The pianist Juan José Sevilla Valencia pays tribute to the famous Chopin with a didactic concert at the Padre Manuel Cultural CenterDidactic concert at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center

The talented pianist will return to Estepona on February 14, at 8:00 pm, with the concert ‘Polyhedron Chopin’, in tribute to one of the greatest composers of classical music for piano: Frédéric Chopin.

The City Council of Estepona informs that the Padre Manuel Cultural Center will host next Friday, February 14, from 20:00 hours, a solo piano concert by the young musician from Chiclana, born in Ceuta, Juan José Sevilla Valencia. “Polyhedron Chopin” is a didactic concert that aims to pay tribute to one of the greatest composers of classical music for piano: Frederic Chopin.

Our admired Chopin was, without knowing it, composer of some of the soundtracks of our daily life. Nowadays, we have hundreds of series, movies and animations full of appearances and references to his Nocturnes, Waltzes, Preludes or Sonatas. He is one of these composers that the youngest know even without ever having gone to the theater to a piano concert.

This project aims to disseminate the figure of this famous Polish pianist and composer, alluding to his life and work in a workshop of close character, full of anecdotes, historical notes, culture and above all, music.

Chopin’s different ways of expressing his feelings on the score will be put on the table, generating a polyhedron of multiple forms of musical composition; a wide spectrum of works in which we can find from preludes, nocturnes and waltzes, to studies and polonaises, among many others. At all times the spoken interventions will be interspersed with the interpretation of recognizable examples to the ear of those present, recovering melodies that listeners already have in their auditory retina. As a gift, at the end of the concert, Juan José will interpret one of Chopin’s masterpieces; the Fantasia-impromptu Op. 66.

Tickets for the concert of this young ‘talent’, professor of piano in Mannheim (Germany), are priced at 10 euros, and can be purchased at the box office of the Centro Cultural Padre Manuel from one hour before the start of the show, until full capacity is reached. It will also be possible to reserve tickets at +34 618294319 where we also put a BIZUM FILA 0 for those who wish to contribute to the concert.

Program of the Concert ‘Poliedro Chopin’

– Prelude Op 28 n 15 “Raindrop”

– Waltz Op 69 n 1

– Waltz Op posthumous

– Nocturne Op posthumous

– Nocturne Op 9 n 2

– Study Op 10 n 9

– Study Op 10 n 5 “Black Keys”

– Fantasy-impromptu Op 66

Juan José Sevilla Valencia is a pianist from Chiclana born in Ceuta. He graduated with the best record of his class at the CSM of Badajoz with the pianist Ángel Sanzo, where he obtained Honorable Mention and 26 Honorable Mentions. Subsequently, she studied the Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Flamenco Analysis and Research at the UCA, obtaining the Extraordinary End of Master’s Degree Award. He completed his training in the Master in Artistic Teaching in Performance and Research of Spanish Music at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, with the pianist Mariana Gurkova, obtaining an Honors Degree in Piano, among other distinctions.

Juan José is the winner of more than a dozen national and international piano awards in Spain and abroad. In addition, he is also recognized for being classified for the Grand Final of the Talent Show ‘Tierra de Talento’, where he performed other genres, in addition to classical music, such as rock, pop, etc …, and accompanied artists such as Diana Navarro, in the trajectory of the program. In addition, he has made numerous appearances on public radio and television, as well as RTVCE, Canal Sur, 7TV, Onda Cero, Cadena Ser, and Cope among others.

He has also given recitals in multiple concert halls, highlighting the Ateneo de Sevilla, the Palacio de la Granja de San Ildefonso, the Auditorio Felipe VI in Estepona, the Teatro Auditorio Revellín in Ceuta, the Plenary Hall of the Diputación de Badajoz, the ADDA (Alicante), the Castello di Sanguinetto (Italy), the Pianolab in Hinves (Madrid) and the “York Hall” in Malvern (England), among others.

In addition, Juan José combines his artistic activity with teaching, transmitting to his students his own experiences lived on stage. For 3 years (2020-2023) he was teaching at Musicry – Centro de Estudios Musicales, where he prepared students of all levels and ages for the official Trinity piano exams, with a 100% pass rate. Later, during the academic year 2023/2024, he has been teaching piano at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Ceuta “Ángel García Ruíz”. He is currently a senior piano teacher simultaneously at Musikschule Ungefucht and Tonarte, both located in Mannheim (Germany).