Estepona chamber music series
Music and literature will come together in the 'Estepona Chamber Music Cycle', organized by the City Council at the Mirador del Carmen.
These free concerts will be held on the third Sunday of each month until next June.
The Estepona City Council will unite music and literature in a new free cultural offering: the 'Estepona Chamber Music Series 2026'. This project, which will be held at the Mirador del Carmen viewpoint, was created with the aim of uniting two expressions deeply linked to human sensibility: music and words, as explained by the Councillor for Culture and Festivals, Macarena Diánez.
Through a series of four concerts spanning from the Baroque era to the 20th century, the event will create a lively dialogue between musical works and literary texts, evoking characters, scenes, emotions, and ideas that have inspired composers from different eras.
This new series adopts a monthly format, with one concert per month from March to June, thus promoting cultural continuity and enriching the municipality's artistic calendar, as Diánez indicated. All concerts will take place on the third Sunday of each month at the Mirador del Carmen Auditorium.
The city official emphasized that admission to all concerts will be free until capacity is reached, reinforcing the series' commitment to cultural accessibility and the development of new audiences. Furthermore, after each concert, a discussion with the musicians will be held, offering the public the opportunity to engage in dialogue with the performers, delve deeper into the works performed, and share their impressions in a friendly and enriching atmosphere.
The Councillor for Culture has pointed out that this project, organized by the City Council and with the collaboration of the Estepona Elementary Music Conservatory, helps the city to continue being a cultural benchmark, offering artistic excellence, audience development and a stable and high-quality program.
Finally, he indicated that this chamber music series will allow the public to discover how literature has inspired some of the most beautiful pieces in the chamber music repertoire, making each concert a complete artistic experience.
The complete schedule for the cycle is as follows:
Concert I - Baroque
Sunday, March 22 / 12:00 pm.
'Leclair, Corelli and Telemann: three styles, three literary worlds'
Part I
Sonata for 2 violins in E minor, op.3 nº5-JM Leclair
Concerto grosso, op.6 nº4-A.Corelli
Part II
Don Quixote Suite - GP Telemann (25' with texts)
Malagaharmonia Quartet
Jorge Lu, violin I
Elisa Prieto, violin II
Laura Martínez, viola
Alejandro Martínez, cello
Santiago de la Riva, narrator
Concert II - Lyrical Gala
Sunday, April 26 / 12:30 pm
'The voice as a bridge between music and literature'
This second concert will be dedicated to the voice, the instrument that most directly connects music and words. Soprano Elena Garrido Madrona leads a program that ranges from German Romanticism to 20th-century Spanish lyric poetry, always with literature as its central theme.
Works by Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, Franz Paul Lachner, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn, among others.
Elena Garrido, soprano
Faly García Gómez, clarinet
David García Moreno, piano
Concert III - Classical - Romantic
Sunday, May 24 / 5:00 p.m.
'From descriptive music to literary romanticism'
A program that includes Boccherini's celebrated Ritirata, a masterful example of descriptive music; Mahler's Quartet in A minor, a bridge between late Romanticism and Expressionism; and Schumann's Piano Quintet Op. 44, a foundational work of the Romantic chamber music repertoire.
Marco Navas, violin I
Jorge Lu, violin II
Manuel Moreno, viola
Alejandro Martínez, cello
Verónica Vidal, piano
Concert IV - Violin and Piano Recital. 20th Century
Sunday, June 21 / 12:00 pm
'Poetry, folklore and identity'
This concert shows how 20th-century music engages with popular roots, poetry, and modernity, with works by E. Toldrá, E. Halffter, M. de Falla, S. Prokopieff, and B. Bartók.
Gonzalo Jiménez, violin
Sara Calvo, piano