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1 Mauricio Garza Mauricio Garza Mauricio Garza Mauricio Garza-Salazar Salazar Salazar Salazar Mexican Pianist presents: “Ponce, within four “Ponce, within four “Ponce, within four “Ponce, within four Decades” Decades” Decades” Decades” Solo Piano Concert Presented by: Consulate General of Mexico. Available date: Tuesday, September 20 th , 2011. Mexico is glad to celebrate its National Day in Hong Kong every year during the month of September with a programme of cultural and artistic events. For 2011, the Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong is proud to announce that talented Mexican pianist Mauricio Garza-Salazar would be touring Asia with the support of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This touring concert will certainly allow the Hong Kong public to experience Mexico’s rich cultural and artistic legacy through music, a universal and effective language that could deliver meanings and be understood among people from all walks of life. Maestro Garza would present the programme Ponce, within four Decades aiming to introduce the work of Manuel M. Ponce, Mexico's most important and renowned composer of the XX century. Ponce’s work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a usually forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore. Many of his compositions are strongly influenced by the harmonies and form of traditional songs. In order to put Ponce’s work in a time context, this piano recital contrasts the music of this famous Mexican musician with that of other European composers that were born exactly 20 years before and 20 years after his birth in 1882. We are looking forward to share the talent of Maestro Mauricio Garza and the beauty of the Manuel M. Ponce’s legacy with the Hong Kong public.

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Mauricio GarzaMauricio GarzaMauricio GarzaMauricio Garza----SalazarSalazarSalazarSalazar Mexican Pianist presents:

“Ponce, within four“Ponce, within four“Ponce, within four“Ponce, within four Decades”Decades”Decades”Decades” Solo Piano Concert

Presented by: Consulate General of Mexico.

Available date: Tuesday, September 20th

, 2011.

Mexico is glad to celebrate its National Day in Hong Kong every year during the

month of September with a programme of cultural and artistic events. For 2011, the

Consulate General of Mexico in Hong Kong is proud to announce that talented

Mexican pianist Mauricio Garza-Salazar would be touring Asia with the support of

the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This touring concert will certainly allow the Hong Kong public to experience Mexico’s

rich cultural and artistic legacy through music, a universal and effective language

that could deliver meanings and be understood among people from all walks of life.

Maestro Garza would present the programme Ponce, within four Decades aiming to

introduce the work of Manuel M. Ponce, Mexico's most important and renowned

composer of the XX century. Ponce’s work as a composer, music educator and scholar of

Mexican music connected the concert scene with a usually forgotten tradition of popular

song and Mexican folklore. Many of his compositions are strongly influenced by the

harmonies and form of traditional songs.

In order to put Ponce’s work in a time context, this piano recital contrasts the music

of this famous Mexican musician with that of other European composers that were

born exactly 20 years before and 20 years after his birth in 1882.

We are looking forward to share the talent of Maestro Mauricio Garza and the

beauty of the Manuel M. Ponce’s legacy with the Hong Kong public.

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Maestro Maestro Maestro Maestro Mauricio GarzaMauricio GarzaMauricio GarzaMauricio Garza----SalazarSalazarSalazarSalazar

Born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1977, Mauricio Garza-Salazar has become one of

Mexico’s most representative pianists of his generation after successful tours and

performances in Mexico, Europe, North America and Australia. He began playing

piano when he was 8 years old. His teachers were Raul Capistrán and Ibere Gewehr

in Mexico and Víctor Teuflmayr and Adrian Cox in Vienna, Austria. He has taken

master courses with Jorge Federico Osorio, Jean Louis Steuermann and Jean-Baptiste

Muller in Mexico and Alexander Jenner, Andrzej Jasinski and Murray Perahia in

Vienna, Austria.

Mauricio Garza-Salazar concluded his studies at the University for Music and

Dramatic Arts in Vienna in June 2004 with the highest grades and has performed in

Mexico’s most important halls, like the “Teatro de la Reforma” in Matamoros,

Tamaulipas, the “ Auditorio San Pedro” in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and “ Sala

Tepecuicatl” in Mexico City. In Austria, he gave recitals in the “Konzertsaal” of the

University for Music and Dramatic Arts and in the “Theater Stadinitiative” both

located in Vienna. In Spain, he performed in the “Palau de la Musica” in Barcelona

(Maria Canals International Piano Competition) and in the city of Jaen (International

Piano Competition) in 2005.

Mauricio Garza had his international debut tour in September 2006 with “Musical

Essences of Mexico”, a project supported by the Embassy of Mexico in Australia

featuring a selection of masterpieces by Mexico’s most representative composers.

With this programme, he was acclaimed by the Mexican press (Milenio Newspaper)

as “One of Mexico’s biggest talents…”. Australian critic Helen Musa of the Canberra

Times said he is “…a musician of the highest level, a piano virtuoso…”

After his success in Australia, the pianist was invited to

perform in Germany in 2008, in a tour that took him to the

cities of: Karlsruhe (Musen Tempel), Frankfurt

(Internationales Theater), Hamburg (Horowitz Hall in the

“Steinway Haus”), Stuttgart (LiteraturHaus), Berlin (Mexican

Embassy in Germany) and Bremen (Stadtwaage). He had his

North American debut in June 2009 performing in the

Freeman Hall of the University of Ottawa in Canada. Maestro Mauricio Garza

Mauricio Garza has worked as well in the field of chamber music with the trio

founded by Cecilia Serra (Clarinet), Dagmara Szydlo (Viola) and performed in several

European cities of Europe with this ensemble.

In March 2010, he was invited to hold a master class and a piano recital as part of

the 1st

International Piano Festival in Matamoros, Mexico. In November of the same

year, he toured northeast Mexico with his project “1810 and the year of the Three

Bicentennials”, a piano recital featuring music by to celebrate the 200th

anniversary

of F. Chopin and R. Schumann and the Bicentennial of Mexican’s Independence.