The architect from Tudela, Rafael Moneo, opened the second edition of the annual cycle "Cartographies of Music" in a meeting-concert with the composer from Alsasuarra, Agustín González Acilu. The musical composer, director of orchestra and professor at Musikene, the Higher Music Center of the Basque Country, Joseba Torre (Bilbao, 1968) is the coordinator of this cycle, which pays tribute to the most prestigious international artists and creators and offers a journey through the most important artistic territories after the pictorial emergence of the avant-garde of the 20th century. The cycle is directed by José Manuel Garrido, member of the artistic direction of the Museo Universidad de Navarra.

"The cycle aims to bring music closer to everyone, whatever their level of knowledge or age, as it is open to all generations. The Museum's programming is not intended to fill a container, but always has a substrate connected to our Collection, in one way or another. The story is then sample in the form of music, cinema, exhibitions, etc. The lines can already be perceived, but the Museum is only one year old and this path will certainly become clearer in the future. No activity is, therefore, casual. The members of the artistic direction consider ourselves to be storytellers rather than programmers," said José Manuel Garrido at press conference.

"Cartografías de la música" began with a tribute to Agustín González Acilu, in a meeting with his friend Rafael Moneo. Both international Navarrese, both winners of the award Príncipe de Viana, their professional careers crossed in the beginnings of a shared training in Italy. During the colloquium, Moneo's architecture and Acilu's musical architecture were linked. In addition, the performers of the Trio Arbós (award National Music 2013) will perform three pieces, as well as the world premiere of the composition by González Acilu dedicated to Belén Feduchi Benlliure, Moneo's wife.

On Thursday, March 3, the renowned expert in video art, Ana de Alvear, presented the contemporary art production George's Odyssey, a visual story about the adventure of a robot. The projection will be accompanied by musical compositions by 11 prestigious composers, from 7 different countries, performed live by the Trio Arbós (award Nacional de la Música 2013). "In George's Odyssey, Ana de Alvear has made a work multidisciplinary , as is the University of Navarra Museum itself. She joins the efforts of very important and international great composers with her video and photographic work ", explained Joseba Torre. The artist has exhibited her videos and installations at the Aoyama Cultural Salon in Tokyo, the Waterman's Art Centre in London, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

A week later, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra performed at the Museum conducted by Íñigo Pirfano and featuring mezzo-soprano Ainhoa Zubillaga. Pirfano is the founder and director conductor of the Orquesta Académica de Madrid, for which he was awarded the award Liderazgo Joven 2011 by the Fundación Rafael del Pino. Structured around the concept of Earth, which makes reference letter to the richness of a constitutive diversity, the symphonic program is composed of Guridi's El Caserío (prelude to Act II); Falla's El Amor Brujo, with soloist Ainhoa Zubillaga; and Dvorák's Symphony No. 7 in D minor op. 70.

On Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12, the Museum's exhibition halls once again became music halls with the show Mapas sonoros (Sound Maps). The Ensemble Garaikideak moved short musical pieces to form a musical journey ranging from the Baroque to recent works, allowing to experience four different proposals articulated on different artistic languages. "Sound Maps constitutes a mixture of transversality of elements and eclecticism taken to its maximum exponent", stated the coordinator of the cycle. Works from Mozart, Beethoven and Bach to current creations. On the first day, a trio of soprano, flute and harp was performed, and on the second day, a saxophone duet. "We have thought the program according to each conference room of the collection of Maria Josefa Huarte, selecting musical pieces according to each painting, each sculpture," confessed Joseba Torre. A repertoire that includes a premiere composed expressly for these meetings by the virtuoso cellist and composer David Johnstone.

On Tuesday, March 15, the Museum brought a contemporary opera to the theater for the first time. Three wastes in opera form reflects on the role of this musical genre and breaks the barriers of elitism that characterize it so much, to bring it closer to the general public. "The work flees from the grandiloquence of classical operas to relate everyday events that take place in a street and with which we can identify," explained coordinator of the cycle.

And close to Holy Week, sacred music in the function that, under the generic name "Musicae Artis", closes this second edition with the performance in the campus of 120 auroros of Santa María la Real, in Pamplona, Olite and Peralta. It was on Thursday, March 17. The Museum thus recovered a tradition that dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries and is still alive in regions such as Navarre and Murcia. "The eternal is the modern. That is why the cycle ends with this traditional concert that reinforces and gives meaning to the contemporary shows that will have followed one after another previously in the cycle," explained José Manuel Garrido. The performance included the premiere of an Aurora dedicated to La Virgen del Amor Hermoso of the University of Navarra, created by Jesús Tanco, who is also coordinating this performance. The performers will be located at different points of the campus of the University of Navarra (Shrine of Our Lady of Fair Love, Wayside Cross del Camino de Santiago and Patio del Central Building) to collect the different audiences until they reach the Museum. Once there, they will sing several auroras in the exhibition rooms and will finish their concert in the Museum's theater.