Romantic Songs - Joaquin Palomares (Violin), Oscar Olivier (Piano)

In collaboration with Museo Villa Bernasconi and Comune di Cernobbio.
Apertura ingressi e biglietteria a Villa Bernasconi: 10:00. 
Entrance and box office at Villa Bernasconi opens at 10:00. 

PROGRAM

Fritz KREISLER: Liebeslied

Antonin DVORAK: Slavonic Dance Op. 46 n. 2

Christoph Willibald GLUCK: Melody from Orfeo ed Euridice

Fritz KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin

Fritz KREISLER: Capricho vienés Op. 2

Jules MASSENET: Tháis Meditation

Edward ELGAR: Salud d´amour Op. 12

Isaac ALBÉNIZ: Tango Op. 165 n. 2

Petr Ilic CAJKOVSKIJ: Melodie Op. 42 n. 3

Fritz KREISLER: Sincopation

Felix MENDELSSOHN: On Wings of song

Stephen Collins FOSTER: Old Folks at home

Joseph ACHRON: Hebrew melody Op. 33 

Fritz KREISLER: Farewell to cucullain

Antonin DVORAK: Slavonic Fantasie

Manuel PONCE: Estrellita

Fryderyk CHOPIN: Notturno in do min. Op. post. 

Fritz KREISLER: Liebesfreud

THE ARTISTS

Joaquin Palomares, Violin 

He is considered by music critics to be one of the best Spanish violinists of our time.

A graduate in violin and chamber music with special mention from the Conservatories of Valencia and Brussels under the guidance of Alos, Leon-Ara, Kleve, de Canck and van den Doorn, he completed his training with virtuosos V. Klimov, D. Zsigmondi and A. Rosand (heir to the School of Auer, Heifetz and Zimbalist) from whom he learnt a virtuoso-romantic style recognised by national (El País wrote of him: “Violinist with an extraordinary technique, a powerful and incisive sound, who at all times imposed the unquestionable law of the virtuoso”) and international critics (“A virtuoso-poet with a Latin temperament”, Stuttgarter Zeitung).

With his debut as soloist at only 15 years of age in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, he began an artistic career that took him to the best halls in Europe and Japan: Konzerthaus in Vienna and Oslo, Auditorio Nacional, Teatro Real, Palau, etc. He has performed with the most prestigious orchestras (National Orchestra of Spain, RTVE, Mozart Orchester of Vienna, Virtuosi of the Berlin Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestras of Lodz and Venice, etc.) and with conductors such as Maazel, Jurowski, Chernouschenco, taking part in the Festivals of Santander, Granada, Spoleto, Avignon, Monte Carlo. He regularly collaborates with musicians such as J. Levine, B. Canino, A. Rosand, R. Aldulescu, C. Delangle and F. Petracchi. 

He has made many recordings, being nominated for the 1999 Gramófono Awards with a CD on Milhaud. His most recent recordings are devoted to the Violin Concertos by Beethoven, Hindemith, Chausson, Serebrier and Montesiones and have received high praise from specialist critics. 

He plays a Nicolaus Gagliano violin (Naples, 1761) and a Roberto Regazzi (Bologna, 2003).

Oscar Oliver, piano

Professor of Piano since 2016, he maintains an intense concert activity, both as a soloist and in the field of chamber music, regularly performing alongside some of the most prominent Spanish musicians of the moment. After years of important collaborations with various chamber ensembles such as the Grup Instrumental de València, he founded the Iturbi Trio in 2015, with which he performed – among many other projects – the complete Beethoven Piano Trios on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. (2020/2021)

As a result of his multiple projects with the baritone Vicente Antequera (Winterreisse, Dichterliebe, El Canto del Minotauro…), a show was born in 2012 based on R. Strauss’s Enoch Arden with which they tour a good part of the Spanish geography together with the actress Rosana Shepherd. With the pianist Carlos Apellaniz he maintains one of his oldest artistic projects, the piano duo Apellániz-Oliver, with whom they have recently created their own version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, inspired by the one the Iturbi brothers performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York in 1938.

He performs over several seasons with the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana under the direction of Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta. Likewise, he is piano soloist of the Valencia Orchestra between 2008 and 2022, performing practically the entire symphonic repertoire for piano with conductors such as Frübeck de Burgos, Michel Plason, Eiji Oue, Gustavo Gimeno, Walter Weller, Fabio Biondi or Ton Koopman, among others.

As a repertoire pianist he works with soloists such as Gregory Kunde, Nathalie Sutzmann, Matthias Goerne, Gautier Capuçon, Vadin Repin, Simon O’Neill, John Tomlinson, Angelica Kirchschlager, Bo Skovhus, Stefan Vinke, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Waltraud Meier and Maria José Montiel.

He has a Master’s degree in research from the UPV (2012).