Concert Information
The Early Music Latin America Festival concert will took place on March 2, 2024, at 7:30 pm in the Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall, preceded by a lecture by Dr. Sarah Finley. The concert was free and open to the public, and approximately 350 people attended.
Featured guest artists were members of LeStrange viola da gamba consort, Zoe Weiss, Loren Ludwig, and John Mark Rozendaal, performing with violist, Mary Springfels, wind player and percussionist, Dan Meyers, lutenist and guitarist, Jason Priset, and singer, Estelí Gomez. See the artist page. UTEP faculty, Lindsey Macchiarella, and Philip Hill also performed on several pieces.
The concert included music from a variety of Latin American sources from the 15th-18th centuries, such as the Codex Martínez Compañón from Peru, and the Cancionero musical de Gaspar Fernandes, from Mexico, and sacred and secular polyphony and dance music from Colonial Northwestern Guatemala