2023-2025 IOHIO Festivals

FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 5-10, 2025

Our Fifteenth Festival was spectacular! Participants and scholarship students from diverse states of Mexico, the US, and Canada, enjoyed eight thrilling concerts on eight restored organs, along with related activities. The churches were full or nearly so, and we calculated that over 2000 people heard at least one organ concert during the course of the event. The response was so enthusiastic that we are contemplating another Festival in February 2027.

CONCERTS

  • February 5 – Cicely Winter, organ, and Valentin Hernandez, percussion, Oaxaca Regional Music, Basílica de la Soledad 

  • February 6 – James O’Donnell, San Matías Jalatlaco

  • February 7 – Steven Ball, Tonatiuh González, Calvert Johnson, Javier Mendoza, San Andrés Zautla 

  • February 7 – Luca Scandali, Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 8 – Horacio Franco, recorder, José Suárez, organ, Santo Domingo Yanhuitlan

  • February 8 – Horacio Franco, recorder, José Suárez, Rogelio Bonilla, Joel Vásquez, organ, Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan

  • February 9 – James O’Donnell, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 9 –Luca Scandali, Santa María de la Asunción Tlacolula

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • January 28-February 3 – Organ maintenance and tuning by organbuilder Halbert Gober 

  • February 6 – Presentation by Cicely Winter “Oaxaca’s historic pipe organs and the work of the IOHIO,” Biblioteca Francisco de Burgoa

  • February 5 – Master class with Luca Scandali, San Matías Jalatlaco

  • February 7, 8, 9 – Visits to three unrestored organs in San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca, Santa María Tiltepec, Preciosa Sangre de Cristo Teotitlan del Valle

  • February 10 – Organists could play the organs in the Oaxaca Cathedral and la Basílica de la Soledad.

FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 22-27, 2023

CONCERTS

  • February 22 – Kimberly Marshall, Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 23 – Tyler Pimm, Eunjae Park, Lindsey Johnson (graduate students of Kimberly Marshall), Jesus González (Oaxaca), and Josué Martínez (Guanajuato), group concert, Santa María Natividad Tamazulapan. 

  • February 23 –Juan María Pedrero, San Matías Jalatlaco

  • February 24 – Cicely Winter, organ, and Valentin Hernandez, percussions, Oaxaca Regional Music, Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 25 – Faustino Díaz, trombone and trumpet, and Víctor Contreras, organ, Santo Domingo Yanhuitlan 

  • February 25 – Jared Lemanzo, Mark Pacoe, Malcolm Halliday, Jorge Moguel, and Jesús González, group concert, San Andrés Zautla

  • February 26 – Juan María Pedrero, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 26 – Kimberly Marshall, Santa María de la Asunción Tlacolula

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • Visits to eight unrestored organs 

  • February 27—Organists could play the organs in the Oaxaca Cathedral, the Basílica de la Soledad, and San Matías Jalatlaco.