Orchestra director Juanjo Mena announces his retirement due to advanced Alzheimer’s disease

Orchestra director Victorian Juanjo Mena (1965) he announced it this year he will leave the stage in the finalthrough the advances of Alzheimer’s disease, which is ongoing. In an extended statement, the man recalled that more than a year the diagnostician was publicly revealed after various medical tests confirmed the first symptoms, and returned to a similar musical to assume that it would be “the hardest step of your direct life.

Mena admits that the situation has changed since then the worst forced her to make “important decisions”while she is converting the concerts of this period to her order: they will be the last she directs, she says, adding that “every score has a written ending”. A “difficult but very thoughtful” decision he had to personally communicate to the public.

The maestro planted these last compromises as an expression of gratitude and a celebration of his own four decades of car rentalHere we appreciate first of all the support and patience of his family and secondly the support of the public, orchestras and every musician and professional he worked with. Of all, he says to take some of his best memories: “playing good music together and enjoying the fireplace”.

In this message, Mena insists on the idea he has always defended: “music as an exchange of energy, as an invisible passage between performers and audience”. So that one of their next concerts can be experienced as an “authentic celebration with music at the center”.

To date, there are at least two concerts with the OBC at the Auditori de Barcelona for the March finale, various symphonic concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid at the National Auditorium from March to June, and other programs with European orchestras such as the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana.