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title: "Pacho Flores premieres Arturo Márquez’s trumpet concerto"
description: "On September the 7th and 9th, Pacho Flores will play the first of four premieres of Arturo Marquez's new Concierto de Otoño for trumpet and orchestra, with the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico..."
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# Pacho Flores premieres Arturo Márquez’s trumpet concerto

On September the 7th and 9th, (/?page_id=974) will play the first of four premieres of **Arturo Marquez**‘s new ***Concierto de Otoño** *for trumpet and orchestra, with the **National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico** and its Chief Conductor **Carlos Miguel Prieto** at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico D. F. This premiere is the result of a shared commission between the **National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico**, the **Tucson Symphony Orchestra**, the **Hyogo PAC Orchestra** (Japan) and the **Oviedo Filarmonía** (Spain).

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The four premieres will take place as follows:

**September, 7/9, 2018 **– National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, conductor, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico DF

**January, 25/27, 2019 **– Tucson Symphony Orchestra, conductor, José Luis Gómez, Tucson Music Hall

**May, 24/25/26, 2019 **– Hyogo PAC Orchestra (Japan), conductor, Michiyoshi Inoue; Hyogo Performing Arts center 

**August, 14, 2019 **– Oviedo Filarmonía (Spain), conductor, Lucas Macías, Auditorio Príncipe Felipe, Oviedo

**Arturo Márquez** (Álamos, Sonora, 1950) is without discussion the most important Mexican composer alive. He wrote masterpieces such as Danzón nº* *2* (1994) or *Conga del Fue*go (2005), which gave him international relevance. He joins a distinguished lineage of Mexican composers like Silvestre Revueltas or Carlos Chávez, who based their music on the traditions and genres of Mexican popular music. Maestro Márquez was given the Prize of the Fine Arts by the Mexican Government in 2009.** **

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Arturo Márquez

The *Concierto de Otoño (Autumn Concerto) is* 16 minutes long and was composed between January – June of 2018. It has three movements: *Son de luz, Balada de floripondios* and *Conga de Flores*, and requires the use of four trumpets: trumpet in C in the first; flugelhorn and Hornet in F in the second; and trumpet in D in the third. Even before its first premiere, several orchestras have already shown interest in programming the piece once the four premieres would be done by each of the four commissioning orchestras.

### **Pacho Flores. Project of shared commissions**

This premiere is the first of an ambitious project by Pacho Flores to create shared commissions spanning across several seasons that extend the repertoire of solo trumpet and orchestra. In addition to Arturo Márquez, four prominent composers such as Roberto Sierra, Paquito D’Rivera, Efraín Oscher and Christian Lindberg, have joined Pacho in this project.

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Left to right and top to bottom: Arturo Márquez, Roberto Sierra, Paquito D’Rivera, Efraín OScher and Christian Lindberg

Orchestras from all around the world (Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain…) are joining this project, which, at its end, will have reunited twenty orchestras and thus, the same number of premieres. Besides leading this project, Pacho Flores is also premiering new trumpet concertos and beginning a career as a composer. Between his last and next premieres we can mention:

**Pacho Flores**: *Cantos y revueltas *(11/12/13 January 2018, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Manuel Hernández-Silva)

**Giancarlo Castro**: *Trumpet concerto** *(23 February 2018, Ulster Orchestra, Rafael Payare). 

**Alain Trudel**: *Preach*, pour trompette et orchestre (14 March 2018, Orch. Symphonique de Laval, Alain Trudel)

**Efraín Oscher**: *Apex*, double concerto for clarinet and trumpet (29 August 2018, Matthias Schorn, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, Marcus Bosch)

**Daniel Freiberg**: *Latin American Chronicles* Concerto (4/5/6 January 2019, Het Gelders Orkest, Christian Vásquez)

**Christian Lindberg**: *Double concerto* for trumpet and trombone (21/22 March 2019, Orquesta de RTVE, Christian Lindberg; Ximo Vicedo, trombone).