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Txistu ensemble in the streets of Leioa Alboka players and a tambourine man playing a tune together Txalaparta players in a festival. Basque traditional music is a product of the region's historic development and strategic geographical position on the Atlantic arch at a crossroads between mountains (Cantabrian mountain range, Pyrenees) and plains (Ebro basin), ocean and inland, European ...
It emerged in 1974 as a result of the need to set the repertory for Musikaste, a week music festival in Renteria devoted to the spreading of Basque composers. Jose Luis Ansorena, within the Andra Mari Choir, the organizer of Musikaste since 1973, took the initiative to create a center to collect the works that could be spread by this festival.
The Easo Choir is a Spanish choir founded in 1940 in San Sebastian as a choral group for lower-range male voices, to spread the knowledge of Basque popular music, has attained prestige in its interpretation of a wide range of choral song.
Kalakan was created in 2009 by Paxkal Indo, Thierry Biscary and Jamixel Bereau from their txalaparta duo. After touring Europe with pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque, performing an arrangement for two pianos and Basque percussion of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, they invited percussionist Frédéric Chambon to join them to form a trio.
The first music directors were Miguel Oñate, Luzuriaga and Esnaola. In June 1906 the group was awarded the Gran Prix of Paris. The next music director was Juan Gorostidi, who served until his death 1968, when Antxón Ayestarán became the next conductor. Since 1986 the choir is conducted by its present music director José Antonio Sáinz. [2]
Jesús Guridi Bidaola (25 September 1886 – 7 April 1961) [1] was a Spanish Basque composer who was a key player in 20th-century Spanish and Basque music. His style fits into the late Romantic idiom, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a strong influence from Basque culture.
Javier Bello-Portu (Tolosa, 1920–2004) was a Basque composer. He was founder of the choir Escolanía Felipe Gorriti in 1943, for whom he composed the majority of his fifty choral works. [ 1 ] Other works were composed for another choir he founded in the French Basque Country , the Basque Country Choir of Bayonne .
The Epilogue (1999) for male choir & ensemble. Lyrics from The Tempest by Shakespeare; Auhen Kantuak (1993–95, 1997) for choirs & orchestra. Lyrics based upon Jeremiah's Lamentations and translated into Basque by Itxaro Borda. Les Djinns (1993) for children choir & wind orchestra, after the eponymous poem by Victor Hugo.