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She emigrates to Spain in 1981, continues her dance training with central figures of flamenco dance: Mercedes y Albano, El Farruco and Manolo Marín. From 1983 she dances in the Tablao Flamenco Los Gallos in Seville and becomes assistant to Mario Maya, the leading protagonist of flamenco dance theatre, in his Centro Mario Maya with the Teatro Gitano Andaluz. At the 1984 Bienal Flamenca in Seville, she dances the role of the mother alongside Mario Maya in his piece 'Amargo'.
After many years of very successful work in Spain, she returned to Berlin in 1986. She gives workshops throughout Germany and other European countries and in 1990 opens the FlamencoStudio Amparo de Triana. She deepens her studies of the castanets with the method of Emma Maleras: completion of the 10th exam, diploma 'Concertista de Castañuelas' and certificate of pedagogy of the Asociación Cultural Emma Maleras, Barcelona. In January 2011 she founded the Castanets Choir Berlin with participants of her castanets groups and in 2017 the chamber music ensemble for concert castanets 'Ensemble Krótalo'.
Amparo de Triana
State certified dancer and dance teacher, flamenco dancer and concert castanet player.
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Since her return from Spain, she has performed and toured extensively with her own flamenco programmes and as a concert castanet virtuoso, including in November 2016 at the International Chamber Music Festival in Hamburg with the Wind Quintet of the ‘Staatskapelle Berlin’, in 2017 at the ‘Stuttgart Flamenco Festival’, in 2016 in Solothurn Concert Hall with the Symphony Orchestra of this city under the direction of Harald Siegel and at the ‘Maar Theatre’ in Vienna. Already in 1994 she participated as a castanet virtuoso in the recording of the CD Luigi Boccherini – Guitar Quintets by the Hugo Wolff Quartet with Walter Abt, guitar. And in 2024 she gave several very successful concerts in Japan.
She has written several scores for concert castanets, including polyphonic pieces for a castanet choir and the chamber music ensemble Krótalo.
Since 2018, many of these compositions have been published in the extensive series ‘Concert Castanets’, some in print and/or as e-books. In 2024, sound recordings of the pieces from volumes I – III were also released, with the following instrumentation:
Amparo de Triana – concert castanets
Yoshimi Ogawa – piano
These sound recordings and the sheet music volumes are available from the shop Concert Castanets on this website.
She has a very extensive repertoire of concert pieces for castanets from various musical genres: Classical works from early music to contemporary works, jazz, flamenco, world music and popular music.
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Amparo de Triana has collaborated with important musicians and flamenco artists:
Wind Quintet of the Staatskapelle Berlin, Hugo-Wolff Quartet, Walter Abt, Carmen Ledesma, Carmen Albéniz, La Farruca, La Pharaona, Juana Amaya, Manolete, Javier Cruz, Meme Reina, La Pelua, Gabriela Ortega, El Chocolate, Miguel Pérez, Rafael Riqueni, Rafael de Utrera, José Parrondo, Manolo Sevilla, Ramón and Diego Amador, Carlos Heredia, Manolo Limón, Rafael Fernández, Curro de Triana, …
Here are the most important engagements:
Philharmonie – Berlin, Deutsche Oper – Berlin, Akademie der Künste – Berlin, Konzertsaal der Hochschule der Künste – Berlin, Alte Oper – Frankfurt, Musikhalle – Hamburg, Liederhalle – Stuttgart, Theater am Aegi – Hannover, Carl-Orff-Saal im Gasteig – Munich, Tafelhalle – Nürnberg, the Lower Saxony Music Days, Opera Festival – Heidenheim, International Chamber Music Festival Hamburg. Tokyo – Opera City Concert Hall, Osaka – Fenice Sakay Hall.