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THE ELEVENTH PRINCE OF ASTURIAS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SCHOOL SUMMER COURSE OPENS WITH 161 STUDENTS FROM SIX COUNTRIES
14/8/2006
Teachers and students gave eight performances and a series of street concerts between August 3rd and 12th.
The Eleventh Summer Course organised by the Prince of Asturias Foundation International Music School began on Tuesday 1st August at the Eduardo Martínez Torner Advanced Conservatory of Music, in Oviedo, with 161 students from Argentina, France, Italy, Portugal, Venezuela and Spain. This number of students makes it one of Spain´s best attended courses of its type. Javier Fernández Vallina opened proceedings with an inaugural lecture entitiled, "Words into music: a journey through poetry set to music".
Besides class-based teaching, the Summer School´s teachers and students gave not only free concerts at a number of different locations around Asturias but also a series of street performances. Xuacu Amieva also gave a folk music recital and there were two conferences by musicologist Luca Chiantore and by Ramón Sobrino, Professor of Musicology.
About thirty teachers from nine European countries gave classes on the symphony orchestra, chamber music, the string quartet, the wind ensemble and bel canto repertoire. This year there were also three new subjects on the course: the Asturian bagpipe, the folk group and the accordion.
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