Madrid Academic Orchestra

The Orquesta Académica de Madrid (Academic Orchestra of Madrid) is a Spanish orchestra in Madrid. It is under the direction of its founder, Iñigo Pírfano. Currently it consists of 65 members.

History

Iñigo Pírfano founded the orchestra in 1997 with the aim to create a professional orchestra of young musicians. Gave its first concert the orchestra three years after the foundation of the music for the ballet El Amor Brujo by Manuel de Falla in the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. With a repertoire from the Baroque period up to compositions from the 20th century, the claim to professionalism is to be met. So, for example, had the orchestra In 2003, at the performance of the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi in the Mosque of Cordoba, the year before in de Falla's El retablo de puppet opera maese Pedro, also in the Circulo de Bellas Artes.

In addition to these works, the orchestra played recordings of a concert to the two hundredth anniversary of Joseph Haydn in 2009, with soprano Elvia Sanchez, and another from the Festival de música sacra (2011 ), in which it occurred with the soprano Sonia de Munck. Both concerts exist DVDs.

The chamber music ensemble of the orchestra

In 2006, the establishment of a chamber music ensemble made ​​up of members of the orchestra took place. The ensemble whose repertoire includes works under other by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, to Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and Francis Poulenc, played as part of a tour of Spain also in the Gobelin Hall of the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso.