"The city of La Coruna has two high leveled instrumental groups, at least in Spain. One is Galicia’ s Symphony Orchestra, (OSG) , the other Chamber Group 20th Century."
Maruxa Baliñas - To waste your wealth
"Some instrumentalists, extremely high level, are placed at the high plays in OSG. You can imagine the results... luxury and privileges are unreachable."
Julio Andrade Malde - To play a history, expressed in music
"To talk about contemporary music for the last ten years in Galicia you have to talk about Chamber Group 20th Century who is led by Florian Vlashi, a person with a human and musical generosity extraordinary."
Paco Yañez - 50 candles we will blow for you
The Chamber Group of the Twentieth Century was formed in 1996 as an homage to the “Great Century” with the goal of interpreting its best chamber works, from the beginning of the 20th century until the present day, difficult work that requires much dedication and sacrifice, due to the extreme difficulty of these pieces. The members of the group are instrumental soloists of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia. They come from more than ten different countries—Spain, the United States, Rumania, France, Albania, Japan, Russia, Germany, Poland, etc. All of them possess extensive experience and work at an extremely high level in their field. The number of artists varies depending on the works on any given program.
Another focus of his hard and intensive work is to lure the young adults with this fascinating world that is contemporary music. In concerts “Children and modern music”, in conferences- concert or master class, the youngsters get close in the easy way without any confusion with Stravinsky, Berio, Xenakis music.
The GISXX has premiered more than 84 works and has in its repertory more than 160 works of composers such as Stravinsky, Falla, R. Strauss to Messiaen, Xenaskis, and Ligeti. It has participated in diverse national and international events such as the music festivals of La Coruna, Santiago, Salamanca, Bilbao, Bienal NMK de Durres (Albania), Verona (Italy), Remusica (Kosovo) etc. Their performance in the 18th Music Festival of 20th Century Music in Madrid received the best critiques as well as feverous applause from the public. Their concerts have been recorded by the Radio. In January of 2001, they played in the National Auditorium of Madrid, a concert which was broadcast by TVE 2 and by the International Channel.
The Chamber Group is open for new projects combining contemporary music with lyrics live, theater, dancing, videos and plastic arts.
Lately is in the market his new CD “Manuel Balboa - the whole creation for chamber group” and DVD “O arame” (The wire) opera with one act e Juan Duran