The Filippo Dalla Casa Collection Pablo Zapico & Daniel Zapico

• Anonymous: Suonata:
• 1Suonata: Andante, G Major03:10
• 2Suonata: Allegro, G Major01:48
• 3Suonata: Allegro, F Major02:18
• Tommaso Martelli (? - 1706):
• 4Aria del Martelli03:48
• Anonymous:
• 5Allegro: F Major03:41
• Lodovico Fontanelli (1682 - 1748): Trio:
• 6Trio: I. Sonata (Andante)02:10
• 7Trio: II. Aria. Allegro01:59
• 8Trio: III. Suo Minuetto01:03
• Anonymous:
• 9Allegro, C Major01:11
• 10Grave, B-Flat Major03:28
• Sinfonia à Solo di Arciliuto:
• 11Sinfonia à Solo di Arciliuto: I. Largo01:27
• 12Sinfonia à Solo di Arciliuto: II. Allegro04:35
• 13Sinfonia à Solo di Arciliuto: III. Largo02:28
• 14Sinfonia à Solo di Arciliuto: IV. Allegro01:00
• Anonymous:
• 15Marchiata del Gordini00:57
• 16Grave, C Minor04:37
• Giuseppe Vaccari: Concerto à Mandolino, è Basso del Arcileuto:
• 17Concerto à Mandolino, è Basso del Arcileuto: I. Allegro04:27
• 18Concerto à Mandolino, è Basso del Arcileuto: II. Andante04:41
• 19Concerto à Mandolino, è Basso del Arcileuto: III. Allegro02:04
• Anonymous:
• 20Grave, A Minor04:45
• 21Suonata: Andante, C Major03:10
• Total Runtime58:47

Info for The Filippo Dalla Casa Collection

The brothers Daniel and Pablo Zapico show their mastery of the plucked string in the context of ancient music.

Daniel and Pablo Zapico are members of Forma Antiqva as well as being resident artists of this edition of the Granada Festival. They rank in a privileged position with regard to historic interpretation and here they offer us Mediterránea, in which they explore the range of differences between Spanish and Italian music of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods.

Daniel Zapico, theorbe
Pablo Zapico, archlute

Pablo Zapico
was born in 1983 in the principality of Asturias in Spain. In 2006, he earned highest honors as he completed his Advanced Studies in Plucked Instruments with Xavier Díaz-Latorre at the Ecola Superior Música de Catalunya (ESMuC) in Barcelona, Spain. The following year he concluded his Formación Continuada studies and, in 2012, earned the degree of Master of Musicology with a specialization in musical training and ancient music from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He has also participated in master classes offered by prestigious performers including Laura M. Pustilnik, Rolf Lislevand, Eduardo Egüez, John Griffiths, Juan Carlos Rivera Pecellin, Juan Carlos de Mulder, Luca Pianca, Toyohiko Satoh, and Hopkinson Smith.

Pablo has performed as a continuo player and soloist in Forma Antiqva, OSPA, Oviedo Filarmonía, El Concierto Español, Estil Concertant, La Real Cámara, La Reverencia, La Ritirata, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Accademia del Piacere, La Hispanoflamenca, Académie Baroque Européenne d’Ambronay, European Union Baroque Orchestra, and the Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, among others.

He has recorded over a dozen albums for labels such as Musifactor, Arsis, Spanish Society of Musicology (SEdeM), Vanitas, and the prestigious Munich, Germany label Winter & Winter. He has also been recorded live for Radio France Musique, BBC, RTVE, and Catalunya Música. Along with his brothers Aarón and Daniel, Pablo was nominated, in 2010, 2011, and 2013, for the prestigious International Classical Music Award (in the category of best baroque music instrumental CD) for his albums Amore x Amore, Concerto Zapico, and Opera Zapico.

He has performed in the most important festivals on the Iberian peninsula and has toured internationally in a number of countries including Brazil, Bolivia, Australia, Singapore, UK, Italy, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Republic of Serbia, Holland, Greece, China, Japan, Peru, Chile, Turkey, Panama, and Colombia.

Pablo has taught master classes at The University of Melbourne (Australia), Le Rocher de Palmer (France), Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music(Singapore), Seminario Internacional de Música Antigua de Albarracín (Spain), Colegio de Educadores de Lima (Peru), Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Chile), Ya?ar Üniversitesi Izmir (Turkey), Universidad de Música de Pánama, the Real Conservatorio Superior de Madrid, and at the Universidad de Oviedo. In May 2008, he was invited to serve as the assistant teacher for continuo players at the seminar Musica nel e dissimulazioni European Seicento led by Pedro Memelsdorff and conducted on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.

During 2008-2010, he taught Renaissance and Baroque era continuo and plucked strings at the CMUS Conservatorio Profesional de Música Manuel Quiroga. He served in the same role at the CMUS Arturo SoriaMadrid from 2011 to 2012. From 2009-present he has been a professor at the Academia de Música Antigua de Gijón (AMAG) and from 2012-present, a professor at the CIEM Federico Moreno Torroba of Madrid.

Pablo Zapico was awarded the distinction of “Asturiano del Mes” by the newspaper La Nueva España, the “Grupo del Año 2010? by the Televisión del Principado de Asturias, the Serondaya Prize for Cultural Innovation in Asturias, and the “Premio de la Música en Asturias” in 2012.

Daniel Zapico
was born in 1983 in Langreo, Asturias (Spain). From an early age, he focused his studies on the field of early music and began to specialise in the theorbo in 1999 at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música in Langreo. He graduated from the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya with the highest grade, alongside fellow musician Xavier Díaz-Latorre. In 2012, he obtained a Master in “Musicología, Educación Musical e Interpretación de la Música Antigua” at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, receiving unanimous praise by the exam board for his project on Robert de Visée.

As a founding member of Forma Antiqva, Daniel has performed in major festivals around the world with the now 20-year-old ensemble, which has been a big hit with both the public and media critics from the music industry. They were awarded "Mejor Grupo de Música Barroca 2018" and "Mejor Producción Discográfica 2018" by GEMA (Association of Spanish Early Music Groups) and recently received the prestigious award for "Mejor Álbum de Música Clásica 2018" in the MIN Awards (Spanish Independent Music Awards) for their CD "Concerto Zapico Vol. 2».

Daniel regularly collaborates with La Ritirata (Josetxu Obregón), winner of "El Ojo Crítico de Música Clásica 2013" and the "Premio de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid 2017"; as well as the Belgian group Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), with which he has played in several of the biggest festivals in the world, such as the White Light Festival in the Lincoln Center in New York and La Folle Journée in Nantes (France), Ekaterimburgo (Russia) and Tokyo (Japan). His close collaboration with Nino Laisné has recently led him to feature in the artist's show "Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando", participating in more than 100 performances over the last three years, most notably the Festival d’Avignon and the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, the most important festival and theatre in France, respectively. During 2020, this show will be touring around Australia, Asia and Canada.

Daniel Zapico also plays alongside other important figures in the music industry such as Leonardo García Alarcón (Cappella Mediterranea), Fahmi Alqhai (Accademia del Piacere), Benjamin Bayl (Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra), Attilio Cremonesi (Orquesta del Gran Teatro La Fenice), Andrea De Carlo (Ensemble Mare Nostrum), Maxim Emelyanychev (Il Pomo d’Oro), Gabriel Garrido, Riccardo Muti, Christina Pluhar (L’Arpeggiata), Federico Maria Sardelli (Modo Antiquo) and Judith Steenbrink (Holland Baroque).

Daniel Zapico has been named "Asturiano del Mes" by La Nueva España newspaper and awarded the prize for "Grupo del Año 2010" by TV channel Televisión del Principado de Asturias, the "Premios de la Música en Asturias 2012", the "Premio Serondaya 2012" for Cultural Innovation and the "Medalla de Oro" in Foro Europeo Cum Laude 2019.

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