Tenor 2017 | Performers

Alfredo Garcia has a powerful baritone voice with a dramatic instinct for the constructions of characters. His voice quality has rich and varied nuances articulated in an impecable diction.

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Alfredo Garcia obtained his musical education both at Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid and at Vienna’s Hochschule. He has been awarded with the Premio Amigos de la Opera de Madrid and the Gonzalez Guerrero Award to the Best baritone Voice. He has also been awarded by the Austrian Government.

Alfredo García has played the role of Don Quijote in the worldwide premiere of the opera "El Caballero de la Triste Figura" by Tomas Marco; the role of Don Juan in the opera "Tenorio" by Tomas Marco; the role of Lazaro in the premiere of the opera "Lazaro" by Cristóbal Halffter, or the role of Prigioniero in the Spanish premier of the opera "Il Prigioniero by Dallapicolla".

Alfredo García has sung at the Festival of Tanglewood, or the Festival Internacional Cervantino in México, and at venues such as at the Lincoln Center in Nueva York, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, the Smolarz Auditorium in Tel-Aviv, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Mozarteum in Salzburgo.

He has performed with international orchestras: New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dresdner Philhamonie, Israel Philharmonic, the Athens State Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Hungary, Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Spain he has sung with Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta of RTVE, Sinfónica de Madrid, ORCAM, ROS in Sevilla, Sinfónica de Asturias, Sinfónica de Tenerife and Enigma.

Florian Vlashi has mastered a virtuoso violin technique in contemporary music repertoir with a trilling expressive power. He has played a crucial role in contemporary music in Galicia collaborating with many composers for whom he has developed new techniques especially created for their works. Florian Vlashi plays an 18th century french violin made by J. Bocqua

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Florian Vlashi is a member of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia (OSG) - based in A Coruña - since 1992. He is an important promotor of contemporary music repertoir and creation. In 1996 he founded the Grupo Instrumental SIGLO XX, integrated by soloists of the OSG, which has premiered more that 135 works. Their concerts have been broadcasted by Radio Nacional, TVE 2 and the International Channel of TVE.

Florian Vlashi began his violin studies at the age of 6. His father, Gjergj Vlashi, a writter and theater director, had a crucial role in his future. He studied violin with V. Papa, R. Stefi, I. Madhi and received a unanimous first prize in the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1989, he won the first prize in the Competition of Soloists and Symphonic Orchestras of Albania. The same year, he was the director and soloist of the String Orchestra “Jan Kukuzeli” with which he performed many concerts and recordings for the RTVA, and their second concert tour of Italy. He extended his violin technique with G. Egger (Bachakademie Stuttgart) and L. Muller (Wiener Kammer Orchester).

He has been invited to play in the inauguration of the concert season of the Center of Modern Art Reina Sofia, Fundación Juan March, Auditorio Nacional de Música of Madrid, CAIM –Salamanca, CAI- Zaragoza, on the Academia de España in Roma, Instituto Cervantes in Napoles, Suiza, Albania, Pristina, Sao Paulo, Montevideo, and in many festivals of music in A Coruña, Santiago, Vigo, Bilbao, collaborating as a soloist with the Plural Ensemble of Madrid.