Concert A Program and Bios

7/17/2019 Concert A Program and Bios

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Presents

Rumbarroco Laury Gutiérrez, Director

Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (UWM) ♦ Milwaukee, Wisconsin October 17, 2015 (Saturday) at 5:00

Camila Parias & Daniela Tošić, voices Nathaniel Cox, cornetto & theorbo

Yi-Li Chang, baroque violin & viola da gamba Wismer Jiménez, cuatro and baroque guitar

Kirsten Lamb, bassZayra Pola Ocasio, percussion

Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba & early guitars

Fiesta: A Hispanic Heritage Celebration

Program

Morena me yaman con Cumbia .......................................................................................Anonymous, arr. RumbarrocoTraditional Sephardic La mañana de San Juan con Reggaetón .............................................. Anonymous/Diego Pisador, arr. RumbarrocoTraditional/Libro de música de vihueala, 1552

Recercada Primera con Merengue dominicano ......................... Diego Ortiz (ca. 1510 – ca. 1570), arr. RumbarrocoTrattao de Glosas, 1553¡Que bonito el niño con Merengue dominicano .......................................................................................... AnonymousCancionero de la Colombina, end of 15 th century

Pabanilla con Cumbia .................................................... Anonymous, arr. Fernando Len Rengifo & Laury Gutiérrez MS 2, Santa Eulalia, ca. 1570-1635 (Guatemala)Cumbeés con Currulao ......................................................... Santiago de Murcia (1673 – 1739), arr. León & GutiérrezCodice Saldivar, IV, 1732 (Mexico)

Guárdame las vacas — Polo Margariteño ..................................................................................................... Anonymous XVI century / Venezuelan folksong Luis de Narváez (fl. 1526-1549), Modesta Bor (1926-1998), Laury Gutiérrez

Un sarao de la chacona (Danza Cantada) ................................................................................. Juan Arañés (15??-1649)Libro Segundo de Tonos y Villancicos, 1624

Intermission

Vaya de Xacaras ........................................................................................... Rafael Antonio Castellanos (ca. 1725-1791) Musica colonial Archive, Guatemala, XVI to XVII centuries

Los Ympossibles / La Lloroncita ...................................................................................................... Santiago de MurciaCódice Saldívar, IV (1732) / Mexican Son Jarocho

Fandango con Joropo ........................................................... Antonio Soler (1729-1783), arr. Gutiérrez/Rumbarroco Mid-18 th century, R.146 /Venezuelan folksong

La Girigonça – Baile cantado ............................... Mateo Flecha (1481-1553)/Miguel de Fuenllana (ca. 1500-1579) Ensalada “El Jubilate,” Libro de música para vihuela, Orphénica Lyra de Miguel de Fuenllana, Sevilla, 1554



About the Artists

Yi-Li Chang, baroque violin, has been recognized by The Boston Musical Intelligencer as a baroque violinist with“confident virtuosity.” Yi-Li has performed many solo and chamber baroque violin recitals in the Boston areaas well as in her native Taiwan. She performs regularly with Boston-based groups such as Grand Harmonie,Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, and the Longy Early Music Ensemble, and is a founding member of theEarly music chamber ensemble Incendium Novum. She has participated in many Early music festivals, mostrecently at Amsterdam Early Music Summer School, Amherst Early Music Festival, and the International

Baroque Institute at Longy School of Music. Most recently she was concertmaster for Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the Longy Early Opera Project. She has also studied piano performance and composition, and herinterests extend to harpsichord, continuo accompaniment, and viola da gamba. This year Yi-Li earned s anMM in Early Music from Longy, where she studied under baroque violinist Dana Maiben. Previously shereceived MM and PhD degrees in modern violin performance from National Taiwan NormalUniversity, where her dissertation on Locatelli’s L’arte del violino has become a unique resource in the Chinese-language secondary literature on baroque violin performance practice.

Nathaniel Cox, cornetto, theorbo. A native of Vermont, Nathaniel Cox began his music career as a trumpetplayer, earning BAs in trumpet performance and Russian literature from Oberlin College and Conservatory ofMusic in 2008. After studying the baroque trumpet for a brief period (and winning the historical category at theNational Trumpet Competition in 2007), Nathaniel was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study cornetto with

Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. He began playing theorbo in 2011, and since thenhas performed across Europe and North America, both as a cornettist and theorbist with ensembles such asthe Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Apollo’s Fire, La Rose des Vents, and Profeti della Quinta.

Laury Gutiérrez, viola da gamba, guitars. Laury and her mother were serenaded by her father and other localmusicians at the birth clinic in Venezuela on the day she was born. In her teens she moved from Caracas to thecountry’s cowboy/girl zone Los Llanos (The Plains). In their home the family often held musical soirées, criollo style, where musicians spend the evening playing folk music by ear. Laury soaked up the amazingimprovisations by both singers and instrumentalists. She took up the cuatro (Venezuela’s small guitar) and alsobegan guitar lessons. Soon she became part of the to wn’s Folkloric Orchestra on guitar and mandolin. Movingback to Caracas after high school, she heard the viola da gamba for the first time and fell in love with it. Laurythen received the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Venezuela’s most prestigious scholarship for study abroad,along with other top awards and recognitions, and graduated with honors in music from the College of St.

Scholastica in Minnesota. She did graduate work in music at the Longy School of Music, Indiana University,and Boston University. She was a 2009 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at HarvardUniversity, and was included in a 2009 exhibit honoring 100 Boston-area women for their leadership andachievements. She is a resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. Praisedas “a first-rate instrumentalist” ( Boston Globe ), Laury specializes in music by women composers and in earlymusic from Ibero-America. She has performed under the direction of Thomas Binkley, Monica Huggett, and Wendy Gillespie, among others, and has been a featured guest artist – lecturer at Harvard University, BrandeisUniversity, and Simmons College. She is the founding director of La Donna Musicale and RUMBARROCO.La Donna Musicale’s four groundbreaking CDs, Antonia Bembo’s The Seven Psalms of David Vols. I and II, ThePleasures of Love and Libation: Airs by Julie Pinel and other Parisian Women , and Anna Bon, La virtuosa di Venezia , havereceived critical acclaim at home and abroad, as well as awards.

Wismer Jiménez. Born in Amazon state, Venezuela, Wismer began his music studies by teaching himself toplay both the cuatro and the guitar. Later he received cuatro lessons from such famous players as Rafael “Pollo”Brito, Pablo Camacaro, Jorge Glem, Jorge Polanco, and Edward Ramírez, as well as guitar lessons from RafaelHernández. He performs experimental music using Venezuelan music as the basis. Wismer also has his ownband, the Wismer Jazz Quartet, for which he is composer and arranger. He has performed with the SimonBolivar Symphonic Orchestra directed by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Big Band Jazz directed by Andrés Briceño. In addition, he is a member of Madera4 and Roraima. He is also a music teacher in Venezuelaand has traveled to Argentina to teach Venezuelan popular music. Wismer also loves to play the Baroqueguitar, expanding his versatility.



Kirsten Lamb is a double-bassist and vocalist originally from northern New Jersey. Praised by The HuffingtonPost as a "brilliant young musician" and the Boston Globe for her "versatility and assurance," she has performedextensively throughout the United States and abroad, playing folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary music.Kirsten graduated from Oberlin Conservatory in 2009 with a BM in music in both double bass andethnomusicology. She has studied with bassists Thomas Sperl and Peter Dominguez, sitarist Hasu Patel, and viola da gambist Catharina Meints, which has led her to develop a unique style of solo performance. Kirstenrecently completed an MM in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory, where shestudied with Cecil McBee, Dominique Eade, Hankus Netsky, and Anthony Coleman. While at NEC, she

debuted several original solo works in Jordan Hall, played for Elvis Costello, performed in John Z orn’s 35-yearretrospective, and participated in NEC’s community outreach program. Upon her graduation earlier this year,Kirsten was awarded the Gunther Schuller Medal for “extraordinary contributions to the life of New EnglandConservatory.” An avid teacher, Kirsten maintains a private studio, is a frequent guest teaching artist at schoolsthroughout the Boston area, and recently began a weekly residency with Young Audiences of Massachusetts.Kirsten is currently working on a full-length CD featuring original solo and ensemble compositions.

Roberto Pérez Oraá, bandola, was born in Portuguesa state, Venezuela. Roberto is a self-taught musician as well as a composer. He is the director of Percujazz, an ensemble that fuses Venezuelan folk music and jazz,and has performed in Aruba, Colombia, France, Italy, Panama, and Spain. He has researched, arranged and re-interpreted both Venezuelan and Spanish music. He incorporates improvisation as a basic element of hisperformance and to allow instrumental virtuosity to flourish in his ensemble.

Zayra Pola Ocasio at age 12 was introduced for an assessment of her musical aptitude to the teacher Luis“Perico” Ortiz, who told her parents "This girl is a phenomenon." Then she began to study her firstinstrument, drums. After several years of playing without formal study, she attended the Escuela Libre deMusica de Caguas, where she met Alexis Trinta, who instructed her in theory and solfege. At the same time,she was taught by the great percussion master Jose “Pepe” Torre s, who was impressed by her talent and gaveher the name “Pola” when he found out she was the granddaughter of the distinguished Puerto Rican guitaristPolo Ocasio. Following Torres’ advice, she auditioned for the prestigious Conservatory of Music of PuertoRico and was accepted. There Zayra took classes with Andrew Lazarus, who became her mentor, adviser, andfriend. She also had the privilege of performing with great teachers such as Alex Acuna, the actor and singer Anahi, Raymond Arrieta, Jean Carlos Canela, Luis Enrique, Larry Harlow, Grupo Mania, Luisito Marin, PaoliMejias, Andy Montanez, Rosel in Sanchez, Adalberto Santiago, and Charlie Sierra. Afterwards, she received afull scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, which enabled her to solidify her musical knowledge and

share her Puerto Rican heritage among a multicultural community of musicians. In addition to timbale anddrum set, Zayra plays congas and bongos.

Praised by The Boston Musical Intelligencer for her "strength and beautiful clarity, with a tone that was at oncerobust and gentle" and "crystalline clarity… perfect in its agility and emotion," Colombian native CamilaParias charms her audience with her sparkling voice and genuine musicality. She won the opportunity to singBelleza in Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità under the direction of Gerd Türk from the Schola CantorumBasiliensis, and to participate in a workshop with Andreas Scholl and María Cristina Kiehr. In 2009 she wonthe Competition Opera al Parque, singing Amour in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice . She also studied and performed with Benjamin Bgby and members of Sequentia at the Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival in 2011. Sinceher relocation to Boston, Camila has co-founded the vocal trio The Broken Consort, and sings with TheBoston Camerata, El Fuego, La Donna Musicale, and the Choir of the Church of the Advent. Camila holds a

BM in Vocal Performance from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia and an MM in Early MusicPerformance from the Longy School of Music, under a Presidential Scholarship.

Mezzo-soprano Daniela Tošić, a native of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, specializes in Early, contemporary, and World music. She has appeared in concerts throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. Danielais a founding member of the internationally renowned ensemble Tapestry, winners of tthe ECHO Klassikaward and Chamber Music America’s Recording of the Year. Tapestry has premiered numerous new worksand performed Steve Reich's Tehillim with the Colorado Symphony and Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conductedby Marin Alsop. Daniela has recently appeared as Story Woman in Steven Jobe's opera Melusine and Yangchenin Sheila Silver's The White Rooster . In the Boston area she performs with Blue Heron and La Donna Musicale.Daniela has recorded for Telarc, MDG, and several independent labels.

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