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Ancient Basque Music will be featured this weekend in Paris and over the coming months on various European stages thanks to Enrike Solinis and Euskal Barrokensemble, on a tour that will visit, France, Austria, Belgium, and Catalonia.  This Saturday, September 17th the Basque musicians will visit Radio France, chosen by this prestigious broadcaster to give a concert that will be transmitted live all over France.  Later they will come to Vienna, Turnhout, Barcelona, Bilbao...

Bilbao, Bizkaia.   Ancient Basque Music will be featured on Saturday, September 17 in France at the celebration of Heritage Day.  Radio France has requested that Enrike Solinis and Euskal Barrokensemble give a live concert at their studios in Paris.  The event, which will be broadcast all over the country, is part of the special program comprised of nine concerts throughout the weekend.  It is great recognition of the career of this Basque group and its director, guitarist Enrike Solinis, since this is the only non-French group to be invited to the celebration.  In this way, pieces from their latest work Euskel Antiqva – the Musical Heritage of the Basque Country, selected as one of the best albums of 2015 by France Musique, will be heard live beginning at 8pm. Solinís (lute, baroque guitar, lavta and artistic direction) will be accompanied in studio  105 at Radio France by Maika Etxekopar (vocals), Mixel Etxekopar (vocals, txirula, txun-txun), Sabin Bikandi (txistu, alboka, gaita), Miren Zeberio (baroque violin), Pablo Martín Caminero (double bass) and Daniel Garay Moragues (percussion).

Enrike Solinís & Euskal Barrokesemble: Euskel Antiqva – the Musical Heritage of the Basque Country

This concert will also begin the tour by Enrike Solinis & Euskal Barrokensemble to bring Basque music and culture to the most emblematic stages in Europe.  After Paris, this Saturday, they will leave for Belgium, Austria at the Konzerthaus, and the Auditori in Barcelona, as well as the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao.  The tour also coincides with the debut of Jota, the latest film by Carlos Saura that includes Euskel Barrokensmble, along with Ara Malikian and Carlos Núñez, among others on its soundtrack.

On September 23, it will the Turnhout’s turn, where Euskal Barrokensemble will participate in its prestigious religious music festival.  There they will perform “Prophecy of the Sibylla,” an anonymous work arranged by Solinis.  The following date will be at home at the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao on October 13, where the repertoire will be mainly comprised of songs from “Euskel Antiqva: The Musical Heritage of the Basque Country,” that will take the audience to an era where, European pilgrims traveled to Santiago, the Basque music and culture were opened to the most varied musical influences from all over Europe.  The album was edited by Jordi Savall, one of the most prominent exponents in early music.

The last part of the tour, in November, will take them to Vienna and Barcelona.  On the 3rd in the Austrian capital, the group will perform at the Konzerthaus, an authentic temple of classical music, the fandangos, marionas, canaries or cumbes from his prior album Colores del sur, a work that was inspired by the Spanish and Italian Baroque traditions.  Finally on the 8th at the Auditori in Barcelona, the recital “Ars Lacrimae,” will conclude the tour with works by Marin Marais, Jean-Féry Rebel, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann and Jean-Philippe Rameau. 

Their tour also coincides with the debut of the film Jota, the latest film by director Carlos Saura, who after being interested in flamenco and the tango in previous films, now returns to the screens directing his new view on traditional music in his country.  In Jota, Saudra treats the evolution and fusions of this genre with others, and does so thanks to the collaboration of artist like Solinis himself, Ara Malikian or Carlos Núñez, among others.

Euskal Barrokensemble & Enrike Solinís

Euskal Barrokensemble is a group of variable formation that was created in 2006.  It is comprised of young musicians who are distinguished internationally in early music.  Its director and founder, Enrike Solinis, after developing an international career in the most important specialized training in early music like, Hespèrion XXI, Le Concert des Nations, Concerto Vocale, le Concert d`Astreé, etc., decided to put together a group that would combine the great talent and training of its members, and the freshness and the enthusiasm of its performances hopes to bring the repertoire of ancient, classical and popular music to diverse audiences, always up close and void of any prejudice.

The ensemble has been acclaimed by critics and audiences at very different festivals and in an endless number of media, Festival Allimprovisso (Czech Republic), Havana Music Festival (Cuba), Quincena Musical (Donostia-San Sebastián) at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao and the National Auditorium in Madrid, Baroque Festival of Montreal (Canada) or the Spring Festival in Prague (Czech Republic)...

Enrike Solinis, is from Bilbao and he recognizes in his passion for music influences as varied as Paco de Lucía, Narciso Yepes, Lutosławski, Steve Vai, Tinariwen or Los Panchos among others. He has studied composition and superior guitar at the Conservatory Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga in Bilbao, superior study of early music at the ESMUC in Barclona and simultaneously obtains the Graduate Soloist Cum Laude from Maestro José Tomás at the Luther School in Barcelona.

He regularly participates in international festivals and in the most important venues in Europe and America, Carnegie Hall in New York, Konzerthaus Berlin, Champs Elysées in París, Theater an der Wien, Culiacán International Festival in México, Barbican Center in London, Sala Nezahualcoyotl in México City or the Festival Leo Brouwer in Havana.

Enrike Solinís: www.solinis.com