The Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga will offer the traditional New Year’s Concert at the Felipe VI Auditorium

To benefit the Asociación Cultural Unicornio, will be under the musical direction of maestro Julio García-Vico. It will be on Saturday, January 4 at 8.00 p.m.

The Estepona Town Hall will open the cultural program of the new year 2025 with the traditional New Year’s Concert performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga (OFM). The performance will take place on Saturday, January 4, at 20.00 hours, in the Felipe VI Auditorium, and will feature a selection of essential pieces in the programs of the New Year’s concerts. Great composers such as Bizet, Strauss, Brahms and Dvorak will sound with the OFM and the musical direction of maestro Julio García-Vico, to end with the Intermedio (from La Boda de Luis Alonso) by Gerónimo Jiménez.

Tickets are priced at 20 euros (+ booking fee), and are on sale at www.enterticket.es. They can also be purchased at the box office of the Felipe VI Auditorium from two hours before the start of the show until full capacity is reached. The proceeds will benefit the Asociación Cultural Unicornio.

New Year’s Concert 2025 Program

PART I

GEORGES BIZET Overture (from the opera Carmen)

JOHANN STRAUSS The Beautiful Blue Danube, Waltz Op. 314

JOHANNES BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 1

ANTONIN DVORAK Slavonic Dance No. 1, Op. 46

JOHANN STRAUSS Spring Voices, Waltz Op. 410

JOHANN STRAUSS Trisch Trasch Polka, Op. 214

PART II

JOHANN STRAUSS Viennese Blood, Op. 354

ANTONIN DVORAK Slavic Dance No. 8, Op. 46

JOHANNES BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 5

JOHANN STRAUSS Emperor’s Waltz, Op. 437

JOHANN STRAUSS Life of an Artist, Op. 316

GERÓNIMO GIMÉNEZ Intermedio (from La Boda de Luis Alonso)

Conductor, Julio García-Vico

Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga

Julio García-Vico, conductor

Winner of the Donatella Flick LSO 2021 Conducting Competition, Julio García-Vico has been described as “a star” by Das Opera Magazine. Noted for his “hyper-expressive, precise and brilliant” conducting, García-Vico was appointed Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, where he has had the opportunity to work closely with maestros such as Sir Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda, François-Xavier Roth, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Barbara Hannigan and Antonio Pappano.

García-Vico is also a winner of the German Conducting Award 2019 (First Prize, Audience Award and Friends of the Bonn Opera Award), where he conducted Strauss’s Don Juan from memory with the WDR Sinfonieorchester at the Kölner Philharmonie; the jury described him as “an extraordinary talent.”

He has been music director of the Opera Studio at the theaters of Krefeld and Mönchengladbach in Germany, and has made guest conducting debuts with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Mantova Chamber Orchestra, the Orquesta Nacional de España, the Orquesta RTVE, Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra and the Gävle Symphony Orchestra.

He graduated in conducting at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, has been a member of the renowned Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, and has also studied philosophy, piano and viola.

He is fluent in seven languages, including Spanish, English, German, Italian and Japanese.

Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Malaga City Council / Junta de Andalucía

The Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga gave its inaugural concert on February 14, 1991. It was born then as the Orquesta Ciudad de Málaga, a consortium between the City Council of Malaga and the Junta de Andalucía, which responded to the conviction that a city like Malaga should have a great symphony orchestra.

At the head of the orchestra and its project, six chief conductors have stamped their own personality: Octav Calleya, Odón Alonso, Alexander Rahbari, Aldo Ceccato, Edmon Colomer and Manuel Hernández Silva.

Currently, the principal conductor and artistic director is Maestro José María Moreno.

The Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga has believed it essential not to limit its activity to the subscription program and has deployed enthusiastic parallel proposals. Along with CD recordings of repertoires of a very diverse nature, and with different maestros, we must add two cycles of Chamber Music, parallel to its subscription symphonic program, its cycle La Filarmónica frente al mar, specially designed for new audiences and young people of special artistic projection and the Joven Orquesta Barroca de Andalucía (JOBA) which was born in 2010 as a pedagogical project.

The City Council of Malaga awarded it the ‘Malaga Prize’ for the best musical work in 2001 and the Company M Capital, its Culture Award, among other distinctions from various entities associated with culture at provincial and national level.

The SGAE awarded the Orchestra a special prize in 2007, in recognition of its work in favor of contemporary Spanish music.

The OFM has been awarded by the Ateneo de Málaga, the Asociación Cultural Zegrí, the Asociación Malagueña de Escritores Amigos de Málaga and the Asociación Amigos de la OFM in recognition of its XXV Anniversary. In 2017, the Diputación de Málaga awarded the OFM the Distinction of Honor of the Province for cultural and social development in the province.

It is Resident Orchestra of the International Piano Competition ‘Jaén Prize’ and the Andrés Segovia International Classical Guitar Competition of La Herradura, Almuñécar (Granada).

The Junta de Andalucía awarded it the Bandera de Andalucía de las Artes 2021.