The Mendoza Philharmonic Orchestra will present a new concert corresponding to the Season 2021 Theater in Independence. The appointment will be this Friday, to 20.30.

This concert will be conducted by the maestro César Iván Lara and the pianist Marcelo Balat.

With strict sanitary protocols in force in the Greater Hall of Mendoza, the musical group will perform, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Piano Concerto No. 9 in Eb major, K 271 and Symphony No. 29 in A major, K 201.

As for the towns, will have a cost of 300 pesos and can be purchased through the site entryweb.com.ar.

César Iván Lara is a prestigious Venezuelan musician, who was Principal Conductor of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, del Táchira and then the Falcón Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, assumed the musical direction of the Mérida State Symphony Orchestra.

Internationally, has been invited to conduct orchestras in Colombia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, South Korea and the United States. In october 2015, led the Martyrdoms of Columbus, by the Venezuelan composer Federico Ruiz and, next month, in the Sala Ríos Reyna of the Teresa Carreño Theater, directed the new production of the opera Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini, with great acceptance.

In 2016, directed Madame Butterfly again, at the Dageu Opera Center (South Korea). Achieves, by contest, the position of principal conductor of the Mendoza Philharmonic Orchestra, in May 2018, being re-elected in 2019 for the season 2020.

Meanwhile, Marcelo Balat is one of the most outstanding Argentine pianists of the moment and current soloist of piano and celesta of the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina..

He recently received the prestigious Diploma of Merit from the Konex Awards as a revelation artist of the last decade. His most recent performances included the performance of Concerto No. 2 de Tchaikovsky, Messiaen's Osieaux Exotiques and Beethoven's Triple Concerto, and recitals in the most important halls of the country.

Balat also develops an intense chamber activity. In 2016 He founded the Ginastera Trio together with the prominent Xavier Inchausti and José Araujo, forming one of the most important ensembles in Argentina, recently awarded by the Association of Music Critics as the best Argentine Chamber Ensemble of the Season 2018.

It offers concerts regularly in the most important venues in Argentina, Spain and Germany and has performed with the most important Symphony Orchestras of his country, National Symphony, Philharmonic of Buenos Aires, Stable Orchestra of the Teatro Colón, to name a few, under important batons like Pedro Calderón, Yoav Talmi, Francisco Rettig, Sylvain Gasançon y Günter Neuhold. Noteworthy among his performances is the interpretation of the concert for four keyboards by J.S. Bach junto a Martha Argerich, Pía Sebastiani and Mauricio Vallina at the Teatro Colón, his presentation as a soloist in 2007 at the National Music Auditorium of Spain, in 2009 at the Konzerthaus in Berlin and at the Prado Museum.

That same year, together with the pianist Luis Grané he performed the world premiere of a work for two pianos by Sofía Gubaidulina, broadcast live on the National Radio of Spain. In 2017 performed the Turangalila Symphony of O. Messia in with the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra. In her role as piano soloist and celesta, he has collaborated, among other Orchestras, con la West Eastern Divan Orchestra, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. His training had the support of the Ministry of Education of the Nation, Music Festivals of Buenos Aires, Beethoven Foundation, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Carolina Foundation of Spain and Argentine Mozarteum.