The University of Texas at El Paso, with the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the UTEP Department of Music, will host the 2009 International Joaquín Rodrigo Festival Monday, Feb. 23, through Wednesday, Feb. 25.
The event will devote three days and nights to the life and music of highly acclaimed pianist and composer Joaquín Rodrigo.
Despite losing his sight from diphtheria at the age of 3, Rodrigo achieved great success and is renowned for having elevated the Spanish guitar as a powerful concert instrument. Rodrigo died in 1999 at the age of 97.
The festival’s opening ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 23, at the Fox Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall, and will feature Rodrigo’s daughter Cecilia Rodrigo and internationally celebrated Chilean guitarist Carlos Pérez.
Pérez has earned top prizes in major international competitions in Europe and America, including the Joaquín Rodrigo Competition in Madrid in 2006.
He also has participated in prestigious guitar festivals around the world, including the Guitar Foundation of America festival. Pérez has conducted master classes and lectures in many universities in North, Central and South America.
The public is invited to attend two evening concerts. The first is the Faculty and Guest Artists Performance at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23. The second is the UTEP Students Large Ensemble Concert with Carlos Pérez at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24. Both concerts will take place at the Fox Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall.
Tickets prices are $12, $10 and $5, and are available in advance at the UTEP Ticket Center or at the door on the evening of the performance.
The public is also invited to the following festival events:
Monday, Feb. 23
Lecture by Cecilia Rodrigo and Pérez titled “Guitar Music in the Correspondence of Joaquín Rodrigo and His Contemporaries”
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Fox Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall
Lecture by Cecilia Rodrigo titled “Joaquín Rodrigo and Fifty Years of Historical Links across the U.S. from 1958 to the Present”
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Undergraduate Learning Center
Faculty and Guest Artists Performance
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Fox Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall
Tuesday, Feb. 24
Student Fringe Recital dedicated to Cecilia Rodrigo and Katherine Zegarra
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Fox Fine Arts Center, Room 340
Film presentation of “Interview with Joaquín Rodrigo”
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Fox Fine Arts Center, Room 402
Panel discussion, “Spanish Nationalism in 20th Century Spain”
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Fox Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall
UTEP Large Ensemble Concert with Carlos Pérez
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Fox Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall
Wednesday, Feb. 25
Discussion on various recordings of the “Concierto de Arajuez” featuring Keith Pannell, Ph.D., Dena Kay Jones, D.M.A., and John Siqueiros
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Fox Fine Arts Center, Room 101
Lecture and recital on “Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios” featuring pianist Justin Badgerow, D.M.A., and mezzo-soprano Erin Lippard, D.M., Sul Ross State University
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Fox Fine Arts Center, Room 340
Film presentation of “El Siglo de Joaquín Rodrigo: A Documentary Movie”
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Union Building East, Union Cinema
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