The OSIB will premiere the work ‘Fantasía sobre La Atlántida’ by the Mallorcan composer Mercè Pons with the participation of the Coro Studium.
Nil Venditti will conduct the season concert.
On the 27th of March 2025, at 8 pm, in the Auditorium of Palma, the Orquesta Sinfónica Illes Balears will offer the eighth concert of the season. In this case, the audience will be able to enjoy the Ibizan flautist Rafael Adobas who will perform Jacques Ibert’s concerto for flute and orchestra and the premiere of the work ‘Fantasía sobre la Atlántida’ (Fantasy on Atlantis) by the Mallorcan composer Mercè Pons. The programme, conducted by Nil Venditti, will be completed with Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4. Tickets are already on sale and can be purchased on the Symphony’s website.
The concert will begin with the premiere of ‘Fantasía sobre la Atlántida’ by Mercè Pons, featuring the Coro Studium and narration by Francisco de Asis Segura. A six-part work based on Jacinto Verdaguer’s Atlantis inspired by Plato’s philosophy.
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Ibizan flautist Rafael Adobas soloist in the Symphony Orchestra’s eighth-season concert
Rafael Adobas will be the solo flautist who will perform one of the most complex and virtuosic works, Ibert’s Concerto for flute and orchestra. Composed in 1932, it combines impressionist and neoclassical influences. Born in Ibiza, Rafael Adobas began his flute studies at the age of eight at the Ibiza Conservatory, with Joana Moragues. He also studied with Anikó Pusztai and Vicens Prats, who spurred his passion for music, at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña. His enthusiasm and determination to learn led him to study at the Musikhochschule in Munich, and to work with professors Andrea Lieberknecht and Natalie Schwaabe (piccolo) and Marion Treupel-Franck (baroque flute).
Adobas won 3rd Prize and 1st Prize for Best Performance of a commissioned piece at the International Competition ‘Carl Nielsen’, and has appeared as soloist with the Odense Symphony Orchestra and the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra at the Odense Koncerthus. He has also performed with the Münchner Kammerorchester at the Isarphilharmonie, with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock at the Audi Zentrum Rostock and with the Webern Kammerphilharmonie at the Baden Congress Centre, recorded by the Austrian radio ORF as part of the ‘Licht ins Dunkel’ Festival.
The concert will end with Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, also known as the Inextinguishable. One of the Danish composer’s most important works composed between 1914 and 1916 during the First World War, it reflects struggle, resilience and life.