CARIBBEAN MEDITERRANEAN. LEO RONDON & THOMAS ENHCO | LUMEN

Description

CentroCentro is the permanent headquarters of the Landscape of Light Interpretation Centre. The light that UNESCO recognises in its World Heritage declaration is not only one, the wonderful physical light that filters through the trees of Paseo del Prado, but also metaphorical, referring to science, culture and progress. The Landscape of Light is also a heterogeneous and diachronic physical space in which the different stages of the history of Madrid (and of humanity) are reflected urbanistically and architecturally. Superposition and contrast are a constant of the heritage site.

With the aim of linking the musical activity with the rest of the programming that takes place in the centre, the musical programming of the LUMEN cycle. Musical Memory of the Landscape of Light, from October 2024 to June 2025, curated by Carlos García de la Vega, aims to translate into music the superposition, contrast and dialogue of styles, disciplines and genres of the Prado-Retiro axis through hybridization and rethinking a “classical” music program.

30.10.2024, 19:30 h
Caribbean Mediterranean
Leo Rondón, cuatro
Thomas Enhco, piano

Program

Eclipse (T. Enhco)
To my brothers (A. Báez)
Nina (L. Rondón)
La mémoire et la mer (L. Ferré)
Zyryab (P. De Lucia)
Turning 30 (T. Enhco)
Prelude #2 (J. S. Bach)
Bésame mucho (C. Velazquez)
Improvisation on Sonata in A minor (W. A. ​​Mozart)
Improvisation on Joropo Tuyero (Venezuelan folklore)
The Kid (D. Lockwood)
Gracias a la vida (V. Parra)

Leo Rondón, cuatro
Venezuelan cuatro player, composer, arranger, guitarist, double bass player and producer, Rondón began his career He was born at an early age in Venezuela, winning prizes at the prestigious La Siembra del Cuatro competition, and the El Silbón (VE) and San Martín (COL) festivals.

Since his arrival in Europe in 2013, Rondón's Venezuelan cuatro has been played in countries such as Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Poland, Kazakhstan, Tunisia, Norway, Hungary, Romania, Morocco, North Macedonia, Canada, Colombia and Mexico, thus developing an extensive career in the classical world by collaborating in formations with the Quatuor Debussy, L'Arpeggiata by Christina Pluhar, the tenors Rolando Villazón and Emiliano González Toro, the trumpeter Pacho Flores, the violinist Alexis Cárdenas, and the Orquesta Imposible by Alondra de la Parra.

Among the orchestras with which he has collaborated are: The Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de l’Ile de France, Symphony of the Region of Murcia, Valencia Orchestra, Symphony of Castilla y León, Orchestra of Extremadura, Symphony of Navarra, Symphony Orchestra of Tunis or Malaga Philharmonic, Arctic Philharmonic, National Symphony of Colombia, Minería Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Salzburg Festival presided by the maestro Cecilia Bartoli. Where conductors of the stature of Manuel Hernández Silva, Christian Vázquez, Alondra de la Parra, Andrés Salado, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Domingo Hindoyan have conducted.

Thomas Enhco, piano
Born in Paris in 1988, Thomas Enhco is a jazz and classical pianist and composer. He began his classical training on the violin and piano as a child and studied formally at the CMDL and the Conservatoire National de Paris. Since then, he has achieved international recognition, recording for the Verve, Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Music labels and giving 100 concerts a year around the world.

Among the venues that have invited him are the Tokyo, Montreal, Vienne, Montreux, Istanbul, North Sea, New York Jazz Festivals, Olympia Hall... and classical venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Bordeaux Opera, the Flagey in Brussels, the La Roque d'Anthéron Piano Festival, the Grand Theatre in Shanghai, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Beijing Concert Hall, the Kyoto Concert Hall, the Kitara Hall in Sapporo...

His most recent releases as a leader are the albums A Modern Songbook (Sony Masterworks, 2023, live recording), Thirty, on solo piano and with symphony orchestra in his own Piano Concerto and compositions (Sony Classical, 2019), Bach Mirror and Funambules, in duo with the virtuoso marimbist Vassilena Serafimova (Sony Classical, 2019). 2021 and Deutsche Grammophon, 2016), Feathers, on solo piano (Verve, 2015) and Fireflies, with his jazz trio (Label Bleu, 2012).

As a jazz pianist, Thomas Enhco performs primarily as a solo pianist, in trio (with double bass and drums) and in various duos. In solo concerts, his unique combination of improvisations on jazz standards, pop songs and themes by major classical composers as well as his own compositions are praised by audiences and critics around the world. His latest album A Modern Songbook spans 125 years of songs, from Carole King to Sting, from Gabriel Fauré to James Blake, from Serge Gainsbourg to London Grammar, from Nick Drake to Silvio Rodríguez. In 2023, the four sold-out performances he gave at the Philharmonie de Paris, where he reinterpreted Keith Jarrett’s legendary Cologne Concerto, remained etched in the memories of the 4,000 spectators who attended.

As a classical pianist, he regularly performs concertos by Mozart (K. 491 and K. 467), Ravel (Concerto in G), Gershwin (Concerto in F, Rhapsody in Blue), as well as his own concertos (Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Double Concerto for Marimba, Piano and Orchestra, and Le Murmure des Oiseaux: Rhapsody for Violin, Piano and Chamber Orchestra). He has performed as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Kyoto, Sapporo, Kanazawa Orchestra Ensemble, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra of Bordeaux, National Orchestra of France, Avignon, Cannes, Picardy, OPPB, Ensemble Appassionato, Insula Orchestra... with conductors Junichi Hirokami, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Fayçal Kar oui, Alondra de la Parra, Julien Masmondet, James Gaffigan, Pierre Dumoussaud, Laurence Equilbey, Mathieu Herzog, Samuel Jean, Benjamin Lévy and Johanna Malangré.