"Without Borders". Programme with the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia 2018

This collaboration between AC/E and the Colombian Symphony Orchestra is part of the programme framed in the Spain-Colombia Culture Focus, and consists of five concerts that the OSNC will carry out during 2018 and in which will take part the Spanish soloists Juan Carlos Fernández Nieto (piano, 17 May 2018), Josu de Solaun (piano, September 13, 2018) and Manuel Blanco (trumpet, November 15, 2018), as well as the Spanish director José María Moreno (May 26 and 31, 2018).

The Spain-Colombia Culture Focus aims to promote the culture of Spain in Colombia, through a broad programme of activities. This programme also continues the collaboration initiated by AC/E with the OSNC during the 2017 season with four concerts that featured two Spanish soloists, the mezzo-soprano Cristina Faus and the pianist Juan Pérez Floristán.

Programme

Concert 1
Thursday 17 May / 19:30h
Teatro Colón, Bogota
-“España”
Juan David Osorio (1985-)
- Piedemonte
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
- Noches en los Jardines de España
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- Sinfonía nº 2 en Re mayor Op.73
Director: Olivier Grangean
Guest pianist: Juan Carlos Fernandez Nieto

CONCERT 2
Saturday 26 May/ 17:00h
Auditorio Mario Laserna, Bogota
- “Rusia”
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
- Obertura a Ruslan y Ludmila
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
- Concierto para piano en Fa sostenido menor, Op. 20
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
- Scherezade Op. 35
Guest Director: José María Moreno
Pianist Soloist: Sergei Sichkov

CONCERT 3
Thursday 31 May / 19:30h
Teatro Colón, Bogota

- “Sol Naciente”
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
- Finlandia Op.26
Edvard Grieg ( 1843-1907)
- Suite Nº 1 Peer Gynt Op.46
- Suite Nº 2 Peer Gynt Op.55
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Concierto para piano Nº1 en Si bemol menor Op.23
Guest Director: José María Moreno
Piano Soloist: Rytaro Suzuki

CONCERT 4
 Thursday 13 September / 19:30h
 Auditorio Fabio Lozano, Bogota
- Petrushka
Jesus Torres (1965-)
- Tres pinturas velazqueñas
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
- Concierto para piano Nº3 en Mi mayor Sz.119
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- Petrushka
Director: Rossen Milanov
Guest Pianist: Josu de Solaun

CONCERT 5
Thursday 15 November / 19:30h
Teatro Colón, Bogota
- “Metal”
Daniel Schnyder (1961-)
- Concierto para trompeta y orquesta
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
- Sinfonía Nº 5 en Re menor, Op.47
Director: Alejandro Posada
Trompet Soloist: Manuel Blanco