Ignacio Prego
February 10, 2023
5:00 PM
Chevy Chase, DC
Le Rossignol en Amour (The Nightingale in Love)
Ignacio Prego, Harpsichord
A Valentine’s concert followed by an intimate catered dinner by candlelight.
Biography
Described as one of the most important Spanish harpsichordists of his generation, Ignacio Prego has established an intense performing career on both sides of the Atlantic, with concerts at the most important cities in North America, Asia, and in the vast majority of countries in Europe and South America, including venues such as the Alice Tully Hall-Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection in New York, the National Gallery in Washington DC, the Benaroya Hall in Seattle, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Esplanade in Singapore, the Palacio de Euskalduna in Bilbao or Teatro del Canal and the National Auditorium in Madrid; and early festivals such as the ones in Berkeley, Boston, Seville (FeMAS), Vancouver, Chiquitos, Santander International Festival and FIAS, among others. 2022/23 engagements include debuts as a solo player or directing his ensemble Tiento Nuovo at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Santander International Festival, BBVA Foundation, Barcelona Auditori, etc Tiento Nuovo, based in Madrid, has been recently awarded with the DIAPASON D'OR for his latest recording Charles Avison: Concerti Grossi (Glossa 21 ́). As soloist, he has also recorded with great acclaim for Glossa, Verso and Cantus labels, including Bach ́s Goldberg Variations, Partitas & English Suite and the Complete French Suites, among others.
In February of 2022 he made his debut as conductor with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, performing with them a few days later Francis Poulenc's Concert Champêtre at the Bilbao Musika-Musica Festival. He regularly collaborates with musicians such as Carlos Mena, Monica Huggett, Steven Isserlis, Nic McGegan, Harry Bicket, Nuria Rial, Hiro Kurosaki, and Maurice Steger, among others, and ensembles such as Philharmonia Baroque or La Ritirata, including performances as a soloist with The English Concert in New York and the Portland Baroque Orchestra in the Oregon Bach Festival. First Prize winner at the 2012 Westfield International Harpsichord Competition, he has worked as a professor and resident artist at Yale University in the USA, at the Madrid Royal Conservatory of Music and has given master classes at various American Universities, as well as in Costa Rica, Peru, Chile and Spain. Mr. Prego is recipient of the AECI and CajaMadrid Foundation Grants and the 2014 The English Concert-Harry Bicket Fellowship. After graduating with high honors in the Padre Antonio Soler Conservatory in Madrid, he continued his piano studies in the USA with Luiz de Moura Castro and Emile Naoumoff and harpsichord studies with Elisabeth Wright at Indiana University. Later Ignacio joined the Historical Performance program at The Juilliard School in New York, studying with Kenneth Weiss and Richard Egarr, and working closely with visiting artists such as Beatrice Martin, Jordi Savall, Masaaki Suzuki, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Monica Huggett.
PROGRAM
French Suite No. 4 in Eb Major, BWV. 815
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte
Air
Menuet
Gigue
From Pièces de Clavessin (1724)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Allemande
Gigue en Rondeau
From Quatorziéme Ordre
François Couperin (1668-1733)
Le Rossignol en amour
Suite in D Major
Louis Couperin (1626-1661)
Prélude (non mesuré)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gaillarde
Chaconne
French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817
J. S. Bach
Prélude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte
Menuet polonais
Bourrée
Gigue