Bratislava Music Agency
Záhumenská 3/A
841 06 Bratislava 4
Slovakia
The Chamber Orchestra Promúsica of Málaga are created in 2009. It is the orchestra with the best students of Orchestral Project Promúsica of Málaga, which is an orchestral training program for young string players created by violinist and pedagogue Javier Claudio Portales. This program, which consists of three string orchestras of different levels and ages, is supported by the Association Promúsica of Málaga is sponsored by the Fundacion Musical of Malaga. Aims to provide support, training and musical stimulus currently more than ninety children and youngs musicians to 6-26 years. The most striking feature of the project is that older students help as volunteers in the formation of smallers, creating a very special interweaving all. Promúsica Chamber Orchestra has become one of the cultural identity signs of their city and Andalucia, which has been doing since its foundation an intense activity that exceeds in just eigth years about two hundred and fifty concerts. The orchestras of Proyect Promúsica makes chamber music, didactic concerts, ballets, with choir and soloists of international and national talent and youngs, and even collaborations with international musical personalities as the baritone Carlos Alvarez or violinist Simon Fischer. The orchestra also performs charitable work, collaborating with good cause and institutions like the Ronald McDonald Foundation, Foundation Cesar Scariolo Foundation Huelín Father, Manos Unidas, Caritas, among others. Every year in June, the association organizes the Campus Promúsica of Torremolinos.
Javier Claudio Portales studied violin and chamber music in Spain, Luxembourg and Austria, obtaining the highest grades, Extraordiari Award Grade and the II International Violin Grand Prize of Spain. He has studied with violinists from the likes of Igor Ozim, Michael Grube, Bretislav Novotny, T. Adamopoulos, Anna Baget or Agustín León Ara, among others. As a teacher, has a history of three decades in which he participated as a speaker at international conferences and has given lectures, and courses for students and teachers throughout importants citys ins Spain. He is currently professor of violin at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Málaga, Professor in the Department of Music Education at the University of Málaga, artistic director of Promúsica Project and coordinator of Campus Promúsica Torremolinos and Festival of Youth Orchestras of Almuñecar.
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Záhumenská 3/A
841 06 Bratislava 4
Slovakia