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Introduction

The Music Seminar of the University of Alcalá is integrated within the General Foundation of the University and at the same time, it's a Vice-Rector's Office on Cultural and University Extracurricular Activities Department dependency. Since 1990, the Music Seminar of the University of Alcalá organises cultural activities fulfilling a double purpose: to be a meeting and specialisation place for professionals of the music field, and to be at the same time a centre for the diffusion of music through the different activities addressed to the general public. 

Objectives

From its creation, it has turned into a reference institution for all those who are in contact with music at a national and international level. And an institution which many of the most prestigious professionals of the field have passed by. On the other hand, and through activities that are free and open to everybody, it is also a place for the spreading of culture known by the inhabitants of Alcalá and a place that tries to better understand and to bring closer some of the cultural events that occur around us. 

Activities

The work that the Music Seminar carries out is very varied and covers several sections: Courses on Musical Specialisation, library, publications, concerts, auditions and collaborations.

• Under the title of Courses on Musical Specialisation for Postgraduates, a series of monographic courses have been programmed since 1990. They're given by professionals of great renown and addressed to teachers and high-level students.

• The library belonging to the Music Seminar of the University of Alcalá allows the Seminar to offer its students a total of 1,177 books. The catalogue that covers the contents of this library is composed of reference works, specialised books and magazines, as well as monographic books.

• One of the most remarkable activities carried out by the Music Seminar is the publication of the four-monthly Quodlibet Magazine, in which articles on research of current musical topics and translations of articles already published in other magazines are published. This magazine, that can be obtained by subscription, involves a means of participation in the musicology research field, which is still originating in Spain. It also allows to bring works by professionals from other countries closer thanks to the translations. It also facilitates the publication of works by Spanish composers in an offprint.

• From 2001 and also linked to the previous activity, the Music Seminar publishes the collection A Tempo. Its first number is the translation of the volume dedicated to the Spanish composer José Luis de Delás, from the German series Musik-konzepte published by the publishing company text+kritik from Munich.

• Addressed to the general public and free are the concerts given in the main hall of the Music Seminar, sometimes managed by the Seminar itself and some others organised by different institutions. But all aiming at bringing the music closer to all those interested and enthusiastic about it.

• Likewise, in the Seminar music auditions are held. They try to achieve a better understanding of the music phenomenon, often considered elitist and complex. For that reason, specialised teachers in the subject add some theory explanations to the auditions, addressed to the general public.

• Finally, the Music Seminar collaborates in the celebration of several activities with different departments in the University and with different institutions. These collaborations may be carried out in different ways: organising concerts, loaning the Main Hall to musical bands, celebrating the Cultural Week of the Conservatory of Alcalá de Henares, giving concerts for other institutions like the Friends Association of the University, the University Complutense, etc.

 And last, highlight the fact that the direction relies on the counselling of a very prestigious team of collaborators that endorses and guarantees the quality of the programme carried out by the Music Seminar, and in short, the quality of the organisation and production of all its musical activities. That team is made up by Almudena Cano, co-creator of the Musical Specialisation Courses and of the Quodlibet Magazine, professor of piano in the Royal Superior Music Conservatory in Madrid; and by José Luis de Delás, composer of great renown in the national and international music scene, and also teacher of composition and analysis since 1993 in the Musical Specialisation Courses of the Music Seminar of the University of Alcalá. 

Music Seminar

Vice-director:

Mª José Colorado Heras

Collaborator:

Verónica López Skapin
Alicia Lucena Córdoba
Colegio Convento de San Basilio Magno
10 Colegios st. 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
Ph# 91 878 81 28 Fax# 91 880 29 11
E-mail Seminar: aulademusica@musicalcala.com
Web: http://www.musicalcala.com