Carlos Piñana Group
Flamenco stars visit Aalborg when Carlos Piñana Group visits the Folkekirkens hus with the performance “FLAMENCO MA NON TROPPO composed by Carlos Piñana”.
When the perkiness and the impetus make two bodies react from love and need, unpretentious, the result is therefore natural. Committed to dancing and the music, the respect for pure flamenco and the fusion with the classical Spanish music tradition “Flamenco Non Troppo” is born. An artistic project that stands out, in an orderly and neat manner, all that is felt when two bodies walk through a stage with the authenticity that everyone carries inside.
Carlos Piñana and Guillermo Ojados take us to the essence of flamenco and classical Spanish dance with a very personal style, full of the elements that define the aesthetics of dance: strength, lyricism, precision, feeling and technique.
The Artists
Carlos Piñana
Carlos Piñana (Cartagena, 1976) holds a degree from the Murcia Superior Conservatory of Music and a Masters Degree in Musical Investigation from Murcia University. He belongs to a family of great flamenco tradition, he is the grandson of Antonio Piñana (father), patriarch of the “cantes mineros” and his father is the well-known guitarist Antonio Piñana (son). Carlos lived and breathed flamenco since childhood. His first guitar teacher was his father Antonio Piñana, who contributed from the start to Carlos’ development as a guitarist.
In 1990 Carlos starts studying Classical Guitar at the Music Conservatory of Cartagena, at the same time exploring Flamenco Guitar, in which he will soon stand out. Proof of this are the numerous awards he has received, for instance: First Prize and Bordón Minero at the international Festival of the Cantes Mineros (1996), the National Prize of Concert Guitar Ramon Montoya at the Cordoba Flamenco Art Festival (1998), First Prize Sabicas at the Calasparra’s National Festival of Young Flamencos, the Prize Importante’98 awarded by La Opinión de Murcia newspaper. In 2001 the Emma Egea Foundation gave him the Alumbre 2001 Prize in recognition to his dedication and work. Carlos has performed in New York, Paris, Poznan, Krumlov, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Hannover, Stockholm, Dublin, Lausanne, Napoles, Caserta, Milan, Hamman, Teheran, Cairo, Alexandria, Fez, Moscow, Tomsk, Casablanc
Often He plays with orchestras, with his special project the Suite “Rubato”, where he combines classical music with the temperament and lyricism of flamenco. He played with Murcia Symphonic Orchestra, Tomsk Philarmonic Orchestra, Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Teplice Symphonic Orchestra, La Habana Chamber Orchestra, Lublin Philarmonic Orchestra, Kalisz Philharmonic Orchestra, Šv. Kristoforo Kamerinis Orkestras, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra…,etc.
He has released seven CD´s as a soloist: “Cal-libiri” (1999), “Palosanto” (2001), “Mundos Flamencos” (2003), “Manos Libres” (2011), “Body & Soul” (2013), “De la raíz al alma” (2015) and “Rubato” (2017). He has published a score book “Mi Sonanta” with RGB Arte Visual and “Flamenco Guitar” with Piles Music, S.A. He has composed, directed and interpreted the music of the shows “Póker Flamenco”, “A tiempo de Fuego”, “A Compás del Poeta”, “Penélope” y “El Celoso Extremeño” for the Cía. Carmen y Matilde Rubio.
Currently Carlos combines his work as a performer with his activity as a professor of Flamenco Guitar at the Music Conservatory of Murcia. He is also the Artistic Director of the Murcia International Guitar Festival. Carlos Piñana is perfectly able to sustain his position in the illustrious
Mamen Baños, Dancer
Mamen Baños comes from a family with a deep flamenco tradition, so flamenco is in her blood. She began her dance and choreography studies at the Conservatory of Murcia, and continued them at Amor de Dios, Spain’s most important and prestigious flamenco dance school in Madrid. She is currently choreographer of Ballet Español Antares, Ballet Flamenco Soji Kojima and Ballet Flamenco del Cante de las Minas.
Guillermo Ojados began studying the art of dance at the age of six with teacher Antonia Ramos. Later, he continued his studies with top flamenco dance professionals. His performance skills have been recognised with the main prize of the Danza Orbe competition. For the past five years he has been a member of the Compañía Murciana de Danza, a conservatory in Murcia, and has danced on the stages of the most important theatres in Spain and throughout Europe. In 2017, after graduating in Arte Flamenco, he became director and choreographer of the Compañía de Danza.
Guillermo Ojados, Dancer
Miguel Ángel Orengo Percussions
Murcia, 22 April 1977. Drums and Percussion. The first musical experience playing with wind band of Guadalupe at five years old. At ten, he started classical percussion at the Conservatory Superior of Music of Murcia, where he eventually obtained the highest grades and the Special Award in symphonic percussion. He studied with Nasheet Waits, Dan Rieser, Antonio Sanchez, Bill Stewart, Marc Miralta, Jordi Rossy, Pakito Baeza, Rubem Dantas, Roberto Vizcaíno, Miguel Anga, Jerry Gonzalez, Ney Rosauro, Gert Mortensen, Pedro Estevan, Miguel Bernat, Manel Ramada, Jose Armando Garcia, Jose Garcia-Abellán, etc … Awarded in the 1st. Eurodrummer Competition 2001. Award for best instrumental accompaniment in the National Competition for Songwriters Ciudad de Elche 2003. Recently he has recorded “Reikiavic”, (with pianist Abdon Alcaraz), awarded by critic in “Flamenco Hoy Awards” as “2010 Best Instrumental Album”.