Mexico’s International Baroque Organ Festival –Festival Internacional del Órgano Barroco– was first established in 1993 with the aim of recovering and disseminating the culture of the country’s historical organs . The purpose of the festival is to foster the reuse of these instruments in order to raise awareness of the importance of this heritage and of the need to strengthen strategies for encouraging them to be studied, restored, properly used and preserved.
The festival brings organ music closer to the general public, scholars of art history, musicians from all disciplines and, of course, organists. It has been and still is an open forum in which leading national and international organists have taken part and has provided a space for presenting new generations of Mexican organists. Thirty concerts are scheduled for the 2013 festival, as well as ten master classes taught by the festival’s guest artists as part of the international academies of early organ music.
The festival brings organ music closer to the general public, scholars of art history, musicians from all disciplines and, of course, organists. It has been and still is an open forum in which leading national and international organists have taken part and has provided a space for presenting new generations of Mexican organists. Thirty concerts are scheduled for the 2013 festival, as well as ten master classes taught by the festival’s guest artists as part of the international academies of early organ music.
AC/E is collaborating in this year’s festival through its mobility programme by supporting the participation of the Spanish organist Pedro Alberto Sánchez, chapel master of the Royal Monastery of El Escorial and director of Madrid International Organ Week.