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The soprano Maria Bayo will be performing in piano recital at Victoria Eugenia Theatre in Donostia-San Sebastian on Sunday, March 14th. She will perform works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Mompou, Guastavino and Lecuona. In addition to this, she will be accompanied by the French pianist Maciej Pikulski.

This concert is one of the events organized as San Sebastian is a candidate to be European Cultural Capital in 2016.

After being granted the First Award in the Great International Belvedere Competition in Wien (Austria), together with ten more honorable mentions, Maria Bayo established an international career, making her debut with Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Lucia di Lammermoor and La Sonnambula in Pisa, Sant Gallen and Lucerne, followed by her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro in Madrid and Paris Opera Bastille, with a great success. Since then, she has been regularly invited in major international opera houses:

Today, she is one of the most famous ambassadors of Spanish Music, as attests her broad record catalogue of zarzuelas (sung with Placido Domingo and Alfredo Kraus), operas as well as several volumes of Spanish songs. Amongst her recordings also appear Arias by Mozart; Chants D’Auvergne and Basque Chants by Canteloube; Villalobos´Bachiannas Brasileiras; Opera Arias and Cantatas by Haendel, (Grammy Award nominee); Rossini Arias, Zarzuela Arias from XVIII Century.

Among many other prizes, Maria Bayo has been recently granted the Principe de Viana Award, one the most prestigious Prizes of Culture, in Spain, delivered by His Royal Highness, the Prince Felipe de Borbon.