1983 1986 1988 1991 1996 200019941992

Creation of the Princess of Asturias

Foundation’s Music

Department and Choir

Presentation in Washington D.C. at the headquarters of

the Organization of American States

Extraordinary concert at the Teatro Real, Madrid, to mark the coming of

age of HRH The Prince of

Asturias

Creation of the Youth Choir

First concert by the Children’s

Choir —

Presentation of the Choir at the

Grand Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonia

and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory

First Princess

of Asturias Awards Concert

Presentation at the Queen Elizabeth

Hall, London, alongside the

English Chamber Orchestra

Debut at the Golda Meir

Center, Tel Aviv (Israel)

98members

539concerts

+ 500,000since their creation people

Live audience

The information contained in this brochure is current as of April 2019

TOTAL NUMBER OF CONCERTS BY THE FOUNDATION’S CHOIRS 1,127

3001VOICES HAVE SUNG IN THE CHOIRS SINCE THEIR CREATION

2003 2006 2007 20082004

Debut at the Lincoln Center

(Avery Fisher Hall) and St Patrick’s

Cathedral, New York

Italian conductor Alberto Zedda conducts the Choir in Rossini’s Stabat Mater

— Debut in the Sala São Paulo, Brazil,

alongside the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra

The Choir performs

Symphony No. 8 by Krzysztof

Penderecki, 2001 Prince of Asturias

Laureate for the Arts

Concert by the Choir at

the European Parliament in

Brussels—

The Choir sings at the

marriage of TRH The Prince and Princess of

Asturias

30

Laureates for the Arts

1981 Jesús López Cobos

1984 Orfeón Donostiarra

2001 Krzysztof Penderecki

2008 National Network of Youth and Children’s

Orchestras of Venezuela

2011 Riccardo Muti

NUMBER OF CONCERTS IN WHICH THE CHOIR HAS

PERFORMED

who have performed with the Choir

Extraordinary acknowledgement of the Choir by the

European Parliament

December 2007

for its outstanding services to the

European Union61

English Chamber Orchestra

Oviedo Filarmonía

The Moscow Virtuosi

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra

Galicia Symphony Orchestra

National Youth Orchestra of Spain

Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela

Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra

São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra

Brno Opera Orchestra

Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, St Petersburg

National Autonomous University of Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra

2010 2011 2012 2015 2018

Debut at the Belém Cultural Centre, Lisbon

(Portugal) —

The Choir performs

Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

Presentation of the Choir at the Festival of Sacred Music

in Bogotá

First concert by the Choir at the Basilica

of Santa María la Real, Covadonga, on the occasion of the

Royal Site’s centenary celebrations

Debut alongside

the Mariinsky Theatre

Orchestra, Saint

Petersburg, conducted by Valery Gergiev

First joint performance of the three choirs at the 21st Princess

of Asturias Awards Concert

The Choir performs Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor under the

baton of Riccardo Muti, 2011 Prince of Asturias Laureate

for the Arts

Debut at the Nezahualcóyotl Hall, National Autonomous University of

Mexico (2009 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities)

—

* Laureate for the Arts

Yuri Bashmet

Jesús López Cobos

*

Neville Marriner

Vladimir Spivakov

Juanjo Mena

Enrique García Asensio

Maximiano Valdés

Krzysztof Penderecki

*

Jesse Levine

Alberto Zedda

Jonathan Nott

Antoni Ros-Marbá

Valery Gergïev

Riccardo Muti

*Gustavo Dudamel

Friedrich Haider

Pablo González

As part of its endeavours to contribute to fostering culture at its highest levels of expression, the Princess

of Asturias Foundation created a

The Princess of Asturias Foundation is a non-profit private institution whose essential aims are to contribute to extolling and promoting those scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of the universal heritage of humanity and to consolidate the existing links between the Principality of Asturias and the title traditionally held by the heirs to the Crown of Spain.

HM King Felipe VI was Honorary President of the Foundation since its creation in 1980 until his proclamation as King of Spain on 19th June 2014, following which HRH Leonor de Borbón y Ortiz, Princess of Asturias, became the Honorary President of this institution which annually convenes the .

Aimed at rewarding the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions, these awards are granted in eight categories: the Arts, Literature, Social Sciences, Communication and Humanities, Technical and Scientific Research, International Cooperation, Concord and Sports.

The Awards are presented at a solemn ceremony held each year at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo.

in 1983 which was to give rise, one year later, to

the . With the passage of time and thanks to the efforts of its conductors and members, it has

achieved well-deserved national and international prestige and has become one of Europe’s leading

amateur choirs. Until his death in 2018, Jesús López Cobos, 1981 Prince of Asturias Laureate for the

Arts, was joint honorary conductor of the Choir along with Krzysztof Penderecki, who received the same

award in 2001. In December 2007, the European Parliament distinguished the Choir via an extraordinary

acknowledgement “for its outstanding services to the European Union”. The was created in

1988 and the in 1990 as part of the ongoing mission of this initiative to harvest the

traditional love of Asturians for choral music at its highest level through constant educational endeavours.

The three choirs have served as a platform for training hundreds of voices and for keeping alive the close

relationship that Asturias has always had with music.

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Elijah, Op. 70 Mendelssohn

Los Improperies MompouGreat Mass in C minor, KV 427 MozartCoronation Mass, K 317 MozartRequiem Mass in D minor, KV 626 MozartCarmina Burana OrffSymphony No. 8 “Songs of Transience” «Lieder der Vergänglichkeit» Penderecki

Magnificat PergolesiAlexander Nevsky, Op. 78 ProkofievMessa di Gloria PucciniDaphnis et Chloè RavelStabat Mater RossiniMass No. 2 in G major SchubertThe Song of the Forests, Op. 81 Shostakovich

Stabat Mater Szymanovski

Messa da Requiem VerdiMagnificat, RV 610 VivaldiParsifal Wagner

The Passion according to Saint Matthew,

BWV 244 Bach

Symphony No. 9 “Choral” Beethoven

Chichester Psalms Bernstein

German Requiem Brahms

The War Requiem, Op. 66 Britten

Te Deum Bruckner

Requiem in C minor Cherubini

Stabat Mater Dvořák

The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 Elgar

La vida breve Falla

Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 Faurè

St Cecilia Mass Gounod

Coronation anthems Handel

Messiah Handel

The Creation Haydn

Glagolitic Mass Janáček

Faust Symphony Liszt

Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” Mahler

Symphony No. 3 in D minor Mahler

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