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Wed 6 Aug 08

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Yoko Suzuki is a Japanese concertista of piano, formed between Tokyo and Barcelona. She has performed as soloist with the Orquestra de la Societat de Concerts de Barcelona and with the Barcelona Strauss Orchestra.

She has given prestigious concerts in various venues in Spain and Japan; among them the Palau de la Música Catalana , Casa Milá (La Pedrera) in Barcelona and in the auditoriums of Zaragoza, Torrent of Valencia, Camprodón, Menorca, Mollerusa, Cádiz, Salamanca, Tokio, Kanagawa.

In 2000, she recorded the album “Fantasíae Peregrinabundae” with music by Sakae Tauchi the contemporary Japanese composer,and in 2007 she recorded the new album “Spanish oiano” by Columna Música. (Taken from http://yokosuzukipiano.com).

Wed 6 Aug

9am at Sala Apolo ( C/ Nou de la Rambla, 113) Buy tickets

Mayte Martín is a Flamenco cantaora (singer), bolero singer, and composer. She is widely recognized as one of the most important flamenco voices of her generation. She has also devoted part of her career to the Spanish American genre of bolero.

“A born artist. [...] An important number of cantaores of the younger generation have been influence by her. Her image is closer to that of Camarón or José Mercé than that of a typical woman cantaora, and she sings flamenco with moving sweetness and deep knowledge of the essence.” (José Miguel Gamboa and Pedro Calvo, Guía libre del flamenco, 2001)

“The best female flamenco voice of her generation, undoubtedly; the most complete ‘cantaora’. She sings everything, and she sings everything well. At this rate, this ‘cantaora’ [...] will add her name to the great ones in history.” (Ángel Álvarez Caballero, La discografía ideal del flamenco, 1995)

(Taken from www.wikipedia.org & www.servicaixa.com)