{"id":1435,"date":"2016-05-18T12:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T10:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alayreespanol.com\/en\/alayreespanol\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T07:29:45","slug":"alayreespanol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alayreespanol.com\/en\/alayreespanol","title":{"rendered":"Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nin early music[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_ornamental_title tag_name=”h3″ text_color=”#0d1216″ font_family=”none” font_size=”20″ txt_transform=”uppercase” ornament_style=”lemo-single”]The origins of Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol[\/mk_ornamental_title][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol was founded in 1988 by Eduardo L\u00f3pez Banzo, in an effort to challenge the pervading clich\u00e9s that often surrounded the performance of Spanish baroque music at that time. The name of the ensemble was inspired by the title of a guitar fugue by the Aragonese composer Gaspar Sanz. The fact that Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol has not settled for becoming a specialised early music ensemble, but chosen instead to create a musical philosophy “al ayre espa\u00f1ol” (\u00e0 la espagnole), has allowed the project to be flexible enough to adapt itself to different formats.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][mk_ornamental_title tag_name=”h3″ text_color=”#0d1216″ font_family=”none” font_size=”20″ txt_transform=”uppercase” ornament_style=”lemo-single”]An international reference[\/mk_ornamental_title][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1684753145437{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]With 35 years of appearances in the top festivals and theaters in Europe, 19 years as a resident orchestra at the Auditorio de Zaragoza, 18 CD recordings, national and international awards (2004 Premio Nacional de M\u00fasica, among others) and distinctions, as well as a relentless schedule of international performances and events for the coming seasons, there is no doubt that the group from Aragon is one of the most prominent ensembles in Spain.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Throughout this quarter of a century Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol has performed at the most prestigious concert halls: Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, D\u00fcsseldorf’s Tonhalle, Berlin’s Konzerthaus and Philharmonie, the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs Elys\u00e9es and the Cit\u00e9 de la Musique in Paris, Madrid’s Teatro Real and Auditorio Nacional, Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica Catalana and Gran Teatre del Liceu, Hamburg’s Leiszhalle, Washington’s Library of Congress, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Metz’s Arsenal, Lisbon’s Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian, Bilbao’s Palacio Euskalduna, Rome’s Teatro Olimpico, etc.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol has also been invited to some of the most important festivals: Baden Baden Easter Festival, Bachfestspiele Leipzig, Oude Muziek Utrecht, Internationale Festtage Alter Musik Stuttgart, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Dresdner Musikfestpiele, Festival d’Ambronay, H\u00e4ndel Festspiele Halle, Oslo Church Music Festival, Praga Spring Festival, Monteverdi Festival (Cremona), Camino de Santiago International Festival, etc.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol\u2019s recordings have been produced by labels such as Almaviva, Fidelio, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi France, Na\u00efve-Ambroisie and Challenge Records.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_padding_divider size=”60″ visibility=”visible-dt”][mk_image src=”https:\/\/www.alayreespanol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/biografia-ayre-espanol-movil.jpg” visibility=”hidden-dt” crop=”false”][mk_image src=”https:\/\/www.alayreespanol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/biografia-ayre-espanol.jpg” visibility=”visible-dt” crop=”false”][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h4″ color=”#3d404c” size=”36″ line_height=”110″ font_weight=”100″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”Oswald” font_type=”google” animation=”bottom-to-top”]Spanish National Music Prize 2004.[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_divider style=”padding_space” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”5″][vc_column_text]Al Ayre Espa\u00f1ol is sponsored by Industrias Qu\u00edmicas del Ebro and the Ministry of Culture of Spain, and maintains a residence agreement with the Auditorio de Zaragoza.<\/p>\n

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