, 2017

Music in the Time of Goya and Goya in the Time of Granados

Walter A. Clark, speaker

OASIS
American Square Shopping Center
3301 Menaul Blvd NE, Suite 18
Albuquerque, NM 87107

10:30 AM–2:00 PM

$8 (register by visiting link in title)

March 24, 2017

Song of the Stars: A Celebration of Catalan Music
Including Granados´ Masterpiece:  CANT DE LES ESTRELLES

Polyphony:  Voices of New Mexico
Maxine Thevenot, Director
with Douglas Riva, piano.

Cathedral of St. John
Albuquerque, New Mexico

6 PM
Pre-concert lecture with Walter A. Scott and Patricia Henning
(Limited Seating)

7 PM
Concert

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SPAIN

November 16-19, 2016

○ International Symposium in Madrid, Sociedad Española de Musicología

Featuring speakers from Span, the United States, and elsewhere.

Soceidad Española de Musicología
Madrid, Spain

Summer 2017

○ FIMTE CELEBRATES GRANADOS
(Festival Internacional de Música para Teclado Español)

International festival and symposium on Granados and his music. Featuring Musicians and Scholars from Spain, USA and other countries. Organized by Luisa Morales.

FIMTE
Mójacar, Spain

October 18–20, 2017

○Conference: En ocasión de María del Carmen:
Enrique Granados y su época

University of Murcia

Website

Call for Papers (deadline: Sep 15)

 

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JAPAN

2015-2016

○ A series of 4 Lecture-Recitals, with pianist Yukine Uehara

5 June, 2015
16 September, 2015
24 November, 2015
24 March, 2016

Kawai Omotesando
Tokyo, Japan

May 30, 2016

○ A concert featuring Goyescas and El pelele by Granados
with pianist Yukine Uehara.

Bunka Hall
Tokyo, Japan

TBA: 2016

○ Symposium organized by the Japanese Musicological Society

Dr. Mutusumi Fukyshima, Director

Elizabeth University
Hiroshima, Japan

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URUGUAY AND INDIA

December 1-2, 2016

○Manuel Dapena, spanish guitar masterclass

Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Maldonado
Centenary ­ “Enrique Granados” 1916­ – 2016

Centro Cultural de España https://www.cce.org.uy
Montevideo, Uruguay

December 1-4, 2016

○Manuel Dapena, concert and spanish guitar masterclass

Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Maldonado
https://www.festivalinternacionaldeguitarrademaldonado.com

Maldonado, Uruguay

December 15-18, 2016

○Manuel Dapena, concert and spanish guitar masterclass

The Indian Guitar Festival and Competition 2016
Concert & Masterclass
Centenary ­ “Enrique Granados” 1916­ – 2016.
60th anniversary Spain and India diplomatic relations.

https://indianguitarfederation.in

(Regrettably, events tentatively scheduled for the UK will not be proceeding.)

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NEW PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO GRANADOS

○ First publication of the Complete Orchestral Works by Enrique Granados. 9 of this collection’s 11 works have never before been published.  Critical Edition by Douglas Riva (Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2016).

○ First Publication of the Complete Correspondence of Enrique Granados.  Prepared by Dr. Miriam Perandones.  Published by Editorial Boileau, Barcelona, 2016.

○ Spanish and Catalan translations of ENRIQUE GRANADOS: POET OF THE Piano by Walter Aaron Clark (Oxford, 2010), from Editorial Boileau, Barcelona, 2016 and Editorial Pagès, Barcelona, 2016 (respectively).

○ Editorial Boileau has created an application for Android, iPhone and all tablets allowing users to purchase and download individual works included in the COMPLETE WORKS FOR PIANO by Enrique Granados, a Critical Edition, Alicia de Larrocha, Director and Douglas Riva, Assistant Director (Barcelona: Editorial Boileau, 2001 and 2016).

○ Chopin Magazine (Tokyo, Japan) will publish a year-long article series on Granados, by Yukine Uehara, each month in 2016.

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