II INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF EARLY ROMANTIC PIANO

“MARIO CALADO” (1863-1926)

For Competition Mario Calado information see website

http://www.festivalrialp.cat of RIALP MUSICAL ASSOCIACIÓ.

Competition dates: 8th to 12th September 2015 RIALP

RIALP MUSICAL ASSOCIATION

SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF EARLY ROMANTIC PIANO

“MARIO CALADO” (1863-1926)

BACKGROUND Rialp Musical is a non profit association founded in RIALP by people with an interest in the promotion and spreading of music in its widest meaning, and with the intention of granting access to cultural events in rural areas, generally with hardly any activity of this kind. Rialp is a mountain village found in the river Noguera Pallaresa basin, in the district of El

Pallars Sobirà. It is a region with a high mountain landscape and an amazing relief such as the

one in Aigües Tortes and Sant Maurici National Park and Alt Pirineu Natural Park, which has

part of its boundaries in our municipality. The ski resort of Port-Ainé is also part of the

municipality, nearer than the other ski resorts in the area, namely Super Espot, Tavascan and

Baqueira Beret. Port-Ainé has managed to become an important holiday resort, in winter as

well as in summer, where not only ski and adventure sports are offered –being the main

activities in the area–, but also allowing nature to be enjoyed at its fullest with several hiking

itineraries or with the cultural and gastronomic routes, and the organization of cultural

activities.

In the village of Rialp the historic heritage starts with the remains of the old Castle, presiding

the old quarter, which features the century-old streets under the series of arches that

correspond to the typology of what is considered an enclosed village of the medieval times;

it is nowadays in the process of being declared a Historic Artistic Cluster. At its head,

presiding, we can find the parish church of Verge de Valldeflors, built in the 17th century on

top of a primitive edification from the 12th century, with some remains of the original

structure still left.

It is in this context that Rialp Musical Association promotes artistic activities in relation to the

field of music with the intention, as stated above, for granting access to cultural events to the

scattered population living in the rural mountain areas which usually do not have at reach

cultural programmes with certain first-class quality, understanding that this is an important

contribution to culture. Likewise, the association understands that performing in such an

environment is an incentive, an excellent reason, for the guest artists to take part in the

planned activities of the festival, among the other usual festival programmes and summer

tours of this kind of artistic activities. Thus, the participants are offered, in addition to the

scheduled concert, the possibility of staying in high mountain lodgings and doing some

complementary activities, cultural tourism activities as well as nature ones.

Another field in which the association has put an effort is in promoting and granting quality

musical training for all the children of the region. It was with this intention that the Itinerary

Music and Dancing School of El Pallars was founded, a pioneering venture and, at least to our

understanding, an absolutely basic project of first importance to encourage the interest in

music and dance among the local children. After twelve years of relentless work, it

represents an immense satisfaction for all those who started the project, to see its results.

Nowadays, the school counts on four permanent, regular sites in the counties of El Pallars

Sobirà and El Pallars Jussà, where musical studies are taught in ten different areas, from

instrument performance to musical language and dancing. In the last five years, there has

been an average number of 250 pupils and the teaching has been carried out by 10 music

teachers, all of them with higher qualifications. It has become an important gathering project

for the social life of our county, with events such as the End of the Year Concert, which is

now an essential moment in the social life of the region, held in different venues every year

and with the participation of all the pupils, in solo performances as well as orchestral groups.

On the other hand, as a complement to the initiative of music promotion in the county, there

was the proposal of creating a classical music festival to bring to the territory some musical

performances at an international level in order to enjoy such events in an area that is quite

distant from the existing circuits.

From the beginning, with many difficulties and great effort on the part of the organization,

and as a response to the positive attention from the sponsors and administration, we have

obtained results that satisfy us completely. At the start, the organization of the Festival chose

to apply the same criteria as for the Music School: organize an itinerant festival, with

concerts scattered all over the district with the aim of bringing the events as close as possible

to the population living in many different little villages and with no real accessibility.

With such premises, a structure with no precedent in our times has become consolidated

thanks to the fact that, even though the organization and main venue is in Rialp, there are

performances in five different places all over the county of El Pallars Jussà up until the most

northern part of El Pallars Sobirà, with a maximum distance of 60 Km.

From the first festival in 2001 there have been concerts with ensembles and performers from

an international sphere, worth mentioning among others are: Claudi Arimany, Chamber

Choir of St. Petersburg, National Choir of Ukraine, Ave Sol Choir from Riga, The Soloists of the

Royal Opera House of Convent Garden, The Soul of New Orleans, Prague Radio Orchestra,

Hungary Virtuosos, Chamber Orchestra “Franz Liszt” from Budapest, Russia Philharmonic

Orchestra, the Salzburger kammerphilarmonie, Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra The

Soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic, Julià Carbonell Orchestra from Terres de Lleida, the

Soprano Ainhoa Arteta, Jyväskyä Symphonic Orchestra from Finland, Symphonic Orchestra of

the State of Lithuania, and Musici di Vivaldo, the Soprano Mireia Pintó, the Soprano Daniela

Jovanovic, Jordi Savall... and many others, performing music of the great Maestros of all

times.

There have been a total of 182 concerts counting all the editions of the Festival, from which

33 have been in the hands of chamber and symphonic orchestras, 1 accordion orchestra, 8

gospel music concerts and 18 coral music concerts.

The presentation of the different editions of the Festival has been held in many emblematic

places: in Palau Robert and in La Pedrera, both in Barcelona; also in the Cathedral and site of

the Estudis Ilerdencs Institute, in Lleida.

A symphonic work for guitar and orchestra was commissioned to the guitar soloist and

composer Jaume Torrent, called El Concert de Rialp. The first release and recording was for

Catalunya Música, a orchestra and guitar version, by the soloist and composer Jaume Torrent

with more than 20000 spectators, with 24 music concerts scheduled in the villages of El

Pallars, as well as concerts for children in schools and kindergartens, old people’s homes, etc.

The Festival is registered in the Spanish Association of Classical Music Festivals.

This year’s world premiere is in commemoration of the 10th Vila de Rialp Music Festival, with

the Czech National Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Imma Shara and Jaume Torrent

“guitar” and has also been held in Perpignan (France), Gdansk (Poland), USA and Argentina.

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ROMANTIC PIANO ROMÀNTIC AND ROMANTICISM. ACTIVITIES AND CONTEST ACTIVITY REPORT RIALP MUSICAL ASSOCIATION has been carrying out different activities in the field of classical music since its date of creation. In particular, the following projects have been accomplished:

- In 2012, a project for the promotion and dissemination of musical interpretation for period pianos and concerts of Romantic music. The project was carried out with the collaboration of the Romantic piano soloist and specialist of renewed international fame, Gian Maria Bonino, with the celebration of two concerts in the programme of the Vila de Rialp Music Festival: in collaboration with the Chamber Orchestra of the Olympic Theatre of Vicenza, on the harpsichord he performed works by Antonio Vivaldi and S.S. Bach; the other concert, as a soloist performing the “Goldberg Variations” by J.S. Bach on the harpsichord.

- In 2013 the following activities were carried out: 19th century pianoforte exhibition during the months of July and August. Pianoforte Concert performed by Gian Maria Bonino including works by Frederic Chopin and Robert Shumann. In the hands of performers Irene Viglietti and Fabio Volpi, seven four-hand piano concerts were held in the exhibition with the following program: Felix Mendelssohn, Frederic Chopin and Robert Shumann.

- In 2014, the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF EARLY ROMANTIC PIANO “MARIO CALADO” was planned, scheduled and held.

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF EARLY ROMANTIC PIANO “MARIO CALADO”

PRESENTATION

The Romantic Piano Competition is dedicated to the Spanish composer and pianist of the same name (1863-1926) who earned a place in the Conservatory of Music in Paris (1879) where he met with such great Spanish composers Enrique Granados. 1st. Mario Calado Romantic Piano Competition was held from 8 to 12 September. The holding of the competition meant a novelty in the world music scene with vintage pianos since it is the first time held an event of this nature should be added and stressed that the interpretation of musical programs planned for the competition takes out pianofortes property of Joseph Sabarich, ERARD 1890 Pleyel in 1843 and three more donated by Professor Gian Maria Bonino, Broadwood 1845 Boisselot 1849. The competition has achieved a remarkable success and a significant impact on the national press in which he helped presenting it to the hall of the Institute of Lleida, Lleida Provincial Council. The participation of contestants was very good given the artistic level of the contestants admitted curricula, whose origin from countries like Switzerland, Italy, Russia and Spain has facilitated the international impact of 1E Romantic Piano Competition Mario Calado. Rialp Music Association is very pleased this project despite the short time that had to be their preparation which involved the participation of contestants were lower, however, quality, reliability and professionalism of all participants , jury and organization as well as the results pushed preparing the second edition of this competition.

SECOND ROMANTIC’S PIANO COMPETITION

“MARIO CALADO” (1863-1926)

8 TO 12 SEPTEMBER 2015

RIALP MUSICAL ASSOCIATION

RIALP MUSICAL is an Association sited in the municipality of Rialp in the district of El Pallars

Sobirà (Lleida). It currently organizes the historical First International Contest of Early

Romantic Piano for young players.

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The contest is open to pianists of any nationality with the aim of promoting musical culture

and education and to bring young people closer to the performance of historical

instruments. Divulgation is the main tool in the line of action of the Association.

RULES AND ADMISSION CONDITIONS

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The competition will take place in Rialp, in the backdrop of the Parish Church, from the 8 to

12 September 2015.

1. All sessions will be open to the public.

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The International Contest “Mario Calado” is open to pianists of all nationalities up to 35 years

of age, reached before 31 December 2015.

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The registry period is open from the date of call up until 20 August 2015 included. The

applications can be entered by certified mail, personally or by e-mail to:

SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF

EARLY ROMANTIC PIANO “MARIO CALADO”

Plaça del Tornall, 1

25594 Rialp (España)

e-mail: secretaria@rialp.cat

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The registry fee for the competition, as a contribution for the organization of the event, is set

in 80€.

Travelling expenses and accommodation are all in the charge of contestants.

The payment of the full fee for the contest, with payment charges not included, will be made

by bank transfer to the following account:

Titular: Rialp Musical Avda. Flora Cadena, 11 25594 Rialp

IBAN: ES19 2100 3977 7202 0001 8564 BIC: CAIXESBBXXX

The contestants will attach the following information to the application:

Curriculum Vitae specifying the academic and artistic degrees, as well as the official

or private documents that may be considered of interest (international awards,

reviews, recordings...)

Birth certificate or official document with the birth date and nationality of the

participant.

Three passport sized photographs and one postal sized photo (9x11cm)

Complete address, telephone number and email address, as well as a permanent

contact address.

Photocopy of the payment receipt of the 80€ registry fee with the name and

surname/s of the participant.

The documents submitted by the contestant to be registered will be of a reserved nature and

will be used with the maximum discretion.

In no case will the fee be refunded nor will the documents submitted be returned.

Falseness in any of the documents, personal details or information will imply the annulment

of the registry and of the right to participate.

CONTEST PARTS

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6.1 Qualifying Round

Lasting for maximum 30 minutes, free Romantic programme including at least, one or more

of the études of the following authors:

Chopin

Liszt

Moscheles Etudes op.111 , Op.105

Thaiberg

HenseIt

Mendelssohn

Schumann-Paganini

6.2 Semifinal

Free programme of 30 minutes. The inclusion of a work by these authors is highly

recommended:

J. Brahms

Camille Saint Saens

Emmanuel Chabrier

Gabriel Faure

6.3 Final

With a maximum duration of 45 minutes, the free election programme has to include a great

Romantic work by Chopin, Schumann, Liszt or Mendelssohn.

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Performing the repertoire from memory is not compulsory. All the pieces have to be in

original and must be published. Contestants will have to present to the jury the text of all the

pieces.

7.1 Trials may be carried out two days before the pianos

PRIZES

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The winner will be the contestant who, in the framework of the first prizes, obtains the

highest punctuation (not inferior to 98/100).

Finalists will be awarded the following prizes according to the following percentages:

Absolute winner (punctuation 100%) Prize of 5000€ and taking part in Festival Rialp Musical 2016

1st Prize (average of no less than 95%) Diploma and 2000€ plus 1 concert

2nd Prize (average of no less than 90%) Diploma and 1000€ plus 1 concert

SPECIAL PRIZES

Rialp Musical “MARIO CALADO” Prize 1500€ and taking part in

Performing the work of Enric Granados Festival Rialp Musical 2016

Finalist Most voted by the public 500€

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Contestant will be given the prizes during the final night which will take place on 12

September 2015 at 21:00h, in the Council Chamber in the Town Council of Rialp. Prizes must

be collected by the interested party. Otherwise, all right upon the prize will be lost.

The jury can declare any of the prizes null and void.

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The winners will carry out a no-charge performance in the final concert that will take place at

the end of the night the prizes will be given. The pieces performed by the competitors will be

chosen, in agreement with the jury and artistic direction, among the pieces presented to the

contest.

The refusal to participate in the final concert will signify the cancellation of the awarded

prize.

1. All sessions will be open to the public

2. Members of Rialp Musical Association will have free admission to all sessions

3. Non members will refund 5 € for admission in each of the sessions

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

President of Diputació de Lleida, (President of Honour of the Second International

Contest of Early Romantic Piano “Mario Calado”)

Josep Sabarich (President of the International Contest of Early Romantic Piano

“Mario Calado” and President of Rialp Musical Association)

Francesc Virós (Vice-president)

Miquel Serra (Deputy to Presidency and Planning)

Selva Bergadà (Secretary)

Enric Bergadà (Treasurer)

Pili Rodríguez (Spokesperson)

Gian Maria Bonino (Artistic Direction)

Pere Cases (Public Voting Coordinator)

JURY

Stefano Fiuzzi, Italy (President)

Pierre Goy, Switzerland

Zvi Meniker, Moscow

Cyril Huvé, France

Fernando Puchol, Spain

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11.1

The president of the jury will be the spokesperson.

A secretary will be chosen among the members of the jury who will be in charge of recording

the minutes of the jury’s deliberations once each of the finals.

The jury is composed of professors with renowned prestige in the world of music.

The decisions of the jury are irrevocable and definitive. Correspondingly, the jury may

express their opinion in regards to pieces only at the end of each performance.

The verdict must be given at the end of each performance. The jury will communicate their

vote in tenths. The final result will be the resulting arithmetic average of the votes.

The jury reserves the right, with due reason, of not awarding one or more prizes or awarding

no prize at all of the special prizes provided by public and/or private entities. In the case of

an ex-aequo, the tribunal can divide it in equal parts.

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It is the task of the artistic director to act as a spokesperson and to be the connection

between the jury and the organization.

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The members of the jury must refrain from voting in the case of having some educational

relation and/or connection to any participant during the five years previous to the concert,

for which reason, each member of the jury, before each evaluation, will make a declaration

about their personal situation towards the competitors.

In the case of participation from the part of students or pupils of one or more members of

the jury, the latter will have to abandon the part during the performance and will have no

right to vote.

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For concerts held in the municipality of Rialp with awarded as prizes to the winners, the

accommodation and travelling expenses will be paid; for concerts organized in other festivals

or series of concerts, the refund will be established with the organization of each concert.

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Rialp Musical will hold no responsibility for delays in the arrivals or withdrawals of

contestants.

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Applications will not be accepted if incomplete or past the deadline.

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The schedule for the performances in each category, with its corresponding dates, will be

established once the application deadline for contestants is over and no later than 20 August

2015.

The calendar will be published on the Rialp Musical website and then it will be available at

the Secretary of the festival. It is the responsibility of participants to learn about their

participation in the corresponding notice with sufficient time. The Organising Committee

holds no responsibility in case of no compliance on the part of the participant.

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Competitors must be present in the auditions at the moment of its start and their

performance will follow the established schedule in the corresponding public lists. If any

competitor in the moment of his/her performance is absent, he/she will automatically be

excluded from the contest.

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The secretary of the jury will record the minutes of the jury’s deliberations.

All voting will be made public.

The results will be communicated and presented at the end of the auditions for each

category. Auditions will be performed in different large historical pianos:

J.Pleyel 1843

• J.H. Boisselot 1849

• Franz Weis 1830

• S.Erard 1890

For competitors, there will be several pianos available, grand pianos and upright pianos, for

the performances and for the warming-up before the performances. Booking for the use of

pianos will be fulfilled by entering the contestant’s name on the Excel spreadsheet published

every day in the morning at the entrance of each rehearsal.

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It is strictly forbidden taking cameras or recording devices in corridors as well as during the

competition performances without prior permission to the Committee.

All recordings (audio and video), on television or radio for broadcasting of any category and

final concert prize or any later concert, will give no remuneration. Such audiovisual

recordings, whatever the type, will be exclusive property of Rialp Musical, who will be able to

use them for any event regarding the same topic. Accepting these regulations allows for the

recording of the selections and the final concert.

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By virtue of the current legislation about personal data protection, Rialp Musical informs that

the data provided for the registration of the competition or contest will be saved and used to

send communications in relation to the afore mentioned competition and that the interested

party has the right to know, update, eliminate and modify the personal data or oppose this

use.

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The organisation will not be held responsible for damages onto people or objects during the

course of the competition. Any law suit to be solved due to any event of the organisation or

in relation to the organization will be settled by the jurisdiction of the court in the city of

Tremp.

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Participation in the contest implies the unconditional acceptation of the present regulations

and rules, and of any changes by the Organising Committee. Nevertheless, the present Rules

do not establish the jurisdiction of the Organising committee, who was in charge of

interpreting the rules.

JURY

STEFANO FIUZZI (ITALY) PRESIDENT

STEFANO FIUZZI Stefano Fiuzzi, born in Florence, graduated in Humanities and

Musical Studies in his hometown University (Department of Literature and

Philosophy) and at the Music Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini”, where today he is

Principal Professor of Piano. Since the early 1970s, he had held solo recitals and has

also played with orchestras and chamber ensembles to great critical acclaim. For

many years now, he has been regularly touring the USA. He has had many musical

partners, including the austrian pianist Jörg Demus, with whom he has played as a

duo in concerts and on radio recordings in Germany, Belgium, Austria and

Switzerland; the Chicago String Trio with whom he has performed the repertory for

piano quartet; pianists Alan Curtis, Riccardo Risaliti, Daniele Lombardi and Christoph

Hammer; violinists Bettina Mussumeli and Pavel Berman. He is regularly invited to

partecipate in juries of the most prestigious Italian and international piano

competitions, including the Mozart Prize in Salzburg, the Saragozza International

Prize and the Clementi Prize in Florence. He has held master-classes in many italian

and international cities, including Salzburg and Florence. He is the founder and

Artistic Director of the Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori, Amici del Fortepiano in

Florence.Stefano Fiuzzi is teaching Fortepiano and Historical Performance Practice at

the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale of Imola.

PIERRE GOY (SWITZERLAND)

Pierre Goy studied the piano with Fausto Zadra, Edith Murano, Esther Yellin and Vlado Perlemuter, and attended courses in interpretation given by Jörg Demus and Nikita Magaloff. A fascination for the expressive possibilities of old instruments led him to take masterclasses with Paul Badura-Skoda and Jesper Christensen.As a player, Pierre Goy seeks to match the music of each period with an appropriate instrument. In this spirit, he recorded: Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage: Première année: Suisse (cantando 9814); Chopin à Vienne (lyr 247); Claviers Mozartiens (lyr 2251).As a chamber musician, he performs, amongst others, with members of “Il Giardino Armonico”, the “Mosaïques” string quartet, and the “Ensemble Baroque de Limoges”.He teaches at the Hochschule für Musik in Lausanne and inGeneva.In 2002, Pierre Goy founded the “Rencontres Internationales harmoniques de Lausanne”, a biennial event uniting musicians, instrument-makers and restorers, musicologists and museum curators in an exploration of early instruments.

ZVI MENIKER (GERMANY)

Harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and conductor Zvi Meniker was born in Moscow

and raised in Israel. He began advanced musical studies at the age of 15. Meniker

received diplomas with distinction from the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Zurich

Academy of Music, where he studied with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Johann

Sonnleitner, before moving on to the USA to study with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell

University.

Zvi Meniker taught harpsichord and performance practice at Duke University, USA,

and is a regular faculty member at the annual Early Music Workshop in Jerusalem.

CYRIL HUVÉ (FRANCE)

A disciple of Claudio Arrau and pioneer in the rediscovery of nineteenth century

keyboards and their expressive possibilities. He sees these instruments as a means to

affirm the values of the Romantic tradition of piano performance which his mentors

passed on to him. This recording, performed on a Broadwood 1840, is testament to

his dedication and skill

Disciple of Claudio Arrau, Cyril Huvé also worked under the direction of Georges

Cziffra Foundation in Senlis Cziffra.

Cyril Huvé performed in many festivals as a soloist with orchestras such as the

Staatskapelle Dresden and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; also toured

the US and South America in 2012 - Bolivia, Mexico, Chile, Brazil.

Invited in November 2013 at the at Tokyo Musashino recital, Cyril Huvé has long

been assistant to Gerard Frémy CNSMDP: he helped his team in training pianists as

Cédric Tiberghien, Ferenc Vizi, Alexandre Léger, Jerome Ducros, Daria Fadeev, Mara

Dobrescu, Lepape Julien Nicolas Stavy.

Cyril Huvé has a collection of historic at Piano Grange in Chassignolles, a music label

and a resource centre where research seminars are held for the investigation of

interpretation; he is a master in classes and concerts of chamber music.

FERNANDO PUCHOL (SPAIN)

Fernando Puchol is a pianist from Valencia (Spain)). His first public performance at

the age of seven in the Teatre Principal de València, performing works by Beethoven,

Schubert and Chopin.

Awarded in several International contests, receives the grand prize at Maria Canals in

Barcelona. He has carried out monographic sessions on Spanish music of the 18th

century, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, and Impressionism

and also, on the music of the 20th century. Professor of piano at the Maria Cristina

Conservatory of Music in Malaga and professor of the Royal Conservatory of Music in

Madrid; Artistic Director of courses at the University of Gandia, Valencia, at the Real

Maestranza de Ronda, and at the International Music Forum Toledo among other

educational activities.

International adviser "Iturbi Award" Piano Competition in Valencia.Academic of Fine

Arts San Carlos de Valencia and Santa Isabel of Hungary of Seville.National Record

Prize and Spanish Culture Ministry.Honorary Member of the EPTARCSMM gold

medal, the Conservatory of Orihuela and the National University of Taipei (Taiwan).

ORTVE recording of Concertos 1 and 3 Beethoven 1 Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bernstein

Symphony No. 2, ... besides the program "Music for you".

Visiting professor at the University of Panama, University of Taipei, Academie

International d'Eté of Nice, Castle d'Ursel in Belgium, Euroarts in Leipzig, Codarts in

Rotterdam. Currently Director of the Forum and International Music Festival

Orihuela.