Rosa Cedrón
Rosa Cedrón was born in Monforte de Lemos (Lugo) on October 25, 1972 into a family with a great musical tradition, although she would soon move to Coruña, where she spent most of her childhood. At just 8 years old, she became interested in the world of music, a concern that led her to enter the conservatory and begin to train in a generic way until she was 10 years old, where she would discover her true vocation: the cello. But a relevant event would change her life: the invitation to collaborate in a concert commemorating the tenth anniversary of the group Luar na Lubre, would mean a radical turn in her career. With a concert held at the Rosalía Theater in A Coruña, Rosa Cedrón had her first contact with the group. From then on, and at a time when the band was restructuring, the possibility of entering permanently arose. Rosa took on this project with great enthusiasm, to such an extent that the incompatibility of schedules that arose between her work at the Conservatory and the group, made her firmly bet on Luar na Lubre and give up her teaching position. Her effort did not go unnoticed in the eyes of one of the greatest musicians of all time. Mike Olfield was captivated by her good work and invited her to participate in the recording of Tubular Bells III and in the world presentation of the album held in London in 1998. After this concert, the group began the national tour with Olfield that would serve to achieve definitive recognition. In January 2005, she publicly communicated her decision to embark on a solo journey. Moved by the desire to express her own inner musicality, in 2007 she released her first solo album “Entre dous mares” (Warner), which led her to achieve significant sales and carry out an intense tour through Spain, Europe and Latin America. In May 2016, Rosa Cedrón published "Nothing to lose" an album in which she experiments in the limits of world music, without clichés or stereotypes that stop her, achieving a disc full of light, where her own compositions are the best sample of the very personal atmosphere that only Rosa can create. Shee is currently about to present his new album Nómade.
Cristina Pato
Cristina Pato is a Galician bagpiper (gaita), a classical pianist, a writer and a passionate educator. Hailed as “a virtuosic burst of energy” by The New York Times, her professional life is devoted to teaching and performance that explores the role of the arts and sciences in society.
In addition to her work as a performing and recording musician, Cristina has been artist-in-residence and instructor at universities including Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she co-created a groundbreaking class on memory with neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik and artist Kim Yasuda. She has also served as Learning Advisor for Silkroad, the organization founded by Yo-Yo Ma. Cristina is the founder of the multidisciplinary Galician Connection Festival, writes a weekly column for the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia, and was the 2019-20 Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization at the King Juan Carlos I Center at New York University.
Cristina holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rutgers University, degrees in piano, music theory, and chamber music from the Conservatorio de Musica del Liceu, and a Master of Digital Arts from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Cristina divides her time between New York City and Galicia and is married to photographer Xan Padrón.
Schola Antiqua
From the moment of its foundation, in 1984, Schola Antiqua has dedicated itself to the study, research, and performance of early music and, in particular, Gregorian chant.
All of the Schola’s singers received their musical education as members of the boys’ choir of the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos.
Schola Antiqua’s repertory embraces both Western liturgical monophony and the polyphony of both the Ars Antiqua and the Ars Nova. Schola Antiqua has performed, in alternatim, with such accomplished organists as Montserrat Torrent, Roberto Fresco, Andrés Cea, Óscar Candendo, Javier Artigas, José Luis González Uriol, Raúl del Toro, Bruno Forst, Jan Willem Jansen and with the following vocal and instrumental ensembles: La Colombina, Ensemble Plus Ultra, His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, La Grande Chapelle, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, La Capilla Real de Madrid, Ministriles de Marsias, The English Voices, La Venexiana, Alia Musica, Orquesta Barroca de Venecia, The Tallis Scholars, Ensemble Organum, and Tenebrae.
They have performed in festivals throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Japan. Among their recordings are CDs dedicated to Mozarabic chant, Gregorian chant, and a number of historical liturgical reconstructions from the 15th to the 19th centuries alongside many of the ensembles mentioned above.
In 2012, they made a series of recordings inside an anechoic chamber as part of a scientific research project concerned with acoustic archeology under the aegis of the Spanish government’s research council (CSIC) and the Department of Acoustic Engineering of the Institute of Technical Acoustics of the University of Aachen. The aim of the project was the virtual reconstruction of the sounds of the Old Hispanic Rite.
Schola Antiqua has premiéred a number of works by contemporary composers: Apocalipsis by Jesús Torres, Libro de Leonor by José María Sánchez Verdú (together with the Ensemble Organum), and Paharión by Konstantia Gourzi (together with the Ensemble Opus21musikplus).
In addition, the Schola frequently sings Gregorian and Hispanic monody in liturgical celebrations which, after all, is the genuine context for which this music was composed.
Enriqueta Somarriba
Praised by the New York Concert Review for her “aplomb” and her “natural, individual interpretation”, Spanish pianist Enriqueta Somarriba develops her career in the US and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, performing in venues of the New York area, such as Carnegie Hall, Cervantes Institute, Liederkranz Hall, State Theatre of New Jersey, Center for Jewish History and Miller Auditorium, as well as in the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, Ganz Hall (Chicago), Kasteel d’Ursel (Amberes, Bélgica) and Sala dei Notari (Perugia, Italia). She has performed as a soloist with the Orquesta Andrés Segovia, Virtuosi Brunensis Orchestra, Orquesta Fórum Musikae and Rutgers Symphonic Orquesta. Her performances have been recorded for the Spanish National Radio, 98.7 WFMT Chicago y 89.1 WWFM Radio. An active performer of contemporary music, she has performed/premiered pieces by Jesús Torres, Roberto Sierra, Voro García, Benet Casablancas, Robert L. Aldridge, Paul Reale and George Walker.
She carries a mission to promote Ibero-American music in the US, often curating concerts around Spanish and Latin composers: in 2018 she premiered in New Jersey pieces by Alicia de Larrocha and in 2019 she collaborated as a soloist with the Hub City Opera company in the dance project “Goyescas”, playing pieces by Granados. She carries part of this mission as an educator, giving conferences and lecture-recitals in Cornell University, Manhattan School of Music and in partnership with the State Theatre of New Jersey and the Center for Musical Excellence.
She performs often in piano duo with her mentor, Min Kwon, recording the two-piano and four- hands works by American composer Paul Real for MSR Classics and in concerts celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s anniversary at Auditorio Nacional of Madrid and Carnegie Hall in collaboration with Rutgers University and the Piú Mosso Foundation. She is a winner of national and international competitions and has obtained awards from Juventudes Musicales de Madrid, Mutua Madrileña y AIE. Her most influential mentors are Solomon Mikowsky, Min Kwon and Fernando Puchol. She is currently Part-Time Lecturer at Rutgers University since 2014, where she is completing her doctorate in piano performance.