Las Tunas, Cuba.- The members of the Chamber Orchestra of Las Tunas, on their way to Switzerland today, are fully aware of the significance of this event, which is key both for their careers and for the cultural aspirations of this region.
It will be 12 days during which they will be presented in the cities of Lucerna, Aarau and Winterthur; as well as Schaan, belonging to Liechtenstein. The journey is fruit of the exchange sponsored by the Association for Intercultural Music Projects, led by the prominent Swiss musician and Professor Ulrich Nyffeler.
Giudel Gómez González, director of the Orchestra founded just five years ago, talked to 26Digital a few hours before leaving. He is as young as the 24 members of the group, whose average age is around 26 years.
"Everyone wants to present themselves there because it is the birthplace of the music we play, but it is one thing to want and another, be able to assume it. It is very hard to get an orchestra to hold the level that allows it to face the European public that is very connoisseur and demanding.
I heard him speak quietly, but with the determined accent of someone who wants something more than to dream. They have worked hard depending on the journey through the Old Continent almost from the very date they saw that possibility.
"I trust the instrumentalists, among other reasons because they are very young and very valiant, they grow in concerts more than in rehearsals, and in rehearsals they are doing very well, everything is going to work out.
The strings, the piano and the oboe departed from Las Tunas. Five percussionists of Cuban origin, who will come from Switzerland and Germany, will join them to perform a program similar to the one they presented at the Tunas Theater on the night of April 24.
The activities include a workshop on Cuban sonorities at the Liechtenstein Gymnasium; and Giudel will lead the orchestra in most performances.
"Back to Las Tunas we will have a week of rest, and other of rehearsals and a performance with the Italian Maestro Walter Themel, and in that concert, scheduled for October 27, we will premiere works by a fairly high rigor. Then, we want to stage Pedro and the Wolf, a beautiful symphonic composition by Sergei Prokofiev, with an even larger orchestra.
"We will work together with Themel with a view to premiere an opera, Suor Angelica, by Giacomo Puccini, next year. I understand that it would be the first time it would be played in Cuba, as well as the debut of such a piece with instrumentalists from Las Tunas."
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