Joven Orquesta de Winchester

On Saturday 17 October, the youth orchestra from Winchester, United Kingdom, gives a single concert in Madrid, specifically at the Parish of Santa Cruz, as part of its tour of several Spanish cities. It will be their first concert in Spain.

With a choral tradition spanning 600 years, music is one of the fundamental pillars of Winchester College. Hundreds of students receive training on 25 different instruments under the guidance of specialist teachers. The college's musical activity brings together 18 instrumental ensembles, 10 choirs and hundreds of individual lessons each week, forming a unique artistic ecosystem that ranges from classical and choral music to jazz and rock.

The English ensemble arrives with a brass group, a chamber orchestra and the symphonic ensemble; and under the direction of the Madrid-born artist Rafael López Bolívar, it will perform works by Arthur Bliss, Astor Piazzolla, Edvard Grieg, Franz Schubert and Igor Stravinsky.