Viérnoles, Tudanca, The Sanctuary of la Bien Aparecida and Suesa will host performances from the Historic Settings programme this weekend

07/08/09.- Saturday 8th August will see the performances of Cristina Gatón and Tiziana Tagliani in the church of San Román de Viérnoles at 21.00. Also on Saturday music lovers can listen to the traditional Persian music of Parissa in the Gardens of the Casona de Tudanca at 20.30. Sunday 9th the Latin American Quartet will perform in the Sanctuary of la Bien Aparecida at 20.15 and to close the weekend Cristina Gatón yand Tiziana Tagliani will perform again , but on this occasion in the Monastery of la Santísima Trinidad in Suesa at 21.00

Flautist Cristina Gatón has beem member of the Ibero-Americana CAB-UNESCO youth orchestra and has collaborated with the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra (OSPA), The Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (BOS), City of Granada Orchestra and the Bilbao Philarmonia. She has worked conductors of the calibre of Zubin Mehta, Douglas Boyd, Vassily Sinaisky, G.B.Pommier or Josep Pons, to name but a few; she has collaborated as a member of the jury in International Chamber Music Competitions on local radio and television channels and has recorded for Spanish National Radio as well as the BBC in Manchester. As a concert player both in Chamber Quartets or as a soloist her career has taken her across Spain and Europe where she has not only played in a range of theatres and cultural centres such as in Barcelona, Burgos, Córdoba, Málaga, Santander, Madrid, Bilbao, San Marino (Italia), Brescia (Italia), Manchester, (UK) or The Withworth Art Gallery (UK), but also participating in national and international festivals such as the Santander International Festival, LOndon Baroque Festival Jaén International Chamber Music Festival or the Edinburgh Festival.

Parissa reveals the variety of music styles used based on the way she emits her clear and pentetrating voice that is so characteristic.The style adopted by this singer forms part of a universe of music based on sufi, a phenomenon hard to simplify without taking away the density of its depth although its meaning forms part of the musical world evoked in the mystical poems that Parissa sings and often unknown to westerners.

El Cuarteto Latinoamericano, founded in México in 1982, represents a unique voice on the international scene diffusing musical creativity from Latin America in five continents. Made up of three brothers, violinists Saúl and Arón and the cellist Álvaro Bitrán, along with Javier Montiel, violinist, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano was considered by the London Times as "Possessing an instinct that definitely places it in the first division of string quartets" and by the Houston Chronicle as "one of the best quartets we have heard for years" Recent concerts include outstanding performances in Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Amsterdam (Concertgebow), Bonn, Brussels, Luxemburg, Montreal, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston and Nueva York (Carnegie Hall), about which the New York Times wrote "Superb artists, extraordinarily versatile in their response to the different scores".