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Who are we
On 6th February 1999 Oviedo Filarmonía orchestra made its debut concert at Teatro Campoamor led by its first conductor, José Gómez. The programme included the Overture of Los esclavos felices (The Happy Slaves) by Arriaga, the Concierto de Aranjuez (Aranjuez Concerto) by Rodrigo, with Ignacio Rodes (guitarist), the Violin Concerto in E Major BWV 1042, by Bach, brilliantly interpreted by Arcadi Futer, who was First Viiolin at that moment and Symphony nº 35, by Mozart. The first orchestra consisted of 44 musicians, with the initial leading instrumentalists as members of the renowned Moscow Virtuosi, the nucleus of Oviedo Filarmonía, of which many members are in the orchestra to date.
The size of the orchestra has since gradually grown to its current size, 55 musicians, 25 of whom performed in the initial concert.
Oviedo Filarmonía was first baptized as Ciudad de Oviedo Symphony Orchestra, by the Oviedo City Council, which continues to render its relentless support, to meet the needs created by the new musical activities of the city: opening of Príncipe Felipe Auditorium with a stable cycle of concerts, increase in the number of titles and functions both of the Spanish Lyrical Theatre Festival as well as of the Oviedo Opera Season, Dance Festival and others.
It is the resident group and in charge of the Spanish Lyrical Theatre Festival which takes place in Teatro Campoamor and which has become very prestigious at the national scenario, using both its own productions and collaborating with Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. It also takes part in the Oviedo opera season, with two or three different titles per year and it carries out important didactic duties through matinée concerts for students at various times throughout the school year, in collaboration with the Board of Education of Oviedo City Council.
For years it has been present as a stable orchestra within the Cycle of Auditorium Concerts and Luis G. Iberni’s Piano Symposia organized by the Oviedo City Council, accompanying internationally acclaimed soloists such as Misha Maisky, Edita Gruberová, Ainhoa Arteta, June Anderson, Bella Davidovich, Boris Belkin, Montserrat Caballé, Yuri Bashmet, and many others. As a result of such collaborations with the Oviedo City Council, the orchestra enjoys the opportunity of working with internationally renowned conductors, such as Zubin Mehta, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alberto Zedda, Marzio Conti, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and the like.
Every year Oviedo Filarmonía collaborates with other musical groups and associations in the city like the centenarian Sociedad Filarmónica (Philharmonic Association) and the Fundación Premios Líricos Teatro Campoamor (Teatro Campoamor lyric prize foundation), created in 2006, and which, since the first edition of its award ceremony, has enjoyed the presence of Oviedo Filarmonía in the pit of Teatro Campoamor, each year to increased media expectation.
From the summer of 2004 up tu June 2011, its main conductor has been Austrian Friedrich Haider who put Oviedo Filarmonía in the national and international arena. Under his leadership it performed Cherubini's Requiem in C minor at the National Auditorium In Madrid in November 2005 (accompanied by Príncipe de Asturias Foundation Choir). Its tour around Japan in 2007 with Edita Gruberová was an absolute musical success (all concerts were sold out) and an important turning point for the orchestra. In December 2009 the group returned with her to the Champ-Elysées Theatre in Paris and obtained great success in its French presentation.
In addition to such musical milestones concerning the international projection of the orchestra, Oviedo Filarmonía has also participated in concerts, opera and zarzuela performances within Spain, in Cantabria, Galicia, Castille and León, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. In 2004 it premiered the Marcha Nupcial (Wedding march) composed by Asturian composer Jorge Muñiz, for the wedding of the Princes of Asturias. RTVE cameras witnessed the rehearsals of said piece at the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo.
Between 2005 and 2011, Oviedo Filarmonía worked with the label PHILARTIS, for which they have recorded most of the orchestra works by Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, whose opera works are better known than his symphonic works, which are practically unknown.
Marzio Conti is main conductor of the Orchestra since July 2011 and has been extremely linked to the music group since 2007, when he conducted his first concert with Oviedo Filarmonía at the Príncipe Felipe auditorium in Oviedo, the capital city of Asturias.
It has also recorded with other labels; for example Giselle (using Adolphe Adam’s music) with the Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid led by Víctor Ullate, the soundtracks of Gutiérrez Aragón’s El caballero Don Quijote (composed by José Nieto), Gonzalo Suárez’s Oviedo Express (music by Carles Cases), and Carlos Navarro’s short film Último tren a Tahití (last train to Tahiti, music by Ramón Prada, also Asturian).
Oviedo Filarmonía is a member of the Asociación Española de Orquestas Sinfónicas (Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras, AEOS) since 2003.
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