AureoHerrero.org
Title
Asociación Cultural Áureo Herrero
Description
Sitio web dedicado al músico Áureo Herrero, discípulo de Andres Segovia. Conciertos, conferencias y clases de guitarra.
Languages
español (Spanish) ingles (English)
Contact
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- El Barraco Avila
- ES 01200
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- +34.626089669
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Biography
He was born in 1904. His father, a professional musician, inculcated him his love to music and when he was six years old he played melodies on the piano, the bandurria and the guitar. At the lutheria Santos Hernandez he met the best guitar players and bow instrumentalists of that moment. He was introduced to a double bass teacher of the Teatro Real Orchestra who offered himself to give him classes. He learned very fast and after one year he already worked in the Price Theatre Orchestra. He started his training to join the Conservatory.
He studied harmony, counterpoint and finished the career of double bass studying with the most prestigious teachers of the moment. He met Andres Segovia, who taught him and some years later, sent him the students he could not teach himself because of his artistic commitments. In this way, Aureo Herrero became his most direct and genuine continuator. He was a member of the Arbós Orchestra of Madrid where he met important celebrities of symphonic music as Arbos himself, Spiteri, Argenta, Conrado del Campo, Caseaux and where he became used to orchestral repertory during tours all around Spain and abroad. He met and got in touch with well known guitar players, Alirio Diaz, Narciso Yepes, Leo Brouwer y Regino Sainz de la Maza; Aureo Herrero stood in for him some times at the Conservatory. He was a teacher at the North American School for several years; director of Spanish Instruments and guitar player at the orchestra of Columbia record company.
The Spanish Civil War obliged him to make a long break but 15 days after the war finished he was already a member of a new group: the Orquesta de España.
He retired. He received some students at his home, composed and adapted for guitar pieces of famous composers. The Ministry of Culture authorized him to choose and bring to Madrid choirs, plucked string orchestras and folklore groups. He travelled all around Spain for eight years and selected choirs from Santander, Zumaya. He has prepared some generations of concert performers (Marcus Llerena, Antonio Dominguez, Theodor Norman, etc.) and important pedagogues.
He died in 1995. Concerts in honor of Aureo Herrero
For the last 12 years, an annual series of concerts has been celebrated in honor of the great musician, pedagogue and composer Aureo Herrero, in his native village, El Barraco (Avila). In these concerts, celebrated during August and September, guitar players who were students of Aureo met with other young performers from different Spanish provinces and abroad in order to share during some dearly evenings the feeling of respect for the music and in particular for the guitar of Aureo Herrero’s legacy. As time goes on the public from El Barraco and from other villages of Avila and Madrid, comes to these concerts with more enthusiasm. Now it has become a cultural event of first class expected with impatience by the music lovers with a great social reaching in the whole province of Avila.
Although the guitar is the main instrument in these concerts, as it was the instrument Aureo Herrero dedicates most of his teaching efforts to, it is our desire to hold, together with the guitar, other instruments to let the audience know the very interesting possibilities the guitar has inside chamber music. With all this, both the public and the artist benefit and a musical and concert activity is promoted, something not very common but necessary for the vocational training of our young students in conservatories and municipal music schools.
Regarding this philosophy of searching the participation of different instruments together with the guitar and joining an experienced performer with the originality of young musicians who are starting their careers, the public from El Barraco has had the chance to listen together with the solo guitar (Pedro Martín, Enrique Sanz, Ricardo Pérez, Javier Maíz, Carlos Díaz, Antonio Domínguez Buitrago, Karim Samah, Avelina Vidal,Pedro Mateo González, Jesús Gutiérrez, Pilar Ríus, Rebeca Cerro, Roberto Morón, Begoña González, Óscar López, Manuel Osorio, Ramiro Morales, Víctor Jiménez, Gema M. Fernández, José Piñeiro, Jorge Viñals, Mario García, Paula García-Saavedra, Tanausu L. Díaz, Eduardo G. Inestal, Alejandro Díaz, Moisés Sánchez,etc.); guitar duos; guitar trios (Trios Ministriles); string quartet (Sarasate Quartet); violin (Celia Sanabria, Paloma Ania, Andrés Ortiz Sauco, Pablo Gutiérrez), alto ( Javier López)); violoncello (José Enrique Bouche, Rocío García de la Cruz, Soledad Arroyo, Mercedes López); bass (José María Arrillaga); percusión (Eduardo Meco); piano (Luis Vallines, Laura García de la Cruz, Pedro Cañada, Laura Ania, Julia Beatriz Rodríguez, José Luis Bernaldo de Quirós, Fernando Villanueva, Eva Malia Gómez, Inmaculada Suárez, José Alberto González, Jorge González, Matteo Dascannio, etc.); tenors (Ricardo Perez Serrano, Miguel Ángel Pato); flute (Sonia Alves); clarinet (Carmen Fernández, Jesús Maroto); groups as Big Band Galapajazz de la Escuela de Música de Galapagar (Madrid), El Grupo Avila-Pulso y Púa, Rondalla of El Barraco and Municipal Music Band of El Barraco, and directors: Julio Somoza, Juan Carlos de la Fuente, Pedro Sáez, Elena Berrón, Juan Carlos Yera y Enrique Filiu.
The city council of El Barraco (Avila) has organized and subsidized these musical activities from its first edition in 1995, year of Aureo Herrero’s death. After, the Social and Cultural Work of Caja de Ahorros de Avila incorporated actively to the project, as well as the Culture and Tourism Council of Castilla y Leon.
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