GUAFA TRÍO (September 29, 2016)
Texas State University School of Music Stars At Night Concert Series presented
GUAFA TRÍO: Music of Colombia
Thursday September 29, 7:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
405 Moon Street
San Marcos, TX
78666
$15* Adults/$8* Students, Senior Citizens & military (with ID) (*plus $2 handling fee per ticket purchased on-line or at the door)
Sponsored by the School of Music, Office of Equity and Access, College of Fine Arts & Communication, and Latin Music Studies at Texas State University; and, Casa Colombia restaurant—Austin, Texas
The Guafa Trío (flute, cuatro, bass) is considered by the musical critical world as one the most influential and innovative groups in the current scene of traditional Colombian music. Guafa Trio was formed in 1998 under the direction of flutist Ignacio Ramos. Since then, Guafa has obtained the highest awards in Colombia, as well as international acclaim. Guafa specializes in musical genres from the central and eastern regions of Colombia (the plains’ joropo, in particular, which Colombia shares with the plains of Venezuela), rendered through a combination of traditional and orchestral/jazz instruments (cuatro and maracas with traverse flute and bass, both acoustic and electric).
Guafa trio members Ignacio Ramos, Cristian Camilo Guataquira, and Javier Andrés Mesa Martínez, are all versatile musicians who bring together empirical learning and academic studies. Flutist, maracas specialist, and director Ignacio Ramos is a graduate of the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá, and in addition, has completed studies with various maestros in Venezuela. He is the winner of the first-place award for best interpretation of Colombian music in the Festival Nacional de Nueva Música Colombiana (2005). Cristian Camilo Guataquira has studied with David Bedoya, Juan Carlos Contreras, and Cheo Hurtado, among other prominent experts in the Colombian cuatro llanero (cuatro technique from the plains of Colombia and Venezuela). He studied at the Academia de Música Luis A. Calvo and won the first-place award in the II Festival de la Cultura Llanera. Javier Andrés Mesa Martínez has won numerous first-place awards in traditional Colombian music, including the Gran Premio Mono Núñez (1997 and 2004) and the Gran Pipintá de Oro del Festival Nacional del Pasillo (2003), among others. He has studied with Alain Pérez, Oscar Stagnaro, Richard Bona, and Armando Gola, in addition to obtaining credentials as a Bass Specialist from Berklee College of Music in Boston, U.S.A.
Guafa’s trajectory includes national concerts in Bogota, Cali, Medellin, and Barranquilla, and international performances in the United States, Mexico, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, and many other countries in Latin America, Europe, and Africa. Their discography includes nine releases since the year 2000.
Guafa Trío’s website: http://guafatrio.com/