Britten harp suite op 36 -Overture

A. Ginastera "Sonatina"-3 Toccata

C. Salzedo Scintillation

DUSKDuoPiazzollaGrandTango

Live performance. With a couple slips but yet ok for your ears!

LIVE Ballade-Carlos Salzedo at Matadepera Pòdium Internacional

"Concerto For Harp And Electronic" by Josef Tal

This piece was commissioned by the British Museum and BBC World Service for television broadcast ( by Sioned Williams, principal harpist of the BBCSO) on a programme celebrating Nouruz ( Persian New Year) in 2011.

"Saakene Ravaan" by Amir Sadeghi Konjani

Piece by Italian composer Valter Veroni, with double-bassist Valentina Ciardelli ( The Girls in the Magnesium Dress duo)

"Aus Stille" by Valter Veroni

Mike Ladouceur (1991) is an American composer and producer who received his Masters in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music in 2015. He was awarded the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal, the top honour given by the college to a graduating student and was presented by HRH Prince Charles the Prince of Wales. He co-produced The Infinite Bridge, a ground-breaking production which allowed musicians, dancers, and visual artists from four different countries to perform simultaneously. Mike’s work has most recently been given an award for the  Best Original Music at the Monaco International Film Festival, and his music is broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3.

Tardigrada, or tardigrade, is a micro organism that is incredibly resilient to extreme living conditions, being able to survive anywhere from the inside of a Volcano to the cold vacuum of space, and to live for up to 10 years without food or water. ‘Tardigrada’ (which will be premiered during Today’s recital) is a story about a tardigrada on Earth, and one on Mars that eventually meet and have to beat their differences and coexist in harmony when the Earthling is displaced on a meteorite and flown into space on a course clash with Mars. Compositionally, this work contains a harmonic series for Earth (C D E F G A B C), and one for Mars. In Mars’ harmonic series, the distance between its intervals is shrunk roughly by half by the use of a tritone on the first harmonic above the fundamental (C Db Eb F# G Ab Bb C). 

"Tardigrade", by Mike Ladouceur

Canon in D, Pachelbel

"Ave maria", Bach-Gounod

Award-winning harpist Anna originally studied at the Conservatori Municipal de Música de Barcelona with Maria Lluïsa and in 2013 she gained a Bachelor Degree in Music Performance with Honours at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu, studying with Abigail Prat. In 2015 Anna graduated with Honours from a Masters Degree in Performance at the Royal College of Music where she studied with Professors Ieuan Jones, Rachel Masters and Daphne Boden; she is currently studying an Artist Diploma course in Contemporary Solo Performance with Professor Ieuan Jones and Sioned Williams, Principal Harpist BBCSO. She has received numerous awards and generous support, most notably from the Leverhulme Award, Stanley Picker Award, and the Agustí Pedro i Pons Foundation Scholarship, and she is currently being supported by the charity Talent Unlimited. 

Anna has experience as a soloist, chamber and orchestral player from a very young age, and has performed in corporate and special occasions both in Spain and the UK. She has toured Spain as a winner of the Concurso Permanente de Juventudes Musicales de España (JJMM), participated in numerous music festivals and projects such as the “Festival Internacional d’ Arpa de Sentmenat”, and performed in renowned venues such as the V&A, BBC Maida Vale Studios, Cadogan Hall, Royal College of Music, the Spencer House, Italian Embassy, Austrian Cultural Forum, amongst others. She has also worked with several orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO Pathway Scheme). 

Anna Quiroga Harp

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