From 23 to 25 June, the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo is organising a festival with three nights of open-air concerts dedicated to Sephardic music, Andalusian rhythms and flamenco, with three great protagonists: Ana Alcaide, Imán Kandoussi and Rocío Márquez.
This festival has a vocation of continuity and is organised by the foundation with the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions of the Department of Culture and Historical Heritage of the Andalusian Regional Government, with the collaboration of the 'la Caixa' Foundation. The aim of this event is to give value to the important musical legacy that the coexistence of different cultures of the Mediterranean represents for our community. And more specifically, the relevance of the Sephardic and Andalusian heritage in Andalusian culture.
In this sense, this initiative is linked to the Festival de las Andalucías Atlánticas, which has been held every year in the Moroccan city of Essaouira, with strong support from the Junta de Andalucía (through the Fundación Tres Culturas) for almost two decades. Now, the Festival Tres Culturas goes a step further by bringing together three important exponents of Sephardic, Andalusian and Flamenco music on the same stage, albeit on different days.
Rocío Márquez Born in Huelva in 1985, she has been defined by the press as "the voice of the new generation of flamenco singing" and her national and international projection is unstoppable. Her discography combines her great love for flamenco tradition with her eagerness to explore the limits of that same tradition by experimenting with melodies, instrumentation, arrangements and lyrics.
He began singing at the Peña Flamenca de Huelva and began his studies at the conservatory, studying up to the fourth year of elementary piano. In 2008 she won the Lámpara Minera and prizes in four other categories at the Festival Internacional de Cante de las Minas de La Unión. She has also been awarded the Giraldillo a la Innovación de la Bienal de Sevilla, the Coups de Coeur de la Academia de Charles Cros (France), the Premio Meridiana de la Junta de Andalucía, the Premio Plaza de España del Gobierno de España and the Medalla de Oro de la Petenera. With her album 'Visto en El Jueves' (2019) she won the Les Victoires du Jazz award for the best world music album, the first Spanish artist to do so.
She has performed at the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla, the SUMA Flamenca, London's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the Festival Les Suds (Arles, France), the Olympia in Paris, the Düsseldorf Opera (Germany), the Festival de Música Sacra de Fez (Morocco), the Teatro de La Zarzuela or the Teatro Circo Price and the Palau de la Música in Barcelona. His performance at the 2018 European Film Awards gala was broadcast live across Europe.
She has also excelled as a researcher, obtaining her PhD from the University of Seville with her thesis on Vocal Technique in Flamenco.
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