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February 2022

The escuela de violeros of Zaragoza completes seven courses training luthiers
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Finalist in the last National Craft Award, this Tuesday he stars in a conference-concert in the Galve room of the Auditorium

Javier Martínez (Guadalaviar, Teruel, 1959), renowned instrument maker and director of the Violería School of Zaragoza.

The school has started its seventh year fully recovered from the pandemic (maintaining the logical prevention measures) and receiving praise at a national and international level. If in 2020 the legacy of the Aragonese violería was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, a few months ago it received the I Zaragoza Philharmonic Society Award and was a finalist for the National Crafts Award; They have also included him in a Cultural Interest, at the proposal of a project promoted by the Florence City Council. This Tuesday he will star in a concert conference in the Luis Galve room of the Zaragoza Auditorium (7:30 pm), within the program of the Philharmonic Society.

Viola player from Zaragoza, Miguel Bonal, will perform various musical pieces, and Javier Martínez, author of studies such as ‘Arte de violaría en la Zaragoza del Renacimiento’, will speak about the instrument makers in the Aragonese capital, a topic that he has been researching for decades but has not yet It has permeated many music fans. Hence the invitation of the Philharmonic Society to explain his discoveries.

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Source: Herald of Aragon 02.22.2022