Piano scores by Rosendo Salvado (Tui, 1814 - Rome, 1900), a composer, organist, pianist, writer and anthropologist, were recently discovered. Known in Australia for having founded the town of New Norcia in 1847, Salvado was a missionary of the Benedictine Order, to which he belonged. With the support of AC/E through the internationalisation programme, the New Norcia Benedictine Community has invited the pianist Andrea González Pérez to take part in a musical event based on the composer. The aim of the event is to promote intellectual exchange between the material held in the archives of Tui cathedral in Galicia and the archives of the New Norcia monastery in Western Australia.
Andrea González, who was born in Tui in 1987 and has received prizes at prestigious international piano competitions and grants from the ministry and Segundo Gil Dávila and Pedro Barrié de la Maza foundations, has carried out intensive research on Rosendo Salvado’s musical side, recovering the manuscript scores held in Tui cathedral archives and performing them for the first time in Spain, Italy and Cuba. She is currently president of the Xuventudes Musicais de Tui association and founder and director of IKFEM International Keyboard Festival & Masterclass Eurocity Tui-Valença, which is held in the month of July.
