{{Short description|Spanish youth percussion orchestra}} {{Multiple issues| {{notability|Music|date=June 2013}} {{self-published|date=June 2013}} }}
[[Image:Percujove Concierto en el teatro Jovellanos Gijon 2006.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Concert at Jovellanos Theatre, Gijón (Spain), April 2006]]
'''Percujove''' ({{IPA|ca-valencia|ˌpeɾkuˈdʒove}}) is a youth [[percussion instrument|percussion]] [[orchestra]]. Created in June 2003, today it is composed of 25 young musicians, students of the [[José Iturbi]] [[Conservatorium]] of [[Valencia]], Spain. The ensemble's conductor is Salvador Pelejero, of the Conservatorium.
Percujove is perhaps the only youth percussion orchestra in Europe.
[[Image:Percujove Sergi a la bateria.jpg|thumb|right|175px|Sergi in concert: 26 July 2006 in [[Figueres]], Spain]] They have offered performances all around Europe, with concerts in [[Montpellier]], [[Lyon]], [[Copenhagen]], [[Brussels]], at the [[European Parliament]] in [[Strasbourg]], at the [[European Space Agency]] in Noorwijk (Netherlands), and other concerts in Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Norway, [[Slovenia]], [[Slovakia]], Belgium, Poland and Spain.
Percujove has also participated at the following [[music festival]]s:
*14th Festival des Musiques d'Ici et d'Ailleurs de Châlons-en-Champagne (France).[https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213826/http://www.musiques-ici-ailleurs.com/2005/semaine2005_4.htm] *11th Festival "Musique en vacances" de La Ciotat (France) *"Les Dimanches de l'Ile Barbe" de Lyon (France) *"Teatre,Música i Dansa a la Fresca" de Figueres ([[Girona]], Spain) (2004–2006) *18th Setmana Internacional de Música (Setmana Jove) de [[Dénia]] ([[Alicante]], Spain) *Esbjerg Festuge Festival 2007 ([[Esbjerg]], Denmark) *Internasjornale Rytme & Dans Fest 2007 (Homborsund and [[Grimstad]], Norway) *43rd [[Győr]] Summer - International Cultural Festival (Hungary) *Summer Festival [[Velenje]] 2008 (Slovenia) *[[Pohoda]] Festival 2008 and 2009 in [[Trenčín]] ([[Slovakia]])[https://web.archive.org/web/20131005034210/http://www.pohodafestival.sk/index.php/news/1497/276/Percujove-ceremonial-opening-as-it-should-be/] *Lipcowy Music Fest 2008 and 2009 in [[Katowice]] (Poland),[http://mojekatowice.pl/p,s,403960,o,listing_informacji,id_kat,297230,id_informacji,327459.html] *34th Summer of Culture Festival [[Bratislava]] 2009 (Slovakia)[https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215627/http://www.bkis.sk/kultura-v-bratislave/archiv-festivalu-kulturne-leto-a-hradne-slavnosti/kulturne-leto-a-hradne-slavnosti-bratislava-2009/aktuality/medzinarodna-bratislava/percujove-esp/] *15th Christopher Summer Festival 2009 in [[Vilnius]] ([[Lithuania]]) *3rd International Arts Festival 2009 in [[Mažeikiai]] (Lithuania) *8th [[Dzūkija|Dainava]] music land festival 2009 in [[Alytus]] (Lithuania)
The ensemble performs pieces from many musical genres in its concerts, adapted by the group: [[baroque]], [[Vals Criollo|vals]], [[foxtrot]], [[blues]], and also [[zarzuela]], [[pasodoble]] and other Spanish and [[Latin America|Latino]] rhythms.
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060905040113/http://www.percujove.es/ Official website]
[[Category:Percussion ensembles]] [[Category:Culture of the Valencian Community]] [[Category:Spanish musical groups]]