Concert PARSAX por dos razones at the Sala Cervantes

This Sunday, May 19, at 11:00 a.m., the Sala Cervantes of the Civil Marriage Office Prado in Havana will host a concert by the Brillance Duo, made up of María del Henar Navarro on piano and Aliet González on saxophone. The performance is entitled «PARSAX por dos razones«.

The first is that it will be the first performance in Cuba of a piece of the same name by the Spanish composer Ferrer Ferran. The second reason, as stated in the press release from the National Center for Concert Music, is that the majority of the program consists of pieces composed for two saxophones and piano, a novel addition considering the instrument’s usual repertoire.

The invitation is completed by «Duo Concertante«, opus 55 by Jean Baptiste Sigelée, the first work written for this format in 1858, of which the second and third movements will also be premiered in Cuba.

This will be followed by the young saxophonist and composer Celyn Santana’s «Historias de un soldado» (a composition that received the 2019 Composition Prize of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, UNEAC); «Pequeña Czarda» by Pedro Iturralde; and two pieces by Cuban composer Jorge López Marín, who celebrates his 75th birthday this year. From the latter, the world premiere of «Little Lulu homage» will be performed, along with the first performance of «Sweet Cecimar» in the version conceived for alto saxophone, bassoon and piano.

Maestros Ana Josefa Pichardo Milord on bassoon and Jorge Sergio Ramírez on saxophone will be among the guests.

Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez