ALICANTE: ‘Diferente a los demás’ with impro at the piano

….One of my favorite things to do in life is improvising with the piano on silent movies. Use them as a video-score for my creations. I have been doing it since 2003, at the Strade del Cinema festival (Italian Alps), for more than 20 years now, and I have often done it at the International Institute of Madrid, working on pieces from the United States.

….In this case, the Vice-rectorate for Equality, Inclusion and Social Responsibility together with the Film and Audiovisual Department of the University of Alicante, under the coordination of Israel Gil, created a LGTBIQ+ Film Festival to celebrate Pride this coming July. In it, I will play three nights: Thursday 4, Tuesday 16 and Tuesday 23.

….All sessions will be at 7:30 close to the sea, so what could be better to do after beach other than coming to the cinema?


….On Thursday, July 4, we’ll watch Different from the Rest, a German gem from 1919 that happens to be the first gay-themed film in the history of cinema. It has thought-provoking content that still feels modern today.c

ALTEA: Dúa da Pel @ the Fine Arts School

Chair Annetta Nicoli of Artistic Studies, belonging to the Miguel Hernández University, inside the Altea Campus (Alicante), opens the academic year with this concert by Dúa da Pel.

Shortly we’ll let you know in what location at the Fine Arts School is this new building that we’re going to innaugurate.

MÉXICO: Dúa da Pel tour. Spring 2025

Thursday, January 30th, 4:30 pm,. Casa Veerkamp Mesones. Mexico City

Friday, January 31st, 8:00 pm. Restaurant Aguamiel. Teotihuacan

Saturday, February 1st, 10:00 pm. Restaurant La Posta Nápoles. Mexico City

Wednesday, February 5th, 7:07 pm. Centro Cultural La Jacaranda. Pátzcuaro (Michoacan)

Thursday, February 6th, 8:00 pm. Centro Cultural Raíces. Mexico City

Friday, February 7th, 8:00. Centro Cultural de España. Mexico City

ALICANTE: Tableau Sonant (phase 4) @ MUA

Show ‘Tableau Sonant’, a mix between sculpture and music, goes to the Museum of the University of Alicante.


Media:

2025’II’25. Europa Press. La compositora Sonia Megías y la artista Susana Guerrero ofrecen su espectáculo ‘Tableau sonant’ en el MUA

2025’II’25. Universidad de Alicante. La compositora Sonia Megías y la artista Susana Guerrero llevan al MUA su espectáculo experimental ‘Tableau Sonant’

2025’II’25. El periòdic. La compositora Sonia Megías y la artista Susana Guerrero llevan al MUA su espectáculo experimental ‘Tableau Sonant’

2025’II’25. Alicante Out. Tableau Sonant en el anfiteatro del MUA

2025’II’21. Revista VEU de la Universidad de Alicante. El MUA acoge el espectáculo experimental ‘Tableau Sonant’, creado por la compositora Sonia Megías y la artista Susana Guerrero

ALICANTE: CoroDelantal MACA

CoroDelantal is a vocal experimentation group founded in New York City in 2011, replied in Madrid at the end of 2012, and currently based at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante (MACA) since fall 2021. Conceived and directed by composer Sonia Megías López as a laboratory for developing unusual scores, the chorus operates through collective performances that blur the boundaries between the arts.

The proposal for fall 2025 will consist of a three-month workshop with weekly meetings lasting two and a half hours each. The following collaborations are highlights of this quarter:
– With Madrid-based composer Marisa Manchado, winner of the 2024 National Music Composition Award, who will be our guest artist for the quarter.
– With New York composer John Gilbert, whose Christmas carols we will revisit in collaboration with the Banda Unión Musical de Santa Pola, adapting them to a small format to be performed at the MACA.

Brave singers,
send a motivational email
to contacto@soniamegias.es
before September 20!

BADALONA: Cultura y cambio climático

Epica Foundation (La Fura dels Baus) invites me to a round table on climate change and culture. How the arts have the power to concienciate about the planet fragility.

NYC: ‘Da’ by Dúa da Pel @ WindScape


Dúa da Pel is a bridge where music and words are tuned and sharpened to discover the target, the exact center, the birth of rhythm—which is the birth of the world. It is a world beyond the one that is always rushing to feed an impossible novelty. In Dúa da Pel, poetry, music, singing, and bodies advance through the clock in a time that is not linear, but vital. Their songs, texts, and performances—which we could well call journeys—launch us into the eye of the wind. They lead us to remember what we thought we didn’t know, to feel that harmony is a reality that comes looking for us when we open our listening. Dúa da Pel connects with a common essence above languages or eras through precise words and musical intelligence. Defining their style is an endless task, much like deciding which country a cloud or a star belongs to.

Their live performance is a path toward the sacred; by sacred, we mean that which is worthy of absolute respect because it is a channel of connection: of the intellectual with the spiritual, the small with the large, the personal with the communal. It is an expanded concept of the singer-songwriter.

The group began in 2014 under the direction of composer Sonia Megías and poet Eva Guillamón. Since then, they have developed an extensive international career in venues such as The Juilliard School of Music in New York, The British Museum in London, The Culture Square Theater in Shanghai, The Yue Opera Town in Shengzhou, The Instituto Cervantes in Tokyo or Various Spanish Cultural Centers (AECID) across Latin America. Their discography has been presented at the Teatro Real (Dúa de Pel, 2018) and the Auditorio Nacional (Madera de pájaro, 2021), both in Madrid.

In Dúa da Pel, all lyrics and poems are created by Eva Guillamón, and all the music and arrangements are created by Sonia Megías.

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A CORUÑA: Concert-Workshop at the Art Research Conference

I’ve the great honor of conducting the Opening Concert-Workshop at the First Art Research Conference at the High Conservatory of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain).

The show will be free and open to all audiences!

Looking forward!


Vídeo of the workshop: