Amancio Prada opens the concert series at the Pepe Romero Guitar Festival-Málaga

Artist Amancio Prada will inaugurate this Friday the concert series of the 'Pepe Romero Guitar Festival-Málaga' at the Patio de Armas of the Gibralfaro Castle. The cultural event, which pays tribute to Rafael Pérez Estrada, will start at 9:00 PM. Attendees will have access to a bus departing from General Torrijos Square (Hospital Noble) starting at 7:30 PM, and after the concert, it will return to the same spot.

The program for the fourth edition of this festival includes 16 concerts. On Saturday, at the Patio de Surtidores of La Alcazaba, Marcin Dylla, winner of more than 15 international competitions, will perform, and on Sunday the 7th, at the Centro Cultural Fundación Unicaja de Málaga, it will be Mirta Álvarez's turn.

On Thursday the 11th, at the Gibralfaro Castle, Daniel Casares will present a new program for two guitars, titled 'The Power of the Subtle'. On September 12th, Patricia Guerrero, National Dance Award winner, and Alejandro Hurtado, Bordón Minero from Cante de Las Minas, are scheduled to perform at the Sala Fundación Unicaja María Cristina.

José Miguel Moreno (1955), a leading artist in the performance on historical plucked string instruments, will perform on the 13th at the Patio de Surtidores of La Alcazaba. Sohta Nakabayashi, winner of more than 20 international awards, will perform the following day at the Centro Cultural Fundación Unicaja de Málaga.

On September 18th, it will be Joni Jiménez's turn, who last year won the 'Bordón Minero' guitar prize at the Cante de Las Minas Contest. In this concert, the singer Antonio Reyes will be heard. It will take place at the Sala Fundación Unicaja María Cristina.

Álvaro Toscano, with more than 20 international awards, will offer a program called 'From Albéniz to Manuel Quiroga'. It will be at the Patio de Surtidores of La Alcazaba on September 19th. On September 20th, the Sala Fundación Unicaja María Cristina will host the Plectrum Orchestra of Córdoba, which consists of about thirty young musicians. The flamenco guitar of Paco Serrano will perform as a soloist in a special program of this festival that, in addition to flamenco, will play the pasodoble and tango. Soprano Nerea Elorriaga will perform as a guest artist.

The following day, Igor Klokov, one of the rising stars of Spanish guitar worldwide, will offer a concert in the same venue. The Madrid Guitar Orchestra will also perform on this stage on September 25th.

Guitarist Fernando Espí will give his concert at the Patio de Surtidores of La Alcazaba in Málaga on September 26th.

The singer Segundo Falcón, accompanied by the guitars of masters Manolo Franco and Paco Jarana, and the dancer from Málaga Luisa Palicio, as a guest artist, will perform on September 27th at the Sala Fundación Unicaja María Cristina. Ozberk Miraç will give a performance on this stage on September 28th.

The festival concludes its program with the celebration of the Centenary of 'El Amor Brujo' by Manuel de Falla. Singer Esperanza Fernández will be the soloist for this piece. Finally, the artist Pepe Romero, to whom this festival is dedicated, will offer the Málaga Concert. In the concert, he will be accompanied by Jakob Romero Kressin, who is the son of Angelina Romero, pianist and daughter of Pepe Romero. The tenor performs, for the first time, in the land of his grandfather and great-grandfather with a selection of opera and zarzuela arias for tenor. The recital will be directed by maestro José María Moreno and accompanied by the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra. This closing concert will take place at the Teatro Cervantes on September 30th at 8:00 PM. Tickets will be available through mientrada.net and unientradas.es

Promotion of the Spanish Guitar

The festival is organized and promoted by the European Guitar Foundation, led by concert artist and cultural manager Vicente Coves Merino. The European Guitar Foundation, with 12 years of work promoting the Spanish guitar, is responsible for the International Guitar Festival of Granada, with nine editions, the Antonio Marín International Guitar Building Contest, with eight editions, and the Joaquín Rodrigo Festival Madrid, starting in October this year.

Main sponsors of the Pepe Romero Guitar Festival are the City of Málaga and the Unicaja Foundation. Other sponsors and collaborators include Málaga Procultura, Teatro Cervantes, Alhambra Guitars Foundation, Royal Classics Strings, Pepe Romero Strings, Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Guitar Salon International from Santa Monica, Zenit Hotels, Visesnut Cases from Thailand, and Juan Barcelona Lawyers Associates, among others.