SUMMER CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS 38TH EDITION
The evening concerts will take place during the second week of July.
The classical music festival MÚSICA A L’ESTIU begins a new era in 2024 under the direction of the Professional Music Conservatory in Xàbia with a project that aims to involve young musicians not only from the conservatory but also from across the Marina Alta region, performing all the musical specialities taught at the music school.
The director of the music conservatory, Anna Bas, alongside the teaching staff and the councillor responsible for Culture, Mavi Pérez, presented details of what will be the 38th edition of the festival that is held during the month of July which they say will offer “great quality and more variety” which will be linked to the needs of the conservatory.
One of the great novelties of this year’s edition will be the separation between the training courses for young musicians, which will be held during April and May, and the concerts held during the evenings of July, which will be performed during the week of July 9th to 12th in the church of San Bartolomé.
The director explained that the training courses have been moved to take place within the school calendar because “our experience as teachers has shown us that it would be better for the students during the course, allowing them to perfect the works that they have been working on during class as well as preparing for the exams for higher conservatories and orchestras, etc. The courses will be taught by Ignacio Rodes (guitar) and Spanish Brass. Registration opens on Monday 11th March.
The second week of July will feature the festival’s concerts and a very special event for musicians from Xàbia which the director explained would be “a concert in which all those professional musicians, trained or related to the Professional Conservatory of Xàbia, can have the opportunity to demonstrate that they have decided to make music their profession and their life, musicians who will prove to have a place in a festival as important as Música a l’Estiu.”
She added that the competition aspect has been updated with “musicians of international prestige” and each year focuses on a group of 17 music specialities offered by the professional music conservatory, including singing, a discipline in which the music school has been a pioneer in the region.
The councillor responsible for Culture, Mavi Pérez, explained that, after 38 years, the music festival needed updated to take into account all the musical specialities that the music school teaches. However, above all, she said that it is important that students from Xàbia can participate and that the enormous talent that all the students who train at the town’s music conservatory are valued since they have and will later join the different associations and musical groups in the town, adding that it is “a talent that the entire town is proud of, and will be able to enjoy during the concerts scheduled during the second week of July”.
