Manuel Bonino: Cantos de amor y muerte

Biographies

Manuel Bonino (born 1974, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a professor of composition at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid and earned his doctorate cum laude from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he received his superior degree in piano with honors. He also earned university degrees in chamber music, musical language, and composition with the Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Carrera and completed postgraduate studies in Germany with Wolfgang Rihm. His compositions (choral works, symphonies, chamber music, electroacoustic works, and arrangements) have received prizes and awards at national and international competitions. His music is documented on 17 CDs and has been performed in Berlin, Paris, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Havana, Seoul, Shanghai, Barcelona, Madrid, and the USA by numerous orchestras (including the Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Sinfonietta Paris, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Hungarian Chamber Orchestra, Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, Gran Canaria Wind Orchestra) and performers such as Martin Fröst, Arno Bornkamp, Garth Knox, and Juri Gilbo in renowned concert halls (e.g., Wiener Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Auditorio Nacional de España, Cadogan Hall in London). His arrangements of popular music have been featured in musicals (including Querido Néstor II), commissioned for institutional ceremonies such as the Día de Canarias, and recorded on CD by music groups such as Artenara and Mestisay. His orchestral arrangements of international, national, and local themes have been performed by various orchestras, music groups, and chamber music ensembles.

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Carmen Ojeda is a versatile flutist. She has mastered various forms of musical expression and focuses particularly on exploring new sources of sound on the flute, free improvisation, and collaborating with contemporary composers and artists. She began her studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and then completed her master's degree in performance at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, focusing in particular on contemporary music. During her career, she has been principal flutist with the Amman Symphony Orchestra and has worked with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Gijón, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas, and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Atlántico. She has also taught flute and chamber music at the National Music Conservatory in Amman (Jordan) and at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias. Carmen Ojeda currently teaches flute at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Her discography also includes her own work for solo flute and electronics, Todo lo que No (released on the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno's “CAAMSonora” label).

Juan Pablo Alemán, born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, began studying piano and cello at the Conservatorio Superior de Música and was appointed professor in both subjects. He continued his cello studies in the Netherlands with Elias Arizcuren, Jeroen den Herder, and Jeroen Reuling. With the cello octet “Conjunto Ibérico” (now Cello Octet Amsterdam), he gave concerts in Norway, France, Spain, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. In 2005, he took part in several concerts in the USA organized by the University of Dayton. He later went to Tanglewood, Boston, where he was taught by the famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Juan Pablo Alemán is a member of various chamber music ensembles with which he has performed in Spain, Switzerland (Adelboden Music Festival), and Germany (Konzerthaus Berlin). He plays as a guest musician in the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and is the principal cellist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas. With the chamber music group “Particella” and the “Galdós Ensemble,” he has participated several times in the Festival de Música Religiosa, the International Bach Festival, and the Festival de Música de Canarias. He currently teaches cello at the Escuela Insular de Música de La Palma and at the Escuela de Enseñanzas Musicales in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Cristina Naranjo received her first piano lessons at the age of seven from her mother, María del Carmen Pérez. She studied at the Conservatorio Profesional in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with Prof. Emilio Tabraue and Galyna Neporozhnya, graduating in 2006 with the “Premio Fin de Grado.” She then continued her studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Badajoz with Prof. Alexander Kandelaki, where she received the highest grade and the Premio Extraordinario fin de carrera. She subsequently took two postgraduate courses with Stanislav Pochekin in Barcelona at the Conservatorio del Liceo and attended numerous masterclasses. Cristina Naranjo has won numerous national and international competitions. She has given recitals as a soloist and in various chamber music ensembles in Europe and Latin America and has performed several times as a soloist with orchestras, including at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid and in Espiritu Santo (Brazil). From December 2017 to February 2022, she worked as a pianist with the Teatro del Lago ensemble and as a teacher at the Escuela de las Artes of this theater in Frutillar (Chile). She currently performs with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the Orquesta del Atlántico, and various chamber music groups. She also performs as a piano accompanist and teaches at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música in Tenerife and Gran Canaria.