ADDA SIMFÒNICA ALICANTE
ROSA TORRES PARDO, piano
VIRGINIA MARTÍNEZ, guest director
Falla, Homenajes
Clara Schumann, Concierto para piano
Amy Beach, Sinfonía Gaélica
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ROSA TORRES-PARDO. Piano
Winner of the 2017 National Music Prize, Rosa Torres-Pardo is one of the most distinguished Spanish pianists of her generation. She was awarded the Extraordinary End-of-Degree Prize at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, and completed her training with Maria Curcio in London, Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School in New York and Hans Graff in Vienna. Throughout her career she has received various honours, such as the Masterplayers International Piano Competition in Lugano and the Isaac Albéniz Medal for the interpretation and dissemination of Iberia, a distinction she shared with Alicia de Larrocha.
She made her debut at Madrid’s Teatro Real in 1987 with the Philharmonia Hungarica conducted by Jean-Bernard Pommier, performing Prokofiev’s Third Concerto. Since then she has appeared on major international stages with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. She has worked with conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Spivakov, Tamás Vásáry, José Serebrier and Yuri Temirkanov, appearing in halls such as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Wigmore Hall in London, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Hall of Columns in Moscow. She has toured Europe, America, Asia and Australia.
Her discography includes recordings for labels such as Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos and Glossa, with titles such as Granados’s Goyescas, Albéniz’s Iberia, Tres Ballets Rusos (Prokofiev, Falla, Stravinsky), Montsalvatge’s Concierto Breve or “The Caterpillar” Albéniz songs. More recent are “Tangos, habaneras y otras milongas”, Ricardo Llorca’s “Las horas vacías” with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Six Quintets by A.Soler and “Flamencos” with Rocío Márquez. She develops interdisciplinary projects of music, film, theatre and poetry, collaborating with Luis García Montero, Jose Carlos Plaza, Jose Luis Gómez, Ana Belén and Mario Gas. She proposes and stars in the musical films “Iberia”, by Carlos Saura, “Una rosa para Soler” and “El amor y la muerte” on E. Granados. In 2024 she undertakes a tour of the United States with “The Runaways” about Spanish composers in New York. Her next project, “Los diarios de Manhattan”, will be a staged concert written by Ricardo Llorca with music by American composers such as Philipp Glass, Chick Corea, John Adams and Llorca himself.
Also distinguished among the Top 100 Women Leaders in Spain, she is artist in residence at the New York Opera Society.
VIRGINIA MARTÍNEZ. Guest director
Born in Molina de Segura, she received a scholarship from the Fundación Séneca to study Orchestral Conducting at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna with Reinhard Schwarz and Georg Mark. She completed her studies in June 2003 conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and obtained the highest grade with special distinction.
She has successfully conducted leading international and national ensembles, including the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Orchestra, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the National Orchestras of Mexico, the orchestras of the Singapore, Brasília and Montpellier festivals, the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra of Poland, the Vienna Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, the Biel Symphony Orchestra, the Graz Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Spain, the Barcelona Symphony and National Orchestra of Catalonia, Oviedo Filarmonía, the Symphony Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias, the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia, the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, the Málaga Philharmonic, the Bilbao Symphony, the Vallés Symphony, the Extremadura Orchestra, the Córdoba Orchestra, the City of Granada, Navarra and Valencia orchestras, among others.
In 2004 she was appointed assistant to Bertrand de Billy at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu. In the 2005/06 season she was Assistant Conductor of the OBC and in 2006/07 assistant to the Valencia Orchestra. In December 2009 she toured the United States, with notable performances at Chicago’s McCormick Place and New York’s Lincoln Center, and in April 2010 she conducted the Vienna Conservatory Orchestra at the Proms in the Austrian capital.
She has worked with stage directors such as José Carlos Plaza, Emilio Sagi, Paco Azorín, Bárbara Lluch and Juan Echanove, and with soloists such as Javier Perianes, Boris Belkin, Joaquín Achúcarro, Judith Jáuregui, Fazıl Say, María Bayo, Pablo Ferrández, Gabriela Montero and Clara Andrada.
In 2016, Molina de Segura inaugurated the Virginia Martínez Fernández Auditorium in her honour. In 2019 she received the recognitions “Woman of the Year” and “Murcian Woman of the Year 2018”. She has been artistic and chief conductor of the OSRM and of the Youth Orchestra of the Region of Murcia for 11 and 16 seasons, respectively. She is currently Honorary Conductor of the OSRM and Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Higher Conservatory of Music of Murcia.
