The Galaico Brass Ensemble is composed of musicians from the nearly two-century-old Banda Artística de Merza, as well as faculty members and collaborators of the Galaico Brass Festival.Guadi Galego is one of the most distinctive, innovative, and influential artists in contemporary Galician music. A composer, performer, and producer, she has spent more than two decades building a unique body of work distinguished by its ability to connect tradition and modernity, emotion and experimentation, local identity and universal appeal. Her career began in 1997 as a member of Berrogüetto, a landmark group in European-rooted music with whom she recorded Viaxe por Urticaria (1999), Hepta (2001), and 10.0 (2006). These albums received numerous awards and international distinctions, including recognition as Best European Folk Group and a Latin Grammy nomination. At the same time, she developed several key projects that helped shape her artistic evolution, including Espido alongside Guillerme Fernández; Nordestin@s with Abe Rábade and Ugia Pedreira; and aCadaCanto, a collaborative project with Guillerme Fernández, Xabier Díaz, and Xosé Lois Romero. These experiences established her as an artist who understands music as a space for research, dialogue, and creative freedom. In 2009, she launched her solo career with Benzón, which received the Opinión Award for Best Galician Album of the Year. This was followed by Lúas de outubro e agosto (2014), O mundo está parado (2016)—which earned her the Martín Códax Music Award for Singer-Songwriter—, the EP Bóla de cristal (2018), Immersion (2019), Costuras (2020), Roibén (2022), and Pélago: Cuentos Oníricos, an intimate work that brought a creative chapter to a close. Throughout this journey, Guadi Galego has established a unique artistic voice within the Iberian music scene. Her work is characterized by a constant search for new sonic landscapes and a desire to expand the boundaries of Galician song, creating sound worlds in which the personal becomes collective and the intimate reaches a universal dimension. Her music is also a place of encounter. Collaborations with artists from different generations and backgrounds enrich a body of work that continues to evolve. This spirit of dialogue reaches one of its most ambitious expressions in Immersion, a multilingual project in which she revisits her repertoire alongside voices such as Iván Ferreiro, Vega, Andrés Suárez, Xabier Díaz, and Ana Bacalhau, among others, building bridges between languages, cultures, and sensibilities. Her career has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Martín Códax Music Award, the Galician Critics’ Award, the Rebulir Award for Galician Culture, and the Award for the Promotion of Spain’s Plural Linguistic Reality for Immersion. These distinctions reinforce her status as one of the key figures in contemporary Galician music. Beyond her recordings, her artistic vision gains a special strength on stage, where emotion and experimentation coexist within carefully crafted live performances. Productions such as Síntese Horizonte confirm her commitment to a living, ever-evolving form of artistic creation. Exceptional, restless, and deeply authentic, Guadi Galego is today one of the most inspiring and essential voices in the Galician musical landscape./p>

Rosa Cedrón is one of the most distinctive and recognizable voices in contemporary Galician music. A singer, cellist, and composer, she has spent more than three decades bringing Galician music to audiences around the world, combining the strength of tradition with the sensitivity of a deeply expressive performer. Classically trained, she began her career as a cellist before making the definitive transition to singing. Her joining Luar na Lubre marked a turning point in her artistic journey, as she took part in some of the group’s most emblematic recordings and contributed significantly to the international projection of Galician music. Her talent also attracted the attention of Mike Oldfield, with whom she collaborated on the recording of Tubular Bells III. In 2005, she embarked on a solo career that materialized with the release of Entre dous mares in 2007, followed by Nada que perder (2016) and Nómade (2021). Through these works, she has developed a unique artistic universe in which Galician roots engage in dialogue with classical music, world music, and contemporary creation. Over the years, she has collaborated on numerous projects and performances with a wide range of national and international artists. In 2024, she was appointed a full member of the Music Section of the Royal Galician Academy of Fine Arts, one of Galicia’s leading cultural institutions. Today, Rosa Cedrón continues to develop new artistic projects, maintaining her remarkable ability to move audiences and reaffirming her place as one of the most singular and admired figures in 21st-century Galician music./p>

The Municipal Music Band of Santiago de Compostela is one of the most emblematic musical institutions in Galicia. It was founded in 1848 as a musical group linked to the hospice, until in 1876, under the management of the City Council, a progressive process of professionalization began. Currently it is an artistic and musical service with a great presence and importance in the cultural life of the city of Compostela. Its activity focuses on the programming of weekly seasonal symphonic concerts (Auditorio de Galicia, Teatro Principal and Plaza de Platerías), which are combined with pedagogical and social projects, and artistic collaborations with different institutions, organizations and associations, as well as with the protocol and institutional events of the city. Outside the city, he also maintains a very active participation in other artistic projects and musical festivals of relevance in the Galician territory. All types of repertoires have a place in their programming, from the tradition of transcriptions or historical band repertoire, to original music and contact with other genres and styles. In this sense, the commitment to Galician musical heritage stands out, actively promoting the dissemination of the Galician classical repertoire, with the aim of offering new life to the most historical compositions, and also frequently programming absolute premieres and more contemporary works. On this occasion he will accompany Alfonso González, Berthold Stecher, Achilles Liarmakopoulos and Perry Hoogendijk