Íliber Ensemble

Íliber Ensemble is a chamber music group devoted to the research and performance of early music with historically informed criteria and using period instruments. It was founded in May 2013 in Granada and integrated by young musicians from different parts of Spain. Since its creation, its Principal Conductor has been the harpsichordist Darío Tamayo, and its artistic and research activity has focused on recovering and disseminating all those repertoires that, despite its great quality and interest, have been consigned to oblivion, with special attention to the Spanish Baroque musical heritage. Since the beginning, they have performed concerts in important musical seasons, such as the Meet In Beijing Arts Festival, Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, or MusaE, a project organized by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, as well as in early music festivals in Granada, Córdoba, Vélez Blanco (Almería), Lorquí (Murcia), and Sant Joan (Alicante). This activity has brought them to prestigious music halls, like the Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada), Palau de la Música (Valencia) or Daning Theatre (Shanghai), and to emblematic spaces, such as the Ateneo de Madrid, the Granada Cathedral or the Constitutional Court of Spain, receiving a great welcome from the specialized critics. Likewise, the ensemble has been awarded with HEBE Prize 2016 in the Music category, and has been finalist as the Best Young Ensemble in the GEMA Awards 2017, granted by the Spanish Association of Early Music Ensembles, of which it has been a member from that year onwards. Throughout its track record, it has collaborated with ensembles like the Orquesta Barroca De Granada, Tomás Luis de Victoria Choir, Granada Opera Choir, or Todos los Tonos y Ayres, as well as with renowned voice soloists, such as Raquel Andueza, Marta Infante, Eva Juárez, Olalla Alemán, Soledad Cardoso, or Aurora Peña, among others. Moreover, it has completed several artistic and research projects together with entities like the Instituto Cervantes, the Confucius Institute, or the Centro de Documentacion Musical de Andalucía. In 2017, it carried out its first staged production with the performance of the opera La guerra de los gigantes by Sebastián Durón, together with the Granada Baroque Orchestra and in collaboration with Asociación Ars Hispana. This work has been included in its first album, published in 2019 in the IBS Classical label with financing from the Community of Madrid. Moreover, last season it made its international debut with a tour throughout China together with the group Todos los Tonos y Ayres in May-June 2018. Recently, it has undertaken its second staged project, with the performance of Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, together with the Granada Opera Choir.