18, 20 and 22 September 2007
With Vicent Ros, Bartomeu Veny Vidal and Josep Mas i Bonet
In 1980, professor Heribert Breuer, the director of the Berliner Bach Akademie, began to bring distinguished performers of ancient Iberian music to Berlin. Since then, the best organists of the Peninsula have passed through the German city, a presence now reinforced by the concerts that three acclaimed musicians from Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands will be giving in the Nikolairkirche. Vicent Ros (18 September), Bartomeu Veny Vidal (20 September) and Josep Mas i Bonet (22 September) will offer three concerts in a programme that focuses on some of the most significant moments of German music, contrasting with the organ music repertoire of Valencia, Majorca and Catalonia.
The Head of the Music History and Sciences Department at the Catholic University of Valencia, Vicent Ros is a specialist in Valencian music from the last four centuries. His research into the wealth of styles and timbres in the country's music has found the perfect source of expression in the Cabanilles organ at the Companyia de Val�ncia church; with its 6,000 pipes, it is considered a piece of the greatest instrumental value.
Professor Bartomeu Veny Vidal is the organist for the Cathedral of Majorca and the Capella Mallorquina. In addition to his career as a performer, which has taken him to various countries around the world, Veny Vidal has composed music for the organ; pieces such as his Fantasia for symphonic orchestra and his Magnificat for chamber orchestra.
Professor of organ and continuous bass at the Conservatori Superior de M�sica in Barcelona's Liceu Opera House and head organist at the priory church of Sant Pere in Reus, the Barcelona-born Josep Mas i Bonet is one of the great specialists in Iberian music of the 15th to 18th centuries. In 1980 he founded the International Course in Early Iberian Music, a course he gives in Torredembarra and Montblanc every year.