Edgar Ramírez Solo Guitar Recital

"MI DESARROLLO CREATIVO EN LOS SEIS CABELLOS CLÁSICOS"

Please join us for a FREE solo guitar recital by Edgar Ramírez on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 4pm in the SMC Chapel.

Watch his previous work on YouTube.

PROGRAM for Nov. 15:

MI DESARROLLO CREATIVO EN LOS SEIS CABELLOS CLÁSICOS

ESTUDIO PARA GUITARRA               EDGAR RAMÍREZ (1995)

                                                         A MIS PADRES. 

EL PRESTIDIGITADOR                        EDGAR RAMÍREZ  (1997) 

EL TIMORATO                                    EDGAR RAMÍREZ (1997)

EL LAMENTO DE EXU                      EDGAR RAMÍREZ (FEBRERO 2019)

                                                        SOBRE UN TEMA DE BADEN POWELL          

SUITE TONATZIN                              ANASTASIA GUZMAN VAZQUEZ (2005)                             

I SEMILLITA                                      

II ROSA Y AHUEHUETE

EL ENIGMA DEL HOMBRE SINTESIS     GUILLERMO DIEGO (1998)

LAS CUATRO ESTACIONES                    ANTONIO VIVALDI (1723-1725)

LA PRIMAVERA                                   

EL INVIERNO                                        

Artistic Profile

Edgar Ramírez was born in Mexico City on March 26. He is a composer and guitarist. He began his musical studies at the Yamaha Academy in 1988. He graduated from the Celaya Conservatory of Music in 1999 and from the University of Guanajuato in 2005, graduating with honors. He has also studied with world-renowned classical guitarists such as Julio César Oliva, Fabio Zanon, and Carlos Bonell, among others, as well as choral and orchestral conducting, voice, jazz, and music technology. He has participated in national and international guitar and composition competitions. From 2016 to 2019, he participated in the composition workshop of Mexican composer and guitarist Guillermo Diego, and from 2023 to the present, he has studied with German composer Gernot Reetz.

He has performed in parts of Mexico, the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Germany, Austria, Brazil, Cuba, and Italy, in venues such as the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, the Imperial Theater in Colombia, Orchestra Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, the Mexican Embassy in Austria, the Mexican Consulates in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the prestigious Dolores Hall in Santiago de Cuba, and the Mexican Embassy in Italy, among many others, both as a soloist and with chamber ensembles featuring piano, harpsichord, percussion, voice, and mixed choir. He has taught various musical disciplines in Mexico and Colombia.

As a composer, he has written works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and symphony orchestras, as well as his Progressive Rock project, for which he is both composer and musical director, a project he has been presenting since 2006. He possesses a restless musical spirit, deeply connected to universal classical and modern musical genres and languages.