Pablo Giménez Spanish Ensemble
In Pablo Giménez Spanish Ensemble’s production Flamenco de Cámara, a quartet combines the essence of flamenco with the instrumental framework of chamber music.
About Flamenco de Cámara
Since its inception, the language of flamenco has been expanding to include non-traditional instruments, eventually including instruments such as the saxophone, harmonica or bass. Within these new formulas, it seemed unthinkable to overlook one of the principal instruments of the orchestral tradition: the violin. Virtuosic, mystical, and emotive, the violin has stood as the flagbearer of canonical and academic music.
In Pablo Giménez Spanish Ensemble’s production Flamenco de Cámara (Chamber Flamenco) a quartet combines the essence of flamenco with the instrumental framework of chamber music.
The sentimental, tragic and melancholic music typical of Romanticism is tempered by the flamenco tradition, contrasting with flamenco’s marked rhythms. Pablo Gimenez strums austere flamenco melodies on his guitar, while violinist Luis Barbero exalts the classical aspects of Gimenez’s original compositions. The quartet is completed by cellist Hector Hervas and dancer Miguel Ángel Rodriguez, contributing warmth and resonance to the music.
Giménez’s style focuses on a flamenco language that is usurped by a chamber music concept for violin and cello, but as the Andalusian musical tradition dictates, inseparable from the guitar and percussive dance.
Bio: Pablo Giménez
Winner of the 17th Young Granada Prize for Art awarded by the Youth Institute of Andalusia (2017) in the arts.
Pablo Giménez combines his career as a solo guitarist with playing in chamber orchestras and accompanying flamenco dance and singing in his work. He holds advanced degrees in both classical and flamenco guitar, and has complemented his academic background with a master’s degree in flamenco research.
Pablo has given concerts in Canada, Brazil, Tunisia, Morocco, China, Taiwan, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, and the United States, notably performing at the Lincoln Center in New York in 2016, where he presented the program “Inspired by flamenco,” which highlights the relationship and kinship between Spanish classical guitar and flamenco guitar.
As artistic director, he has produced shows such as Flamenco: Joven y Jondo, which was presented at the JF Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2017 and toured twice in the United States and Canada. He has also collaborated on numerous shows by dancers such as Víctor Martín, Sara Jiménez, Alejandro Cerdá, and Irene La Serranilla.
His work as a composer began to gain prominence with the string quartet and guitar presentation in 2019 of “Suite Flamenca” at the International Classical Music Festival in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, followed by "Variación a tempo" in 2020, a show in collaboration with dancer Sara Jiménez, which won the 29th Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography Competition in Madrid. In 2021, he premiered Proyecto Cábala, which included trumpet, two cellos, and guitar, at the Spanish Music Festival in Cádiz.
