Festival 21 Design by Nancy Knowles; click on image to download PDF.
Sponsored in part by the Augustine Foundation and the Department for Educational and Cultural Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and the Consulate General of Mexico.
Ernesto García de León
Michael Lorimer
Dieter Hennings
Pablo Garibay
Festival 21
New Music from Mexico
April 24-26, 2009
April 24, 8:00pm
Concert with Ernesto García de León and Michael Lorimer, music by Maestro García de León
April 25
10:00am Class with Ernesto García de León
1:00pm Members' Concert
2:30pm Lecture by Michael Lorimer: New American Music with guitar
3:30pm Concert with Dieter Hennings
April 26, 3:00pm
Concert with Pablo Garibay, 2nd place winner of the 2008 GFA; new music from Mexico, Ponce and Jose Sonata.
For bios, pictures, programs, audio, video and more, see below or read Frank Wallace's blog.
Individual concert tickets or Festival Pass available online at www.itsmyseat.com, or send check to BCGS, P.O. Box 470665, Brookline, MA 02447 with your email to receive confirmation. Checks must be received five days prior to festival. Call (603) 588 6121 for more information. Tickets: Festival Pass (for three days, all events): $70 general admission; $55 members; $40 seniors and students.
Ernesto García de León teaches guitar and composition at the Music School of the National Fine Arts Institute in Mexico City. He studied guitar at the National Music Conservatory (of the Autonomous University of Mexico) and received high marks with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed and presented master classes throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. His music is published by Michael Lorimer Editions (New York). You can watch him improvise here.
Michael Lorimer, a favorite protégé of Andrés Segovia, caught the attention of American audiences in the early 1970s through tours arranged by the great impresario Sol Hurok. His popularity soon extended beyond the shores of America. He was the first American guitarist invited to perform in major cities of the USSR in 1975 and was received with such enthusiasm that he was immediately re-engaged for a 1977 tour. He has appeared in Israel, throughout Europe, on most major North American recital series, and with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Louisville, New Orleans and San Francisco.
Lorimer's command of an extensive repertoire is unique. His concerts reflect his enthusiasm for music of many periods and styles and often combine traditional classics, Americana, new music and seventeenth and eighteenth century guitar music performed on a Baroque guitar. Away from music, Michael reads ardently on an expanse of subjects: from sciences to arts. In 1973, he played a benefit concert for the Hereditary Disease Foundation and for the past twelve years he has also been involved with the U.S. - Venezuela Huntington's Collaborative Research Project. [read more]
Dieter Hennings, a native of Mexico, was awarded the Aaron Brock Prize of CA$10,000 (£5,400) after the competition's final round, held at Toronto's Royal Conservatory on 1 November 2008. The prize also includes future engagements in Canada, the US and Mexico, and a three-week residency at the Banff Centre. Hennings is one of the few guitarists/lutenists of his generation. A graduate of the University of Arizona School of Music, where he received the Outstanding Senior Award, in Guitar Performance in 2004, Mr. Hennings is currently pursuing a double Doctoral degree in Early Plucked Instruments and Guitar Performance and Literature with Paul O'Dette at the Eastman School. Mr. Hennings has won many other prestigious competitions including the 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer (Spain) International Competition Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition the 1999 and 2000 Claire Schaeffer Guitar Competition. In the field of guitar performance Dieter is deeply committed to the diffusion of new music, specially of Latin America, having recently performed works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Mario Davidovsky.
Pablo Garibay program Hear excerpts from Pablo Garibay's performance April 26, 2009, Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, Boston
La noche de las ranas by Tomás Barreiro (1976-) [the night of the frogs]; *USA premier
Sinapsis by Rodrigo Sigal (1971-), for reactive guitar performer and electroacustic sounds;
*USA premier
¡Ni lo pienses! by Ernesto García de León (1952-) [Don’t even think it!]
Pablo began his studies in guitar in 1993 with the Prof. Iván Rísquez, and in 1995, he continued with Prof. Juan Carlos Laguna in The National University of México UNAM. He continues his Master studies in the “Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt” in Weimar, Germany with Prof. Thomas Müller-Pering.
Pablo Garibay has played in Important classical guitar festivals in Mexico and abroad, in Italy, Poland, England, France, Costa Rica, USA, Spain Rumania, Lituania, Germany, South Africa. He has done premiers of works by Mateo Barreiro, Diogenes Rivas Juan Helguera, Jorge Ritter, Ernesto García de León Ernesto Cordero and Manuel Ponce. He has placed in halls like “Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City” or “Staatsoper in Hannover, Germany”. Garibay has also played as soloist with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinaloa of the Arts, with the Buffalo Philarmonic Orchestra, with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, with the Chamber Orchestras from South Africa and from Wallonie, Belgium, New Britain Symphony, with the Niedersächsisches Jugendsinfonieorchester and with the Acapulco Philharmonic Orchestra. He has collaborated with the conductors, JoAnn Falletta, Sergio Cárdenas, Gordon Campbell, Richard Koch, Jesse Levine, Patrick Baton, Wolfgang Bozic and Eduardo Àlvarez.
Pablo has recorded with RTVE from Spain, Urtext from Mexico and with the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, Belgium for the Printemps de la Guitare organization. Also with the Fleurdeson Classics seal. And he has obtained first prizes in both National and International Competitions for guitar, among them, first prize in the Buffalo International guitar concerto competition “JoAnn Falletta” (USA), “Julián Arcas” (Spain), Manuel Ponce (Mexico), René Bartoli (France), Gevelsverg (Germany) and two times second place in GFA guitar competition, (L.A and San Francisco)
"Pablo Garibay is a guitarist of rare sensitivity, nuance and musicality. His playing is poetry on the highest level." JoAnn Falletta, Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
"He is a wonderful artist, plays beautifully, and is a pleasure to work with!"
Jesse Levine, Conductor of the New Britain Symphony and Professor of Viola and Chair of the String Department at the Yale School of Music
"(...) I found his playing to be exceptional in every regard: musicality, tone production, projection, technical security, and genereral audience communication. He is truly a young artist of the highest professional calibre (...)"
Norbert Kraft, Producer, Artist & Repertoire Consultant, Naxos Records Adj. Prof., University of Toronto
GFA Sounboard Magazine, 2008 "...Formidable technique, concentrated flair and fine sense of musicianship..."
"Son" de la Sonata no. 1 Las Campanas by Ernesto García de León, played by José Luis Navarro
Ricercare VI by Juan Trigos soloist Dieter Hennings
