Date and time: 15 January 2027, 8.15 pm
Price: €9
Venue: Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar. Entrance via the Fossar de les Moreres door.
Unreserved seating.

Programme:
Antonio de Cabezón (1510–1566)
Variations on “Guárdame las vacas”

Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710)
Variations in G minor

Jürgen Essl (*1961)
Tiento de triple tiple
Capricio sobre la serenita

Andrea Gabrieli (c. 1509–1586)
Canzon francese sopra “Qui la dira”

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Pieces for Musical Clock, Hob. XIX Nos. 2, 13, 18, 2

Georg Böhm (1661–1733)
Variations on the chorale “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten”

Guy Bovet (*1942)
Salamanca

Programme Notes:
A journey through five centuries of organ music, from the Iberian tradition of Antonio de Cabezón to the contemporary musical language of Jürgen Essl and Guy Bovet. The programme brings different European organ traditions into dialogue through variations, canzonas, tientos and pieces of a freer character, featuring works by Pasquini, Gabrieli, Haydn and Böhm. A musical journey revealing the continuity and transformation of organ music over the centuries.

Biography:

Mar Vaqué was born in Tarragona on 18 March 1994. She began studying the piano at the age of seven under the guidance of Elisenda Monné and Natalia Oterino. In 2011, she began studying the organ with Jordi Vergés and Jonatan Carbó.

In 2013, she began her higher education studies in organ performance at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya under the guidance of Oscar Candendo. In 2015, she enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart (Germany), where she completed her organ studies under Jürgen Essl. She furthered her education with a Master’s degree in Organ and studies in Kirchenmusik (church music) under the same professor. In recent years, she has also received guidance from renowned musicians including Juan de la Rubia, Michael Radulescu, Montserrat Torrent, Guido Iotti, François Espinasse, Antonio Duarte, Francesco Cera, Luca Scandali, Olivier Vernet, Jean-Pierre Leguay and Wolfgang Seifen.

Mar has given numerous solo concerts nationally and internationally, performing in Spain, Andorra, France, Germany, Colombia, Italy and Lithuania. A particular highlight was her performance at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 2018. Some of her concerts have been recorded by RNE and SWR Deutschland.

In August 2015, she won first prize at the fourth International Organ Competition commemorating Joseph Gabler, held in Ochsenhausen (Germany). In November 2016, she was awarded joint second prize (ex aequo) at the 86th edition of the Permanent Organ Competition organised by Juventudes Musicales de España.

She is currently an organist, choir director and teacher of organ, improvisation and choral conducting at the parish of St. Johann Baptist in Munich, combining these activities with her career as a concert performer.

Reduced admission: €6. Available to students, large or single-parent families, under-26s and unemployed people. Documentary proof of eligibility for the discount is required.

Tickets can be purchased online by clicking here or at the entrance to the Basilica before each concert.