Festival Pablo Casals de Prades

To foster chamber music exchange in Europe by:
- Developing an European high-academic center for chamber music
- Promoting European contemporary musical creation
- Participating in the diffusion of European and local musical heritage
Concerning our 3 objectives, we have already started to develop them:
- Developing an European high-academic center for chamber music
Every year, 150 students are trained by the most famous international musician in Prades. They especially come from all over the world to follow 15-days courses.
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY
Spain 11%
Italy 3%
Monaco 3%
Turkey 7%
EUROMED 24%
- Promoting European contemporary musical creation
Every two years, the festival Pablo Casals organizes an international composition contest. In 3 years, we have received more than 350 scores. Euromed composers are particularly brilliant: for the 3rd composition contest, 3 finalists came from Turkey, Italy and France.
COMPOSITION COMPETITION
Chypre 0,9%
Espagne 3,6%
Grèce 1,8%
Iran 0,6%
Israël 0,6%
Italy 18,4%
Jordan 0,3%
Lebanon 0,3%
EUROMED 26.5%
- Participating in the diffusion of European and local musical heritage
Following Casals tradition, festival Pablo Casals works hard to promote the local history through music.
Dedicated concerts
• Every 9th August of every edition “Hommage à Casals”
• 2007 : 10/08 – Music & Local Wine
• 2008 : 09/08 – By memory of people of Retirada
• 2009: 09/08 – Orient Express From Prague to Constantinople
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Regular performers invited to festival editions
Orquestra Nacional Classica d’Andorra
Orquestra Sinfonica de Palma de Mallorca
Coral de la Universitat de les Iles Balears
Orchestra di Verona
Hagaï Shaham, Israël
Itamar Golan, Israël
Cristobal Halfter, Spain
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Euromediteranean partnerships
• Spain: Strong relationships with Catalunya region through common history (Fundacio Pau Casals, El Vendrell, Catalunya)
• Israël: Festival Pablo Casals soloists are regularly invited to festival of Jerusalem
• Nice: Close relationship with PACA region through director’s artistic masterclass
• Malta : Association of Maltese performers of cotemporain music
• Cyprus: NH Atlantis Productions
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Recordings
• “Pablo Casals, un musicien dans le monde” DVD edited in 2008 in 3 languages French, English and Catalan. Broadcasting twice on a national French channel FR3.