Concierto y conferencia por el Día Internacional de las Mujeres en el Julián Orbón

The Julián Orbón Professional Municipal Conservatory joins the activities for International Women’s Day with a concert and a conference by the pianist and musicologist Laura Granero. Committed to feminism in music, she works to give visibility to female composers and performers from the past. It will be this Wednesday, March 5, at 8:00 p.m. in the Hall of the Conservatory.

Under the title «They Composed», Granero will perform nine musical pieces by renowned female composers from the past, including one of her own works. The selected composers are: Anna Amalia of Prussia, Marianne von Martínez, Marie Bigot, Hélène de Montgeroult, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann, Mel Bonis, Cécile Chaminade, and Laura Granero herself.

Internationally renowned fortepianist, pianist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, Laura Granero is the artistic director of her group, Fanny Davies Ensemble, which has been awarded at the International Van Wassenaer Competition of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht and is considered one of the leading ensembles in the interpretation of 19th-century music with historical criteria.

She is the co-artistic director of the Klavieratelier Mignon 1904 projects in Basel and La Nouvelle Athènes in Paris. Granero has performed in venues such as the Concertgebouw in Bruges, AMUZ in Antwerp, La Seine Musicale and Salle Cortot in Paris, as well as at the Sydney Conservatory. She has also undertaken several tours with the Anima Eterna orchestra, including a project dedicated to Clara Schumann, from which a documentary was filmed.

As a teacher, she has taught classes and lectures at the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris, the Superior Conservatory of Lyon, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Complutense University of Madrid, the Royal Superior Conservatory of Music in Madrid, and the University of California, Irvine, among many others.

Currently, she is pursuing a doctorate on Clara Schumann’s students under the direction of Clive Brown, for which she has received one of the highest grades with the excellence scholarship from La Caixa.

THEY COMPOSED

Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787)

March of the Regiment of Count Lottum

Marianne von Martínez (1744-1812)

Sonata in A Major, Rondo: Adagio

Marie Bigot (1786-1820)

Selection of Studies

Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836)

Selection of Studies

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)

Nocturne in G Minor

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

Nocturne Op. 6, No. 2 and Two Mazurkas Op. 6, Nos. 3 and 4

Laura Granero (XX-XXI)

Piece

Mel Bonis (1858-1937)

Prelude, Op. 10

Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Elevation, Op. 76