Welcome
Welcome to the fourth edition of the International Music Festival of Navarra (FIMNa, which brings together professional musicians from all over the world for a week of playing and sharing music in a place of great beauty, Eugi, in the Esteríbar Valley, Navarra (Spain).
FIMNa’s programme for this year will be an exciting mix of concerts, music workshops for children, and other cultural events. We are very happy to return to Eugi this summer to perform for the people of Navarra and –thanks to our cross-border collaboration with the Festival Basse Navarre in Southern France- the people of Lower Navarre. We continue to strive towards broadening our audience and involving as many people as possible from the local community in the creative process of making music.
Our programme will encompass music of many different styles and periods, from chamber music by Mozart to works composed this year which will be premiered at FIMNa, with the characteristic tone of the bandoneon playing tangos by Piazzolla, the clarinet echoing sounds from the jewish Klezmer tradition, or the fresh sound of a contemporary style of music which fusions classical and folk traditions.
FIMNa always reserves an important space for new music and this year we are proud to announce first world performances of pieces written by Agustín Castilla-Ávila and Mihalis Moshoutis as well as the Spanish or French premieres of works by Haukur Tómasson, Eduardo Morales-Caso, Salvador Brotons and Octavio Vázquez. Also, after the great success of our educational programme FIMNa in the Community 2010, the children of Eugi and the Esteribar Valley will this summer, once again, perform in the final concert of the festival together with the professional musicians of FIMNa. They will sing a new piece, Soundscapes of the Pyrenees, which will be composed by the children during the Festival with the help of English composer John Barber.
We invite you to join us in this, the fourth year of our musical adventure, which we will continue to share with artists from all over the World, exploring corners of the past, present and future of our common culture, that of all human beings.
The Directors of FIMNA are grateful to the Concejo de Eugi (Council of Eugi) for their participation in this project; for their support and collaboration in helping to make FIMNa possible. If you would like to join us in our venture to bring music to everyone, we invite you to become a Friend of FIMNa.
Elena and Francisco Javier Jáuregui
Festival Directors
For the fourth consecutive year, the Concejo de Eugi (Council of Eugi) will host and organise the International Music Festival of Navarre (FIMNa), which will take place in Eugi, with concerts also in Zubiri and Bidarray (France).
For several days, we will promote classical music and try to explore new ways of treating, expressing and portraying music, with the active participation of children who will be the protagonists of the Festival.
On the other hand, we would like FIMNa to contribute towards the objectives of cross-border cooperation that the Council has set and which are the core of important projects which try to promote the historical heritage of Eugi (Royal Arms Factory and Ironworks) and Banka (old smelting factory).
The Comisión de Trabajo de los Pirineos has declared 2011 “year of the Pyrenees” and the Festival has wanted to take part in this celebration in different ways.
It is our hope that the proposed programme, elaborated by the Festival’s directors in this IV edition, will fulfil all the expectations of a committed audience that has since the first year come from different places, showing great interest and enthusiasm.
We appreciate the work, effort and dedication of all those people, businesses and other institutions, which help to make this Festival a reality.
Concejo de Eugi (Council of Eugi)
