Arrives in Madrid another option (more) to enjoy music without excuses. The second edition of ‘Piano City Madrid’ kicks off on Friday, April 21 in the Madrid capital to offer more than 55 concerts over three days, in different parts of the city. In them you can listen to Spanish and foreign artists completely free of charge: there are up to 50 pianists who participate in this tribute to music spread all over Madrid, to bring their sweet melodies to the ears of the citizens of the capital.

For the second consecutive year, on April 21, 22 and 23, Madrid is once again filled with free concerts up to nine different locations in the city. The idea of ​​celebrating this “great festival of music” presented on Friday by the delegate of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Andrea Levi, was born with the purpose of taking culture, specifically music, to the street; a proposal devised by the organizer of this project ‘Piano City‘, andreas kernwith an international presence in cities such as Berlin, Milan or New York, and which has had a place in the capital of Madrid for just over a year.

During three days, half a hundred young performers and experienced are protagonists of 55 concerts in the city, to which are added three surprise recitals, which take place in the central Cuesta de Moyano. In these concerts you can listen to all kinds of music, from classical melodies to jazzgoing through electronics, ‘new age’ and even national styles such as Flemish. Among the musicians you can listen to María Parra and Lucía Rey, Álex Conde or Sira Hernández and other internationals such as Claudio Constantini, the Italian Andrea Baccheti or the German Lisa Morgenstern. All of them, selected following the criteria of artistic quality and gender equality, and coming from various styles of music, by TopArtEspaña and the pianist Rosa Torres-Pardoas reported by the Madrid City Council in a statement.

Where are the piano concerts in Madrid?

This event concentrates in nine specific places up to 58 concerts that will be given completely free of charge. During this year, in addition, there is a Tribute to the teacher and jazz musician Bebo Valdésaccording to Servimedia, the mythical Cuban musician who died in 2013. These are the places where the concerts will be given:

  • The Goethe Institute (C. de Zurbarán, 21): includes 5 concerts.
  • Count Duke (C. del Conde Duque, 11): with up to 7 concerts.
  • Madrid History Museum (C.de Fuencarral, 78): will give 6 concerts.
  • center center (Plaza de Cibeles, 1A): includes 11 concerts.
  • Ateneo de Madrid (C.del Prado, 21): with 3 concerts.
  • Belgian sawmill (C. de la Alameda, 15): gives 8 concerts.
  • Moyano slope (C. Claudio Moyano): with 3 concerts.
  • Arganzuela greenhouse (P.ª de la Chopera, 10): it has up to 8 concerts.
  • Madrid slaughterhouse (Pl. de Legazpi): with up to 8 concerts.

Piano recitals in Madrid, day by day

Most of the concerts take place on Saturday, April 22, although there are already some that you can attend on Friday afternoon:

Concerts at CentroCentro on Friday, April 21:

  • 18:30: Fabio Giachino, ‘Balancing Dreams’.
  • 7:45 p.m.: Martin Listabarth, ‘dedicated‘.
  • 21:00: María Parra, ‘Piano and nature’.

He center center is a public center of culture and leisure that is located in the famous Cibeles Palace, very representative building of the city of Madrid. Numerous exhibitions have passed through here, including ‘Sorry, I’m talking’ or ‘Everything else’, which are currently on display.

Piano concerts on Saturday April 22

  • 11:00-13:00: Surprise matinee (3 concerts)
  • 11:30 a.m.: Mateusz Mikolajczak, ‘Pilgrimage… Petrarch arrives’ – History Museum of Madrid
  • 13:00: Alejandro Domínguez Aparicio, ‘Dancing joyfully, with melancholy (by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Granados) – History Museum of Madrid
  • 4:30 p.m.: Sara Muñoz, ‘Cheers up’ – Belgian Sawmill
  • 4:30 p.m.: Galisteo/Del Pozo piano duo, ‘A young virtuoso among counts and countesses’ (by Beethoven) – Goethe Institut Madrid
  • five pm: Tsisana Kikabidze, ‘Two sonatas and a nocturne’ (by Mozart, Chopin, Prokofiev) – Matadero Madrid
  • five pm: Abe Rábade, ‘Steam piano’ – CentroCentro
  • 17:30: Alfredo Ovalles, ‘I want to sing, but I don’t know any song’ – Goethe Institut Madrid
  • 17:30: Pianistic duo H. Suárez Jiménez/N. Flores Bermejo, ‘Sunset in Spain’ – History Museum of Madrid
  • 17:30: Pianistic duo P. López Jiménez/M. Martínez Ferrero, ‘Romantic Variations’ (by Beethoven and Schumann) – Invernadero de Arganzuela
  • 17:45: Marta Cascales, ‘Journey and subtlety’ – Serrería Belga
  • 18:00: Javier Herguera, ‘Evocations of Spain’ – Ateneo de Madrid
  • 18:15: Caramelo de Cuba, ‘Bebo’s piano (I) – CondeDuque
  • 18:15: Laura Andrés, ‘Kintsugi’ – CentroCentro
  • 18:15: Edoardo Riganti Fulginei, ‘The Farewells and the Funeral March’ (by Beethoven, Chopin and Scriabin) – Invernadero de Arganzuela
  • 18:30: Lucía Rey, ‘Amalgama’ – Matadero Madrid
  • 18:30: Francisco Fierro, ‘With the classics… improvising!’ – Goethe Institute Madrid
  • 7:00 p.m.: Alejandro Pelayo, ‘On the skin’ – Serrería Belga
  • 7:30 p.m.: Luís Guerra, ‘Bebo’s piano (II) – CondeDuque
  • 7:30 p.m.: Alfredo Ovalles, ‘Dancing with Lenny and Johann Sebastian – Goethe Institut Madrid
  • 7:30 p.m.: Danilo Rea, ‘Improvising with Danilo (I) – CentroCentro
  • 7:30 p.m.: Greta Maria Lobefaro, ‘From Naples to Vienna’ (by Scarlatti, Chopin and Berg) – Arganzuela Greenhouse
  • 20:00: Fabio Giachino, ‘Limitless Extended’ – Matadero Madrid
  • 20:00: Adriano Koch, ‘Solo and acoustic’ – Serrería Belga
  • 20:30: Lisa Morgenstern, ‘Piano and voice’ – Goethe Institut Madrid
  • 20:30: Sira Hernández, ‘Tre impressioni sulla Divina Commedia’ – Ateneo de Madrid
  • 20:45: Álex Conde, ‘Bebo’s piano (III) – CondeDuque
  • 20:45: Claudio Constantini, ‘Talent works, genius creates’ (by Bach and Schumann) – Invernadero de Arganzuela
  • 21:00: Danilo Rea, ‘Improvising with Danilo (II) – CentroCentro

Piano concerts on Sunday April 23

  • 4:00 p.m. Andrea Bacchetti (I), ‘Bach and the Neapolitan school’ – CentroCentro
  • 4:00 p.m. Villemin, ‘Night’ – Belgian Sawmill
  • 4:00 p.m. Alejandro Mateo González, ‘Mozart and the Carnival’ – History Museum of Madrid
  • 4:30 p.m.: Laura Ballestrino, ‘Labyrinth of Silences’ – CondeDuque
  • five pm: Kirill Zheleznov, ‘Dante and a Fantasy’ (by Schumann and Liszt) – Matadero Madrid
  • five pm: Daumants Liepins, ‘Music for Two Seasons’ (by Vasks, Ligeti and Brahms) – Invernadero de Arganzuela
  • 17:15: Sonya Zholobova, ‘Margarita and the Cathedral’ – Museum of History of Madrid
  • 17:30: Laura Sierra, ‘La rotonda project’ – CentroCentro
  • 17:30: Mario Fierro, ‘Landscapes, dances and longings’ – CondeDuque
  • 17:45: Ricardo Curto, ‘Neo Elegy’ – Belgian Sawmill
  • 18:15: Marta Menezes, ‘Soler, Beethoven, Vianna da Motta and Liszt’ – Arganzuela Greenhouse
  • 18:30: Olivia Figueras, ‘The Woman at the Piano’ (by Schumann, Chaminade and Beach) – Matadero Madrid
  • 18:45: Cristina Mora (voice) and Lucía Rey (piano) – CondeDuque
  • 18:45: Rafael Kyrychenko, ‘A walk among the paintings’ – Museum of History of Madrid
  • 7:00 p.m.: Andrea Bacchetti (II), ‘Between Mozart and Berio, through Oscar Peterson’ – CentroCentro
  • 7:00 p.m.: Pau Corea, ‘Pau Corea’ – Belgian Sawmill
  • 7:30 p.m.: José Ramón García, ‘The concert waltz and other dances’ – Invernadero de Arganzuela
  • 20:00: Sebastian Brown, ‘Bach, our contemporary’ (by Bach, Hess and Rachmaninov) – Matadero Madrid
  • 20:00: Andrés Barrios, ‘South of jazz’ – CondeDuque
  • 20:00: Rosa Torres-Pardo, ‘A night between Granada and Seville’ – Ateneo de Madrid
  • 20:15: Álex Aller, ‘Explorations’ – Belgian Sawmill
  • 20:30: Júlio Resende, ‘Fado & further’ – CentroCentro
  • 20:45: Susana Gómez, ‘Dancing the 20th century’ – Invernadero de Arganzuela
  • 21:00: Ilaria Cavalleri, ‘Water Games… in Autumn’ (by Liszt, Ligeti, Gubdaidulina, Filidei and Mendelssohn) – Matadero Madrid