Declaration of Intents:
•Enrique Morente, sings works by Federico Garcia Lorca
•J.M. Cañizares, Flamenco guitar concert
•Marco Alonso, Flamenco guitar concert (Portuguese guest artist)
•Miguel de Tena, Flamenco concert
•Familia Vargas, Flamenco concert
•Servi la Bari, Flamenco concert
•Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon (Lisbon National Theatre Sao Carlos)
•Instituto Cervantes, Lisbon
•La Hora Española, Lisbon (meeting place, point of encounter)
•Flamenco de Rua, (Flamenco in plazas, squares and streets of Lisbon)
Letter from the Artistic Director:
I would like to add to this declaration of intents an aside, and that is to acknowledge the fact that the organization, the
artists, institutions as well as the collaborators who back us fully, are all on the same page and that is to situate and
establish the Lisbon Flamenco Festival as a preemptive reference to all the free musics of the world. Thank you very
much.
Francisco Carvajal, Artistic Director.
Artists
Artists
Enrique Morente (Granada 1942)
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“The contradictions and nostalgia of each moment go hand in hand with the winds of
change. So in this manner does Flamenco art become grander and grander each year, as
new artists are born into this art and enrichen the moment or time they have been granted
to live, a time in which everything is subject to perpetual change.”
The greatest name in Flamenco took his first steps in the art of singing as a memeber of
the choir of the Granada Cathedral and, simultaneously, in gatherings with friends in the
Albaicin.
“They say I was singing before I had the use of memory. I've always sung, since I was a
very small child.”
He went to Madrid when he was 16 years old and there, in Flamenco ambiences with
masters the likes of Pepe de la Matrona, Aurelio Selles and Bernardo de los Lobitos to
name a few, they witnessed the birth of his professional career at 25.
Throughout his career and by way of his constant commitment between avant-guarde and
tradition, he has a built one of the richest and varied musical careers an artist can ask for,
not only in Flamenco but in other types of music as well.
Pieces such as “Fantasia de Cante Jondo” for Flamenco voice and orchestra and “Alegro
Soleá” for Flamenco voice, piano and string orchestra define his versatility.
In a 1972 voyage through poetry he sings the works of Federico Garcia Lorca to a Unesco
audience in Paris with the poem “Lenguaje de las Flores (Language of the Flowers)”.
In 1970 he sang poems by the great Miguel Hernandez:
“I owe a great deal to Miguel Hernandez and Lorca. They are the poets I have read the
most and are the reason why I became keen on poetry. “
Morente, Flamenco singer, artist, master, source of knowledge and searcher of collective
memories, will sing for the first time in Lisbon on the 15th of September.
Artists.
Enrique Morente
AWARDS:
•In 1972 he is awarded the National Music Award by the Department of Flamenco and Folklore Studies of Jerez de la
Frontera.
•1978: National Music Award to Best Popular Music Album, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
•1989: named Honorary Member of the Madrid San Juan Evengelista Jazz Hall of Fame on its 20th anniversary.
•1994: The first Flamenco singer ever to recieve a National Music Award granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture for an
outstanding career.
•1995: Medal of Honor by the Flamenco Department of Jerez de la Frontera.
•1995: “Compás del Cante” Award, Sevilla.
•1998: “Honorary Award” in the Spanish Music Awards.
•2005: Andalucía Medal of Honor in recognition of a career dedicated to the enhancement of Flamenco, to the opening of
its frontiers to other musics and its popularization the world over.
•Feburary 2006: his double format album (CD and DVD) “Morente Sueña la Alhambra” (Morente Dreams the Alhambra)
recieves the following critic awards:
•Best DVD
•Best accompaniement guitar revelation to Alfredo Lagos
•Best Flamenco Voice Album
•National Award to Best Flamenco Album
•2006: Gold Medal of Honor to Merits in the Fine Arts awarded by the Spanish Ministery of Culture.
•“Flamenco singing changes you, it forms you by listening to village people sing”.
Website: www.enriquemorente.com
Artists
Cañizares (Sabadell, 1966)
Juan Manuel Cañizares is one of the foremost internationl
guitar players of Flamenco and Spanish contemporary
music. Acknowledged for the integrity and equilibrium of
his musical quality, the guitarist combines a masterly
technique with sentiment.
Cañizares posesses a musical adeptness as well as an
attitude that makes him open to collaborations with very
different musicians such as Enrique Morente, Camaron
de la Isla, Alejandro Sanz, Mauricio Sotelo, Rocio Jurado,
O Ultimo dos la Fila, Leo Brower, Peter Gabriel, Michael
Brecker, Mike Stern, Al Di Meola, Peter Erskine, The
Chieftans and many more.
Awards:
In 1982, when he was 16 years old, he recieved the
National Flamenco Guitar Award given by the Chair of
Flamenco Studies of Jerez de la Frontera.
In 2008, for his fourth and most recent publication “Suite
Iberia” written by the universal composer Isaac Albéniz,
he was given an award for Best Interpreter of Classical
Music by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
website www.jmcanizares.com
Artists
Marco Alonso (Setúbal, Portugal)
•This young guitar player began his studies with two great
guitar masters; Nilton Esteves and Fernando Neves. When he
turned 13 he began his study of Flamenco guitar with
Professor Jorge Chainho. In the Modern Jazz Conservatory of
Seixal he studied Harmony, Improvisation, Composition and
Ear Training.
•In 2006 and as part of the program of the Cordoba Guitar
Festival, he took a guitar course with the master Manolo
Sanlucar as well as with other master guitar players.
•He is currently professor in the Ibjazz School of Music as well
as in the Seixal School of Modern Jazz.
•Because of his frontier Flamenco and his incursions in the
music of the great masters of Spanish and Portuguese guitar
he will be performing as guest artist.
Artists
Miguel de tena
(Badajoz) 1976
•He has been attracted to the world of Flamenco since he was 7 years old,
listening to master Flamenco vocalists like Vallejo or Porrina de Badajoz. His
journey through the special flamenco clubs known as “peñas Flamencas”
began when he turned 18 and slowly but inequivocably formed him as a
Flamenco vocalist.
•In 2006 he won the coveted “Lámpara Minera”; the highest award given in
the International Festival Cante De Las Minas, celebrated in La Union
(Murcia).
•This is the award that definitively launches Miguel De Tena's career.
•His participation in Flamenco competitions have afforded him 35
acknowledgements and awards, some of which we detail here:
•El Ferrol 1999: “Melon de Oro”
•Los Santos de Maimona 2001: Cantes Extremeños
•Lorca 2001: “Sol De Oro”
•Villafranca De Los Barros 2002: “Ciudad De La Música”
•La Union 2003: Granainas Award
•Calasparra 2004: Special Award “Antonio Fernandez “FOSFORITO”
•Mairena del Alcor 2004: Award for Malagueñas and Granainas
Artists
Familia Vargas
Miguel Vargas and his son represent the most genuine exhibition of
Flamenco from the Extemadura region.
Miguel has shared center stage with top notch artists such as Porrina,
Indio Gitano, Carmen Linares, and Ramón “El Portugues” among
others and would be remiss if we failed to highlight the magnificent
concert given in the Roman Anphitheatre of Merida alongside the great
Camaron De La Isla.
One of his loveliest pieces is “El Roce de las Almas” (The Touch of The
Souls), an inspiration or reflection on Fado and Flamenco, jewels of
musical folklore from the Iberian Penisula.
Lisbon opens its knowing arms to the Vargas Family with their voices
and percussion.
Artists (flamenco in the streets)
Serva la Bari
Flamenco and Sevillanas Group formed in Lisbon in 1999 by Joaquin
Moreno (Flamenco vocals), Francisco Morales “El Pulga” on the guitar,
Carlos Mil-Homens (percussion) and Sofia Abracos (dance).
This group has performed throughout Portugal as well as in other
European cities and their main objective is the spreading of Flamenco
Art and Culture.
Serva La Bari is a veteran and professional ensemble, every inch of
which has been won on stages, group experience, training and group
work.
This ensemble transmits strength, dynamics, and the profoundest of
sentiments and respect for Flamenco culture and tradition.
Program
Program.
14 de September. Instituto Cervantes:
Festival Opening; directors, artists and celebrities
(18:30)
Inauguration
Photographic Exhibition “Memorias”
September 14-19.
15 de September.
Documentary film on Lorca (18:30)
“Luz Prodigiosa”
15 de September. National Theatre S. Carlos:
Enrique Morente (21:30h)
16 de September. Instituto Cervantes:
Workshop of compás y palmas. (18:30h)
16 de September. National Theatre S. Carlos :
J. M. Cañizares + Marco Alonso (21:30h)
17 de September. National Theatre S. Carlos :
Miguel de Tena and Familia Vargas (21:30h)
18 de September. La Hora Española:
Festival wrap up party. Sevillanas and other dances
11,12,13 de September.
Lisboa squares
Flamenco on the street, itinerant performances
Localization
São Carlos National Theatre
Inaugurated July 14 by the Queen Doña Maria I, it was built
in substitution of the Opera de Tejo Theatre, destroyed in the
1755 Earthquake. Located in the historical centre of Lisbo,n
it is one of the most important concert venues in the capital.
It is a select balcony for the Opera but it also has a
Flamenco tradition.
Instituto Cervantes
Sited on Santa Maria street in a building that is in the very
heart of the city. Its ample space is divided into the library,
auditorium and exhibition hall, meeting places for the public
and conference halls as well as classrooms where Spanish
classes are given.
The Cervantes Insitute has been in existence for 15 years
and forms a part of the Portuguese cultural scene.
La Hora Española
Meeting place for the Lisbon Flamenco Festival, it is found in
the popular Santos vecinity and follows the tradition of
Spanish taverns; a place where one can eat cured ham and
listen to Flamenco.