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AURELIO TELLO

Aurelio Tello was born in Cerro de Pasco, Peru, in 1951. He studied Musical Pedagogy, Piano, Composition and Choral Conducting. In 1974 he participated in the founding of the Popular Song Workshop, as well as in the Musical Reasearch Workshop of the National School of Music in 1975. In 1976 he started giving theoretical subjects in the previous institution.

Since 1973 he has conducted diverse choirs and vocal assemblies in Peru. In 1980 he recorded the record Antología de la Música Peruana, Siglo XX, Vocal-Coral (Peruvian Music Anthology, 20th Century, Vocal-Choral), conducting the National School of Music Choir. Since 1986 he has been a Guest Conductor for the Madrigal Singers of Bellas Artes in Mexico, with whom he has presented numerous contemporary pieces for the first time.
As a Composer, he has participated in different national and international concerts, seasons and festivals; he has basically composed chamber music, and also vocal, choral, piano, chord and symphonic orchestra music, as well as music for theater plays.

Aurelio Tello lives in Mexico City since 1982, where he has done musicological research work for the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical, CENIDIM (National Center for Musical Research, Documenting and Information), from the National Institute of the Fine Arts (INBA). The following research works are worth mentioning: Tesoro de la Música Polifónica en México, (Treasure of the Polyphonic Music in Mexico), volumes III, IV, VII, VIII and X; and the book Música Barroca del Perú, Siglos XVII-XVIII (Peruvian Baroque Music, 17th and 18th Centuries), published in Lima. He has recently published the first volume of the Cancionero Musical Gaspar Fernandes (Gaspar Fernandes’s Musical Songbook), and is currently preparing a second volume with Peruvian colonial music.

Many of his articles have been published in diverse magazines, and from 1993 to 1999 he was in charge of the musical page in the magazine Tiempo Libre (Free Time).

He is the Conductor of the Capilla Virreinal de la Nueva España (Vice-Royal Chapel of the New Spain), with whom he has developed an important job with regards of promoting Colonial American repertoire within Mexico and abroad. He has a weekly radio program called Ecos de un Pasado Sonoro: La Música Colonial Americana (Echoes of a Sound Past: Colonial American Music).

His activity as a researcher in the Mexican colonial music has given him the opportunity to participate as a guest in important congresses in Mexico, Latin America, the United States and Europe. This year (2003) he participated as a guest professor in the Granada University for the course “Baroque in Latin America”, for the 34th Granada Festival of Music and Dance. He also gave courses in Musicology at the Veracruzan University.

Because of the quality in his job, he has obtained many awards and distinctions:
- Honorific Mention, polyphonic works contest “Ciudad Ibagué”, Colombia (1983). First Place, Choral Works, Banco Central de Reserva del Perú (1987).
- Research works Award, INBA (1994).
- Musicology Award, “Casa de las Américas”, Cuba, for his Gaspar Fernandes’s Musical Songbook (1999).
- Academic Performance in Research Award, INBA (1999).
- First Honorific Mention in the “Robert Stevenson” Award on Musicology (2001).
- Academic Excellence Award, INBA (2001).

He has obtained grants in three occasions from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, FONCA (National Fund for Culture and Arts): 1991, 1995, and 1999. He was also given a grant from the Mexico-US Trust (2000 and 2003).

In 2001 he entered the Sistema Nacional de Creadores del FONCA (National System for Creators). He has been a jury in the summoning calls for FONCA, Mexico State Fund for Culture and Arts, and “Robert Stevenson” Musicology Award, OAS, PADID from the National Center of Arts (2001), and tutor for the Program for Young Creators, FONCA in the area of composition (1997-2000).

The magazine Pauta, Cuadernos de Crítica y Teoría Musical has dedicated its last publication as an acknowledgement to his long trajectory in composing, musicology and choral conducting.
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CORY DENENA

Academic Experience: Southwest Texas State University EUA
Master Degree on Choir Conducting, San Marcos, Texas, 1997

Stephen F. Austin State University EUA
Bachelor’s Degree on Music Pedagogy, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1990

Professional Experience:

Escuela Sierra Nevada Mexico City
Music Professor (At present)

Coro ProMusica-Lomas Mexico City
Choir Conductor (At present)

Vocal Consort Mexico City
Quartet Conductor (At present)

Choir Conducting Diploma. Mexico City
Vocal Technique Professor. Program organized by Voce in Tempore, A.C.

Coro Arpegio de la Ciudad de México Mexico City
Choir Conductor.
A choir that sings in wedding ceremonies and Christian masses (At present)

Iglesia Evangélica Unión Mexico City
Music Conductor (August 1999 to-date)

Harlingen High School Harlingen, Texas
Choral Music Conductor.
Including teaching music and preparing theatre plays (1997-1998)

Southwest Texas State University San Marcos, Texas
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Supporting the choral musical program and musical pedagogy courses. (1994-1996)

Jones Intermedio School Waller Texas
Music Conductor. Implementing a new music program. (1992-1994)

Other Working Experience:

Singing Professor (Private lessons)

Member of the following choirs and professional organizations:
South Texas Choral Society EUA (1997-1998)
Austin Choral Union EUA (1995-1997)
Montgomery County Choral Society EUA (1992-1994)
Santa Fe Desert Choral EUA (1990-1991)
Texas Choral Directors Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Phi Mu Alpha Professional Music Fraternity (At present).
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CARLOS GURIDI
He began his musical studies in the city of Tijuana, B.C. in 1986 under the guidance of the ucranian pianist Inessa Novikova. He attended the Escuela de Música del Noroeste (School of Music of the Northwest) and the Conservatory of Music of the OBC. Later on he became private student of Edmundo Díaz del Campo in San Diego California, with whom he perfected in orchestral conduction and composition. At age 16 he made his professional debut as guest conductor for the International Symphonic Orchestra of Tijuana.

His firsts compositions were: Suite for piano in D performed in 1989 at the “Casa de la Cultura” theater in Tijuana, the children’s musical comedy “La Princesa caramelo” (Rosarito BC, 1990) and, by command of the BC state governor’s sister at the time, the anthem “Heroes of Chapultepec” (both piano and symphonic band versions). From 1991 to 1996 he wrote music for theater, and for the medium-length film Marea Baja, which was successfully shown in United States and Europe. In 1997, Guridi was appointed titular director of the Preparatory Juvenile Symphonic in the state of Aguascalientes and associated director of the choral ensemble Cántica Vitae, after receiving the recognition as most remarkable conductor among the “Eduardo Mata” Sixth National Meeting for Young Orchestra’s conductors.

Two months later his choral work Canción de la Luna was successfully performed in Cuba, during the IV International Festival of Choirs in Santiago de Cuba. Since then, he has performed as guest conductor for several ensembles throughout the country performing a great variety of symphonic works, being the most remarkable the Beethoven’s IX Symphony with the Nuevo Milenio Philharmonic Orchestra. Also, he has performed in many baroque music concerts, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Haendel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and numerous Bach, Vivaldi, Marcello and Telemann concertos among others, and with the Baja California Orchestra, which is internationally known and was nominated for a Grammy award.

On December 1999 he founded the vocal quintet Santa Cecilia, performing music of the renaissance in the most important states of northern Mexico. By the end of 2000, he was appointed musical director of the Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ensamble Coral Universitario (University Choral Ensemble) in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, and more recently, he received the third place in V National Contest of Choral Arrangement for a song composed for mixed voices based on the traditional song “El Cachanilla”.

Within his extensive work as musical pedagogue, it is outstanding his labor as teacher of sol-faing, musical theory, piano and composition at the Baja California Conservatory, the School of Music of the Northwest, and the Universidad del Centro de Estudios Técnicos y Superiores CETYS (Superior and Technical Studies Central University). In 2003 he premiered under his wand, one of his most recent compositions for choir and orchestra based on a novo Hispanic carol from the XVI century. He participated as choral director in the play Il Pagliacci with the Opera of Tijuana, and as an effective student in the musical improvement course “composizione di musica per film” in Siena, Italy, where he was appointed the Accademia Chigiana scholarship due to his artistic and personal merits.

In more recent years we can outline: his labor as conductor of the Rossini’s “opera bufa” The Barber of Seville, which was performed throughout the state of Baja California, his participation as musical director of the University Choral Ensemble at CETYS when in the International Choral meeting “America Cantat” in Mexico City, the composition of a 12 voices oratorio for a capella choir called “The Creation”, which was based on the fascinating pre Colombian legends of northeastern Mesoamerica and which was awarded the FOECA prestigious scholarship “Creators with Trajectory”, the composition of the incidental music for the Mexican short film “Sobre Tierra” and finally, his perfecting studies in the city of Berlin, Germany, during all 2005 year.


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G. GUADALUPE MARTINEZ SALGADO.

She was born in Mexico City, and followed a piano degree at the National School of Music of the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) where she graduated. She obtained a scholarship to continue her studies in the United States, obtained a masters degree in piano performance at the Ithaca College of New York, and the doctorate in Piano, Musical Theory and History of Music at Michigan State University.

She focused her research work to musical pedagogy aspects, including performance, from one side, as well as theory and auditory training. She gives courses of musical language in professional schools: for 16 years she taught piano, sol-faing, auditory training, musical didactics, musical initiation and sensitiveness for basic, intermediate, and bachelor degree levels.  

Since 1990 she is full time professor at the National School of Musica of UNAM. She has participated in musical education congresses in Mexico and Argentina, with lectures and publications concerning these subjects.

As for her activities as a pianist, today she is part of a chamber group integrated by two flutes, fagot and piano, which gives interactive didactical concerts and whose objective is to elevate the auditory comprehension of the played works, encouraging a better comprehension of the repertoire in all diverse aspects as formal, historical, stylistic, and including specific particularities of the musical language.

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GISELA CRESPO BRITO

Her origins are Cuban, but today she became Mexican by naturalization. She obtained the bachelor degree in Choral Conducting and Score Reading in the Instituto Superior de Arte (Superior Institute of Art) of La Habana Cuba.

Conductress and founder of the Chamber Choir of the “Universidad de las Américas Puebla” UDLAP (University of Las Américas in Puebla), with which she obtained in the international contest “Florilege Vocal” in Tours, France the Renaissance Program award and the II place in the Chamber Ensembles category. She has recorded two Cd’s produced by Quindecim: “Oh Tiempo” y “De Cuba pa’usté” (Cuban sones). More recently she obtained with this UDLAP group the FONCA State Scholarship (which is an economical support for artistic activities).

Other recognitions she received: National Festival of Minint (Cuba) Great award, II place and mention for their performance of Cuban music in the National Festival of Art Instructor Schools which took place in Pinar del Río, Cuba. She founded and directed the cathedra in Choral Conduction in the Art Instructor School in Santa Clara, Cuba. She is professor in the Choral Conducting diploma-degree program  of Voce in tempore A.C., and has conducted other groups as: the “Orfeón Santiago” (as vice conductress), and “Coral A Capella” (Puebla). 

Today she teaches Choral Ensembles and Vocal Technique at Universidad de las Américas (Puebla) and at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.

 


MARTA SANTIBÁÑEZ

Marta Santibáñez obtained her bachelor degree in Singing and Choral Conduction from the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba (Superior Institute of Art of Cuba).

Being very young, she participated in feminine and mixed choral groups: the “Coro de Cámara de la Escuela Nacional de Música” (Chamber Choir of the National School of Music) of Cuba under the conduction of Alina Orraca, attending the XIII Musical Youth’s Festival in Vienna, Austria (1978) when they obtained the 2nd, prize.  She also participated in the “Youth Choir” in 1985, in the USSR at the time. In that same year she continued a tour through several Russian cities with the choir “Cohesion” under the conduction of Lic. Zenaida C. Romeu.

Her singing teachers were: the soprano Margarita Horruitiner, Lucy Provedo and Ana Menéndez. Her choral conducting teachers were: Lic. Alina Orraca, A. Beliaiev, G. Dmitriak y Carmen Collado.

She made her debut as a soloist in the Zarzuela “El Cafetal”, from Ernesto Lecuona, and the Opereta “The Bat” from J. Strauss.

She worked in the Musical Theater of La Habana, Cuba, she were part of the cast of the “Estudio Lírico de la Habana”, a theatrical group of Alina Sánchez, and performed as soloist in the National Opera of La Habana from 1994 to 2001.

She made tours all over Cuba and the cities of Nicaragua and Caracas among others.

She participated in many events like singing contests and festivals, where she obtained the following awards: the 1990 “II Rodrigo Prats Singing Contest” award, the 1990 “II UNEAC Lyric Scenes Contest” performance award, the 1990 “Isaac Albéniz Spanish Music Contest” special mention, the 1988 “XIII UNEAC Singing Contest” award.

She has been a teacher in the Choral Direction at the National Music School of Cuba, and singing teacher in the Superior Institute of Art of La Habana, Cuba.

She was part of the cast in the Mexican production of “The Phantom of the Opera”, doing ensemble parts and being the substitute of Carlota Giudicceli’s character during 1999 and 2001. She also participated in OCESA’s production of “The Man of La Mancha”.

In México, she has been a singing and repertoire professor in the “Tecnológico de Monterrey” university, state of México campus, from 2000 to 2004. Since 2000 she became a singing teacher in the “Escuela Superior de Música” (Superior School of Music) in Mexico City, where she also performed in several concerts with other teachers as well as individually.

In April 2004, she participated in a concert named “The Art of the Baroque” with the well known contra tenor Héctor Sosa, in the Blas Galindo hall. In November of the same year she organized a Mexican and Cuban Contemporary Music concert, participating also as a singer.

Today she conducts the “Coro Polifónico de la Universidad La Salle” (Polyphonic Choir of La Salle University) in Mexico City, and gives singing lessons in the Choral Conducting Diploma of Voce in Tempore A.C.


VERONICA PEREZ ALTAMIRANO

Born in Argentina, today she is the conductrice of the following choirs: Choir of the Morelense Center of Art, and Choir of Children at the Children's Cultural Center " La Vecindad", in the city of Cuernavaca; Morelos, México.

 

 

 

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JUAN LUIS RAMIREZ
He was born in the city of Holguín, Cuba. In 1990 he entered the “Opera Nacional de cuba” (Cuban National Opera) as a singer (tenor), as vocal technique teacher, choir conductor and musical arranger. He went to Italy in 1992, performing as a singer in several cities as member of the “Compañía Internacional de Operetas” (International Operetta Company). He lives in México since 1993, acquiring later the Mexican nationality. He studied the Singing bachelor Degree at the National School of Music of UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) with professors as Edith Contreras and Roberto Bañuelas, and he was member of well known vocal ensembles as the “Quinteto de la Capella Cervantina” and the Octeto “Juan D. Tercero”. He made several recordings with these groups and participated in the “Festival Internacional Cervantino” (Cervante’s international festival) in two occasions.

He has been vocal technique teacher for the University Students Choral Program at UNAM, for the “Ensamble Coral Voce in Tempore” (choral ensemble), for the “Coro de Niños y Jovenes Cantores de la Escuela Nacional de Música (Children and Youths singers Choir of the National School of Music”, for “Tsiris” choir of Universidad La Salle, conductor of “Propuesta” and “Fratelli” choirs – this latter from the Political and Social Sciences faculty of the UNAM – and titular professor of the Singing Cathedra at the Sacred Music Superior School of Toluca.

As soloist, he offered numerous recitals over the past 17 years. Among his participations in Opera performances are the lead role in Mozart’s “Bastian and Bastiana”, and Tamino in “The Magic Flute”, the Harlequin in Leoncavallo´s “The Clowns”, Paolino in Cimarrosa’s “The Secret Marriage”, The King Gaspar in Menotti’s “Amhal and the nocturnal visitors”, the narrator in Federico Ibarra’s “The Little Prince”, the Sorcerer in Purcell’s “Dido and Eneas”. In this occasion he was also in charge of the scene and costumes design, and stage direction. He has performed the tenor solos of Bach’s “Magnificat”, Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy” and “Ninth Symphony”. His repertoire also includes works like Haendel’s “Mesias”, Rossini’s “Stabat Mater”, and Mozart’s “Coronation Mass” and “Requiem”.

 

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VICTOR LUNA

Singer, composer and choir and orchestra conductor. Born in Mexico City. - Orchestra and Choir Conducting Diploma, Instituto Cardenal Miranda, 1991.
- Orchestra Conducting Diploma, 1999, and Opera and Concert Singing, 2001, Brucknerkonservatorium in Linz, Austria.

- Musical Conductor of the Santa Monica Ex - Hacienda, and Conductor for the Getsemani Choir.
- Member of the Roman Schola Cantorum, Rome, Italy.
- Guest Conductor for the Pro-Arte Orchestra, Mexico City, The Philharmonic Orchestra in Budweiss, Czech Republic, The Opera Workshop of the Brucknerkonservatorium in Linz, Austria, for diverse opera productions.
- Member of the Landestheater in Linz (1995 – 2001) as a choir singer, solo singer and interim conductor.
- Founder of the group “Mexico Lindo”, in Austria.
- Guest Conductor for the Madrigal Singers from INBA (National Institute for the Fine Arts), during the 2002 season in the Historical Center, Mexico City.
- Composer for the music of the canonization ceremony of Juan Diego in the Guadalupe Basilica, July 2002.

At present, Victor Luna is a Vocal Ensemble Professor in the Superior School of Music, INBA, the Conductor for the Children’s Choir in Valle de Bravo, state of Mexico, as well as the Artistic Conductor for the Convivium Musicum Choir, since 2001.
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ANA PATRICIA CARBAJAL

She studied at the National School of Music, UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), both piano and Musical Education. At the same time, she started her studies in Choir Conducting with several Mexican professors. Later, she took several courses with Jorge Medina and Erika Kubascek, and then she made her specialization in Choir Conducting at the Cardenal Miranda Institute, under the guidance of Xavier González.

She has taken specialized courses in Cuba, Argentina, Spain and the Netherlands with outstanding professors: Carmen Collado, Ma. Felicia Pérez, Electo Silva, Gunnar Ericson, Werner Pfaff, Néstor Andrenacci Christian Grübe, Láslo Hetlay and Alberto Grau.

In Spain she was granted the Andrés Segovia Poliphony Award when she was studying with Pascual Ortega.

In 1995 she received a scholarship granted by FONCA (National Foundation for Culture and Arts) as an acknowledgment for her prestigious labor with Voce in Tempore, a Choral Ensemble she founded 17 years ago with the aim of singing polyphonic music with amateur singers. In 1998 she was invited to attend the Choir Conductors Congress in Wisconsin, USA. She was also invited to attend with Voce in Tempore the International Choir Festival in Santiago de Cuba, in 1995 and 1997. In November 1998 she toured with the National School of Music Children’s Choir, as an Assistant Director, to Chicago, Illinois, for the National Convention of Musical Educators.

In 1999 she attended the 5th International Choir Symposium in Rotterdam, and in September she is invited to participate in a meeting in order to form the Caribbean and Central America Choir Federation, to be held in Puerto Rico. For three years she was Treasurer and Communication Vice-president. In August 2002 she attends the VI International Symposium for Choral Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

She is a member of the Ethnic Commission for the International Federation of Choral Music; she is President of Voce in Tempore Civil Association, whose objective is to promote and spread choral music. For seven years she conducted a radio program, Musica EnCantada, broadcast every Monday by OPUS 94, a radio station from the Mexican Radio Institute (IMER). She received support from FONCA during one year for this program.

In 2004 she received the National Award from the Theater and Music Chroniclers, for her outstanding activity in front of Voce in Tempore Civil Association.

At present she is Assistant Conductor of the National School of Music Children’s Choir; Conductor of Tsiris, the La Salle University Children Ensemble; Coordinator of the UNAM University Choir Program; and Conductor of Voce in Tempore Choir Ensemble.

She is also the Academic Coordinator of the Choir Conducting Diploma, given by Voce in Tempore Civil Association, a program supported by FONCA, and with the recognition of the National Institute for the Fine Arts (INBA.)

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