Colombian Clarinet Quartet

It was created in Caracas in 2007 as part of the academic activity of the Master in Clarinet that its members carried out at the Simón Bolívar University. Its repertoire includes original works and arrangements made by its members which include classical, contemporary, Latin American and Colombian works of different genres and periods.

The Colombian Clarinet Quartet has performed in the following clarinet festivals: Festival de Vientos-Maderas de Venezuela, Clarinet Seminar Conservatorio del Tolima, First and Second Week of the Tunja Clarinet. European Festival of Clarinet Ensembles of Belgica, First International Clarinet Festival of Costa Rica, Eighth Festival of Young Venezuelan Clarinetists, Second International Festival of Clarinet of Bolivia, Festival Academia Iberoamericana de Clarinet Castelo de Paiva -Portugal, First International Festival of Clarinet of Uruguay, Encounter of Clarinets of the North zone in Brazil and Binational Encounter of Clarinets of Ecuador.

He has performed recitals in the concert halls of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia in Leticia, San Andrés, Ibagué, Florencia, Manizales, Armenia, Pereira, Bogotá, Pasto, Cali, Sincelejo, Barranquilla, Valledupar, Neiva, Montería, Cartagena, Santa Marta and Riohacha.

Since 2015, they are part of the portfolio of artists of the Foreign Ministry within the plan for the Promotion of Colombia abroad, within which they have been programmed in Uruguay, Brazil and Ecuador.

FREDY MAURICIO PINZON AGUILAR

Bachelor of Music, Specialist in Educational Management and Master of Music with emphasis on clarinet from the Simón Bolívar University of Venezuela under the guidance of maestro Luis Rossi. It belongs to the Latin American Academy of Clarinets directed by the teacher Valdemar Rodríguez based in Caracas - Venezuela. He was a member of the Simón Bolívar Symphonic Band in Venezuela from 2007 to 2009. In 2006 he won the Young Performers contest of the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra and also toured Mexico performing the Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen for the company Colegio del Corps de Cartagena. Member of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas from 2003 to 2005. He is continually invited to play as principal clarinetist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá. He currently works as a Clarinet teacher at the University of Caldas and the Tunja School of Music.

JUAN ALEJANDRO CANDAMIL GUTIÉRREZ

Clarinetist musician with an emphasis on chamber music from the National University of Colombia, Master in Music with an emphasis on Clarinet from the Simón Bolívar University of Venezuela under the guidance of maestro Luis Rossi. He is part of the Latin American Clarinet Academy which is under the direction of Maestro Valdemar Rodríguez. He has served as a teacher and recitalist at Clarinet Festivals in Costa Rica, Bolivia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Portugal and Colombia. He was a member and founding member of the Saxeto Instrumental Group, winner of the great Mono Núñez prize in the instrumental modality in 1996. In February 2001 he entered the National Symphonic Band by competition. He currently works as a clarinet professor at the National Pedagogical University and is part of CG, an ensemble dedicated to the dissemination of contemporary academic music, especially Latin American composers.

HERNAN DARIO GUTIERREZ VASQUEZ

Buffet-Crampon Artist., Bachelor of Music from the University of Caldas, Master of Music with emphasis in Instrumental Performance - Clarinet- from the Simón Bolívar University of Venezuela, under the tutelage of Maestro Luis Rossi. He is part of the Latin American Clarinet Academy which is under the direction of Maestro Valdemar Rodríguez. Winner of the Mono Núñez Grand Prize Instrumental Category 1993 and 1996, First Place Winner of the Instrumental Category National Festival del Pasillo 2000. He has been invited as a teacher, soloist and director to the Clarinet Festivals of Venezuela, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Portugal, Uruguay and Mexico. He currently works as a Clarinet professor at the University of Caldas and at the Technological University of Chocó.

GUILLERMO ALBERTO MARIN RODRIGUEZ

Clarinets Artist L. Rossi. Clarinetist Musician with an emphasis on Conducting ”with an Honorable Mention from the National University of Colombia, Master in Music with an emphasis on Instrumental Performance - Clarinet from the Simón Bolívar University, under the tutelage of Maestro Luis Rossi. He is part of the Latin American Clarinet Academy which is under the direction of Maestro Valdemar Rodríguez. "Clarinetist of the year 2009" Clariperú. Member of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas from 2005 to 2010. Winner of the First National Clarinet Competition Henry Selmer Paris Philippe Berrod with honorable mention in the Superior category in 2006 (Bogotá-Colombia), Winner of the Competitions: "Young Interpreters "Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá (2004)," Young Soloists "Orquesta Filarmónica del Valle (2005). He participated in the 62nd International Competition in Geneva (Switzerland), ranking among the best 40 of said competition in October 2007, in the 4th Carl Nielsen International Clarinet competition 2009 advancing to the second round. Concertmaster of the Simón Bolívar Youth Symphonic Band of Caracas between 2006 and 2008. Founding member of the Young Philharmonic of Colombia. Selected by the Hildegard Barehns Foundation in New York along with four members of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas as deserving of the distinction “2010 Hildegard Barehns Young Artis”. He was director of the School of Music of Tocancipá, He currently works as the main clarinetist of the Philharmonic orqueta de Bogotá.

OSCAR JAVIER GUTIERREZ V. - PERCUSSION, GUITAR AND CUATRO.

Bachelor of Music from the National Pedagogical University. Advances the Master's degree in Musical Creation, New Technologies and Traditional Arts at the Tres de Febrero University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied luthery in wind instruments at the French factories Selmer Paris and Buffet Crampon. He is currently a member of the Tuna Navarra and works as a professor at the Universidad del Rosario and the Universidad Antonio Nariño, activities that he combines with his work as a Luthier.

CONCERT PROGRAM NOTES
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The program offered in this recital by the Cuarteto Colombiano de Clarinetes presents a varied vision of Colombian musical airs that have enjoyed great popularity since the mid-20th century, mixed with a couple of original pieces and a well-known Latin American repertoire. Among the well-known Latin American works we must highlight the Fuga con Pajarillo by the Venezuelan musician Aldemaro Romero (1928-2007), one of the most influential figures in the popular sphere of his country. In Fuga con pajarillo a tribute is commemorated and paid homage to the Creole Fugue of the also Venezuelan Juan Bautista Plaza. Romero begins his work with a scholastic fugue that ends in a joropo in blow of a bird (minor key). From the unforgettable Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963), the Quartet has included one of its most famous Afro-Cuban Dances. And the black woman danced! For the rest of the concert, the Quartet has selected a rich range of melodies and rhythms from Colombia in arrangements that always serve to show the quality and virtuosity of the group. The bambuco is one of the most widespread Colombian airs in the country and one of its main characteristics is the syncopated rhythmic game between two measures of compas. In the Danzango, the rhythm of the Havana dance stands out, which arrived in Colombia around 1870 and took root in a definitive way, and its closeness to this Havana dance that arrived in Buenos Aires and whose bases remained in the milonga. Fandango, cumbia and mapalé are part of the rich musical world of the Colombian Atlantic coast.

The Fandango is the feast of the fertile savannas of the Sinú River, where rhythmic joints are mainly heard contrasted with very fast fandangos, like the one that is performed today. The role of the drums and their calls is the backbone of cumbia in its Colombian origins and that has had little or nothing to do with the development of cumbia in the rest of South America. The black Christmas of the iconic composer José Barros (1915-2007) is a great opportunity to go back to the primeval characteristics of this sensual Caribbean dance. Vigor and energy are the backdrops for the mapalé Prende la vela, mi negra by the composer “Lucho” Bermúdez (1913-1994), a pioneer of dance bands in Colombia in the 30s and 40s of the last century.

And since we talk about dance music, we must make a reference to Colombian salsa and the paradigmatic work of Álvaro Velásquez, so well known in the version of Fruko and his tesos: In the world in which I live there are always four corners….

On the Divertimento for tubercles in B flat, we reproduce the comments of the ingenious composer Hernán Darío Gutiérrez, director of the Quartet: “From the Carrot Clarinet developed by Lindsey Pollak, the work has been composed which must be played with instruments made with Carrots (clarinet carrot) yucas (instrument that we have called Yucafón) and bananas (instrument that we have called Platinete). Also, in one of the parts of the work, hoses with saxophone mouthpieces (instruments that we have called Mangophones) are used. The work arises with didactic intention for a series of concerts for children but it has been definitely included in this program since the use of these unconventional instruments has been very attractive to all audiences.

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