Next Sunday, July 7 at 12 noon, the Joven Orquesta of the Comunidad of Madrid (JORCAM) will begin the summer season of the Orquesta y Coro of the Comunidad of Madrid (ORCAM) with an extraordinary concert at the Auditorio Nacional de Música. The young musicians will perform works by Igor Stravinsky (Danses concertantes), Claude Debussy (Petite suite) and Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (Symphony No. 6 in B minor op. 74 Pathétique) under the baton of conductor Jordi Francés.
The concert is the culmination of eight days of work and coexistence – from June 29 to July 7 in Alcalá de Henares – in which the members of the JORCAM have prepared the three pieces that can be heard in the Auditorium, in addition to exchanging experiences around music in order to improve and expand their professional learning. Created in 2009, JORCAM is heir to the former Community Student Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble that has contributed for 18 years to the training of young Madrid musicians and that now continues with the purpose of promoting their careers in an educational framework of high technical and artistic quality.
In addition to the performance of the Young Orchestra, this summer the ORCAM will be present in some of the main musical stages of the Community. On July 13, the Orquesta y Coros of the Comunity of Madrid will perform at the XVII Villaviciosa de Odón Festival with Mendelssohn’s celebrated work A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in a performance that will take place in the town’s emblematic Historic Garden and that will feature the participation of the actor Javier Godino, under the baton of maestro José Miguel Pérez Sierra.
Then, from July 17 to 28, ORCAM will perform at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid together with the prestigious National Ballet of Spain to present the show Generaciones under the musical direction of Manuel Coves and with José Luis Franco on the piano. This show presents a mixed program of repertoire and new choreographies, which is based on the tradition of Spanish dance and reflects the evolution of stage proposals through different generations of creators (Antonio Ruz, Rubén Olmo, Antonio Canales). The director of the National Ballet of Spain, Rubén Olmo, thus vindicates the need to recover the classics without losing sight of the new currents.
On July 30, one of the great concerts of the summer program will be held: the famous Mexican tenor Javier Camarena and the ORCAM will participate in the Botanical Nights under the direction of Iván López Reynoso, in a magical evening in which they will perform well-known pieces by opera and zarzuela by composers such as Verdi, Rossini or Sorozábal, as well as popular Mexican works (México Lindo y Dear, La Malagueña, Sabor a Mí…). Considered the best tenor of his generation, Camarena is distinguished for being a specialist in Mozart and Bel Canto, as well as the only tenor in history to have sung an encore in three different productions at the MET in New York.
The finale of the summer season will be the concert that ORCAM will give together with the acclaimed Polish tenor Piotr Bezcala at the El Escorial International Summer Festival, which will take place on August 3. It will be directed by Óliver Díaz and you will be able to enjoy some of the most outstanding arias in the history of opera (Va pensiero, Recondita guerra, Nessun dorma…). Bezcala is one of the most sought-after singers on major international opera stages, applauded not only for the beauty of his voice, but also for his commitment to each character he plays.
