Sponsored by the Mavesa Cultural Project, with the support of the Latin American Music Center, it's become Latin America's main guitar event, turning the capital of Venezuela into the guitar capital of the world each year |
International August FestivalCaracasVenezuela
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| Laura Alonso Venezuela |
Vicente Amigo España |
Aquiles Báez Venezuela |
Ernesto Bitetti Argentina |
Trío Raúl Borges Venezuela |
| Enrique Cazes Brasil |
El Cuarteto Venezuela |
Cumaco Jazz Quintet Venezuela |
Aliro Díaz Venezuela |
Senio Díaz Venezuela |
| Roland Dyens Francia |
Eos Guitar Quartet Suiza |
Paul Fischer Reino Unido |
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones USA |
Anton García Abril España |
| Gerson García Venezuela |
Everton Gloeden Brasil |
José G. Guánchez Venezuela |
Gurrufío Venezuela |
Leopoldo Igarza Venezuela |
| Arthur Kampela Brasil |
Dúo Montes-Kircher Venezuela/Alemania |
Orquesta de Guitarras Venezuela |
Orquesta Sinfónica Gran Mariscal
de Ayacucho Venezuela |
Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela |
| Pabellón sin Baranda Venezuela |
Luis Quintero Venezuela |
Rodrigo Riera Venezuela |
Alfredo Rugeles Venezuela |
Emre Sabuncuoglu Turquía |
| Diego Silva Venezuela |
Efraín Silva Venezuela |
Hopkinson Smith USA |
Carmen Téllez Venezuela |
Luis Julio Toro Rubén Riera Venezuela |
| Luis Zea Edgar Zaume Luis Marcano Venezuela |
In August 1987, the Mavesa Cultural Project sponsored and organized the First Guitar Encounter, with the participation of Maestro Abel Carlevaro. Since then, each year the project has devoted the month of August to guitar events of national and international resonance. Participating artists have included Leo Brower, Alirio Díaz, Rodrigo and Rubén Riera, Luis Zea, Luis Quintero, David Russell, Carlos Luis Barbosa-Lima, Manolo Sanlúcar, Costas Cotsiolis, Barry Mason, Oscar Ohlsen, Jukka Savijoki, and María Esther Guzmán.
At the same time, the Mavesa Cultural Project has been conducting activities in the fields of discography, dissemination and promotion. It fosters guitar encounters that encourage young people to study the instrument on a permanent basis, and runs exchange programs with international performers. Activities like "The Guitar goes to High Schools," "Cycle of Classical Guitar Concerts in Cathedrals," "The Guitar, an Instrument for Integration"--that supports artistic exchange between Colombia and Venezuela--are examples some of the most recent programs. The Mavesa Cultural Project also sponsors the research on history and repertoire of the guitar in Venezuela.
This year the mavesa cultural project recruited the support of the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University, which promotes the performance of Latin American music internationally, to cooperate with the other sponsoring organizations.
The 1997 the festival will include concerts, talks, exhibitions, master classes and the Rodrigo Riera International Composition Guitar Competition. The finalists composition from the Riera competition will be performed in this year's festival. The winner piece will be an obligatory work for the Alirio Diaz Guitar Competition 1998.
For additional details about the 1997 International August Festival please contact:
Karen Morillo
Proyecto Cultural Mavesa
Av. Principal Los Cortijos de Lourdes, Ed. Mavesa
Box 2048, Caracas Venezuela
Tel: (58-2) 203 7373 or (58-2) 203 7316
Fax: (58-2) 203 7459
email kmorillo@mavesa.com.ve
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