2016-2023 IOHIO Festivals

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.

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 18-23, 2020

CONCERTS

  • February 18 – Cicely Winter and Valentín Hernandez (Oaxaca), Oaxaca regional music, Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 19 – João Vaz (Portugal), with the participation of the baritone Felipe Espinosa (Mexico), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 20 – André Lash and David Furniss (USA), Javier Mendoza, Jesús González, Isaí Guzmán and Tonatiuh González (Oaxaca), Santa María Natividad Tamazulapan

  • February 20 – Pavel Kohout (Czech Republic), San Matías Jalatlaco 

  • February 21 – Craig Cramer (USA), Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 22 – Eliseo Martínez, organ, Diego Calderón, trombone, and Sócrates Juárez, violin, Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • February 22 – Pavel Kohout, San Andrés Zautla

  • February 23 – João Vaz, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 23 – Craig Cramer, Santa María de la Asunción Tlacolula

MASTER CLASSES & RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • February 7 – Joao Vaz in la Soledad to five Oaxaca organists

  • Visits to 12 unrestored organs 

TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 14-21, 2018

This year marked the festival debut of the Jalatlaco organ as a playable instrument. One of our regular attendees commented on the evolution of this organ during his last three visits: first as an unrestored instrument (2002-2014) when we discussed our hopes for its restoration, then as a restoration in process by the Gerhard Grenzing Company (2016), and finally as a concert instrument (2018).

CONCERTS

  • February 14 – Cicely Winter and Valentín Hernandez (Oaxaca), Oaxaca regional music, Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 15 – Jan Willem Jansen (Netherlands, France), San Matías Jalatlaco 

  • February 16 – Andrés Cea Galán (Spain), with the participation of baritone Felipe Espinosa (Mexico), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 17 – David Soteno, organ, and Lorenzo Meza, clarinet (State of Mexico), Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • February 17 -- Roberto Ramirez, Andre Lash, Christoph Hammer (USA), Andres Cea, Willem Jansen, Laura Carrasco, San Andrés Zautla

  • February 18 –Jan Willem Jansen, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 18--Andrés Cea Galán, Santa María de la Asunción Tlacolula

  • February 19 – Greta Baltazar, Alejandro Lemus, Mario Moya, Zeltzin Perez (Mexico City), Joel Vásquez (IOHIO), Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan

  • February 19 -- Ricardo Ramírez, Laura Angélica Carrasco, Andrés Cea Galán, Michael Barone, Jan Willem Jansen, and David Furniss, Santa María Tlaxiaco

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • February 14 – Talk by Andres Cea Galán, “Spanish music: Organs and organists during the 16th -18th centuries,” San Matías Jalatlaco

  • February 16 —Tours of the church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, seat of the Dominican order in the Valley of Oaxaca since the 16th century, and the Museum of the Cultures of Oaxaca in the former convent, led by guides Pablo Gonzalez and Gabriel Sanchez 

  • Visits to 12 unrestored organs 

Please see the PBS video from the series "In the Americas with David Yetman," which includes aspects of the IOHIO's Twelfth Festival.

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 18-24, 2016

CONCERTS

  • February 18 – Liuwe Tamminga (Netherlands), organ, and Bruce Dickey (USA), cornetto, Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 19 – Cicely Winter and percussionist Valentín Hernández (Oaxaca), Program of Oaxaca Regional Music, Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 20 – Jeffrey Cooper, Michael Ging, and Christopher Holman (USA, doctoral students of Robert Bates, Univ. Houston), Tonatiuh González, Jesús González (Oaxaca), Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan 

  • February 20 – Víctor Contreras, organ, Juan Luis González, trumpet (Mexico), Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • February 20 –  Víctor Contreras, Víctor Manuel Morales (Mexico), Margarita Ricárdez (Oaxaca), Robert Bates (USA); Alberto Revilla (Mexico City/Oaxaca), theorbo and flamenco guitar, San Andrés Zautla

  • February 21 – Craig Cramer (USA), San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 21 – Liuwe Tamminga, organ, Bruce Dickey, cornetto, Santa María Asunción Tlacolula

  • February 22 – Liuwe Tamminga and David Furniss, Marilou Kratzenstein, Craig Cramer, William Autry (USA), Santa María Asunción Tlaxiaco

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • February 19 –Exhibit “Pedro Nibra and Oaxaca Organ-building in the mid-Nineteenth century” to highlight the restoration in process of the organ in San Matías Jalatlaco, María Isabel Grañen Porrúa, director of the Francisco de Burgoa Library. Ricardo Rodys (Poland), curator, described the documents: payments to Nibra for the organ construction, records of later interventions in the organ, and construction contracts for other Oaxaca organs.

  • February 19 –Visit to the Jalatlaco church to view the organ restoration in process (Gerhard Grenzing Organ-building Company); presentation by restorers Eric González (Oaxaca) and Alberto Compiani (Mexico) about the recently finished restoration of the organ case, visit to the choir loft to view the empty case up close, and to a temporary shop space to observe the windchest, keyboard, and pipes removed from the organ. Organ builders Joaquín Lois (Spain) and Hal Gober (USA) were on hand to answer questions about organ construction and helped prepare the organs for the concerts.

  • Visits to 14 unrestored organs