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May 28, 2010
Seville, 28 May 2010. The Focus-Abengoa Foundation will celebrate a mass-concert on Sunday 30 May, to celebrate the festival of San Fernando, the patron saint of Seville and the Los Venerables church. The concert, which will begin at 12.30 pm in the church of the Hospital de los Venerables, will be given by José Enrique Ayarra, titular organist of the Focus-Abengoa Foundation and Seville Cathedral, accompanied by the Cappella Giulia choir from the Roman Philharmonic Academy directed by Monsignor Pablo Colino.
The concert is the perfect finale to the 2010 music program of the Focus-Abengoa Foundation, which has organised its program around the organ every year for the last 18 years. During the mass José Enrique Ayarra and the Cappella Giulia choir will perform works by D. Scarlatti, L. Perosi (1st Missa Pontifi calis), C. Stanford (Beati quorum via), W. A. Mozart (Sanctus and Agnus Dei, Missa brevis) and L. Perosi (Magnificat).
In the evening at 8.00 pm, the Cappella Giulia choir will give an extraordinary concert in tribute to Father José María Javierre in the church of the Hospital de los Venerables, under the direction of Monsignor Pablo Colino, the canon and maestro of the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican.
During his life, the priest and journalist José María Javierre expressed special interest in the various welfare projects carried out by the Focus-Abengoa Foundation, with which he always had a close and special relationship. Indeed, in one of his last works, “Una Chica del Barrio Salamanca: Madre Purísima de la Cruz” (A Girl From the Salamanca District: Mother Purísima de la Cruz), he narrates the story of Mother Purísima, the mother superior of the Hermanas de la Cruz, a religious order that the Foundation has collaborated with for more than three decades at its centres for social integration in Argentina, in Quimilí and Monte Quemado in the province of Santiago del Estero, and in Alderetes in the province of Tucumán.
The choir of the Roman Philharmonic Academy is part of the Music Education and Choir School founded at the academy in 1961, under the direction of maestro Pablo Colino. The school has become one of the leading free music education institutions in Italy and provides classes to more than 10,000 pupils. The choir normally performs at the seasonal concerts of the philharmonic, at the solemn functions of the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, as well as at other artistic and musical events around Rome. It has an extensive repertoire ranging from Gregorian chants through to more modern songs inspired by international folklore.
Monsignor Pablo Colino is canon and maestro of the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican. He holds a degree in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and obtained his teaching qualification in composition, sacred music and choral direction at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome specialising in the educational and teaching methods of Ward, Orff, Kodaly and Dalcroze in Paris, Montserrat, Salzburg, Kécskemet and Geneva. He also holds a diploma in Choral Direction based on the teaching of Marin Constantin of the Bucharest Conservatory, and in Disciplines of Art, Music and Performance (DAMS) from the University of Bologna. He has worked with Radiotelevisione Italiana and Vatican Radio and is an artistic adviser to the Curacy of Rome, the Lazio region at Christmas, the Rome Opera Theatre, and to Courtial International.
José Enrique Ayarra is the titular organist of the Chapel of the Hospital de los Venerables and Seville Cathedral. He qualified as a piano teacher at the Zaragoza Conservatory and holds a diploma in organ and Gregorian singing from the Institut Catholique de París. As a soloist he has given recitals in more than thirty countries in Europe, Africa, America and Asia; he has made recordings for radio and television in a dozen countries; and has recorded albums on organs from different European schools.
The Focus-Abengoa Foundation was started in 1982 as a result of the cultural work begun in 1972 by Abengoa with the publication of the works Temas Sevillanos (Themes of Seville) and Iconografía de Sevilla (Iconography of Seville). A collection of documents, books and engravings on the Kingdom of Seville or by Sevillian authors was created during the same period. This initial cultural work showed Abengoa’s directors the importance of the company’s involvement in activities that directly benefit society, beyond its core technology work, which led to the creation of the Seville Cultural Fund Foundation.
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