In 1996, the Fundación Juan March initiated this series of concerts in which works by Spanish composers—often not easily heard again after they first premiere—are presented. The series does not limit itself solely to reviving period works but offers a place where musical compositions that have recently premiered in other places, or not, are first presented in Madrid.
All of the works offered in these concerts form part of the collection of the Fundación Juan March’s Spanish Library of Contemporary Music and Theater

Concerts/Homages

The Fundación Juan March organizes concerts in honor of noted figures in the Hispanic music world, among them: Federico Mompou, Alberto Ginastera, Regino Sáinz de la Maza, Nicanor Zabaleta, Rodolfo Halffter, Joaquín Rodrigo, Goffredo Petrassi, Federico Sopeña, Ernesto Halffter, Agustín González Acilu, Luis de Pablo, Antonio Arias, Mauricio Kagel, Xavier Montsalvatge, Tomás Marco, Antón García Abril, Claudio Prieto, Julio Gómez, Francisco Calés, Francisco Javier Comesaña, Gonzalo de Olavide, Cristóbal Halffter, Manuel Castillo, Román Alís, Ángel Martín Pompey, Ramón Barce, Hans Werner Henze, Carmelo A. Bernaola, Luis de Pablo, Joan Guinjoan and Carlos Cruz de Castro.

Premiere of works commissioned by the Fundación Juan March

Since 1975, the Foundation has inaugurated in its halls premiere concerts with discussions by the work’s composer, among them: Luis de Pablo, Carmelo Bernaola, Tomás Marco, Gonzalo de Olavide, Cristóbal Halffter, Miguel Ángel Coria, Claudio Prieto, Ramón Barce, Ángel Oliver, Jesús Villa Rojo, Josep Soler, José Luis Turina. The works of young Spanish composers have also premiered within the concert cycles.

Archive of Contemporary Spanish Music

The Fundación Juan March possesses an archive of music that, since 1975, has collected all of the Spanish works presented in the monographic cycles, and other concerts, organized by the Foundation.

Gallery of Young Composers

Between 1981 and 1988, the Fundación Juan March created a new form of musical promotion: the organization of concerts of musical works, unedited and unpremiered, by young Spanish composers under the age of thirty. In addition to the premiere of the selected works, each was accompanied by a documentary publication (not available for sale) with the corresponding musical score in facsimile and a cassette recording of the concert. Part of this material resides in the collection of the Library of Contemporary Spanish Music. There have been 44 such editions published.

Gallery of Young Performers

The Gallery of Young Performers program, begun in January 2004, seeks to bring to light new generations of performers under the age of thirty, educated in Spain, who have successfully initiated the first steps of their careers. They are only just out of school and, in some cases, still pursuing post-graduate studies, but they are true professionals who enrich our musical lives. The program is part of the “Saturday Concerts” and is dedicated to one instrument accompanied by the piano.