On Saturday, June 20 at 7 p.m. at the Oriol Bohigas Auditorium of the Ateneu Barcelonès, Carrer Canuda, 6, Barcelona, the Antonio Gaudí Foundation will present the conference-concert “Gaudí a través de la música” (“Gaudí through music”), by Miguel Sánchez Delgado, with free admission until full capacity is reached.
Born in Seville in 1978, Sánchez Delgado is an art historian, music and history teacher, musical composer, popularizer and multi-instrumentalist. In 1998 he won the award for “Best Musical Composition for a Play” for his contribution to the play “Intrigas con Plautus”, at the Andalusian University Festival. Also in the university field he collaborated with the Department of Music and Didactics of the University of Seville until 2005. His interest in musical composition in an all-encompassing way has borne diverse fruit under a multitude of influences, exploring both cultured music, “Best Andalusian Composer of Contemporary Music, 2007, Ministry of Culture Junta de Andalucía”, and popular, being in this genre also awarded on several occasions, highlighting the prize awarded by the famous Spanish producer Alejo Stivel in 2005.
Since 2010 he has intensified his teaching work in two leading educational centers in the capital of Seville, the Buen Pastor School, where he will be the Principal Conductor of its Choir between 2012 and 2017 and the San Francisco de Paula International School, through which and in close collaboration with the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville he will develop between 2011 and 2019 the educational program Adopt a Musician. In his work as a performer, the piano stands out and especially the organ and harmonium. The latter will give him the opportunity to be titular organist of the Third Secular Order of San Pedro de Alcántara in Seville from 2011 to 2022.
In 2021 he began a new path as a disseminator and communicator in collaboration with the historian María Teresa Ruiz Barrera: “The artistic and musical legacy of the reign of Ferdinand III”. In this field, his latest proposal and on the occasion of the centenary of the death of the architect of the Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudí, is this conference-concert.
In it, on the margins of the map of diverse visions of Gaudí, Miguel Sánchez Delgado places his gaze and attention on an aspect that is not so often underlined and explored, such as the absolute and fundamental presence of music both in his life and in the very conception of his Architecture. Under this gaze and through a selective account of some aspects of his life and work, those attending this conference-concert will be able to enjoy an artistic and musical journey that will be complemented with the interpretation of several pieces that illustrate the figure of a Gaudí who has not been so well known until now.