The website also features a restricted zone exclusively for members, giving the ensembles presently making up AEGIVE access to the Association’s services, as well as the databases of festivals and programmers, auditoriums and concert halls, the possibility of sending press releases via media databases, or posting information about grants and subsidies from the INAEM and other public administrations.

The website, which aspires to become a source of information for all the activity of the associated ensembles, is, like the association itself, open to other Spanish performers and groups, who are welcome to send AEGIVE information about their concerts and other activities. Among the latest ensembles to have joined AEGIVE are Tendre Amour, Tasto Solo and Arte Factum.

The ensemble Tendre Amor was founded by the harpsichordist Esteban Mazer in 2002. Its headquarters are in Barcelona and the group’s name comes from a dominant theme in the music and literature Louis XIV of France admired and promoted. Tendre Amour is interested in learning about the essence and richness of this music using period instruments and the appropriate performing practice.

The group’s line-up is flexible, although some of its regular performers include: María Hinojosa, soprano; Guadalupe del Moral, Farran James and Ayako Matsunaga, baroque violin; Kathryn Elkin, oboe; Ingrid Viñals, baroque cello; and Sebastien Perrin, flute. For its part, according to its founder and director Guillermo Pérez, Tasto Solo was created “with the intention of delving into the keyboard repertoire and the keyboard instruments of the 14th and 15th centuries, an extremely rich musical and organological world that is practically unknown, a real challenge when one has to fight against the prejudice of the more “classical” keyboard world, which generally underrates its own roots…”.

The most recent group to have become part of AEGIVE is the Andalusian ensemble Arte Factum, which forms part of the Zanfoñamovil project, which is defined as “a company formed with the objective of creating, fusing and disseminating music and culture” and which not only includes musicians, but creators from other artistic disciplines.

The group specialises in medieval music, and their innovative concerts, aspire to emulate a journey back to the Middle Ages. The group, based on Seville, is made up of a “regular core” consisting of six musicians, led by Álvaro Garrido. The new website will help to reinforce all the groups’ communication and publicity activities and represents a key element in both the internal and external communication of the members of the Association.

Since the creation of AEGIVE at the end of April this year, various projects have been set up and are currently in force, such as meetings with the Instituto Nacional para las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (INAEM), as well as the arts councils of the different Autonomous Communities whose groups form part of the Association.