Josep Vicent Giner and the Choral Group close this Saturday the XI Benidorm International Organ Festival

The XI Benidorm International Organ Festival comes to an end this weekend with a Special Christmas Concert that will be performed by organist Josep Vicent Giner and  Benidorm Choral Group. The Councilor for Culture of Benidorm City Council has highlighted that, in this way, “we put the best finishing touch to a new edition of this International Organ Festival, which has become a benchmark in this musical speciality.”

The concert will take place this Saturday, December 16, in the parish church of San Jaime and Santa Ana and will begin at 8 p.m. Jaime Jesús Pérez recalled that entry is free, subject to capacity.

Born in Dénia, Josep Vicent Giner studied music with teachers Rynko Ottes, Javier Artigas, Josep Mª Mas i Bonet and Michael Radulescu, finishing his higher education with the highest grades and obtaining the extraordinary end-of-degree prize, the degree academic "Magister Artium" from the University of Vienna, with the qualification of cum laude, and the award for Artistic Merit from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Culture. Likewise, he was awarded the silver medal from the Jaime II el Justo Foundation.

This organist regularly offers concerts of Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, chamber and contemporary music, both in the Iberian Peninsula and in other European countries. He has performed on concert tours with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and orchestras from Galicia and Andorra. He is a promoter and artistic director of different festivals on the Costa Blanca; as well as vice director and organ teacher of the Professional Conservatory of Music of Valencia.

In this Saturday's recital, he will be accompanied by Benidorm Choral Group, an entity born in 1981 as a popular initiative with the sponsorship of the Benidorm City Council. He has performed throughout Spain and also in several European countries. He has acted for TVE, TV3 de Catalunya, and RAI.

He was invited to Salzburg Mozart Festival on the occasion of the 250th anniversary, and in September 2007, he premiered Ricardo Llorca's monodrama Las horas vacías en la Catedral Berlin, which premiered in 2006 in the Church of San Jaime in Benidorm.

He has a rich repertoire of classical choral music, from the 20th century to the polyphonists from the Gregorian to Perosi. Among other works in the history of music, he has sung Vivaldi's Gloria, Handel's Messiah, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, Fauré's Requiem, and Mass in C Major by Beethoven or the Missa Solemnis K. 139 by Mozart. Since 1996 he has contributed to the dissemination of choral music in Benidorm, promoting the creation of school choirs in the city's educational centers. Its director is Professor Ramón Lorente.

Regarding the repertoire of the concert that they will offer to close this International Organ Festival, it includes works by L. Claude Daquin, J.S Bach, P. I. Tchaikovsky, Claude Balbastre, Francis Poulenc or A. Vivaldi.