2001-2005 IOHIO Festivals

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

Part II, March 11-14, 2005

CONCERTS

  • March 11 –  Robert Bates (USA), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • March 12 – Ensamble Clérambault (Mexico), Vincent Touzet, transverse flute, Norma García, harpsichord, Gabriela Villa, viola da gamba, Santo Domingo Cultural Center 

  • March 13 – Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (Italy), San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

LECTURES WITH MUSICAL DEMONSTRATIONS

  • March 12 – Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, “Francisco Correa de Arauxo and the Tiento de Medio Registro´,” with Robert Bates, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • March 14 – Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, “Girolamo Frescobaldi and Classic Italian Organ Practice”, with José Suárez, Tlacochahuaya

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

Part I, November 19-22, 2004

CONCERTS

  • November 19 – Horacio Franco, recorder, José Suárez, harpsichord (Mexico), Santo Domingo Cultural Center

  • November 20 – Jacques van Oortmerssen (Netherlands), San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • November 21 – “Voces de Sor Juana” Ensemble, Rafael Cárdenas (Mexico), organ, Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan 

  • November 21 – Víctor Urbán (Mexico), organ, Alfredo Ruiz (Oaxaca), trumpet, Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • November 21 – Jacques van Oortmerssen (Netherlands), San Andrés Zautla

  • November 22 – “Capilla Virreinal de la Nueva España,” Aurelio Tello, director (Mexico), Basílica de la Soledad  

THIRD INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

November 13-17, 2003

The first two festivals featured the organ as a solo instrument, but this year the organ was presented as an ensemble instrument as well, so that some concerts included singers and other instruments. To reflect this more diverse programming, the title of the Festival was changed from “International Festival of Organ Music” to “International Organ and Early Music Festival.”

CONCERTS

  • November 13 – Guido Iotti (harpsichord), Santo Domingo Cultural Center 

  • November 14 – Lynn Edwards Butler (Canada), with the participation of Israel Rivera Pérez, tenor (Oaxaca), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • November 15 – Eliseo Martínez García, Edward Pepe, Cicely Winter (Oaxaca), Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • November 15 – Lourdes Ambriz, soprano, José Suárez, organ (Mexico), San Andrés Zautla

  • November 16 – Guido Iotti, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • November 17 – “Ensamble de Cámara de México”, Juan Ignacio Corpus, director (Mexico), Rafael Cárdenas, organ, Basílica de la Soledad

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • Visits to four unrestored organs

  • Opportunity for organists to play three organs

  • November 16 – Christoph Metzler (organ builder, Switzerland) and Fritz Noack (USA), president of the International Society of Organ builders (ISO), congratulated the IOHIO for its work and specifically on its caution in avoiding unnecessary interventions. 

SECOND INTERNATIONAL ORGAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

November 21-24, 2002

The enthusiastic response to our First International Organ Festival established this concert series as an annual event in Oaxaca. We decided to continue the impulse generated by the associated Conference and focus once again on the theme of restoration, but this time it would be on a more practical level. The Second Festival was organized along with a National Conference dedicated to the theme of organ restoration in Mexico rather than all of Latin America.

Daniel Guzmán, Director of the Musical Instrument Division of the National School of Conservation, Restoration, and Museography (ENCRyM), led the discussions at each organ regarding the practical application of themes related to organ documentation and conservation.  All participants received a notebook containing technical information and architectural scale drawings of the organs we visited, as well as a copy of the Guidelines as a reference during the discussions. At the conclusion of the Festival, each community representative was given a framed photograph of their organ to be displayed in the corresponding municipal office.

CONCERTS

  • November 21 – Antonio Duarte (Portugal), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • November 22 – Andrés Céa Galán (Spain), San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • November 23 – Margaret Irwin-Brandon (USA), Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • November 23 – Antonio Duarte, Andrés Céa Galán, Margaret Irwin-Brandon and Jesús Martín Moro, San Andrés Zautla

  • November 24 – Jesús Martín Moro (Spain), Basilica de la Soledad

CONFERENCE: “Guidelines for the Restoration of Historic Organs in Mexico: Interpretation and Implementation”

  • November 22 – Talks by Cicely Winter, María del Perpétuo Socorro Villarreal, Eduardo López Calzada, Edward Pepe, José Luis Acevedo Guzmán, Ignacio Nieto, Daniel Guzmán, Susan Tattershall, Mireya Olvera, José Luis Acevedo, António Duarte, Andrés Cea Galán, Jesús Martín Moro

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • November 23, 24 – Visits to five unrestored organs with discussions about their conservation led by Daniel Guzmán 

  • November 23, 24 – Visits to five restored organs with discussions about their restorations led by Susan Tattershall

FIRST INTERNATIONAL ORGAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

November 27- December 3, 2001

Nearly eighty people from thirteen countries and diverse states of Mexico gathered in Oaxaca for the IOHIO’s first major event, an International Festival of Organ Music and a Conference on the theme of “The Restoration of Organs in Latin America.”  The goal of the Festival was to present the organs played by international specialists in the Iberian repertoire to a growing public of organ music enthusiasts. The goal of the Conference was to highlight Oaxaca’s outstanding collection of baroque instruments and to reflect on how best to protect them. The Conference resulted in two important documents, the Oaxaca Protocol 2001, signed by all participants, which summed up guiding principles for future organ restorations, and the preliminary version of a technical and ethical Code for the Restoration of Organs in Latin America. 

CONCERTS

  • November 29 –  Guy Bovet (Switzerland, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • November 30 –  Roberto Fresco (Spain), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • December 1 – Cristina García Banegas (Uruguay), Tlacochahuaya

  • December 2 – Elisa Freixo (Brazil), Basílica de la Soledad

  • December 3 – Horacio Franco, recorder, José Suárez, organ (Mexico), Oaxaca Cathedral

CONFERENCE: “Organ Restoration in Latin America”

  • November 29 – Presentations by Cicely Winter Edward Pepe, Moísés Rosas, Alfredo Harp Helú, Cándida Fernández

  • November 30 – Presentations by Teresita Loaera, María del Perpétuo Socorro Villareal, Eduardo López Calzada (INAH), and Laurence Libin. Presentations by European experts Hans Davidsson, Henk van Eeken Pascal Quoirin, Federico Acitores, Gerhard Grenzing

  • December 2 – Presenters working in Mexico and South America: Joaquin Wesslowski, Susan Tattershall, Aurelio Tello, Jorge Mejía Edward Pepe Piotr Nawrot, Enrique Godoy, Elisa Freixo, Cristina García Banegas

  • Presentations by young Mexican restorers: Eduardo Bribiesca, José Luis Falcon, Alejandro Madrigal

  • Presentations by European organ builders: Christoph Metzler, Henk van Eeken, Gerhard Grenzing 

  • Open discussion for restorers: Tattershall, Wesslowski, Acitores, van Eeken, Quoirin, Grenzing, Metzler 

  • December 3 – Presentations by Víctor Urbán, Alfonso Vega Nuñez, Gustavo Delgado, Mercedes Gómez and Daniel Guzmán, Josué Gastellou, Guy Bovet, Michael Barone, Montserrat Torrent (read by Roberto Fresco), Edward Pepe

  • Round Table discussion moderated by Lynn Edwards and Horacio Franco of the “Oaxaca Protocol, 2001”

PRESENTATIONS OF RESTORATIONS WITH MUSICAL DEMONSTRATION

  • Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán (1997): Pascal Quoirin, Gustavo Delgado

  • San Andrés Zautla (1996): Susan Tattershall, James Wyly 

  • Basílica de la Soledad (2000): Gustavo Delgado, Elisa Freixo

  • Oaxaca Cathedral (1996): Susan Tattershall, Edward Pepe and Lynn Edwards Butler

  • San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya (1991): Susan Tattershall, Cristina García Banegas

MASTER CLASSES & RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • November 27, 28, 29 – Guy Bovet, Tlacochahuaya

  • December 4, 5 – Elisa Freixo and Cristina García Banegas, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • Postal cancellation to commemorate the Festival and Conference which took place in the Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca (MUFI)

  • Exhibits of photographs by Edward Pepe (USA) of 45 organs registered in the State of Oaxaca; 18 technical drawings of five organs by José Luis Acevedo (Mexico).

  • Concerts recorded by Michael Barone, director of the radio program, “Pipedreams,” produced by Minnesota Public Radio, to be broadcast nationwide in November 2002.

  • Invitation by Laurence Libin (curator) to the Department of Conservation of Musical Instruments the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 

  • Apprenticeships offered by European and organ builders and Mexican resident Joaquin Wesslowski. José Luis Acevedo studied in the shop of Gerhard Grenzing in Barcelona from May-August, 2002.