The Plenary of the Municipal Corporation today approved the prizes awarded in each edition Jazz festivals, and Theatre, Music and Dance, which this year will be given to saxophonist and composer, Pedro Iturralde, and actor and theater director, José María Pou, respectively.
The Award XVI International Jazz Festival San Javier will pick saxophonist and composer, Pedro Iturralde for his role in the history of jazz in Spain, which was pioneered in the 60s and 70s with Tete Montoliu.
Main Founder flamenco-jazz, saxophone virtuoso Navarre has received numerous awards and recognitions from institutions of all kinds, and the Jazz Festival of San Javier, which has always recognized the merits of Spanish jazz, not to overemphasize Figure of Pedro Iturralde to collect the Prize on 20 July when a quartet perform at the Festival.
The actor and theater director, José María Pou receive the Award of the 44th International Festival of Theatre, Music and Dance, which he will open next August 3 with his latest directorial effort, "Fireworks", with texts by Marguerite Yourcenar and Carmen Machi, Cayetana Guillen Cuervo, Ana Torrent and Nathalie Poza in the cast.
José María Pou, who visited the festival with one of his greatest successes as a director and actor "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?" By Edward Albee, is now receiving the award for Lifetime Achievement in the theater demanding and rigorous, where he began in 1968 on the orders of Adolf Marsillachs in "Marat Sade", representing the following 40 releases, plus many other titles on television, and movies despite never did leave a good theater project, with the exception of "Friend / Beloved "Ventura Pons.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier