LUMINA ENSEMBLE presents the saxophone as a medium for avant-garde art, thus causing the interest of different creative agents, producers of stimulating shows for the public. The classical vision of the saxophone quartet is crossed, creating collaborations between different avant-garde scenic, sonics and graphic disciplines. In this way, the public will be placed in a different acoustic-scenic space, which will allow the sensitive experimentation of contemporary art.
LUMINA is the project of four saxophonists who are passionate about their instrument and contemporary music. Its members belong to two generations who join forces to achieve respectful and committed interpretations that respond to their compositional ideal. This difference in age causes the understanding of the musical and artistic fact to appear in a different way, which favours an approach to the repertoire used, full of the energy of those who discover in each note an infinite universe of sound.
LUMINA’s repertoire belongs to the second half of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is also committing itself to working together with current composers, and to the premiere of works written for the ensemble.
COMPONENTS
EVENTS
Centre Municipal Bernat i Baldoví. Sala B
LA CONCRECIÓN DE LO EFÍMERO. Works of Jesús Torres, Eneko Vadillo, Iluminada Pérez Troya, Sara Blanco, Guillaume Dufay, Baude Cordier and Johannes Ciciona.
Monographic concert Mª Eugenia Luc & Lumina Ensemble. September 30th. MACA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante.18:00 h
Concert in the Church of San Jaime and Santa Ana of Benidorm. Enrico Tricarico, Mercedes Lozano & Lumina Ensemble. 20:00h.
Miscellany of valencian women composers: Iluminada Pérez, Carmen Verdú, Ángela Gómez, Sara Blanco & Lumina Ensemble. November 11th. MACA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante.18:00 h
Lumina Ensemble & Dúa de Pel. Family Show. Centro Social «Felicidad Sánchez». Alicante City Council.
Free entrance with invitation at the following link:
Monographic concert José del Valle & Lumina Ensemble (whith Silvia Gómez Maestro and Óscar Martí). March 18th. MACA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante.18:00 h
Conservatory of Music «Joaquín Rodrigo». Valencia. Room 109
Masterclass by Lumina Ensemble: Contemporary Chamber Music.
Monographic concert Gabriel Erkoreka & Lumina Ensemble (with Montse López Montalvo). February 29th. MACA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante.18:00 h
Family Concert. Lumina Ensemble. Music by Sonia Megías. Libretto by Eva Guillamón. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante.
2022 Programme for the Development of Cultural and Artistic Projects. Department of Culture of Alicante City Council.
Monographic concert Voro García & Lumina Ensemble. January 29th. MACA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante.18:00 h
Concert by Enrico Tricarico, Mercedes Lozano & Lumina Ensemble in the San Jordi Church in Alcoi (Alicante)
POSTPONED
Concert in the Church of San Jaime and Santa Ana of Benidorm. Enrico Tricarico, Mercedes Lozano & Lumina Ensemble. 20:00h.
Monographic concert Sonia Megías & Lumina Ensemble. January 29th. MACA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante. 18:00 h
Palau de les Arts (Valéncia). Aula Magistral. Contemporary Music Festival ENSEMS.
https://ensems.ivc.gva.es/en/programacin-english/luminaensemble-c-english
Escala de Blaus: Works by Àngela Gómez, Iluminada Pérez, David Leal, José del Valle and Ximo Cano.
Pablo de la Fuente, Javier Carrillos, Isaac Verdú, José A. Suay (saxophones); Beatriz Serrano (cello); Óscar Martí (percussion). Alejandro Gómez Peregrina (lights and sound)
ADDA Concert Hall (Alicante). Alicante Contemporary Festival.
https://addaalicante.es/concierto/lumina-ensemble-escala-de-blaus-ensems-44/
Escala de Blaus: Works by Àngela Gómez, Iluminada Pérez, David Leal, José del Valle and Ximo Cano.
Pablo de la Fuente, Javier Carrillos, Isaac Verdú, José A. Suay (saxophones); Beatriz Serrano (cello); Óscar Martí (percussion). Alejandro Gómez Peregrina (lights and sound)
Monographic concert Olivia Carrión & Lumina Ensemble. MACA. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante.
Monographic concert Eneko Vadillo & Lumina Ensemble. January 29th. MACA. 18:00 h
Monographic concert Samuel Cedillo (Mexico) & Lumina Ensemble. December 18th. MACA. 18:00 h
Monographic concert Zulema de la Cruz & Lumina Ensemble. November 20th. MACA. 18:00 h
Monographic concert Jesús Torres & Lumina Ensemble. October 16th. MACA. 18:00h
Monographic concert Jesús Torres & Lumina Ensemble. October 16th. MACA. 18:00h
PROJECTS
SoniArt was born with the vocation of connecting composers dedicated to the creation of avant-garde music and their interested public through the informative action of the saxophone quartet.
When a creator talks about his work -from composition or performance- with passion and emotion, focusing on the creative process and the motivations that lead to the need for expression, he manages to connect with the public and clears the way to the acceptance of the work.
From LUMINA Ensemble we propose a series of meetings where the guest composer presents his creative process, while his creations are listened to live and with the utmost interpretative rigour in a monographic concert.
The SoniArt Laboratory consists of a series of meetings, culminating in a concert performed by Lumina Ensemble and with the presence of the composer.
Development of the Encounters
We propose these concerts as a dynamic activity between composers, performers and audience. To this end, we reject the idea of the static concert, where an emotional distance is established between the different participants in the concert.
After a presentation on the figure of the guest composer, which will serve as an introduction to the concert, the composers will present the compositional lines of the works to the audience, which will facilitate listening, creating an atmosphere of understanding of the artistic event.
This project arises from the importance we attach to bringing our current creators closer to the most important and necessary audience for our future: children.
The show Udnámekam. A magical history of music consists of a musical journey through a magical history of humanity and world music, starting from the idea that neither time nor space exist, but are a fiction of the human mind to be able to understand and measure its reality. On this journey we will see how music develops from its birth, where music begins to be made without the existence of musical instruments, through its different evolutions until it reaches a current music that does nothing more than reconnect us with the beginning of everything.
Our audience will learn, always in a playful, stimulating way and interacting with the artists, the characteristics of music from different times and places. This journey will have several stops where they will be able to experience the sensation of accompanying the artists with different rhythms, move their bodies according to the proposed sounds, discover how and who emits special sonorities, sing along with the artists and enjoy the different uses that humans have given to music throughout our existence.
The music of the show is entirely composed by Sonia Megías and the libretto is written by Eva Guillamón.
The project will premiere in December 2022 thanks to the Department of Culture of the Alicante City Council and within the public call for grants 2022 for the development of cultural and artistic projects of the Alicante City Council.
Project for the Dissemination and Dissemination of the Sites and Monuments under the management of the Fundación C.V. MARQ through contemporary avant-garde music by composers from Alicante.
The Terra Lucis project shows an important part of the cultural heritage of the province of Alicante, uniting our ancestral past with our present to promote its conservation, dissemination and popularisation.
The project is made up of six videos that show our archaeological wealth in a different way, fusing it with the sounds of our present: images of archaeological sites and monuments of our ancestors accompanied by the music of our contemporary composers from Alicante.
The Cova de l’Or, the Santuario del Plà de Petracos, the Illeta dels Banyets, the Tossal de Manises, the Torre Almohade d’Almudaina and the Cava Gran d’Agres set to music by the scores of the composers Jesús Mula, Ximo Cano, José del Valle, Sonia Megías, Sara Blanco and David Leal, all under the interpretation and guiding thread of the musicians of Lumina Ensemble.
Terra Lucis combines the musical tradition of Alicante with its archaeological, monumental and landscape culture, two ways of revealing its roots and showing its customs and the potential of its culture.
To enjoy viewing the entire project, please access the playlist on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHgvJO2mQTV-f8F8PJKOszOVGq1f2uX00
Project financed by the C.V. Marq Foundation and the Excma. Diputación de Alicante.
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