Since its appearance in 2010, Vertixe Sonora Ensemble became in a

veritable boost of Galician society. Its permanent new works premiere allows
that Galicia participates of the international sound creation for the first time in
its history with an active and challenging role. An irreplaceable reference for
the latest young generation of international composers that find in their
productions the opportunity for developing their musical ideas with a global
perspective and in a constant state of upheaval, in the pursuit of artistic
excellence.
Associated to the Galician Institute of Sonology (IGS) a platform for sound
investigation and experimentation with new digital methods and tools, Vertixe
Sonora Ensemble is integrated by prominent soloists of contemporary music
in Galicia and Portugal, including sound and visual artists, jazz musicians,
classical performers, and people of the theatre and dance.

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From an awareness of the diversity in the approach to sound, it provides a

constant dialogue and interaction with the thought, science, technology and
other forms of contemporary art with a cosmopolitan perspective, integrative
and cross-cultural that do not renounce nor the rigor, nor the transgression
nor the spirit of the avant-garde.
Alessandra Rombol flute / Avelino Ferreira oboe / Pablo Coello saxophone / Xocas Meijide clarinet / Jess
Coello basoon / Alejandro Vzquez trompeta / Benjamn Iglesias horn / Iago Ros, trombone /
Diego Ventoso percussion / Rubn Barros electric guitar / Celia Adrin, Vadim Yikhnevich accordion / David
Durn, Haruna Takebe piano y piano midi / Roberto Alonso, Mario Peris, Marta Souto violin / Anne
Schlossmacher viola / Thomas Piel, Ailsa Lewin, Criptana Angulo cello / Carlos Mndez double bass / ngel
Faraldo electronics and sound difussion
Baldur Brnnimann, chief guest conductor
Pablo Coello, musical director
Ramn Souto, artistic director
Blanca Vias, administration
Jess Coello, communication
vertixesonora.net

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Founded in 2010, the Instituto Galego de Sonoloxa is a platform for sound

experimentation with the goal to develop interdisciplinary projects and
promote international collaborations that join art and new media and are
actively engaging in a meaningful and rational development of future
technology. From a sensible approach to the several manifestations of sound
art, it researches, produces and disseminate different kinds of manifestations
focused on sound. And it does so with the complicity of Universities and Art
Centers in Galicia, in a multidisciplinary perspective that updates the constant
flow of information about technology companies constantly change process

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Vertixe Sonora communicates, shapes, connects, and creates habits that
improve the life of people and enrich their experiences of socialization; it
promotes territorial cohesion and its revitalization, inspiring the community to
get new challenges, exerting of cultural ambassador of Galicia in the world.
Vertixe Sonora generates networks that further knowledge and cultural
exchange with the undeniable ambition to develop new productions that
combine intelligence and emotion and insert us into the history of creativity
and sense, from the conviction of the importance that, to explain our place in
the world, took the symbolic elaboration.
Vertixe Sonora conceives the concert as a meeting place, a celebration of life
and freedom and a chance to know each other that helps promote peace,
human progress and reconciliation, concepts inseparably linked to the
message universal of music.

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DEVELOPED PROJECTS
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[concert series]

Music and Art Sound Correspondences

A concert series that invites renowned composers on the international scene
to create new works that transit through the crossroads proposed by the
Galician Centre for Contemporary Art (CGAC) in its exhibitions.

son[UT]opias
forum for artists and performers from different cultural perspectives through
seminars, workshops, commission and divulgation of new creations in the
frame of campUSCulturae, an European Project at the University of Santiago
de Compostela for the worlds cultures, multicultural understanding and the
promotion of diversity and pluralism.
son[UT]opias 2013 Atlas Ensemble
son[UT]opias 2014 Toshio Hosokawa

officially recognized by the Spanish Japanese Ambassador for their

contribution to understanding between peoples in the Dual Year Spain-Japan commemorating 440 years of bilateral relations.

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Do Audible
A concert series that draws points between music, science, art and
contemporary thoug.

vertixeVIGO Festival
Program of concerts and activities offering a comprehensive and unbiased
view of the international sound creation. Vertixe Vigo Festival turns the city
into a room full concerts in October and November.

MIHLsons-XXI
From artists of contemporary instrumental and electronic music, dance or
audiovisual creation, streamline different educational fields institutions of the
city with an only trust, to promote the music of our time.

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[didactic projects]

Causal
A space of meeting and discussion about contemporary music composition.
Co-produced with the USC.
cAuSaL12 Jacobo Gaspar (SP) Esaias Jrnegard (SP), Alexander Khubeev (RU) Matthias Kranebitter (AUS) Simone Movio (IT) [CGAC ]
cAuSaL13 Charles-Antoine Frchette (CAN), Alireza Farhang (IRAN) Hugo Morales (MEX) [CGAC/ USC]
cAuSaL14 Joan Arnau Pmies (SP) Valerio Sannicandro (IT) Henrik Denerin (IT) Victor Ibarra (MEX) Madamme Cell (SP) [CSM VIGO/ NORMAL - A CORUA/ NO
IMPORTA - A CORUA]

Aguzar o odo in MARCO - Vigo

Course of approaching to the music of our time. A space for understanding
and knowing the main routes of contemporay music.
2013-14 Main lecturer: Emilio Lede Guest lecturer: Yolanda Uriz Sound artist/ Xon-Xil Lpez. Collective Escoitar/ Enrique Gaviln profesor de Historia
medieval en la Universidad de Valladolid/ Ramn del Castillo philosophe/ ngel Faraldo experimental musician/ Luis Gago ( musicologist)/ lvaro Guibert Director
de Contenidos Albniz FOundation

2014-15 Main lecturer: Emilio Lede Guest lecturer: Baldur Brnnimann (Main Conductor Orquesta Sinfnica do Porto Casa da Msica)/ Paco Yez (critic of
mundoclsico) Pablo Snchez (coeditor of www.gustavmahler.es) / Enrique Gaviln (writer of Otra historia del tiempo and Entre la historia y el mito. El tiempo en
Wagner) / Roberto Casado and Jabi Alonso (performersEspacio Sinkro, Pas Vasco)/ Stelious Manousakis (experimental musician) Alberto Bernal (sound artist)/
Carmen Pardo (writerof John Cage: la escucha oblicua)/ scar del Canto (director and speaker of Cuadernos de viaje and El canto de las sirenas en Radio Clsica,
RNE)/ Pedro Mombiedro Sandoval (writer, En clave de red. La msica del siglo XX)/ Sergio Luque (composer and sound artist), Jos Luis Tllez
(musicologist) ,Raquel Gonzlez (musicologist)

Sound Boxes

by Xoan-Xil Lpez
An introduction to digital and electronic music based in Pure Data. For
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pupils of primary and secondary school

PROJECTS in advance

CYCLOID
The project consists of 4 meetings where up and coming artists are gathered
together to premiere new shows. The mentioned performances explore forms
of interaction between contemporary music and other different artistic
disciplines (theatre, dance, video art and word). Furthermore, it is designed
as a space to provide artists with training and exchange knowledge between
experts and new players.
CYCLOID is developed together by Vertixe Sonora (Galicia, Spain) Gard du
Nord (Basel, Switerland), Institut fr Elektronische Musik und Akustik IEM
(Graz, Austria), sound and music (London, UK), Sonic Arts Research Centre,
(Belfast, UK) e sofa music de (Oslo, Noruega).

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DOCUMENTARIES
Correspondencias Sonoras by Manuel del Ro (2013)

Correspondencias Sonoras is a feature documentary that follows the day to

day Vertixe Sonora Ensemble. Filmed in the Galician Centre for
Contemporary Art in 2012 includes interviews, concerts, conferences,
exhibitions ...
Composers such as Ramn Souto, David Hernndez Ramos, Javier G.
Compean, Nadir Vassena, Sivan Cohen-Elias, Teresa Carrasco, Oriol
Saladrigues Angel Faraldo, James Gaspar, Alexander Khubeev, Esaias
Jrnegard, reflect on art, the relationship with the public, listening, and a must
for the music of our time given.

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SonUTopias by Simn Vzquez (2014)

Documentary about sonUTopias 2013 the joint project of the Atlas Ensemble
of Amsterdam and Vertixe Sonora in the frame of the European project
campuSCulturae University of Santiago

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LIST OF WORKS COMMISSIONED and PREMIERED BY

VERTIXE SONORA
(alphabetic order)
2011
Fsun Koksal (Turkey, 1973)
Deux visions por cinq instruments (2011) [sx,vn,vc,pno,perc]
18th Xullo 2011 Auditorio CGAC, Santiago de Compostela.Via Stellae Festival
Ramn Souto (Spain, 1976)
Detrito monocroma (2011) [sx,tb,vn,vc,pno,perc]
18 Xullo 2011, Via Stellae Festival, Auditorio CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
Diana Rotaru (Rumania, 1981)
OUL (2011) [sx,tb,vn,vc]
18th Xullo 2011, Via Stellae Festival, Auditorio CGAC , Santiago de Compostela
Mauricio Pauly (Costa Rica, 1976)
Apartamento polsen apartamento peterson (2011) [sx,vc,pno]
29th Novembro 2011, Auditorio CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea), Msica e Arte
Correspondencias Sonoras, Santiago de Compostela
Vctor Ibarra (Mexico, 1978)
Estudio sobre el gris y el verde (2011) [fl, sx, perc, pno, cello, double bass]
29th Novembro 2011 CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea), Msica e Arte Correspondencias
Sonoras, Santiago de Compostela
co apoio de FONCA (Mexico)
Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca (Spain, 1976)
MIMIC I,II,II (2011) [bfl]
29th Novembro 2011 CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea), Msica e Arte Correspondencias
Sonoras, Santiago de Compostela
Lula Romero (Spain, 1976)
Present/Absent (2011) [sx, perc, pno, cello, double bass]
29th Novembro 2011 CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea), Msica e Arte Correspondencias
Sonoras, Santiago de Compostela
George Dousis (Greece, 1975)
Storyteller (2011) [fl,sx,vc,db]
29th Novembro 2011 CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea), Msica e Arte Correspondencias
Sonoras, Santiago de Compostela
2012
Ramn Souto (Spain, 1976)
Apertas para Matta-Clark (2012) [fl,sx,e-guit,vla,perc]
5 Xuo 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea),
Santiago de Compostela

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Gonzlez Compen (Mexico, 1978)

Solo II (2012) [perc]
5th Xuo 2012, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea), Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras,
Santiago de Compostela
Hernndez Ramos (Mexico, 1975)
Chiaroscuro (2012) [fl,vla,perc]
5th Xuo 2012, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea), Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras,
Santiago de Compostela
co apoio de FONCA

Sivan Cohen-Elias (Israel, 1976)

To Move You Stay (2012) [cl,sx,vc,pno]
25th September 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte
Contempornea) Santiago de Compostela
Teresa Carrasco (Spain, 1980)
...tiempo (2012) [sx,pno,electronics]
25th September 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte
Contempornea) Santiago de Compostela
Oriol Saladrigues (Spain, 1975)
Marco que enmarca marco (2012) [sx,vc,electronics]
25th September 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte
Contempornea) Santiago de Compostela
Simone Movio (Italy, 1978)
Incanto III (2012) [sx,pno,perc]
27th Novembro 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte
Contempornea) Santiago de Compostela
Alexeer Khubeev (Russia, 1986)
eARTh* (2012) [s-sax,e-guit,db,pno,perc]
27th Novembro 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte
Contempornea) Santiago de Compostela
Matthias Kranebitter (Austria, 1980)
Denudationen 1-118 (2012) [sx,db,e-guit,pno,perc]
27th Novembro 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte
Contempornea) Santiago de Compostela
co apoio de Foro Cultural de Austria en Madrid

Essaias Jrnegard (Sweden, 1983)

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Hrt (2012) [sx,e-guit,perc]

27th Novembro 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte
Contempornea) Santiago de Compostela
Xacobe Gaspar Grandal (Spain, 1975)
Sombras de inverno (2012) [sx,db,pno,perc]
27th Novembro 2012, Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte
Contempornea) Santiago de Compostela
2013
Zesse Seglias (Greece, 1984)
Let de music go down (2013) [sx,bcl,tb,db,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 17th September 2013
Ramn Souto (Spain, 1976)
Durban (2013) [sx,e-guit,vc,pno,perc,elect]
15 March 2013 Festival SON, Fundacin Caja Madrid, Casa de las Alhajas, Madrid.
Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca (Spain, 1976)
ciudad a / ciudad b / ciudad ce hasta la zeta (retail, wholesale) (2013) [sx,e-guit,perc,electronics]
15th March 2013 Festival SON, Fundacin Caja Madrid, Casa de las Alhajas, Madrid.
Cem zelik (Turkey, 1983)
eternal curve (2013) [vc,pno,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 11th Xuo 2013
Hugo Morales (Mexico, 1979)
Generador1 (2013) [sx,vc,pno,perc,electr]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 8th Outubro 2013
Santiago Dez Fischer (Argentina, 1977)
Un jardn primitivo (2013) [sx,vc,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 8th Outubro 2013
Xacobe Gaspar Grandal (Spain, 1975)
Sombras de inverno II (2012-13) [sx,vc,pno,perc,electronics]
15th March 2013 Festival SON, Fundacin Caja Madrid, Casa de las Alhajas, Madrid.
Miguel Faras (Chile, 1983)
Palettes (2013) [sx,vc,pno,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 11th Xuo 2013
Martn Herraiz (Brasil, 1980)
Bajo el suelo (2013) [sx,bcl,tb,db]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 17th September 2013

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Hannes Kerschbaumer (Italy, 1981)

pedra.debris (2013) [sx,db,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 17th September 2013
Charles-Antoine Frchette (Canada, 1981)
Toposition(s)#3 (2013) [sx,vc,pno,perc,electronics]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 8th Outubro 2013
co apoio de McGIll University e Cirmmt research Center in Canada

Alireza Farhang (Iran, 1976)

When I do count the clock that tells the time (2013) [sx,vc,pno,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 8th Outubro 2013
2014
Alexeer Khubeev (Russia, 1986)
Sax of One (2014) [sx]
Aguzar o odo MARCO (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Vigo, 13th February 2014
Miguel Matamoro (Spain, 1991)
Outras illas (2014) [fl,sx,pno,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 25th Xuo 2014
Bernardo Barros (Brazil, 1980)
Spill (2013) [sx,vc,pno,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 25th Xuo 2014
Noriko Miura (Japan)
As imperceptibly as Grief [fl,cl,vl,vc]
Son[UT]opias Festival, Santiago de Compostela, 29th Xullo 2014
Hugo Morales (Mexico, 1979)
Estudio sobre el salto (2014) [1midikeyb,4performers,4 speakers]
Do Audible concert series. 19th Xuo 2014, Sala Emilia Pardo Bazn Edificio de Ferro do Campus de
Ourense da Uvigo.
Hugo Morales (Mexico, 1979)
Estudio sobre la carne (2014) [dancer and 2 speakers]
Do Audible concert series. Ourense, 19th Xuo 2014, Sala Emilia Pardo Bazn Edificio de Ferro do Campus
de Ourense da Uvigo.
Francisco Castillo (Mexico, 1983)
Ideario (2014) [fl,sx,vc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de

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Compostela, 25th Xuo 2014

Germn Alonso (Madrid, 1984)

Quando cli movendi sunt et terra (Cyanide Office for a New Millenium) (2014) para ensemble
[fl,sx,tr,hr,trbn,acc,e-guit,pno,perc,vl,vc,db]
II Xornadas de Msica Contempornea, Santiago de Compostela, Teatro Principal, 28th Outubro
co apoio de INAEM
Lula Romero (Spain, 1976)
El contento de la especulacin (2014) ensemble e electrnica [fl,sx,tr,hr,trbn,acc,e-guit,pno,perc,vl,vc,db]
II Xornadas de Msica Contempornea, Santiago de Compostela, Teatro Principal, 28 Outubro
co apoio de INAEM
Daniel Figols (Barcelona, 1980)
Blanc cass (2014) para ensemble[fl,sx,tr,hr,trbn,acc,e-guit,pno,perc,vl,vc,db]
II Xornadas de Msica Contempornea, Santiago de Compostela, Teatro Principal, 28th Outubro
co apoio de INAEM
Xon-Xil Lpez (Sarria, 1972)
Flame para ensemble y electrnica [fl,sx,e-guit,pno,perc,elect]
II Xornadas de Msica Contempornea, Santiago de Compostela, Teatro Principal, 28 Outubro
co apoio de INAEM
Xacobe Gaspar Grandal (Spain, 1975)
Rumor de fro (2014) [perc]
Carmelo Bernaola Festival 3 noviembre 2014 Conservatorio Jess Guridi de Vitoria
Joan Arnau Pmies (Espaa, 1988)
Produktionsmittel II (2014) [fl,hp,ac]
Festival VertixeVIGO, 6 de Novembro 2014
co apoio de Northwestern University e Culture Departament Generalitat de Catalunya

Valerio Sannicandro (Italia, 1971)

On Serra: A Book of Forms (2014) [ob,cl,sx,tr,trb,perc,electr]
12 de Novembro 2014 museo VERBUM Festival VertixeVIGO 14
co apoio de AMERICAN ACADEMY in ROME (AAR), affiliated fellow 2013

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Lorenzo Troiani (Italia, 1989)

Cratere (2014) para [e-guit.]
28 novembro 2014 Caf De Catro a Catro Vigo. Festival vertixeVIGO 14
Maxime Barthlemy (Paris, 1989)
Vertige des mots (2014) [sax, e-guit, electr]
28 novembro 2014 Caf De Catro a Catro Vigo Festival vertixeVIGO 14
Nacho Muoz (Madame cell) (Spain, 1967)
Improvisacin [fl,sx,acc,e-guit,hp,pno,perc,vl,vc]
30 Novembro 2014 La Caja.Festival VertixeVIGO14,
Henrik Denerin (Tanumshede/Sweden, 1978)
Rizhom (2014) [fl,sx,vc,pno,perc]
31 de Decembro 2014 La Caja, Vigo. Festival VertixeVIGO14
Vctor Ibarra (Mexico, 1978)
Homenaje a Francisco Toledo Concierto para saxofn y ensemble (2014) [fl,sx,acc,e-guit,hp,pno,perc,vl,vc]
30 Decembro 2014 La Caja. Festival VertixeVIGO14,
co apoio de FONCA (Mexico) e IBERMUSICAS (2014)

Benjamin Scheuer (Alemaa, 1987)

Serenaden (2014) [fl,sx,vl,hp,pno,electr]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 18 Novembro 2014
Sabrina Schroeder (Canada, 1979)
Stircrazer: Hammer + Flutter (2014) [sx,hp,pno,elec]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 18 Novembro 2014

Marek Poliks (USA, 1989)

burl ii (2014) [fl,vl,hp,pno]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 18 Novembro 2014

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Takuto Fukuda (Japan, 1984)

Centrifugal Melodies (2014) [fl,hp,pno,electronics]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 18th Novembro 2014
Stefan Beyer (Alemaa, 1981)
Mittel und Zwecke (Boulevard) (2014) [sx,ac,cb,e-guit,pno,perc]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 16 Decembror 2014/
co apoio de Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Santiago Quintns (Spain, 1978)

Brushes (2014) [sx,e-guit]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 16 de Decembro 2014
Lou Michelle (EE.UU., 1975)
Cactus (2014) [sx,e-guit,pno]
Msica e Arte Correspondencias Sonoras, CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea) Santiago de
Compostela, 16 de Decembro 2014

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VERTIXE SONORA is supported by

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CONTACT
info@vertixesonora.net
www.vertixesonora.net
Vertixe Sonora Ensemble
(0034)986128933/ (0034)687919769
canceleiro 16 2 B 36201 VIGO

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