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Cuca Villén (Manager)

I have dedicated most of my life to the theater. I went to Drama School, I have been an actress, and I have spent a few years promoting theatre plays. Theater is word, and it has not been difficult for me to get from it to classical music, which is also language, another form of language. I do not forget that in theater the music that the words carry is as important as the word itself. The expressiveness of the actor is the secret of his art. Because words have sound as well as meaning, they have music, and you have to know how to bring it out. Now I have decided to manage and promote classical music orchestras and performers, convinced that music is voice, in the same way that the voice carries its own music within. The spoken word is not the only language of man, not even the most expressive one. If the word is the house of the being, as Heidegger wanted, classical music is its beach, the pleasant sea to which the being goes to recover from the insufficiencies of the word. After hearing Beethoven's Emperor piano concerto, performed with the distinction that its greatness demands, with what words could we express all that we have felt? Immense? Sublime? Great? Magnificent? Homeric? All of that is nothing, and it does not describe at all what we just heard. No more can be said, we think, with words. Exactly. Because classical music is language, and with its own language you have to judge it. And that language must be learned, as we learned what makes us different. The ineffable cannot be described in any other language than that of the ineffable. The power of a symphony, of its interpretation, is inexpressible. It gets inside and stays forever, or it doesn't. That is all. And if it stays, after listening to Beethoven, Bach, Schumann, we can say to ourselves: I have been in contact with beauty for an hour. I am not the same as before. As long as this change lasts, I will devoutly keep it in the memory of my soul, to turn to it in moments of desolation. Thus understood, classical music is a form of personal salvation. Classical music is feeling and thought, the refuge where our emotional intelligence is best accommodated.
To choose the artists that I represent, I make an effort to know their work. In looking and hearing his work. All the musical performances that I listen to are related to other musical performances that I have heard from other artists. Good performers, great performers, no doubt. But I choose my artists not because of their position on the musical ranking lists, in which I don't believe, but because of the difference. For their different way of performing. To commit with them I need to convince myself that although others have interpreted and will interpret the same repertoire as mine, no one has yet done it the way they do. Not with their style, not with their grace, not with their expressiveness.
Classical music needs a certain temperature to exist, and it is given by the performer, not the composer. Each pianist, each violinist, each orchestra interprets the great works with a rhythm, with a gesture, with a flight of the hand that makes them different, that adapts it to them. When that performer or that ensemble find the right way, the audience discovers that this way of creating music can only belong to that artist, and will follow them. Not because they are the best, nobody is the best, but because they are unique, because with their artistic personality they communicate something unique, which is what makes the difference. I have heard musicians who do not miss a note, technically perfect, and who are cold as a fish to me. Perfection can lead to monotony of the personality. Listening always to the same thing, interpreted in the same way, unbearably correct, leads to melancholy, which is the literary dimension of boredom. What remains, in the end, is the work performed beautifully, not the publicity about the artist. From my experience with theater I remember,related to this, the beginning of “The Importance of Being Ernesto”, by Oscar Wilde. One of the main charachters has just played the piano, and says: “I don't play with precision, anyone could do that, but with extraordinary expressiveness. When it comes to piano, my strength is feeling. I leave science for life ”. The great interpreter is the one that is different, that is unique. In his hands, each musical work is a new work; each interpretation of his is another creation of the work created before. He doesn't just repeat the lyrics, he gives them his own voice. And to acquire your own style, which makes a difference, you need hard daily work, maintained throughout your life. That has nothing to do with being carried away by the gentle river of fashion and its exaggerated publicity.
These are currently my representatives: the pianist Pablo Amorós, Madrid Soloists Chamber Orchestra, the viola Wenting Kang. And I keep looking for what makes the difference.

Elena Montes 
(Artists Management and International Tours)

Music is essential to let my soul fly and give color to my life

I discovered the magic of theater in adolescence, being able to graduate in Dramatic Art later.

I learned to respect my profession and to understand it from the inside, while enjoying the stages. The theater has given me experiences that have made me grow as a human being.

In recent years I have traveled Europe and America working in tourism as a Creative Coordinator, giving importance to a sustainable world, around ecology and health.

I have worked with international teams, in which at the beginning we did not even speak the same language. Always with a common and universal language: the passion for what one does.

Developing my work has awakened in me curiosity, the empirical ability to understand the wonderful differences that each culture contributes.

That is why it is so important to be able to offer creative programs that add values, and that show us the diversity and magic of what is yet to be discovered.

But if there is something that has marked my life, it is: Music.

It was a summer afternoon ... we could barely bear the Cordoba heat of an impossible nap. Suddenly, four notes were enough and the world stopped. It was the first time that, as a child, I listened to the piano. Everyone may have known Beethoven's “For Elisa”, but that afternoon for me, it was more than a melody. I felt such an inspiring energy that, even today, it remains etched in my heart.

Music is that.

It has the power to provoke indelible memories, to invert feelings, to make us dream, to make us believe that we are capable of everything ...

Thanks to music, I found my way of expressing without limits.

Dance!

Because when words fall short, the vibration of the notes makes my heart beat, leading me to dance to the rhythm of my feelings. Those that music, played from the soul, always provokes.

Being able to dedicate my time to make that magic reach all corners of the world gives meaning to my path and repositioning my journey.

Being able to revive great composers through authentic artists is a luxury that should be more within everyone's reach.

Being able to represent performers of melodies who tell stories and define people, opening their hearts wide without fear, is wonderful.

Because culture unites us and music always inspires us.

Because it moves us inside and leaves us wanting more.

Because it provokes us.

Because it makes us feel alive.

And, in my case, because it is my passion and because it cannot be otherwise.

As Etta James said "If I did it any other way, it wouldn´t be me"

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