The well-known crossover ‘Suite for flute and piano trio’, by Claude Bolling, and the world premiere of the work ‘Tres Inòpies’, by Miquel Àngel Aguiló, were the works chosen for the closing of the ‘Eivissa Clàssica’ cycle, an experience of five concerts given by musicians from the island, many of them living abroad, with an unconventional programme and great performers that deserves future editions.
‘Entre dues músiques’ is the title chosen for the recital, which will take place tomorrow Tuesday, December 5, at 7 pm in the auditorium of Can Ventosa. Tickets, although free, must be booked in advance on the website of the City Council of Ibiza.
The performers Héctor Koa (flute), Noel Saez (percussion), Salvatore Licitra (double bass) and Xico Ribas (piano) will be the protagonists of this concert, which is characterized by one of the most interesting classical crossovers in history, with a mixture of baroque music and jazzclaude Bolling’s ‘Suite for flute and piano jazz trio’, popularized by master flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal together with Bolling himself in the 1970s. In the United States, the album was nominated for a Grammy in the category of best chamber music performance.
Aguiló’s inopia
For this same instrumentation, Miquel Àngel Aguiló has composed tres Inòpies’, a work commissioned for this festival and to be performed as a world premiere. Aguiló stresses that “when one composes music, one is really in the void, totally abstracted from reality”. “Personally, I am a great absent-minded person, a great inhabitant of inopia. It is said and suffered by those who live with me. This is one of the reasons for this small tribute to inopia and all its inhabitants,” says the Mallorcan composer living in Ibiza. “The word alone, with its sonority, has seemed attractive and suggestive to me, and it never hurts to recognize that the vocation and the profession of musician is accompanied by scarcity and poverty in economic terms…. but not in other riches!”, concludes Miquel Àngel Aguiló.
Héctor Koa is a multifaceted musician who after training as a flutist in the conservatories of Ibiza, Madrid, Manhattan and Amsterdam specialized in different ethnic instruments. He is a music teacher and collaborates with international artists and the Ibizan projects Heklos and Kirtan Ibiza.
Noel Saeznoel Saez, percussion, began his studies at the music school of Santa Eulària and continued in Valencia, where he graduated in music teaching. He combines teaching in different Valencian musical societies with his higher studies in percussion.
Xico Ribas is a pianist from Ibiza focused on electronics, improvisation and experimentation. After finishing his studies of classical piano and improvisation in Barcelona and electronics in Amsterdam, he lives in Holland, where he collaborates in different experimental projects.
Salvatore Licitrasalvatore Licitra[]double bass, has a degree in jazz bass and classical double bass performance. He studied in Rome and collaborates with Italian orchestras and the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears. He is currently a professor at the Patronato de Ibiza and a member of the Orquestra Simfònica Ciutat d’Eivissa.
The ‘Eivissa Clásica’ Festival is organized by the Ibiza Town Hall, with the collaboration of the Patronato Municipal de Música and has been made possible thanks to the sponsorship of the Abel Matutes Foundation, La Sirena Art Ibiza, Perfumerías África, Imprenta Manonelles, Glissandoo, Asesoría Unidad, Sono Ibiza and Estudio Jazzbo de Ricard Bofill.
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