The pianist Dante Boon and Trío O3 star in the CentroCentro music program in March

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·On March 16, VANG VI presents the Dutch pianist Dante Boon with a program with works by John Cage and the performer himself

·On March 29, the Absences cycle will feature Trío O3 in a concert with two premieres in Spain and free improvisation

·On March 22, the Auditorium hosts a new appointment of the musical cycle in collaboration with the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid and the María de Ávila Conservatory of Dance

On Thursday, March 16, the second concert of the sixth edition of VANG is held at CentroCentro, a space of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Madrid City Council. Vanguard music. Curated by Sergio Luque and Victor Barceló, this cycle proposes an approach to pieces that take advantage of the power of music to transform our perception and alter our state of consciousness.

On this occasion, it will feature the Dutch composer and pianist Dante Boon, who will perform two works by John Cage –Etudes Australes and ASLP– and his own work Dreamings, in a concert about resonances and maps, the dream time of the Australian aborigines and the sky. from the southern hemisphere. Dutch pianist and composer Dante Boon was born in Haarlem and educated at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

He is a member of the Wandelweiser collective and has specialized in the performance of experimental music for piano. He has recorded music by many composers, including Tom Johnson, Philip Corner, Rozalie Hirs, John Cage, Jürg Frey, Antoine Beuger, Samuel Vriezen, Morton Feldman, Richard Ayres, and others. Boon's own compositions have been performed internationally by numerous artists and ensembles. On March 29, the second concert of Absences will take place, a cycle of CentroCentro's own production, curated by Desclasificados.

Trio O3, formed by Esteban Algora, accordion; Alessandra Rombolà, flute and Ingar Zach, percussion; will offer the concert Sobre terreno inólito with a repertoire that combines written works with free improvisation. Each artist will present a work in solo format, with two Spanish premieres, interspersed with improvisations by the trio as a whole. The work Répétitions II by the Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal, is commissioned by Alessandra Rombolà herself and will be performed for the first time in Spain. In the work Snefru, the composer Alejandro Posadas establishes a relationship between architecture and music.

Snefru, the pharaoh who is considered decisive in Egyptian architectural evolution, was the one who commissioned the pyramid that serves as inspiration for Posadas's work. The composer uses the measurements of the pyramid to build the musical discourse of the work. Finally, Ingar Zach will perform a piece of her own in which she explores alternative percussion techniques and sounds. Tickets for both concerts are available at centrocentro.org. (Entrance: €5)

Collaboration with the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid As part of the cycle in collaboration with the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, on March 22, at 7:00 p.m., the Auditorium will host the concert Los ojos de la piel with the instrumental quartet Ensemble Opus 22 and dancers from the Conservatory of Music. Dance Maria de Avila. Admission is free until full capacity.