As usual in previous editions, the Deià International Music Festival dedicates several concerts to young performers from the Balearic Islands. The brass quintet Riu Dolç Quintet, created in 2014 within the Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears, takes part in this event that is now being held in Son Marroig.
Riu Dolç Quintet is made up of José Fernando Garcia Iborra (trumpet), Carlos Navarro Zaragoza (trumpet), Taylor Townsend (horn), Diego Riudavets Riquelme (trombone) and Felipe Arroyo Muelas (tuba).
The program consists of:
La Forza del Destino - Overture, by Giuseppe Verdi
Quintet, by Michael Kamen
Quintet n. 3 by Victor Ewald
Allegro moderato
Moderate
Andante
Vivo
White Rose Elegy by Caleb Hudson
La Bohème - Che gelida manina, by Giacomo Puccini
Recuerdos de la Alhambra, by Francisco Tárrega
María de Buenos Aires, by Astor Piazzolla
The Deià International Music Festival was created in 1978 by the late Patrick Meadows, American musician and poet, and his partner Stephanie Shepard. Since 2000, the artistic director of the festival is the pianist Alfredo Oyágüez Montero.
