Aurora Bertrana, music lived
Aurora Bertrana, music lived
Aurora Bertrana (Girona, 1892 – Berga, 1974) was a writer, musician and journalist, markedly feminist and voracious adventurer. Among his multiple concerns and facets, music occupied a very important part of his life; settled in Switzerland during the twenties of the last century, she was part of the Glasser-Bovard-Bertrana trio, one of the first female jazz trios in Europe, which was a way of claiming the role of women in areas until then reserved for men and an experience that would mark her life and artistic career.
Date : Sunday, June 15, 2025
Place : Courtyard of the Frederic Marès Museum
Schedule : 12 p. m
Price : 5 €
Ticket sales : By internet here . At the Museum ticket office, during opening hours. The ticket to the concert includes the visit to the Museum.
*The Museum reserves a small number of tickets for sale at the box office on the day of the concert, in case they are not sold out.
Collaboration : Frederic Marès Museum / Higher School of Music of Catalonia
Interpreters : Elisabet Raspall, piano, voice and composition; Marta Roma, cello and voice, and Pepi Izquierdo, viola.
Works of : Newell Chase, Richard A. Whiting, Vernon Duke, Billy Mayhew and Elisabet Raspall.
Aurora Bertrana (Girona, 1892 – Berga, 1974) was a writer, musician and journalist, markedly feminist and voracious adventurer. Among his multiple concerns and facets, music occupied a very important part of his life; settled in Switzerland during the twenties of the last century, she was part of the Glasser-Bovard-Bertrana trio, one of the first female jazz trios in Europe, which was a way of claiming the role of women in areas until then reserved for men and an experience that would mark her life and artistic career. With the trio Raspall-Roma-Izquierdo we will relive those years with a program with works by Raspall herself and female composers from the era in which Bertrana lived.
Marès and Bertrana had a brief correspondence. Vertigo of Horizontes , written by Bertrana in 1952, is preserved in the heritage library of Marès and contains a dedication by the author dedicated to Marès which exudes a certain humorous and complicit tone that is also reflected in the correspondence.
See the general program from February to June 2025