Guitar Music of Mexico Cecilio Perera

• Ernesto Hernández Lunagómez (b.1974):
• 1Siena03:45
• Julio César Oliva (b.1947):
• 2Imágenes de Yucatán: I. Mérida05:37
• 3Imágenes de Yucatán: II. Paseo Montejo05:08
• 4Imágenes de Yucatán: III. Chichén Itzá06:02
• 5La Llorona (Arr. J.C. Oliva for Guitar)02:41
• Jorge Ritter (b.1957):
• 63 Pieces for Guitar: No. 1, Rápido02:22
• 73 Pieces for Guitar: No. 2, Andante02:05
• 83 Pieces for Guitar: No. 3, Jaleo02:10
• Cecilio Perera (b.1983):
• 9Marina04:17
• Julio César Oliva:
• 10Sonata para el Final de los Tiempos: I. Señales Proféticas08:45
• 11Sonata para el Final de los Tiempos: II. La Gran Tribulación08:03
• 12Sonata para el Final de los Tiempos: III. Paraíso Recobrado07:25
• Alfredo Tamayo (1880 - 1957):
• 13Sueño (Soñó Mi Mente Loca) [Arr. C. Perera for Guitar]03:38
• Cutberto Córdova (b.1963):
• 14Mabi02:25
• Juan Helguera (b.1933):
• 15Un Retrato02:32
• Gerardo Támez (b.1948):
• 16Aires de Son: I. Aire Itsmeño02:06
• 17Aires de Son: II. Quedo03:35
• 18Aires de Son: III. Son Trunco02:02
• Total Runtime01:14:38

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The contemporary guitar music scene of Mexico is a vibrant and active community of composers, many of them concert guitarists themselves. The new generations of composers are creating a fascinating new repertoire which, while rooted in the historical elements of the Mexican musical heritage with its traditional melodies and indigenous folkloric vitality, embraces the sophistication of European compositional techniques.

Evocations of period and place can be heard in Oliva’s Images of Yucatán and Gerardo Tamez’s Aires de Son, reminiscent of the music of southern Mexico. There are also personal homages such as award-winning guitarist Perera’s romantic Marina and Helguera’s poignant Un retrato (A Portrait).

Cecilio Perera, classical guitar

Cecilio Perera
was born in Mérida, Yucatan, in October, 1983. He begins the formal studies of the Classic Guitar at the age of 9 years under the trusteeship of his brother Pedro Perera who teached to him the technique adapted for the instrument as well as the reading of the musical score for guitar and how to play exercises and studies of composers like Sor, Giulliani, Carulli, Tarrega and Brouwer among others, to the 12 years old he already has repertoire of student advanced with works of Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic and Contemporary composers and giving recitals in private meetings and schools in his native city. In this period of his life feels the necessity to go in a music school to study others subjects to complement the understanding of music and is when he was 14 years old went to the Center of Music José Jacinto Cuevas in Merida, taking classes with Ricardo Vega Diaz, with that he learns more professional form of interpretation of the instrument, with him he begins to know already the music world as a life form and to engage in a dialog and experience on the stage with the instrument, he really taught him to love the guitar. Parallelly to these classes, Cecilio receives musical advices of the Cuban pianist Alberto Alvarez learning to understand all the aspects of the baroque music.

In 1999 he decides to direct his life to music and initially making the entrance examination in the Faculty of Music of the Veracruz University, in Xalapa, taking classes with Consuelo Bolio with that he begins the way to music as a life form and continues his studies with Alfredo Sánchez who influences of determining and important way in his musical formation and with which begins to look for his own identity for the interpretation of the instrument.

In 2005 Cecilio goes to Europe to know other forms to make music and by necessity of professional and musical growth, enters to the Mozarteum University of Salzburg in Austria to study the degree in Music with specialty Classic Guitar under the professional education in the instrument of the famous guitarist Eliot Fisk.

Cecilio continues his musical studies at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria with Eliot Fisk and Ricardo Gallen, developing his own style on the guitar interpretation where he is making already an international carier playing concerts around Europe and America.

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