23festivalinternacionaldr.alfonsoortiztirado 2007 / Boletín No. 318 / Enero 11, 2007
Jimena Gimenez Cacho
The Mexican cellist Jimena Gimenez Cacho will present “20th and 21st Century Mexican music for solo cello”, within the frame of the 23rd International Festival Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado 2007, in the four main locations: on Tuesday 23rd at Cobach’s Auditorium Theater in Hermosillo at 20:00 hours; on Wednesday 24th at Auditorium Theater “Profr. Romeo Gomez Aguilar” in Navojoa at 20:00 hours; on Friday 26th at Alamo’s Temple Purisima Concepcion at 12:00 hours, and on Saturday 27th at Itson’s Theater “Dr. Oscar Russo Voguel” in Cajeme at 20:00 hours.
Program:
Century 20th and 21st Mexican music for solo cello
Marcela Rodriguez’s Lumbre I, II and III; Julian Carrillo’s Primera casi sonata en cuartos de tono (Como Recitativo, Recitativo y Final); Mario Lavista’sCuaderno de viaje (I-Come un canto in lontananza y II-Volátil, sempre delicado e come da lontano); Jimena Gimenez Cacho’s Vete hacia ti mismo (Dolor, Sensualidad, Tinieblas y Plenitud).
Jimena Gimenez Cacho
Well-known Mexican cellist born in 1954, she was enthusiastic for music since little girl. At first she played instruments like piano, jarocha harp, guitar and flute, and later on she definitely decided for the cello.
She studied in Mexico and later on in the Scola Cantorum of Paris, France, in the Volkswang Hochschule of Essen and in the Staaltliche Hochschule of Freiburg, Germany; she graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, Spain. Among her teachers, stands out Leopoldo Tellez, Lluis Claret, Janos Starker, Maria Kliegel, Christoph Henkel, Marcial Cervera and Paul Friedhoff.
She has been part of the Valladolid’s Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony from Baleares, the Philharmonic of Mexico City, the Symphony of Mineria and the Quartet from the National Institute of the Fine Arts. Devoted especially to the chamber music, she has been determined to study and promote the repertories that explain the history of her instrument, just as well to discover and bring to knowledge the pieces of contemporary composers, in many cases unknown for the public. She has release in Mexico at least twentieth pieces from composers.
Her concerts are always assembled over a topic unit, historic or geographic, for example: in “The born of a violoncello” and then “From Frescobaldi to Schnittke”, Jimena Gimenez tracks the ways of performing throughout the history and for that, she uses the baroque and the modern cello. In her worry to know the voice of her instrument in her own country, she has gathered a repertoire of Mexican pieces for violoncello in “Three generations of Mexican music” and “20th and 21st Century of Mexican music for violoncello solo”, through different moments of its history.
She has also joined in concert Spanish pieces and in other music from composers of six countries and different periods, “Echoes of the world”, with the idea of highlight the contrast between the different voices of the violoncello. Her concerts are conceive as complete performances in which besides of the thematic topics that bring it together, the lighting and wardrobe are important; just as well, in occasions, the incorporation of different arts like poetry in “Love and death”; in theater when she was part of the Lindsay Kemp’s Theater Company or in dance in the performance “Moradas” with Rossana Filomarino, dancer.
It is important to point out, that she also enjoys participating in concerts of other musical genres, the free improvisation or with her own compositions. Since May of 2004 she has been devoted to depth in the microtonal movement, born in the twenties whose maximum representative in Mexico was Julian Carrillo. In 2005, she release in Mexico Julian Carrillo’s (1975-1965), Integral de las sonatas para violoncello solo (seis sonatas) en cuartos de tono, which recording is about to come out; alike she released in Mexico Concertino para violoncello and orquesta en cuartos y octavos de Tono. Until now, Jimena Gimenez has recorded five discs: Spanish Music, Love and death, Echoes of the World, Born of the Violoncello and the integral of Julian Carrillo’s Sonatas en Cuartos de tono, distribuited by Quindecim recordings.
For Jimena Gimenez Cacho the violoncello is one of the deepest voices among all the sounds that are heard on Earth, and with that voice she can express: tenderness, love, anxiety, melancholy and all the feelings and sensations that are deepness in the her self being.
