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The English classical music teacher, Cat Jary, founded in the festival in Ferreirola 13 years ago to promote culture, music and tourism in one of the beauty spots in the Alpujarra.
Jul 4, 2016 - 11:48 AM
Found dead in her home in the Alpujarra the creator of the Music in the Mountains Festival
The English classical music teacher, Cat Jary, founded in the festival in Ferreirola 13 years ago to promote culture, music and tourism in one of the beauty spots in the Alpujarra.
Jul 4, 2016 - 11:48 AM
La Alpujarra has lost Cat Jary, a prestigious English music teacher who established a new environment in the small locality of Ferreirola, which belongs to the municipality of La Tahá de Pitres.
It seems, Cat was found dead in her bathroom, with an inhaler in her hand. 46 year old Cat Jary, achieved through the Music in the Mountains Festival, to attract to Spain grand artists and groups to offer classical music in the communal era and in the squares of the villages in the Alpujarra, with the intention to construct a strong cultural base in the region and to promote classical music.
Cat Jary wanted her festival to be altruistic and independent. Musicians of international fame, choruses, orchestras from other countries and local groups have been performing for years in one of the most picturesque parts of the Alpujarra and in other areas in Granada.
Cat managed, via her festivals, to fuse culture, music, tourism and the economy in her loved Alpujarra. John, a neighbour from Capilerilla, worked altruistically with Cat to produce and record the performances.
According to some of the neighbours in Ferreirola ‘Cat Jary was a charming woman, who lived alone and only for music. She loved playing her grand piano and other instruments. Recently she returned to England to offer several concerts. Last Wednesday we saw her arrive in the village, and on Friday when a girlfriend rung her phone she failed to answer, and her car was parked outside and her dog was inside her home, I called the Guardia Civil and shortly after they called the forensic and a vehicle to take the cadaver to the Granada Forensic Anatomical Institute.
A neighbour of Ferreirola, Francisco Pérez, also indicated ‘Cat was a marvellous being, who took her music to all the places in the Alpujarra and other areas. The last time I spoke to her was last Wednesday. I remembered that once I gave her part of my ground so she could cultivate vegetables with my help, and she loved working the earth. Once Cat discovered that my wife, Francisca López, offered massages and that she was also a masseur assisted my wife for two months for free. Cat, in Ferreirola, will always be remembered because she taught us how to love music in our own backyard and to be tolerant with our peculiarities. Now we await news from her family to ask where she should be laid to rest’, he lamented.
The history of Cat with the Alpujarra dates back two decades after she spent a weekend in the Granada district. Then, an old idea from this Londoner she projected inside her head like a series of perfect slides in motion. ‘I saw the ages and the mountains, which for me were perfect platforms for concerts’, she commented in an interview with IDEAL some years ago.
Everybody thought it was a good idea and in 2004 British musicians travelled from Pitres, Almuñécar and Granada to give first life to Music in the Mountains, the festival which captured a cellist who had just completed his own project. Now, with more than a decade of life, the Festival brings together a wide section of music lovers.
Cat Jary at home - Photo Rafa Vílchez - ideal.es
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It seems, Cat was found dead in her bathroom, with an inhaler in her hand. 46 year old Cat Jary, achieved through the Music in the Mountains Festival, to attract to Spain grand artists and groups to offer classical music in the communal era and in the squares of the villages in the Alpujarra, with the intention to construct a strong cultural base in the region and to promote classical music.
Cat Jary wanted her festival to be altruistic and independent. Musicians of international fame, choruses, orchestras from other countries and local groups have been performing for years in one of the most picturesque parts of the Alpujarra and in other areas in Granada.
Cat managed, via her festivals, to fuse culture, music, tourism and the economy in her loved Alpujarra. John, a neighbour from Capilerilla, worked altruistically with Cat to produce and record the performances.
According to some of the neighbours in Ferreirola ‘Cat Jary was a charming woman, who lived alone and only for music. She loved playing her grand piano and other instruments. Recently she returned to England to offer several concerts. Last Wednesday we saw her arrive in the village, and on Friday when a girlfriend rung her phone she failed to answer, and her car was parked outside and her dog was inside her home, I called the Guardia Civil and shortly after they called the forensic and a vehicle to take the cadaver to the Granada Forensic Anatomical Institute.
A neighbour of Ferreirola, Francisco Pérez, also indicated ‘Cat was a marvellous being, who took her music to all the places in the Alpujarra and other areas. The last time I spoke to her was last Wednesday. I remembered that once I gave her part of my ground so she could cultivate vegetables with my help, and she loved working the earth. Once Cat discovered that my wife, Francisca López, offered massages and that she was also a masseur assisted my wife for two months for free. Cat, in Ferreirola, will always be remembered because she taught us how to love music in our own backyard and to be tolerant with our peculiarities. Now we await news from her family to ask where she should be laid to rest’, he lamented.
The history of Cat with the Alpujarra dates back two decades after she spent a weekend in the Granada district. Then, an old idea from this Londoner she projected inside her head like a series of perfect slides in motion. ‘I saw the ages and the mountains, which for me were perfect platforms for concerts’, she commented in an interview with IDEAL some years ago.
Everybody thought it was a good idea and in 2004 British musicians travelled from Pitres, Almuñécar and Granada to give first life to Music in the Mountains, the festival which captured a cellist who had just completed his own project. Now, with more than a decade of life, the Festival brings together a wide section of music lovers.
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