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Ribera arts review - June 13, 2014

Viva la Musica Concert

Viva la Musica presents pianist Sergio Parra Aguilera, performing pieces by Bach, Mozart, Liszt and Debussy, at the Auditorio de la Ribera in Ajijic on Sunday, June 29, 4 p.m.

Born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Parra showed extraordinary musical talents at an early age. After studying piano performance at the Academy of Art in Sonora, Parra studied music at the University of Guadalajara.

Parra has taken master classes from acclaimed pianists such as Alla von Buch, Michael Markov, and most recently Anatoly Zatin, in Colima. He has also studied orchestration and composition, instrumental technique and chamber music performance.

Viva la Musica awarded Parra a scholarship in 2013 on the strength of his amazing performance in their annual Viva scholarship auditions. This remarkably talented young musician has been accepted at the University of Illinois where he will begin studying music composition in the fall of 2014.

Tickets for this concert are 200 pesos and can be purchased at the Auditorio, at Diane Pearl Colecciones and the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) box office on Thursdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon. If tickets remain, they will be available at the door prior to the concert. All seating is open.

 

San Juan Culture Fest

The Seventh annual Fiesta de las Artes is scheduled June 18-24 in San Juan Cosalá in conjunction with the town’s festivities honoring religious patron Saint John the Baptist. Although program details had not been announced at press time, the arts festival customarily includes art exhibits, music, dance and theater shows held in the vicinity of the village plaza.

 

World Music Day

Now celebrated simultaneously in more than 400 locations around the globe, World Music Day 2014 is making a Saturday, June 21 appearance at Lake Chapala for the first time in the 32-year history of the event.

The concept of a fiesta of music by the musicians for the people started in Paris in 1982. The local event is being hosted by Gabriela Martinez de Santiago and co-sponsored by El Risco and the Hotel Real de Chapala.

Two sessions of free music are planned at lakeside. Appearing in the event will be Daniel Cordero, The Beyonds, Black Swan with Diamonds, Ivan Olivares, Ulises Salazar, Sol y Luna, Ricardo y Blanca, and Robert Cerda. The afternoon event will be held from noon to 8 p.m. at El Risco at Carretera Oriente 645 just east of San Juan Cosalá. Then, from 8 p.m. to midnight, the action moves to the Maria Felix Bar in the Hotel Real de Chapala in La Floresta.

 

Jocotepec Film Festival

The movies of famed Mexican director Guillermo del Toro continue to be screened at the Casa de Cultura in Jocotopec.

“Mimic” is the next del Toro film shown Wednesday, June 18, 8:30 p.m. The final film in the series, “El Labertino de Fauno,” is scheduled Wednesday, June 25, 8:30 p.m.

There is no entrance fee. The series of films is sponsored by the Direccion Municipal de Arte, Cultura y Tradicion de Jocotepec.

 

Cultural Center

The Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo in Chapala has planned a full calendar of events running through June and July for music fans to enjoy. However, the Baroque music concerts on June 18 and July 3 have been postponed due to the illness of one of the performers. They will be rescheduled for new dates as soon as possible.

Wednesday, June 25, 5 p.m. sees a performance by the Niños Cantores de Zapopan, directed by Benjamín Bautista. This choir is formed of 35 boys and girls aged between seven and 12 years of age. When the group started, the young singers mainly performed Christmas songs but later expanded their repertoire to include the works of Gabilondo Soler, the creator of the lovable kids’ character Cri-Cri. Since then have given presentations of traditional Mexican music and in 2013 celebrated World Water Day with a special concert in Guadalajara’s Colomos Park.

A series of recitals takes place at the center on Thursdays in July at 7 p.m., kicking off on July 10 with guitarist Alberto Castellanos Tovar playing works from the renaissance to the present day.

The final three recitals feature pianists studying for music degrees at the University of Guadalajara Music School. The schedule is:

Thursday, July 17. 7 p.m. Juan Pablo Garcia Velazco (Bach, Grieg, Brahams, Chopin, Armengol, Prokofiev).

Thursday, July 24. 7 p.m. Karen Garcia Padilla (Bach, Beethoven, Brahams, Schubert, Debussy).

Thursday, July 31. 7 p.m. Nicolae Ionescu (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Carrazco, Rachmaninoff).

The Gonzalez Gallo Center is located in Chapala’s old train station, at Avenida Gonzalez Gallo 1500, Colonia Las Redes, Chapala. Telephone: (376) 765-7424.