Early Music Latin America Festival: Concert and Workshop
The University of Texas at El Paso has been approved for a $28,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the Early Music Latin America Festival. This project includes a concert and free workshop to promote music from the 16-18th centuries from Latin American countries.
Recent musicological research has shown that this repertoire contains diverse influences of critical importance to cultural and music-historical narratives. Compared to Renaissance and Baroque European repertoire, early Latin American music has been rarely recorded, performed, or taught. Led by Project Director, Lindsey Macchiarella, the University of Texas at El Paso seeks to strengthen the performance and dissemination of this repertoire in the borderlands and beyond, transforming prevailing music-historical narratives of early classical music and establishing UTEP as a center for early Latin American music.
The early Latin American music workshop took place from March 1-4, 2024, and the concert was performed and live-streamed on Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 7:30 pm in the Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall. The concert featured LeStrange viola da gamba consort performing with Mary Springfels, Daniel Meyers, Jason Priset, and Estelí Gomez, preceded by a pre-concert lecture by Dr. Sarah Finley. All events were free and open to the public.
The concert recording and program notes are archived and can be viewed on the concert page (below), or on the UTEP Department of Music Facebook site.
For more information, contact the Project Director, Dr. Lindsey Macchiarella: lmacchiarella@utep.edu
