The concert is at 8:00 p.m. in the church of San Jaime and Santa Ana
The Japanese Yuzuru Hiranaka plays a concert today Friday on the occasion of the X International Organ Festival
The church of San Jaime and Santa Ana will host today, Friday 25, the second date of the X International Organ Festival of Benidorm, organized by the Department of Culture, whose protagonist will be the Japanese musician Yuzuru Hiranaka, winner of several international awards and professor at the Real Danish Academy of Music.
The concert, like the rest of those that make up the Festival calendar, takes place at 8:00 p.m.
Hiranaka studied organ, harpsichord and sacred music in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Arnhem, The Hague, Freiburg and Copenhagen and has made recordings for various television and radio networks. In Japan, he received the diploma of honour for the television program he made for the Tokyo Broadcasting Service and since 1994 he works as an organist in the Danish state church.
After Hiranaka's concert, the next event will take place on April 29, which will be the first of the new proposals of the Festival, with the organist Mónica Melcova, who will improvise melodies on the organ while the silent film 'The Charlie Chaplin's Kid.
The second innovation will arrive on May 27, with Teleman Trio that will offer an organ, trumpet and soprano concert.
After the summer break, Benidorm International Organ Festival will return on October 28, in which the instrumental combination of the clarinet by Miriam Cepeda and Luis Alberto Requejo will be heard for the first time in the contest.
On November 25, the public will enjoy an organ and four saxophone concerts, which will be shared by Enrico Tricario with the Lumina Ensemble. Another innovative proposal will close the cycle on December 17: the narration of the symphonic composition 'Pedro y el Lobo' by Prokoieff in the voice of the actress Gurutze Beitia together with a four-handed organ performance, all of them with a theatre of Chinese shadows.
The Councilor for Culture has invited "music lovers to enjoy a new edition of this Festival, which comes with renewed proposals but maintaining the high quality that has characterized it since its creation" while encouraging "citizens to discover a unique event”.