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The organist from the Ávila Cathedral will give the next Sol Mayor Organ Concert in Marbella

The Friends of the Sol Mayor Organ Association and the Fuerte Foundation have organised a concert to be given by the organist Francisco Javier López García. The recital will take place on the 19th of September in the Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación in Marbella at 9 p.m.

The organist will open the recital with a piece by Pablo Bruna “Tiento de ge sol re ut sobre la Letanía de la Virgen”. He will continue by playing Johann Christoph Pachelbel’s “Chaconne in F minor” before moving on to three pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach: “Fantasy and fugue in G minor BWV 542”, “Coral Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645” and “Prelude and fugue in C major, BWV 545”. To round off the recital, the organist will play his interpretation of Théodore Dubois’s “In Paradisum”, Tomás Garbizu’s “Secuencia sobre Victimae Paschale Laudes” and Jehan Alain’s “Litanies”.

Francisco Javier López Gacia is the chief organist at the Ávila Cathedral, a guest organist at Madrid’s Almudena Cathedral and a Specialist Music Education Maestro. He has given concerts in cathedrals in Rome, Assisi, Astorga, Oporto and Cuidad Rodrigo, as well as several series of organ music concerts: “Jovenes en concierto” (Young people in concert), “El sonido vivo" (The living sound) and “Ciclos vespertinos de Las Edades de Hombre” (A series of evening concerts from the Ages of Man). Besides his extensive musical training in the Ávila Conservatory and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, López Garcia has also worked with several choirs, such as the Ágora Choir and the Santa Gregorian Choir, as well as soloists from RTVE.

To all this has to be added his experience with accompanying soloists like Azucena López, Blanca Gómez, Sara Matarranz and the baritone Miguel Viñe. He has also accompanied the trumpeter Oscar Gonzalo Grande Pombo in a recording of historical music played on the Barco de Ávila organ.

The Friends of the Sol Mayor Organ Association

The aim of the Friends of the Sol Organ Association is to study the historical, technical and artistic aspects of the Sol Mayor Organ, as well as to collaborate with its restoration, conservation and improvement. By doing this, they aim to promote musical culture in the school environment and to generate the interests of children in this instrument.

In the year 2006, the Fuerte Foundation, presided over by Isabel García Bardón, took over the restoration work on the organ at the Church of La Encarnación and put the organ expert Albert Blancafort in charge of recuperating all of its sound characteristics, which had been lost during the course of time.

The El Fuerte Group

The El Fuerte Group currently has several business divisions: the hotels division which owns six hotels in Spain, located in Marbella, Conil, Grazalema and El Rompido, the property division which owns the Calaceite residential complex in Torrox, and the agricultural division, which owns a farm in Estepa (Seville). The Interior design studio EID and the Fuerte Foundation also belong to the El Fuerte Group. The objective of the Fuerte Foundation is to collaborate with finding solutions to problems in the social environment.

Its dynamism and strength are reflected in the hotel division, with the forthcoming opening of a five star hotel complex in Jamaica; the opening in 2011 of the All Suites Hotel Fuerte La Herradura in Almuñecar; and planned expansion through the operation and management of independent establishments.

The El Fuerte Group is noted for its concern for excellence in tourism, care for the environment, constant innovation, continuous staff training and commitment to social and cultural development in its surroundings.