This concert series is part of the research project “The Sound of Pau Casals”, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-124445OA-I00). One of its goals is to bring academic findings into current performance practice. With the collaboration of renowned cellists and chamber musicians, the project culminates in a series of concerts inspired by Casals’ sound and performance style as a cellist, based on the data gathered during the research. This concert cycle offers the public a unique opportunity to rediscover the master’s interpretation, from his concert programs to his own creations for the instrument.
Seating is limited. Advance ticket purchase is required at www.ticketsonline.paucasals.org. For more information, you can send an email to museu@paucasals.org or call +34 977 684 276.
Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805)
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 6 in A major: “Adagio and Allegro”
Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764)
Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Suite for Solo Cello No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011
Emmanuel Moór (1863–1931)
Prelude
Damián Martínez, cello
Praised by critics for his “expressive sensitivity” and “exquisite sound,” he has been awarded in international competitions in France, Spain, and Portugal. As a soloist, he has performed with conductors such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Lawrence Foster, Lorenzo Viotti, Theodor Guschlbauer, Anne Manson, David Harutyunyan, Peter Rundel, Pedro Halffter, Antoni Ros Marbà, Enrique García Asensio, Gloria Isabel Ramos, Frank Beermann, Petrenko, Marzio Conti, and Nuno Coelho. He has toured in France, Germany, Italy, the UK, USA, Finland, Sweden, Morocco, Lithuania, Estonia, Japan, Colombia, Ecuador, Israel, Canada, and China.
He is an exclusive artist with Warner Classics, for whom he has recorded “Rapsodia del Sur,” “Vermell,” “Hypnotik,” “Spirit of Casals”, and “Essential Saint-Saëns.” He has also recorded for ASV, Claves, Naxos, TVE, and TV3. Damián participated, alongside other exceptional cellists, in a recording of the complete Studies by David Popper, produced by the Association Française du Violoncelle.
Committed to contemporary creation, composer Salvador Brotons wrote a “Sonata for Solo Cello” for him, which he premiered in Lisbon. Maestro Tomás Marco dedicated to him the cello and piano sonata “Sibilas frente al espejo,” premiered with great success in Madrid. In Barcelona, he premiered “Del aire que me das” by Marina Ortega, and in Madrid, “Páginas de arena” by Laura Vega.
His social commitment has led him to perform concerts for the World AIDS Congress, for children in Colombia, for the Victims of the Earthquake in Chile in Canada, and for Victims of Terrorism in Spain.
He has been principal cello of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra (ORTVE) and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC). He is currently a cello professor at Musikene, the Higher Music Center of the Basque Country in San Sebastián, and at ESMUC, the Higher School of Music of Catalonia in Barcelona.
He holds degrees from the Guildhall School of Music in London, Indiana University School of Music (USA), and Musikhochschule Stuttgart. He studied with Janos Starker, Natalia Gutman, María de Macedo, and Aldo Parisot, supported by Juventudes Musicales de Madrid, the Pau Casals Foundation, the Ritz Foundation, Indiana University, Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), and Yale University.
Marta Moll, piano
Pianist Marta Moll d’Alba, an exclusive artist with Warner Classics, has been awarded prizes in Barcelona, Porto, and Mannheim. She received the Gran Canaria Award for her outstanding career.
She has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls around the world, receiving acclaim from both audiences and international critics. She has given concerts and tours in Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Colombia, Ecuador, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Canada, China, Japan, and South Korea, in venues such as Steinway Haus Düsseldorf, Wiener Musikverein, Richter Galerie Tel Aviv, Acropolium of Carthage, Philharmonic Society of Las Palmas, Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Tenerife Auditorium, National Auditorium of Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana, Philharmonic Societies of Oviedo, Vigo, and Bilbao, Schloss Elmau, Oriental Arts (Shanghai and Beijing), Mong Mae Wai Hall, Dalian Grand Theatre, Tianjin Grand Theatre, Beijing Sunrise Concert Hall, Ilshin Hall (Seoul), and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
She has performed benefit concerts for children in Colombia and for Victims of the Earthquake in Chile in Canada. Her commitment to contemporary music has led her to premiere various works, such as Sibilas frente al espejo by Tomás Marco, dedicated to Duo Cassadó; Del aire que me das by Marina Ortega; and Páginas de arena by Laura Vega.
She obtained her Higher Piano Degree in Spain and later moved to Germany on a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has studied with Margulis, György Sebök, Alicia de Larrocha, Margarida Guerra, Cecilio Tieles, Tibor Szasz, Rudolf Kehrer, Vladimir Krainev, and Dmitri Bashkirov.
She is a professor at Musikene, the Higher Music Center of the Basque Country in San Sebastián. She is certified as a coach by the European School of Coaching and is a regular contributor to the prestigious cultural magazine Jot Down.
Marta is also the creator, scriptwriter, and host of the documentary series Camins de la Música on Spain’s national TV channel, La 2 (TVE).