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Mara Aranda es una de las intérpretes más internacionales de música sefardita. En 2015, visitaba Varsovia (Polonia), para continuar en Praga (Rep- Checha), Sarajevo (BYH) o Sofia (Bulgaria) en una gira organizada por las embajadas españolas, celebrando la entrada de sefardíes en el Antiguo Imperio Otomano, donde interpretó el programa ‘Sephardic Legacy’ que ahora se presenta en el festival BRQ, festival de música barroca, de Vantaa.
También acompañaron los conciertos cursos como el que recientemente se clausuraba, EarlyMusicMorella 2016 en donde Mara Aranda impartió la asignatura de canto en torno al ‘Romancero panhispánico’ y su conexión con el repertorio sefardita.
Mara Aranda. Voz y percusiones
http://www.mara-aranda.com/
Acompañada en esta ocasión por el especialista en viola de rueda y cítolas medievales y uno de sus intérpretes más destacados, es colaborador habitual en formaciones tanto de música antigua como Eduardo Paniagua, Capella de Ministrers o Axivil. Con ellos ha llevado a cabo diferentes producciones discográficas y recitales en los que ha contribuido aportando la tímbrica particular de sus instrumentos, fieles reconstrucciones medievales. Su actividad concertística lo ha llevado a presentar la música medieval y antigua española por todo el mundo, en los más prestigiosos festivales, desde 1980.
Jota Martinez. Cítolas, zanfona, guitarra morisca y baglama.
http://www.jota-martinez.com/
Se suma al formato de concierto en trio para este festival, el músico valenciano Abel García, etnomusicólogo, especializado en zanfona e instrumentos de tradición oriental.Su interés por los instrumentos de cuerda oriental le llevan a estudiar Baglama en Estambul con Devrim Aydin y Orçan Ockal. Estudia Laouto con Stelios Petrakis y viaja a la isla de Creta para estudiar dicho instrumento con el maestro Giorgis Xilouris. Su trabajo en torno a la tradición y la contemporaneidad es un referente.
http://www.brq.fi/en/taiteilijat/mara-aranda
The new voice of ancient Sefardic music
Mara Aranda is going to appear at the BRQ Vantaa Music Festival in Finland at the 11th of August.
Mara Aranda is one of the internationally best known interprets of Sefardic Music. In 2015 she visited Warsaw (Poland), in order to continue her tour in Prague (Czech Republic), Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Sofia (Bulgaria). Her tour was organized by the Spanish embassies to celebrate the admittance of the Sefardic jews in the Ottoman Empire. In each of those very special venues she presented her Sephardic Legacy program, the same she will perform during the BRQ Vantaa Festival of baroque music.
Mara Aranda. Vocals and percussion http://www.mara-aranda.com
Mara will be accompanied by an expert in playing the hurdy-gurdy and citoles medievales, an excellent interpreter of those instruments, usual member of formations performing ancient music like Eduardo Paniagua, Capella de Ministers or Axivil. With those lately he finished some recordings and concerts as well, respectively contributing with the unique timbre of his instruments, outstanding facsimiles. Since 1980 he is on stage all over the world to present medieval as well as ancient Spanish music, in the course of the most prestigious festivals.
Jota Martinez. Citoles, hurdy-gurdy, Moorish guitar and Turkish lute http://www.jota-martinez.com
Abel Garcia, a musician of Valencia, Ethno musicologist and expert in hurdy-gurdy and instruments of oriental tradition completes the trio for the festival. Because of his passion for those instruments he even got the chance to study Baglama in Istanbul with maestros like Devrim Aydin and Oran Ockal, and he did so alike on the island of Crete studying lute with the maestros Stelios Petrakis and Giorgis Xilouris. His work is a reference for traditional and contemporary music as well.
At the moment Mara as a composer and interpret is working on her new CD after doing sound research and investigation in Jerusalem during a scholarship granted by Fundación Autor, Madrid, the CD will be released in December 2016.
Mara Aranda is an icon and yet has a place in the history of the grand dames of the Mediterranean. In order to celebrate career, music and success, in 2015 she released her latest disco “Mare Vostrum”, where influences, inspirations and emotions converge and for which she received the award “Best disco of Folk”, just as her preceding publications “Lo testament” and “Déria” did. Both also received the prize for the best disco of Folk in the year of their appearance.
In 2015 gone by she commemorated 25 years of performing on major European stages, leaving behind 1000 concerts in which Mara reinterpreted Turkish, Greek, Occitan an ancient music. In the last decades she moreover undertook important research regarding the inexhaustible repertoire of oriental and occidental Sefardic music in order to distinguish the
importance of the music and the songs which for generations were part of daily Jewish life in the Iberian peninsula, in the north of Africa and later in the Ottoman empire.
http://www.brq.fi/en/taiteilijat/mara-aranda
