The following year, at the Mediterranean Flamenco Festival organized by Fundación Mediterráneo. Saturday, November 11Starting from 20.00 in Alicante Class (Avda. Doctor Gadea,1) Winning artists of the 2023 International Cante de las Minas Festival.
Mediterranean Flamenco Festival will be extended until November 25 The Mediterranean Foundation’s headquarters in Alicante and Murcia also offer a program of parallel activities such as: class masterful Dance of Mercedes de Córdoba, lectures, documentary film series, flamenco photography competition and exhibition of winning photographs.
Unión festival is one of the cornerstones of the flamenco world, thanks to the prestige it has gained nationally and internationally throughout its history. The connection with the Festival del Cante de las Minas is supported by the Mediterranean Foundation talent Flemish.
Mediterranean Foundation President Luis Boyer said, “We are starting a project this year. new collaboration With the Festival del Cante de las Minas: the latest winners of the La Unión awards will perform together in a show at our Mediterranean Flamenco Festival.”
The artists who will participate are Rocio Crespillo LunaMining Lamp winner Juan Luis Campos “El Poti”, winner of the Bordón award for best guitarist; Yoel Ferrer Vargas Desplante award for best dancer; and pianist Raul PerezHe won the Filón award for best instrumentalist.
Participants
Rocio Crespillo Luna – Singing (Mining Lamp): Born in 1998 in the Cañada del Rabadán region of Fuente Palmera (Córdoba), on the border of the historical and flamenco city of Écija. Flamenco has always been his greatest concern. She first performed on stage at the age of 7 and realized then that she would never stop performing. He won the “Ciudad de Ubrique” National Flamenco Art Competition, the first competition he entered when he was only 10 years old. Hasn’t stopped taking it since Some Flamenco’s most important awardsAs demonstrated by winning the 2023 Mining Lamp award at the La Unión festival.
He completed his education in the Higher Art Education in Flamenco Singing at the “Rafael Orozco” Higher Conservatory of Music of Córdoba. He is currently pursuing his Interuniversity Master’s degree in Flamenco Research and Analysis at the University of Córdoba. Was part of the show in 2022 experimental flamenco “Times of Plenty” organized by the Thyssen Foundation and written and directed by producer Fernando Vacas.
Juan Luis Campos Triguero “El Poti” – Guitar (Bordón Award): He was born in Granada and started playing flamenco guitar at the age of 12. Education is self-taught. When he was only 14 years old, he participated in his first national competition, “Granada Provincial Council Young Flamencos”, and was evaluated as “Granada” by the Granada press and flamenco critics.revelation artist and young flamenco guitar promise”.
At 15 he was awarded the Granada Costa International Flamenco Guitar Competition, and at 18 he took first prize at Jerez de la Frontera’s prestigious National Young Values Flamenco Guitar Competition with judges of the caliber of Diego. del Morao and Antonio Rey. In the same year, he received the first prize in the Kanal Sur National Young Values Flamenco Guitar Competition.
Yoel Ferrer Vargas (Male Displant Award): Born in Tarragona in 2003, he was interested in flamenco dancing from an early age and began his formal dance training at the age of 9, studying with well-known teachers in various cities. Achieved throughout his career multiple recognitionThese include the gold medal in the Folklore category in 2016, the Extraordinary Award for Professional Training in the Arts of Catalonia in 2021, and the prestigious “El Desplante” Award in 2023.
Throughout his rising career, choreographed award-winning tracks He has participated in outstanding performances in various competitions and collaborated with great flamenco figures, cementing himself as one of the brightest promises of dance in Spain and internationally.
Raul Perez Fernandez – instrumentalist (Philón Award): He started professional training in Classical Piano at the Cartagena Conservatory at the age of 15, but improved himself a few years later. a resounding and determined love for jazz this led him to move to San Sebastián to enter the Higher Conservatory of Music of the Basque Country, Musikene, and specialize in Piano Jazz.
The Mediterranean Flamenco Festival is a proposal of Fundación Mediterráneo. Bring flamenco culture to the cities of Alicante and Murcia To be a cultural reference that enables the Foundation to associate itself with the potential of Flamenco as the Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Mediterranean Flamenco Festival, VII. will celebrate its edition between 26 October and 25 November 2023 in the Alicante Classroom of the Fundación Mediterráneo (Avda. Doctor Gadea, 1). Tickets for the shows can be purchased at the box office and on the Foundation’s website. You can also buy a Subscription for the entire festivalThis guarantees entry to the shows, entry to the documentary series and guaranteed access to other events planned as part of the competition.
Tickets can be purchased at the box office or on their website.