at National Gallery of Art
On the occasion of the EU Month of Culture harpsichord virtuoso Ignacio Prego will perform Italian, Spanish and German baroque music at the National Gallery of Art.
LOCATION
National Gallery of Art
West Building Ground Floor Lecture Hall
4th and Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20565
RSVP
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – NO RESERVATION REQUIRED
IGNACIO PREGO
First Prize winner at the 2012 Westfield International Harpsichord Competition, Mr. Prego has been described by the newspaper El Mundo as “…one of the most versatile Spanish musicians in the Classical scene…” He has performed in major cities in the USA, China, Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, Chile, Holland, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Bolivia and Canada, including important venues such as the National Gallery of Arts in Washington, D.C., the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York.
Recent appearances in New York include a live performance at the WQXR NY Public Radio as part of the Bach360 Festival, concerts at the Teatro Repertorio Español, the Kosciusko Foundation and the NYIT Auditorium. He also recently performed at the Chiquitos Early Music Festival in Bolivia and the Symphonic Hall in Leon, Spain.
In May 2012, Mr. Prego released his second CD under the label Verso entitled “Chromatic Fantasy”, which is exclusively dedicated to the music of J.S. Bach. The Scherzo Magazine hailed it as “outstanding mastery of Bach’s complex counterpoint architecture…overwhelming elegance and extraordinary control” and the Juilliard Journal as “heavenly harpsichord music”. Mr. Prego recently recorded the Complete French Suites by J.S. Bach, which will be released in the summer of 2013. As continuo player, Mr. Prego often collaborates with various ensembles, including the Spain based La Ritirata, with whom he just published a DVD for Cantus Records and a CD for Glossa.
Future engagements include harpsichord solo recitals at the National Gallery of Arts in Washington, the Cornell University and the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in NY. Concerts in Japan and Singapore as a member of Juilliard415 playing the Bach’s B minor Mass conducted by Masaaki Suzuki and a tour with La Ritirata through Spain and Peru.
Mr. Prego is recipient of the 2005 AECI Scholarship (International Cooperation Spanish Agency) and the 2009 CajaMadrid Foundation Grant. After graduating with high honors in the Padre Antonio Soler Conservatory in Madrid, he continued his piano studies in the USA with Luiz de Moura Castro and Emile Naoumoff. He studied harpsichord at the Indiana University with Elisabeth Wright. Other teachers at IU included Nigel North, Jacques Ogg and Byron Schenkman. From August 2012, Ignacio joined the Historical Performance program at the Juilliard School in New York, studying with Kenneth Weiss, and working with visiting artists such as Richard Egarr, Jordi Savall, Harry Bicket, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Monica Huggett, among many others.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: ignacioprego.com
MUSICAL PROGRAM
Antonio de Cabezon (1510–1566)
Diferencias sobre el Canto del Cavallero
Diferencias sobre la Gallarda Milanesa
Pavana con sus Glosas
Juan Cabanilles (1644–1712)
Tiento de 1er tono
Corrente Italiana
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
From Il Secondo Libro di Toccate, 1637
Toccata Seconda
Aria di Balleto
Johann Jacob Froberger (1616–1667)
From Il Libro Secondo, 1649
Toccata Seconda FbWV 102
SHORT PAUSE
Johann Jacob Froberger
Partita No.2 In D Minor, FbWV 602
Allemanda
Courant
Sarabanda
Gigue
Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
Sonata in A Major, K. 208
Sonata in D minor, K. 1
Sonata in D minor, K. 9
Sonata in B minor, K. 27
Padre Antonio Soler (1729–1783)
Fandango
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