The violinist from Vic, Joel Bardolet,, the violist Adam Newman and the cellist Pau Codina debut together as Newman Trio at the Festival of Ancient Music of the Pyrenees (FeMAP), which opened its 9th edition on Friday 5 July and which will offer old-time concerts in unique places in the Pyrenees throughout the summer, until 25 August. The Newman Trio will present "Diàlegs", a program with works by Boccherini, Beethoven, Kurtág and Bach that will be repeated in three concerts, three unique occasions in different venues.

Saturday August 10 they will play at the church of Sant Julià (Ceuró, Castellar de la Ribera). The next day August 11 they will be in the church of Santa Cecília (Vilanova de Banat), and Monday, August 12 they will touch the shelter of the Eagle's Nest (located at 2,537 meters, at the top of Tossa d'Alp, the Niu de l'Àliga refuge is a magnificent balcony from which to observe the central Pyrenees).

FeMAP offers pre-concert guided heritage tours included in the concert ticket, and also offers tourist packages with concert, accommodation and double breakfast. All the information about concerts and tourist packages, on the website of the FeMAP.

Program comment
<< Bach – Kurtág, or what is the same, a fluid dialogue through time. We are talking about two essential composers in their respective genres and styles who, given their unquestionable creativity and talent, transcend time frames. The most genuine musical expression of the Baroque, which we find in Bach, will challenge the idiomatic synthesis of contemporary music, an area where Kurtág has signed some of the most brilliant pages of the last fifty years. In the midst of this contrasting but coherent discourse, given that simplicity and improvisation become communicating vessels, the Newman Trio inserts Boccherini's work, elegant and fresh in style. The program we are presenting shows, in its final section, the incredible mastery of technique and craft of a young Beethoven who uses a string trio practically as if it were a quartet and offers us, in this way, an advance of what will be a dramatic and expansive musical universe absolutely referential in the history of music of all time. >>