2010-2014 IOHIO Festivals

TENTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 20-25, 2014

CONCERTS

  • February 20 – Roberto Fresco (Spain), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 21 – Cicely Winter, organ, and Valentín Hernández, percussion, program of Regional Oaxaca Music, Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 22 – Warren Steel, Margarita Ricardez, Víctor Manuel Rodriguez, and Mary Jane Ballou, organ, alternating with Gabriela Edith Pérez Díaz (Oaxaca) and the guitar ensemble “Terceto Cuicacalli” (Diego Arias Ángel, Miguel Ángel Vences Guerrero, and Eduardo Rodríguez de la Torre) (Mexico City), Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan. 

  • February 22 – Jesús López Moreno, organ, Juan Luis González, trumpet, Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • February 22 – Mary Jane Ballou, David Furniss, Lee Lovallo and Tonatiuh González, alternating with Gabriela Edith Pérez Díaz, percussion, and the guitarists of the “Terceto Cuicacalli,” San Andrés Zautla

  • February 23 –Roberto Fresco, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 23 – Lourdes Ambriz, Rafael Cárdenas, Cicely Winter, and Roberto Fresco, inaugural concert in honor of the recently restored organ in Santa María de la Asunción Tlacolula

  • February 24— José Francisco Álvarez, organ, Vladislav Badiarov, baroque violin, Santa María de la Asunción Tlaxiaco

RELATED ACTIVITES

  • February 20 – Presentation of a series of postage stamps of six restored Oaxaca organs and a special postal cancellation in honor of the Tenth Organ Festival, Oaxaca Philatelic Museum (MUFI).

  • February 21 – Exhibit of documents, “Los Órganos Oaxaqueños y sus Artífices” (“The Oaxaca Organs and their Builders”), María Isabel Grañen Porrúa, Biblioteca Francisco de Burgoa. 

  • February 21--Book presentation, Ricardo Rodys “Los Órganos Oaxaqueños y sus Artífices” (edited by Rodys and Lerida Moya).  The theme was chosen to honor the recent restoration of the Tlacolula organ and featured organ contracts and references to builders from local archives.

  • February 23 – Mass celebrated by Monseñor José Luis Chávez Botello, Archbishop of Antequera Oaxaca, in honor of the recently restored organ in Santa María de la Asunción Tlacolula

  • Visits to 12 unrestored organs 

NINTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 15-20, 2012

CONCERTS

  • February 15 – Elisa Freixo (Brazil), Oaxaca Cathedral.

  • February 16 – Santiago Alvarez, harpsichord, Jazmín Rincón (Mexico), baroque flute, San Andrés Huayapam.

  • February 16- Cicely Winter, organ, Valentín Hernández, percussion (Oaxaca), “Oaxaca Regional Music,” Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 17 – “Melos Gloriae” (baroque ensemble) directed by Juan Manuel Lara, “La música polifónica de Francisco López Capillas (1614-1674),” Centro Cultural San Pablo 

  • February 18 – Laura Carrasco (Mexico), Elisa Freixo, Joel Vásquez and Isaí Guzmán (IOHIO), Gabriela Edith Pérez Díaz (Oaxaca) and “Terceto Cuicacalli” guitar ensemble (Mexico), Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan 

  • February 18 – “Melos Gloriae” choral ensemble directed by Juan Manuel Lara, Abraham Alvarado, organ (Mexico) “Sacred Music from the Museo Nacional del Virreinato,” Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • February 18 – Laura Carrasco, organ, Gabriela Edith Pérez Díaz, percussion, “Terceto Cuicacalli” guitar ensemble, San Andrés Zautla

  • February 19 – Elisa Freixo, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya 

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • Exhibit of documents “Musicógrafos y Melómanos” (“Museographers and Music lovers”) from various Oaxaca archives, including 16th – 20th century printed documents and manuscripts from Europe, Mexico, and Oaxaca.

  • Guided tours of colonial churches in Oaxaca City and the Mixteca Alta by historians of Mexican colonial art Richard Perry and Janet Esser.

  • Visits to 11 unrestored organs 

EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

October 21-27, 2010

CONCERTS

  • October 21 – José Francisco Álvarez, organ, and Juan Carlos Murillo, trombone (Mexico), Basílica de la Soledad

  • October 22 – “Capilla Virreinal de la Nueva España” (Mexico), directed by Aurelio Tello, Capilla del Rosario, (ex-convento de San Pablo), “Music from the Domingo Flores Book (18th century) of San Bartolo Yautepec.”

  • October 23 – Barbara Owen (USA), Guy Bovet (Switzerland), organ, Vladimir Ibarra, guitar, Gabriela Edith Pérez Díaz, percussion (Mexico), Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan

  • October 23 –“Capilla Virreinal de la Nueva España” (Mexico), directed by Aurelio Tello, Cristina García Banegas (Uruguay), organ, “The Splendor of the Cathedrals of Mexico in the 17th century,” Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • October 23 – Cristina García Banegas, organ, in alternation with Gabriela Edith Pérez Díaz, percussion, and Vladimir Ibarra, guitar, San Andrés Zautla

  • October 24 – Guy Bovet, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya 

  • October 25 – Cristina García Banegas, Oaxaca Cathedral

  • October 26 – Guy Bovet, Santa María Asunción Tlaxiaco

MASTER CLASSES & RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • October 21, 22 – Guy Bovet, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • October 22 – Exhibit: “Ad maoirem dei gloriam, el órgano oaxaqueño al servicio del altar,” curated and presented by Polish researcher Ricardo Rodys, Francisco de Burgoa Library 

  • Visits to 12 unrestored organs