INSTITUTIONAL GREETINGS
Sociedad Musical Nueva Artística de Anna HISTORY OF THE BAND The historical evidence shows that the Anna wind band was active before the official date of its foundation. There are documented references to the band taking part in the opening of the municipal cemetery on 29 May 1890, as well as participating in shows organized by the Sociedad Recreativa de Anna. However, it was on 3 November 1920 when a group of people led by Bautista Durá Soler decided to formalize the wind band's activities, naming it the "Sociedad filarmónica banda Nueva Artística". The inclusion of "new" in its name demonstrates the band's desire to differentiate itself from another group of musicians. The band's first director was Adrián Peiró, a great music-lover who was a member of the first small ensemble. Later in the same decade he was succeeded by Hermenegildo Lerma and Benito Cabezas. From early 1930 to 1939, Vicente Miralles was director. After the Civil War the band reformed and Germán Sanchis Morell took up the baton. He was followed by Vicente García Bou, who stayed in the post until 1952. The following directors were: Vicente Marín Sanz, Ferran J. Miralles i Martínez, Joaquín Romero, Manuel Mondejar and Germán Nogués Suey, the current director of band. The current president is Rafael Camarena García. The many prizes the band has won during the course of its long history include:
BIOGRAPHY OF THE CONDUCTOR Germán Nogués SueyGermán Nogués Suey was born in Carlet (Valencia) into a musical family. It was here that he began to study music with his father's guidance and with his teachers Ernesto Lluch and José Simón. He continued his studies in the Valencia Superior Conservatory of Music, where he received his qualifications as a flute teacher, working with the following teachers: Enrique Forés, Jesús Campos and Mª Dolores Tomás.He has taken part in numerous specialist courses and courses in new techniques taught by prestigious figures such as Magdalena Martínez, Andrés Carreres and Raymond Guiot. In the field of wind band conducting he has received wise advice from Pascual Balaguer Echevarría and Rafael Sanz Espert. He has also taken part in numerous conducting courses taught by the following renowned professionals: José Albero, Jose Mª Cervera Collado, Jan Cober and Rafael Sanz Espert. He has attended specialist courses in youth orchestra conducting at the University of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) imparted by the German teacher, Alexander C. Maschat. He is sub-director of the Agrupación Musical "La Artística" of Carlet, with which he won first prize in the Mallorca National Contest. He has been the principal conductor of La Unió Musical of Beniarbeig (Alicante), the Agrupación Musical Eslava of Albuixech (Valencia), and l'Associació Musical Filharmónica Alcudiana of L'Alcudia (Valencia), with which he won second prize in the International Wind Band Contest "City of Valencia". He has been the guest conductor of the Agrupación de Músicos Veteranos of la Ribera del Xúquer. He has also been the principal conductor of the orchestra and wind band of Sociedad Unió Musical d'Alberic (Valencia). He has been guest conductor of the Sociedad Musical Turisense of Turís (Valencia) and since 2003 he has been the principal conductor of the Sociedad Musical "Nueva Artística" of Anna (Valencia). |
