2016-2020 IOHIO Festivals

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 18-23, 2020

A person playing an ornate, painted wooden piano.
An elderly man playing an organ in an ornate, historic room with intricate decorations.
Three men sitting at a table covered with a colorful, patterned cloth, with a microphone, glasses, and pitchers on the table, participating in a panel discussion.
A man in a suit standing on a balcony inside a church, with religious icons and ornate gold decorations behind him.
A woman and a man sitting together, both smiling, in front of an ornate wooden backdrop.
Group photo of numerous people gathered outdoors, some seated and some standing, against a stone brick wall with windows.
Three people, two men and one woman, inside a church with stone walls and religious crosses. The woman is in the middle, smiling, with her arm linked to the man on the right, who is also smiling and dressed in a suit and tie. The man on the left has light-colored hair and is wearing a dark jacket, holding a black bag and a rolled-up paper.
Three men sitting at a wooden pew inside a church, with ornate golden altar, large floral arrangements, and religious decorations in the background.
Three men dressed in black shirts standing inside a church with a large pipe organ in the background.

CONCERTS

  • February 18 – Cicely Winter and Valentín Hernandez (Oaxaca), Oaxaca regional music, Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 19 – João Vaz (Portugal), with the participation of the baritone Felipe Espinosa (Mexico), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 20 – André Lash and David Furniss (USA), Javier Mendoza, Jesús González, Isaí Guzmán and Tonatiuh González (Oaxaca), Santa María Natividad Tamazulapan

  • February 20 – Pavel Kohout (Czech Republic), San Matías Jalatlaco 

  • February 21 – Craig Cramer (USA), Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 22 – Eliseo Martínez, organ, Diego Calderón, trombone, and Sócrates Juárez, violin, Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • February 22 – Pavel Kohout, San Andrés Zautla

  • February 23 – João Vaz, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 23 – Craig Cramer, Santa María de la Asunción Tlacolula

MASTER CLASSES & RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • February 7 – Joao Vaz in la Soledad to five Oaxaca organists

  • Visits to 12 unrestored organs 

TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 14-21, 2018

An elderly man with white hair and glasses playing a piano in a dimly lit room decorated with ornate patterns and a floral element on the wall.
A man in a dark suit, yellow tie, and glasses standing next to an organ with a visible sheet of music and a row of pipe organ stops.
A woman sitting on a stool playing a large, ornate wooden pump organ decorated with colorful artwork inside a historic building.
Two men in suits standing in an ornate church or cathedral, holding a small legal or official document, with religious artwork and a gilded altar in the background.
Group of people posing in front of a historic stone archway.
A woman with blonde hair and a man with dark hair stand together in a warmly lit space, the man holding a drum and drumsticks, both smiling. The woman wears a black dress with colorful embroidered flowers, and the man wears a black shirt with colorful embroidered suspenders.
Five people standing on a balcony inside a church, with a painted, textured wall behind them and architectural details to the sides.

This year marked the festival debut of the Jalatlaco organ as a playable instrument. One of our regular attendees commented on the evolution of this organ during his last three visits: first as an unrestored instrument (2002-2014) when we discussed our hopes for its restoration, then as a restoration in process by the Gerhard Grenzing Company (2016), and finally as a concert instrument (2018).

CONCERTS

  • February 14 – Cicely Winter and Valentín Hernandez (Oaxaca), Oaxaca regional music, Basílica de la Soledad

  • February 15 – Jan Willem Jansen (Netherlands, France), San Matías Jalatlaco 

  • February 16 – Andrés Cea Galán (Spain), with the participation of baritone Felipe Espinosa (Mexico), Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 17 – David Soteno, organ, and Lorenzo Meza, clarinet (State of Mexico), Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • February 17 -- Roberto Ramirez, Andre Lash, Christoph Hammer (USA), Andres Cea, Willem Jansen, Laura Carrasco, San Andrés Zautla

  • February 18 –Jan Willem Jansen, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 18--Andrés Cea Galán, Santa María de la Asunción Tlacolula

  • February 19 – Greta Baltazar, Alejandro Lemus, Mario Moya, Zeltzin Perez (Mexico City), Joel Vásquez (IOHIO), Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan

  • February 19 -- Ricardo Ramírez, Laura Angélica Carrasco, Andrés Cea Galán, Michael Barone, Jan Willem Jansen, and David Furniss, Santa María Tlaxiaco

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • February 14 – Talk by Andres Cea Galán, “Spanish music: Organs and organists during the 16th -18th centuries,” San Matías Jalatlaco

  • February 16 —Tours of the church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, seat of the Dominican order in the Valley of Oaxaca since the 16th century, and the Museum of the Cultures of Oaxaca in the former convent, led by guides Pablo Gonzalez and Gabriel Sanchez 

  • Visits to 12 unrestored organs 

Please see the PBS video from the series "In the Americas with David Yetman," which includes aspects of the IOHIO's Twelfth Festival.

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL ORGAN AND EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
OAXACA, MEXICO

February 18-24, 2016

An elderly man with white hair and glasses playing an ornate pipe organ inside a church or chapel, with religious paintings on the wall behind him.
Two men sitting in front of a large ornate pipe organ, smiling at the camera. The man on the left is wearing a white shirt and a red tie, holding some papers. The man on the right is wearing a white shirt with rolled-up sleeves and glasses.
Group of people standing in front of an ornate stone archway at a historic site.
A woman giving a presentation or speech to a group of people in a room with decorative wall details.
A woman and a young man standing inside a church, both smiling at the camera. The woman has blonde hair and is wearing an orange blouse, and the young man has short hair and is dressed in a black shirt and black pants.
Group of people standing in a room with wooden bookshelves filled with books.
Man inspecting or playing a large pipe in a room with wooden walls and a piano.
A young man playing the piano while a woman observes behind him in a room with decorative pink and white walls.
Four men looking at documents displayed in a glass case inside a library or museum.
Two men in suits standing in front of a large ornate pipe organ in a historic building.
Two men sitting and standing at a piano in a room with music sheets and a decorative backdrop.
Five people standing on a small balcony in front of an ornate pipe organ.

CONCERTS

  • February 18 – Liuwe Tamminga (Netherlands), organ, and Bruce Dickey (USA), cornetto, Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 19 – Cicely Winter and percussionist Valentín Hernández (Oaxaca), Program of Oaxaca Regional Music, Oaxaca Cathedral

  • February 20 – Jeffrey Cooper, Michael Ging, and Christopher Holman (USA, doctoral students of Robert Bates, Univ. Houston), Tonatiuh González, Jesús González (Oaxaca), Santa María de la Natividad Tamazulapan 

  • February 20 – Víctor Contreras, organ, Juan Luis González, trumpet (Mexico), Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán

  • February 20 –  Víctor Contreras, Víctor Manuel Morales (Mexico), Margarita Ricárdez (Oaxaca), Robert Bates (USA); Alberto Revilla (Mexico City/Oaxaca), theorbo and flamenco guitar, San Andrés Zautla

  • February 21 – Craig Cramer (USA), San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya

  • February 21 – Liuwe Tamminga, organ, Bruce Dickey, cornetto, Santa María Asunción Tlacolula

  • February 22 – Liuwe Tamminga and David Furniss, Marilou Kratzenstein, Craig Cramer, William Autry (USA), Santa María Asunción Tlaxiaco

RELATED ACTIVITIES

  • February 19 –Exhibit “Pedro Nibra and Oaxaca Organ-building in the mid-Nineteenth century” to highlight the restoration in process of the organ in San Matías Jalatlaco, María Isabel Grañen Porrúa, director of the Francisco de Burgoa Library. Ricardo Rodys (Poland), curator, described the documents: payments to Nibra for the organ construction, records of later interventions in the organ, and construction contracts for other Oaxaca organs.

  • February 19 –Visit to the Jalatlaco church to view the organ restoration in process (Gerhard Grenzing Organ-building Company); presentation by restorers Eric González (Oaxaca) and Alberto Compiani (Mexico) about the recently finished restoration of the organ case, visit to the choir loft to view the empty case up close, and to a temporary shop space to observe the windchest, keyboard, and pipes removed from the organ. Organ builders Joaquín Lois (Spain) and Hal Gober (USA) were on hand to answer questions about organ construction and helped prepare the organs for the concerts.

  • Visits to 14 unrestored organs