The new version of the contest will feature the participation of Chilean and foreign creators and researchers, who will share their experience and vision of contemporary music.
 
With a series of interesting musical activities - including concerts, conferences and master classes open to the entire local community - the Music Department of the University of La Serena is preparing to hold the XIV Contemporary Music Festival “MUSICAHORA”, a fundamental and necessary space in the decentralization of cultural initiatives in the region, which safeguards the possibility of rethinking reality from music and its present, contributing to the opening of new aesthetic horizons.
 
This important event will last five days, from this Monday, November 20 to Friday, November 24, and will feature the participation of various creators and researchers, Chilean and foreign. "Together with them we are preparing a series of concerts, conferences, talks and master classes of an educational nature, which in some way support our social mission as a festival, which is not only to transmit music but also a thought about it, and that It is one of our biggest challenges,” explained Esteban Correa, artistic director of the event and academic at the ULS.
 
As part of its programming, the “MUSICAHORA” Festival includes the launch of the album “Signo Macizo”, the new work by composer Esteban Correa that was supported by the University of La Serena and financed by the National Council of Culture and the Arts, through the Fund for the Promotion of National Music. The aforementioned production includes “four works in different formats, which were recorded since 2014 by the Universidad de La Serena Symphony Orchestra itself and its string and wind ensembles,” described the musician.
 
This launch will be the last annexed activity of this festival and will take place at the Municipal Theater of La Serena, next Friday, November 24 at 19:00 p.m. Subsequently, the ensemble belonging to the Network of Professional Regional Orchestras of the National Council of Culture and the Arts, under the baton of guest conductor Pedro Pablo Prudencio, will give life to its IX Official Season Concert, putting the finishing touch to the XIV Festival of Contemporary Music “MUSICAHORA” with the Suite 'The Story of the Soldier', by Igor Stravinsky, by the musicians Leonardo Godoy (violin), Andrés Carvajal (double bass), Andrés Pallero (clarinet), Alevi Peña (bassoon), Sergio Fuentes (trumpet), Felipe Rodríguez (trombone) and Pablo Pallero (percussion). In addition, he will perform works of national compositions such as 'Tramas Discontinuas' by the Chilean of Croatian origin, Aliosha Solovera, and 'Animal de Umbrales' by Esteban Correa, which will be performed by the first oboe of the symphonic ensemble, José Luis Urquieta.
 
For the soloist of this new presentation of the professional orchestra, “it is a true honor to be able to participate and contribute with my interpretation in a work by Esteban, a friend and brilliant composer with whom I have worked on interesting projects. Furthermore, those of us who like and promote the entire contemporary music movement are proud to have these types of events in the region and to be part of this important festival. The contest has been running for quite some time and has set a national and international benchmark within the current music scene,” said Urquieta.

MUSICAHORA daily program
 
The XNUMXth version of the festival will be made up of a varied series of concerts, as well as complementary activities such as talks, conferences, master classes and colloquiums that are free and open to the public, with the purpose of responding to the educational and reflective commitment around the music, contributing to the local community knowing the most current forms of musical expression and stimulating the formation of groups of listeners interested in discovering and delving deeper into this art.
 

20:00 p.m. - Mecesup Hall ULS Music Department
Morelia Trio (Mexico)
Irene Carrasco (cello), Laura Carrasco (piano) and Ludwig Carrasco (violin),
 

11:30 a.m. to 13:00 p.m. - Room 70 Mecesup Building ULS Music Department
Conference: Gabriel Gálvez Silva (Chile)
'The Sans Terre as Sainte Terrer: More or less cynical reflections on music and identity'
 
14:30 a.m. to 16:30 p.m. - Room 11 Mecesup Building ULS Music Department
Master Class: Morelia Trio (Mexico)
Contemporary Chamber Music
 
20:00 p.m. - Mecesup Hall ULS Music Department
Tacrelmu 2017: Creation Workshop. Bachelor of Music (Chile)
Verónica García (violin and voice); Javiera Trigos (cello and voice); Yoseline González (piano); Kevin Smith (trombone); Araldo López (piano); Raúl Valdivia (piano); Franco Aránguiz (violin); Enzo Tassara (vibraphone); Akiro Hayashida (guitar and percussion); Javier Galleguillos (voice) and Gabriel Gálvez Silva (direction)
 

11:30 a.m. to 13:00 p.m. - Room 69 Mecesup Building ULS Music Department
Conference: Nayive Ananías (Chile)
'The (popular)ular in Chilean art music: Syncretisms in the new generations of composers'.
 
20:00 p.m. - Mecesup Hall ULS Music Department
Parallel Movement - 'Flute and Recorder Duo (Chile)
Karina Fischer (flutes) and Paola Muñoz (recorder)
 
Cuartero Surkos and José Luis Urquieta (Chile)
David Núñez and Marcelo Pérez (violins), Valentina Maza (viola), Francisca Reyes (violoncello) and José Luis Urquieta (oboe)
 

11:30 a.m. to 13:00 p.m. - Room 70 Mecesup Building ULS Music Department
Conference: Álvaro Gallegos (Chile)
'Music of loneliness: Edgard Varese (1883-1965) and José Vicente Asuar (1933-2017)
 
20:00 p.m. - Mecesup Room ULS Music Department
MUSICAHORA Ensemble (Chile)
Lorenzo Cabello (viola); Rodrigo López (flute); José Luis Urquieta and Leonardo Cuevas (oboes); Andrés Pallero (clarinet); Alevi Peña (bassoon); Alejandro Meléndez (horn) and Felipe Rodríguez (trombone).
 
September Group (Chile)
Esteban Correa (electric and electronic guitar); Mauricio Álvarez (electric bass and electronics) and Pablo Pallero (drums and percussion)

19:00 p.m. - Municipal Theater of La Serena
CD launch 'Signo Macizo': Four works for the Universidad de La Serena Symphony Orchestra, Esteban Correa (Chile)

20:00 p.m. - Municipal Theater of La Serena
IX Official Season Concert - MUSICAHORA Festival Closing
University of La Serena Symphony Orchestra

The closing of this concert will cost $3.000 for the general public, $2.000 for seniors and free of charge for school students and students from the University of La Serena (presenting their ID). Tickets can only be purchased on the same day of the event at the municipal ticket office.

Source: Press Symphony Orchestra University of La Serena