Chamber Music Marathon at ESMuC

The last Saturday 15th of december, 2007,at 16:00h Jaime Arroyo and Lucas Peire played a Polka for two pianos of Lennox Berkeley at the orquestra classroom of the ESMuC.

The performance belonged to a chamber music Marathon celebrated between the 14th and the 16th of december at the Orquestra classroom, the Choir classroom and the Tete Montoliu Hall of the Auditori. In the same concert were played other pieces for two pianos like capriccio, "d'après le bal masqué" of F. Poulenc ( Marco Gonzalvo and Santiago Meijide), Larghetto and allegro in E of W.A Mozart (Ferran Barrios and Lázaro Castillo) and a concert in C BWV 1061 of J.S. Bach (Imma Gil and Pablo Torres). After this, at 17:00 the Leonid Sintsev pupils (Enrique Lapaz, Toni Costa, Pau Baiges and Santiago Blanco) played the five concerts for piano of Beethoven in a very wonderful concert. The audience were impressed by the virtuosim and force of all the interpretations.



Jaime Arroyo (right) and Lucas Peire (left) playing the polka of Berkeley at the Orquestra Classroom of the ESMuC, l'Auditori.

Hand program can be found here.

Practicum at Music Technology Group

On summer 2007, Jaime Arroyo worked in his Practicum at the Music Technology Group (MTG) of the University Pompeu Fabra. The research, in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), consisted in the comparison of two algorithms of automatic classification of musical genre. Both were implemented in MATLAB and the results were examinated. Statistical processing tecniques such as Gaussian Mixture Models or Hidden Markov Models were used and studied. The whole work was conducted by Enric Guaus, researcher at the MTG and teacher of the Sonology department at the ESMUC.

• report (PDF, english)