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From September 21 to October 14
Manuel Enríquez International Forum of New Music becomes interdisciplinary
September 11, 2018Manuel Enríquez International Forum of New Music (FIMNME, for its acronym in Spanish) has reached its 40th edition, to be held from September 21 to October 14 in different venues, with the intention of recovering the interdisciplinary spirit of its early years.
"We have a quite interdisciplinary program and for the first time in the history of the forum combines several disciplines: dance, opera, chamber opera, film and visual arts, all with contemporary music as main focus," announced in a press conference on Tuesday morning, September 11, the artistic director of FIMNME and national coordinator of Music and Opera of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), José Julio Díaz Infante.
In order to value and highlight the importance of the International Forum of New Music since its first edition in 1979, the commemorative exhibition Manuel Enríquez International Forum, 40 years of New Music in Mexico, will be exhibited.
It will be made up of electroacoustic instruments, recording equipment, scores, photographs, handheld programs, posters and video interviews, accompanied by a selection of historical recordings of works premiered and performed throughout the history of the forum and can be enjoyed in the Justino Fernandez Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts from September 22 to October 14.
The public servant said that this year the symphony orchestras of Aguascalientes and the University of Guanajuato will perform simultaneously. with the opening concert by the National Symphony Orchestra (OSN, for its acronym in Spanish) on September 21 at the Palace of Fine Arts, while the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra will include a couple of its works in a program dedicated to this great celebration.
Regarding the opening concert, José Luis Castillo, who will be guest conductor of the OSN, explained that the repertoire includes a work by the founder of the forum: Ritual, by Manuel Enríquez, and the world premiere of the winning piece of the 2nd Iberoamerican Composition Contest for Ibermusic Symphony Orchestra: Celestial Chromatisms (Sous les cieux) by the Mexican David Hernández Ramos, with the participation of the clarinetist and concert pianist of Fine Arts, Manuel Hernández.
On the other hand, the artistic director of the Chamber Orchestra of Fine Arts announced that the group will offer a concert under guest conductor Juan Trigo, which will close the 40th Forum with music by Alicia Urreta, Víctor Rasgado, Ricardo Zohn, Marcela Rodríguez and the piece Rito del reencuentro, by Federico Ibarra.
Composer Mario Lavista said that as part of the Forum's programming and after 30 years of not performing on stage, his opera Aura, based on Carlos Fuentes’s tale, will be staged at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris on September 22 and 23 with the participation of the Mexican Philarmonic Orchestra, under conductor Gabriela Díaz Alatriste and the stage director Ragnar Conde.
The project is an Escenia Ensamble, AC production, supported by the Mexico on stage program of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (Fonca) and is part of the special programming for the centennial of the building.
For his part, José Wolffer, director of the Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola mentioned that this space joins the Forum by hosting the show El espacio acusmático, five multichannel works to listen to in nature, in which the Argentine musician, Daniel Teruggi, will carry out the diffusion and multichannel space sound 8.1, on September 30.
Another highlight at the same venue is the Mexican premiere of La boca, i piedi, il suono for four solo saxophones and 100 moving saxophones by Salvatore Sciarrino, on Sunday 7 October.
The artistic director of FIMNME, José Julio Díaz Infante also highlighted the participation of the Arditti Quartet, along with countertenor Jake Arditti with a program that includes three world premieres by Mexican composers and three Mexican premieres by emblematic composers of the 20th and 21st centuries: Franco Donatoni, Salvatore Sciarrino and Brian Ferneyhough. In addition, the group will hold a reading workshop on works by young Mexican composers.
In collaboration with the Goethe-Mexico Institute will be the duo Reidemeister move (double bass, microtonal tuba and electronics) and the Cepromusic Ensemble will premiere a work by Maximilian Marcoll that involves 10 speakers on stage, in addition to an exhibition with the plastic representation of works by the composer, which will be open until January 2019 in the Institute's facilities.
Regarding Mexican ensembles, there will be the participation of the Latin American Quartet, which will share the stage with the French group Trío D'Argent, the Onix ensemble and the Quinteto de Alientos of Mexico City
Also noteworthy is the presence of the ensemble Liminar, Duplum Duo, Cuarteto Arcano, Raga Ensamble de Percusiones; the pianist Gonzalo Gutiérrez, Ensamble Florestán; Ensamble Tamayo; Fabián Campuzano, in the tuba; the violinist Cuauhtémoc Rivera; the guitarists Julio Cervantes and Vladimir Ibarra.
The Contemporary Music Ensemble of the Conservatory and the FAM; the Chromatica Duo, from the United States; the Staccato Choir of the UNAM and the Swiss-Spanish Duo UMS'n JIP, with presentations at the MUAC and at the Mexican Center for Music and Sound Arts in Morelia.
For further information of the program of the 40th Manuel Enriquez International Forum of New Music (FIMNME) please visit: https://forodemusicanueva.inba.gob.mx/
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