Percujove ({{IPA-va, ˌpeɾkuˈdʒove) is a youth
percussion orchestra. Created in June 2003, today it is composed of 25 young musicians, students of the
José Iturbi Conservatorium
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of
Valencia, Spain
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. The ensemble's conductor is Salvador Pelejero, of the Conservatorium.
Percujove is perhaps the only youth percussion orchestra in Europe.
They have offered performances all around Europe, with concerts in
Montpellier
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,
Lyon,
Copenhagen,
Brussels, at the
European Parliament in
Strasbourg
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, at the
European Space Agency
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in Noorwijk (Netherlands), and other concerts in Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Norway,
Slovenia,
Slovakia, Belgium, Poland and Spain.
Percujove has also participated at the following
music festival
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or h ...
s:
*14th Festival des Musiques d'Ici et d'Ailleurs de Châlons-en-Champagne (France
*11th Festival "Musique en vacances" de La Ciotat (France)
*"Les Dimanches de l'Ile Barbe" de Lyon (France)
*"Teatre,Música i Dansa a la Fresca" de Figueres (
Girona, Spain) (2004–2006)
*18th Setmana Internacional de Música (Setmana Jove) de
Dénia (
Alicante
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, Spain)
*Esbjerg Festuge Festival 2007 (
Esbjerg, Denmark)
*Internasjornale Rytme & Dans Fest 2007 (Homborsund and
Grimstad, Norway)
*43rd
Győr Summer - International Cultural Festival (Hungary)
*Summer Festival
Velenje 2008 (Slovenia)
*
Pohoda :''The word "pohoda" means "relax" or "ease" in the Slovak and Czech languages.''
Pohoda is an open-air summer music festival in Slovakia, first organized in 1997 in Trenčín. It is the biggest Slovak music event organized annually. The current ...
Festival 2008 and 2009 in
Trenčín (
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*Lipcowy Music Fest 2008 and 2009 in
Katowice
Katowice ( , , ; szl, Katowicy; german: Kattowitz, yi, קאַטעוויץ, Kattevitz) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. It is the 11th most popul ...
(Poland
*34th Summer of Culture Festival
Bratislava
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2009 (Slovaki
*15th Christopher Summer Festival 2009 in
Vilnius (
Lithuania
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)
*3rd International Arts Festival 2009 in
Mazeikiai (Lithuania)
*8th
Dainava music land festival 2009 in
Alytus
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(Lithuania)
The ensemble performs pieces from many musical genres in its concerts, adapted by the group:
baroque
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,
vals,
foxtrot
The foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It is danced to big band (usually vocal) music. The dance is similar in its look to waltz, although the rhythm is in a tim ...
,
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
, and also
zarzuela
() is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of ...
,
pasodoble and other Spanish and
Latino rhythms.
External links
Official website
Percussion ensembles
Valencian culture
Spanish musical groups