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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.
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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.
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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.
More in construction.
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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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