Orchestra
The
Orquestra Simfonica Julia Carbonell de les Terres de Lleida was founded
in 2002 and is supported by the local government, the Diputació de
Lleida. Its cultural mission is to bring symphonic music to the province
of Lleida, making it accesible to all. The orchestra tours regularly
throughout Lleida and its surrounding areas extending its cultural arm
to every inhabitant.
If the Orquestra exists at all it is thanks to many dedicated and
devoted community members and institutions. Music schools and their
teachers, community choruses, concert and festival promoters as well as
the government itself have prepared and provided the ideal framework to
make this orchestra a reality.
In its short existence and according to its projected aims, the
orchestra has already played many concerts in small towns which have
enjoyed for the very first time the sound of a symphony orchestra. In
addition, it has performed at such emblematic music institutions as the
Gran Teatro del Liceu, the Palau de la Musica Catalana and the Auditori
in Barcelona.
Since its formation, the Orquestra Simfonica Julia Carbonell de les
Terres de Lleida has become a firmly consolidated reality that has
achieved great public and critical acclaim. Thanks to the hard work of
its musicians and staff and the support of political, cultural and
financial institutions, it now holds a relevant position within the
current musical life in Catalonia.
Alfons Reverté is the artistic and musical director since the foundation
of the Orchestra.
Musical Director
Alfons
Reverté Casas
Born in Barcelona to a family of musicians, Alfons Reverté obtained his
music degrees from the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Musica de
Barcelona, where he studied clarinet, musicology, harmony, composition,
instrumentation as well as conducting. He also simultaneously studied
Law at the Universitat de Barcelona. He continued his conducting studies
in Great Britain with George Hurst, head of the conducting department at
the Royal Academy of Music in London. He worked also with Lawrence
Leonard, Robert Houlighan, Rodolfo Saglimbeni and Michael Rose.
As a clarinetist he is a member of the Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona
i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC) as well as the Quartet de Clarinets de
Barcelona. He has played as a soloist with several orchestras,
performing on the Basset horn the Backofen Concerto with the OBC as well
as the Rolla Concerto with the Orquestra de Cambra del Reial Cercle
Artistic. In 1998 he performed the premiere of the Concerto for Bass
Clarinet and Orchestra, Blue Mosaics, a work dedicated to him by
composer Robert Patterson, with the OBC at the Palau de la Musica
Catalana.
As an educator Alfons Reverté is the director of the Orquestra Sinfonica
Diaula and the Jove Orquestra Municipal de la Garriga. He also teaches
classes in chamber music and orchestral conducting and has worked with
the Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya as well as at various
conservatories throughout Catalonia. Among his pedagogical projects, he
has edited a collection of orchestral repertoire adapted to different
levels of musical studies.
As conductor Alfons Reverté has performed with the orchestras of the OBC,
the Orquestra del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife,
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquestra Simfonica del Vallès, Orquesta
Sinfonica Pablo Sarasate de Pamplona, Orquestra Simfonica de les Balears,
as well as the Banda Municipal de Barcelona, the Chamber Orchestra of
Cervera and the contemporary ensemble Barcelona 216.
From 1999 to 2002, Alfons Reverté was named assistant director of the
Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. In 2002 he
became musical and artistic director of the Orquestra Simfònica Julià
Carbonell de les Terres de Lleida.
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