Giesta - Studio 150 x Amarte

Giesta

Februari, 3rd 2024
Start time: 20.00u

Description: "El camino se hace cantando: Music of pilgrimage in the Iberian Peninsula” by Giesta

Giesta is one of the most common bushes in Iberian Peninsula. It invades hills growing in every possible surface and has the capacity of restoring fertility to the most arid soils.

As a duo, Giesta focuses on early western notated music and oral traditions of Mediterranean countries. Joana and Irene use their voices, recorders and traditional percussion as tools to transform and reinvent these repertoires. With an historical performance background, they tap into the overlap between these traditions and deconstruct them through composing and arranging, improvisation and contemporary techniques. Coming from Portugal and Spain, the duo is based in the Netherlands where they met while studying.

Giesta has performed this program live in the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. Among other venues, it was presented in Oosterkerk, Oude Muziek Fringe Festival Utrecht, Gaudeamus Huize, Museo Etnográfico de Castilla y León (Spain), CDIL - Centro de Diálogo Intercultural de Leiria and Fábrica de Braço de Prata (Portugal).In 2022 they were selected to participate in IYAP - International Young Artist Presentation, where they premiered their newest program “El camino sehace cantando” in AMUZ - Antwerp, as part of the festival Laus Polyphoniae. In the same year they performed their program “Mulher, quién eres tú” in Oude Muziek Utrecht as part of the Fringe program.

Depending on the program, Giesta invites other musicians and artists to collaborate with them. For the program El camino se hace cantando, they are collaborating with cellist and gambist Xander Baker.

Shorter description: "El camino se hace cantando: Music of pilgrimage in the Iberian Peninsula” by Giesta

Giesta is a duo which focuses on early western notated music and oral traditions of Mediterranean countries. Joana and Irene use their voices, recorders and traditional percussion as tools to transform and reinvent these repertoires. With an historical performance background, they tap into the overlap between these traditions and deconstruct them through composing and arranging, improvisation and contemporary techniques. Coming from Portugal and Spain, the duo is based in the Netherlands where they met while studying. For the program "El camino se hace cantando: Music of pilgrimage in the Iberian Peninsula", they are collaborating with cellist and gambist Xander Baker.