Music and literature will come together in the ‘Ciclo de Música de Cámara de Estepona’, organized by the City Hall at the Mirador del Carmen

These free concerts will be held on the third Sundays of each month until next June

The Estepona City Council will join music and literature in a new free cultural proposal: the ‘Estepona Chamber Music Series 2026’. This project, to be held at the Mirador del Carmen, was born with the purpose of uniting two expressions deeply linked to human sensitivity: music and the word, as explained by the councilor attached to the area of Culture and Festivals, Macarena Diánez.

Through a series of four concerts ranging from the Baroque to the twentieth century, the activity 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 cycle adopts a monthly format, with one concert a month from March to June, thus favoring cultural continuity and enriching the artistic calendar of the municipality, as indicated Diánez. All concerts will take place on the third Sunday of each month in the Auditorium of the Mirador del Carmen.

The municipal responsible has stressed that admission to all concerts will be free until full capacity, thus reinforcing the commitment of the cycle with cultural accessibility and the formation of new audiences. In addition, after each concert will be held a meeting with the musicians in discussion format, offering the public the opportunity to dialogue with the interpreters, deepen the works performed and share impressions in a close and enriching environment.

The Councillor for Culture has pointed out that this project, organized by the Consistory and with the collaboration of the Elementary Conservatory of Music of Estepona, contributes to the city continues to be a reference at the cultural level, offering artistic excellence, training of audiences and a stable and quality programming.

Finally, he has indicated that this cycle of chamber music will allow the public to discover how literature has inspired some of the most beautiful pages of the chamber music repertoire, turning each concert into an integral artistic experience.

The complete program of the series is as follows:

Concert I- Baroque

Sunday, March 22/ 12.00 noon.

Leclair, Corelli and Telemann: three styles, three literary worlds’.

Part I

Sonata for 2 violins in E minor, op.3 nº5-J.M Leclair

Concerto grosso, op.6 nº4-A.Corelli

Part II

Suite Don Quixote- G.P. 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- Lyric Gala

Sunday, April 26/ 12:30 p.m.

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. The soprano Elena Garrido Madrona leads a program that goes from Germanic romanticism to the Spanish lyric of the 20th century, always with literature as the axis.

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/ 17.00 hours.

From descriptive music to literary romanticism’.

A program that includes the famous Ritirata by Boccherini, a masterful example of descriptive music; the Quartet in A minor by Mahler, bridge between late romanticism and expressionism; and the Quintet for piano and strings op.44 by Schumann, foundational work of the romantic chamber music repertoire.

Mario 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 p.m.

Poetry, folklore and identity’.

This concert shows how the music of the 20th century dialogues with folk 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