- Culture and Extension
Guitarist Francisco Vergara will perform pieces by European and Latin American authors
The ULS academic will also include a work of his own creation.
As part of the 2014 concert series of the Extension Directorate of the University of La Serena, the institution's academic, Francisco Vergara, will perform in a solo concert performed on classical guitar. The activity will take place this Thursday, October 2, at 19:00 p.m., in the ULS Exhibition Hall (Benavente 950), with free entry.
This passionate about music and guitar, has been teaching for 13 years in the Music Department of the university, giving the best of his knowledge to students who are preparing to continue along the musical path. However, the professional looks for spaces to dedicate time to his passion and give the community all his talent as a guitarist.
Thus, for all those who love this instrument, Vergara will perform a classical guitar concert that will show all the talent of this artist with a guideline that he himself detailed. “I will cover the guitar repertoire from the Renaissance period, with the authors who were dedicated to the guitar or the vihuela of the time, and go through a little bit of the music of the European repertoire and also reaching the most popular Latin American repertoire, which is not so popular, but they are pieces that are based on genres or styles of popular music with folk roots, among those I included a piece of mine, which has a little bit of fusion with flamenco,” he stated.
Regarding the program, the academic and musician announced that “the repertoire starts with pieces from the Renaissance, which are pieces specially written for vihuela, which is a predecessor of the guitar, and I am going to go through Bach, for the Classical period, I am going to "Going to a more modern period of music, I'm talking about European music, and after getting to modern I'm going to move on to South America." Continuing with the concert program, she also mentioned that it will include pieces by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villalobos and works by Violeta Parra, “which are not very well known, which are a group of works that she called 'the anticuecas' (...) the truth is that people do not know them very much, they do not know that Violeta also made music inspired by modern learned instruments, as an experimental one, I will take two pieces from the five anticuecas, I will do some pieces by Juan Antonio Sánchez, a young guitarist and composer, who He has many works for guitar and I will end with a piece of my own,” he highlighted.
This concert is aimed at all audiences and for more information, call 2204171, email