Julián Bautista (1901-1961): Je me promenais (La flûte de jade)
(texto: poema chino traducido al francés por F. Toussaint)
Marta Knörr (mezzosoprano), Aurelio Viribay (piano)

Julián Bautista: Je me promenais (La flûte de jade)

Joaquín Turina (1882-1949): Los dos miedos (Poema en forma de canciones)
(texto: Ramón de Campoamor)
Marta Knörr (mezzosoprano), Aurelio Viribay (piano)

Joaquín Turina: Los dos miedos (Poema en forma de canciones)

Xavier Montsalvatge: "Nana" (Emilio Ballagas), por Lola Casariego (mezzosoprano) y Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Xavier Montsalvatge: Nana

Rodolfo Halffter: Gimiendo por ver el mar (Marinero en tierra)
Texto: Rafael Alberti
Marta Knörr (mezzosoprano), Aurelio Viribay (piano)

Rodolfo Halffter: Gimiendo por ver el mar (Marinero en tierra)

Rodolfo Halffter (1900-1987): Desterro, op. 31
Texto: Xose Mª Álvarez Blázquez
Marta Knörr (mezzosoprano), Aurelio Viribay (piano)

Rodolfo Halffter: Desterro

Ernesto Halffter: La corza blanca
Texto: Rafael Alberti
Marta Knörr (mezzosoprano), Aurelio Viribay (piano)

Ernesto Halffter: La corza blanca

Ernesto Halffter: Ai que linda moça (Canciones portuguesas)
Marta Knörr (mezzosoprano), Aurelio Viribay (piano)

Ernesto Halffter: Ai que linda moça (Canciones portuguesas)

Toldrá: Madre, unos ojuelos vi. Lola Casariego (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Eduard Toldrá:  Madre, unos ojuelos vi

Ernesto Halffter: Gerinaldo (Canciones Portuguesas). Lola Casariego (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Ernesto Halffter: Gerinaldo (Canciones Portuguesas)

Julián Bautista: Malagueña (Tres ciudades).
Lola Casariego (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Julián Bautista: Malagueña (Tres ciudades)

Xavier Montsalvatge: Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito (Cinco canciones negras). Lola Casariego (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Xavier Montsalvatge: Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito (Cinco canciones negras)

Joseph Haydn: "Arianna a Naxos". Marta Knörr (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Joseph Haydn: Arianna a Naxos

Gioacchino Rossini: Anzoletta avanti la regata (La regata veneziana). Marta Knörr (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Gioacchino Rossini: Anzoletta avanti la regata (La regata veneziana)

Gioacchino Rossini: Anzoletta co passa la regata (La regata veneziana). Marta Knörr (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Gioacchino Rossini: Anzoletta co passa la regata (La regata veneziana)

Gioacchino Rossini: Anzoletta dopo la regata (La regata veneziana). Marta Knörr (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Gioacchino Rossini: Anzoletta dopo la regata (La regata veneziana)

Enrique Granados: La maja de Goya (Tonadillas). Marta Knörr (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Enrique Granados: La maja de Goya (Tonadillas)

Enrique Granados: El majo tímido (Tondaillas). Marta Knörr (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Enrique Granados:  El majo tímido (Tonadillas)

Enrique Granados: Amor y odio (Tonadillas). Marta Knörr (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Enrique Granados:  Amor y odio (Tonadillas)

Granados: Callejeo (Tonadillas). Marta Knörr (mezzo), Aurelio Viribay (piano).

Enrique Granados: Callejeo (Tonadillas)

The pianist Aurelio Viribay specializes in the accompaniment of singers. He completed his formation in this field with Norman Shetler in Vienna, with Dalton Baldwin in France and with Félix Lavilla in Madrid. Between 1995 and 1997 he worked as vocal coach at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts and the Konservatorium Wien University, and since 1998 he has been professor at the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid. In addition he has collaborated in masterclasses given by Thomas Quasthoff in the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Walter Berry in the Cartusiana Internationale Sommerakademie Niederösterreich (Austria), and Teresa Berganza in the Escuela Superior de Müsica Reina Sofía in Madrid. He has collaborated as official pianist in various singing competitions such as Das Schubert Lied (Vienna), Joaquín Rodrigo of Madrid, Francisco Viñas of Barcelona, Julián Gayarre of Pamplona, Jacinto Guerrero of Madrid and International Singing Competition of Bilbao.

He has worked with many singers including Walter Berry, Carlos Álvarez, Aquiles Machado, Alicia Nafé, Ainhoa Arteta, María Bayo, Isabel Rey, Norma Fantini, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ángeles Blancas, Ofelia Sala, Mariola Cantarero, Ruth Rosique, Silvia Tró Santafé, Ana María Sánchez, Ana Lucrecia García, Tatiana Melnychenko, Raquel Lojendio, Mercedes Arcuri, Lola Casariego, Saioa Hernández, Pilar Jurado, María Rey-Joly, Cristina Toledo, María Espada, Marta Knörr, Sonia de Munck, José Ferrero, Enric Martínez-Castignani, David Alegret, Gabriel Bermúdez, Rodrigo Esteves, Eduardo Aladrén, Susana Cordón, Carmen Solís, Ruth Iniesta, Elena Sancho Pereg, Cecilia Lavilla, María Zapata, Milagros Poblador, José Manuel Montero, Pablo García-López, Rubén Amoretti, Reinaldo Macías, José Ferrero,Alejandro González del Cerro, Luis Cansino, César San Martín, José Julián Frontal, Carlos Cosías, Luis Dámaso, Alejandro Roy, Miguel Ángel Zapater, Alex Vicens, Arantza Ezenarro. He has also accompanied instrumentalists such as Asier Polo, Mariana Todorova, Beate Altenburg, Ángel García Jermann and John Stokes, Quartet Assai, Bretón Quartet, Vocal Quartet Cavatina, National Choir of Spain and the Choir of the Spanish Radio. He has appeared in most European countries and also in Mexico, Morocco and Japan, performing in venues such as the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Castello Sforzesco in Milano, Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, as well as in most of the important concert halls and music festivals in Spain.

He has taken part in premieres of works by the composers Benet Casablancas,David del Puerto, Jorge Fernández Guerra, Juan Manuel Ruiz, Eduardo Morales-Caso, Miquel Ortega, Bernardino Cerrato, Nobel Sámano, María Luisa Ozaita, Dolores Serrano, Diana Pérez Custodio and María Escribano and has made recordings for RNE, Catalunya Music and RTVE.

His discography, on labels like Columna Música and Stradivarius, includes Songs of the Madrid Group and Spanish Female Composers of the 20th Century — both with the mezzo-soprano Marta Knörr —, Songs with the soprano Lola Casariego, Aprè un rêve with the tenor Guzmán Hernando, Indianas of Guastavino with the Vocal Quartet Cavatina and the first recording of Retablo on Paul Klee's texts by Benet Casablancas.

Aurelio Viribay obtained his Ph.D. from the University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid with a thesis on Art Song by the “Group of the Eight” in Madrid.

Aurelio Viribay

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