Antonio Soria Alemany

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Antonio Soria Alemany (* 1967 in Albacete ) is a Spanish pianist, chamber musician and music teacher. Due to the close collaboration with Alicia de Larrocha in his Turina project, among other things , he is considered to be closely related to the Catalan Pianist School .

life and work

Soria received his first musical training at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona with Ramón Coll and at the Conservatory of Bordeaux with the organist Francis Chapelet . He also studied with Vlado Perlemuter , Maria João Pires , Joaquín Achúcarro and Germaine Mounier , who had a decisive influence on his career, as well as with the pianists Walid Akl , Alexis Weissenberg and Alicia de Larrocha . As the pianist of the Duo Reinecke, Antonio Soria won the 1994 "Paper de Música de Capellades" competition with the unanimous vote of a jury chaired by Antoni Ros Marbà . A graduate of the University of Valencia, Soria is a Doctor of Aesthetics and Musical Creativity.

Alicia de Larrocha supported him in recording the complete piano works by Joaquín Turinas on 16 CDs. No pianist had undertaken such a project before him. Alicia de Larrocha had rated this project as highly significant. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Acadèmia Marshall , she invited Soria to give a master class there. The secretary of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando Jose Luis García del Busto invited Soria to a series of concerts of Spanish piano works on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Radio Clásica of the Radio Nacional de España (RNE). Here he interpreted works by Soler , Chopin , Granados , Turina , Ravel and Villa-Lobos .

Antonio Soria has given recitals, concerts and chamber music events in numerous cities in Europe, North and South America, as well as in Egypt and Turkey. He worked there with such ensembles as the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin , the Chamber Orchestra Leoš Janáček , the Camerata Mediterranea , the Sofia Soloists Chamber Orchestra , the Mexkanischen symphony together. He played under the direction of Gerassim Voronkov , Plamen Djouroff , Velizar Genchev , Robert Gutter , Jesús Medina, Daniele Giorgi, Raúl Gutiérrez, Valentin Doni, Jeffrey Silberschlag , Salvador Brotons, Johannes Rieger, Aurélien Bello di Francia, Reinhard Seehafer, Gilles Colliard and Miklos Talkas . He has performed chamber music and opera pieces together with Elena Obraztsova (mezzo), Ana Maria Sanchez (soprano), Robert Expert (alto), Marçal Cervera (violoncello) and Paul Meyer (clarinet). He gave concerts for piano four hands with Paul Badura-Skoda .

Since 1995 Soria has been professor of piano at the Conservatory Óscar Esplá Alicante , since 1998 at the Conservatory of Castellón . During these years he also worked as a visiting professor at several international music courses such as the " Advanced Music Course for Singers" in Callosa d'en Sarria (Alicante), where singers such as Elena Obraztsova, Ana Luisa Chova , Robert Expert , Miguel Zanetti , Ana María Sanchez and Salvador Seguí took part in the “Baroque Music Course” in Benidorm , the International Summer Courses in Denia (1995, together with Victoria de los Ángeles ), and since 2005 courses in piano accompaniment at the Festival des Arcs (Savoy). Soria was the creator and artistic director of the International Music Festival Academy of Oropesa (Orfim). Since 2000 he has directed the Albacete Concert Society , the concert society in his hometown, and the “Music at the University” of the University of Castile-La Mancha . He was also artistic and academic director of the Institute for Musical Language and Interpretation (ISLIM). Antonio Soria is currently professor of piano at the Oviedo Conservatory.

Soria was a member of the jury of numerous national and international music competitions. From 1995 to 2000 he was a juror at the youth music competitions in Albacete , he was a juror at the 5th and 10th Concurso Internacional de Piano Compositores de España (Madrid, 2004 and 2009), a competition that focuses on Spanish composers . and 23rd International Clara Haskil Piano Competition (2007 and 2009), at the 4th Moritz Moszkowski Competition (2011, Kielce , Poland), at the 8th Franz Liszt Competition (2015, Grottammare, Italy) and at the 26th . Frederic Chopin Piano competition in Rome (2016).

Rating

Spanish magazines such as Audioclásica , Ritmo or CD Compact as well as international music critics hail Soria as the "great successor of pianists like José Iturbi and Alicia de Larrocha". “More than just a well-deserved applause, we have to express boundless thanks to the hard-working sponsor, the researcher and the interpreter. Turina comes to us whole and true, sensitive and like Pascal's reason, via the eye of the spirit and the eye of the heart. "

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Individual references and comments

  1. ↑ The article is based on the corresponding article on the French-language Wikipedia. For some original Spanish-language quotations, the corresponding article on Spanish-language Wikipedia was used. The article has been supplemented with documents from Antonio Soria's biography (artist website). The version histories of the French and Spanish-language base articles are stored as the first version of the German-language article.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad Antonio Soria: Website of the artist.
  3. ^ Radio Clásica: Antonio Soria invité de José Luis García del Busto (radio broadcast, 56 minutes, mp3). February 25, 2016, Retrieved June 29, 2019 (Spanish). José Luis García del Busto talks to Antonio Soria about the professional career of the pianist, with a particular focus on his work on Turina's piano works.
  4. ^ Horacio Velázquez: Antonio Soria . In: Correo Musical de Buenos Aires . tape 186 . Buenos Aires October 1997. , Quoted and translated from the article of the same name on the Spanish-language Wikipedia.
  5. ^ Enrique Franco (musicologist, music critic): Antonio Soria . Ed .: El País. September 25, 2000. Quoted and translated from the article of the same name on the Spanish-language Wikipedia.

See also

personal data
SURNAME Soria Alemany, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soria y Alemany, Antonio (official Spanish name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish composer, chamber musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Albacete