Over 200 people have filled the church of Santa María in the monastery of San Martín de Castañeda and enjoyed the performance by the Música de Cámara Scherzo group.
The goal of these activities is to potentiate the knowledge, dynamization and diffusion of heritage in the areas in which the Plan intervenes. This way, during the last years, the church in Zamora has received several concerts by Dulsica, from the Grupo de Música Antigua de la Universidad de Valladolid, or by the NEUMA quartet.
With these concerts, some expectation has been generated in the neighbors of the municipality of Galende, that collaborate in the diffusion of the activity amongst tourists and visitors. This way, the concert is included in the festivities program and constitutes a long awaited event.
In this occasion, the performance named Scintilla by the Música de Cámara Scherzo group took place. The title, according to the members of the group, is a reference to the latin maxim, “Parva saepe scintilla magnum incendium insperato excitat”, which means “Oftentimes, a small spark can unexpectedly produce a great fire”. This was the goals of the group, to be able to create an “assembly of small musical sparks that through time will generate a fire of emotions” through their performance.
Judging by the applause and requests for bis at the end of the performance, not only did they achieve their goal, but also brought warmth and quality to a rainy day. The group started in 2007, in the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Valladolid, by the Joven Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, and the Escuela de Excelencia Musical, under the wings of first level professors. The group is formed by Iria Iglesias Kristen (flute); Adriana Alonso García (oboe); Miguel Repiso López (clarinet); Jorge López Tejada (basson) y María Martín González (soprano). All of them developed their superior studies in the most prestigious centers of Castilla y León, País Vasco, Asturias, Madrid and Portugal.
Atlantic Romanesque
Their performance in San Martín took place thanks to the work of the Atlantic Romanesque Plan, a trans-border cooperation project for the conservation of cultural heritage, that includes restoration and valoration projects of over twenty romanesque churches located in the Spanish provinces of Zamora and Salamanca and the Portuguese regions of Vila Real, Porto and Bragança.
The Plan is an example of institutional cooperation and public-private participation, since it is promoted by the Junta de Castilla y León, the Fundación Iberdrola, and the Ministerio de Cultura de Portugal. The interventions in Spain have been entrusted to the Fundación Santa María la Real del Patrimonio Histórico and are developed in collaboration with the dioceses of each territory.
