The violist Raquel Roldán is the winner of Becatalaiotica 2023 with "Mort d'una ànima". This was announced during the closing ceremony of the seventh edition of the competition, which took place today, July 10, in Torralba d'en Salort. Roldán, who was unable to collect the award in person, wins a 2,000-euro grant, the prize of this competition organised by the Associació d'Amics del Museu de Menorca with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Consell Insular and the collaboration of the Fundació Illes Balears. The event was attended by the conseller of Cultural Affairs, Joan Pons Torres, who gave the award to Miquel López, representative of Roldán and winner of Becatalaiotica 2022.
The proposal by Roldán (Tarragona, 2000) consisted of a solo viola concert in the necropolis of Cala Morell, which brought together some sixty people who enjoyed a magical spectacle. The passage of time, life and death were the guiding threads of the musical programme of eight classical pieces presented by the violist, a study of anachronisms between space and sonority.
Around fifty people were able to enjoy the closing event, which included an exhibition of the objects used in Becatalaiotica 2023 and the repetition of the winning event of 2022: "Tala-tic-tac", by Miquel López. This student of Archaeology at the University of Barcelona and musician has brought us closer to a new way of disseminating the history of a stone that has lived in silence the passage of time.
Becatalaiotica is a cultural project of Amics del Museu de Menorca that aims to reclaim the island's landscape as a source of inspiration and to discover new ways of experiencing and disseminating it. People between the ages of 18 and 28 who are studying or who want to study are eligible to apply. The aim is to create free, innovative and original events or activities at different sites in Talayotic Menorca. The public attending the events is responsible for evaluating and voting on the proposals; the winner receives a €2,000 study grant.