Presents

Rumbarroco
Laury Gutirrez, Director

Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (UWM) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
October 17, 2015 (Saturday) at 5:00
Camila Parias & Daniela Toi, voices
Nathaniel Cox, cornetto & theorbo
Yi-Li Chang, baroque violin & viola da gamba
Wismer Jimnez, cuatro and baroque guitar
Kirsten Lamb, bass
Zayra Pola Ocasio, percussion
Laury Gutirrez, viola da gamba & early guitars

Fiesta: A Hispanic Heritage Celebration

Program
Morena me yaman con Cumbia .......................................................................................Anonymous, arr. Rumbarroco

Traditional Sephardic

La maana de San Juan con Reggaetn .............................................. Anonymous/Diego Pisador, arr. Rumbarroco

Traditional/Libro de msica de vihueala, 1552

Recercada Primera con Merengue dominicano ......................... Diego Ortiz (ca. 1510ca. 1570), arr. Rumbarroco

Trattao de Glosas, 1553

Que bonito el nio con Merengue dominicano .......................................................................................... Anonymous

Cancionero de la Colombina, end of 15th century

Pabanilla con Cumbia .................................................... Anonymous, arr. Fernando Len Rengifo & Laury Gutirrez

MS 2, Santa Eulalia, ca. 1570-1635 (Guatemala)

Cumbes con Currulao ......................................................... Santiago de Murcia (16731739), arr. Len & Gutirrez

Codice Saldivar, IV, 1732 (Mexico)

Gurdame las vacas Polo Margariteo ..................................................................................................... Anonymous

XVI century / Venezuelan folksong
Luis de Narvez (fl. 1526-1549), Modesta Bor (1926-1998), Laury Gutirrez
Un sarao de la chacona (Danza Cantada) ................................................................................. Juan Aras (15??-1649)

Libro Segundo de Tonos y Villancicos, 1624

Intermission
Vaya de Xacaras...........................................................................................Rafael Antonio Castellanos (ca. 1725-1791)

Musica colonial Archive, Guatemala, XVI to XVII centuries

Los Ympossibles / La Lloroncita ...................................................................................................... Santiago de Murcia

Cdice Saldvar, IV (1732) / Mexican Son Jarocho

Fandango con Joropo ........................................................... Antonio Soler (1729-1783), arr. Gutirrez/Rumbarroco

Mid-18th century, R.146 /Venezuelan folksong

La Girigona Baile cantado ............................... Mateo Flecha (1481-1553)/Miguel de Fuenllana (ca. 1500-1579)

Ensalada El Jubilate, Libro de msica para vihuela, Orphnica Lyra de Miguel de Fuenllana, Sevilla, 1554

About the Artists

Yi-Li Chang, baroque violin, has been recognized by The Boston Musical Intelligencer as a baroque violinist with
confident virtuosity. Yi-Li has performed many solo and chamber baroque violin recitals in the Boston area
as well as in her native Taiwan. She performs regularly with Boston-based groups such as Grand Harmonie,
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, and the Longy Early Music Ensemble, and is a founding member of the
Early music chamber ensemble Incendium Novum. She has participated in many Early music festivals, most
recently at Amsterdam Early Music Summer School, Amherst Early Music Festival, and the International
Baroque Institute at Longy School of Music. Most recently she was concertmaster for Purcells Dido and Aeneas
with the Longy Early Opera Project. She has also studied piano performance and composition, and her
interests extend to harpsichord, continuo accompaniment, and viola da gamba. This year Yi-Li earned s an
MM in Early Music from Longy, where she studied under baroque violinist Dana Maiben. Previously she
received MM and PhD degrees in modern violin performance from National Taiwan Normal
University, where her dissertation on Locatellis Larte del violino has become a unique resource in the Chineselanguage secondary literature on baroque violin performance practice.
Nathaniel Cox, cornetto, theorbo. A native of Vermont, Nathaniel Cox began his music career as a trumpet
player, earning BAs in trumpet performance and Russian literature from Oberlin College and Conservatory of
Music in 2008. After studying the baroque trumpet for a brief period (and winning the historical category at the
National Trumpet Competition in 2007), Nathaniel was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study cornetto with
Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland. He began playing theorbo in 2011, and since then
has performed across Europe and North America, both as a cornettist and theorbist with ensembles such as
the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, Apollos Fire, La Rose des Vents, and Profeti della Quinta.
Laury Gutirrez, viola da gamba, guitars. Laury and her mother were serenaded by her father and other local
musicians at the birth clinic in Venezuela on the day she was born. In her teens she moved from Caracas to the
countrys cowboy/girl zone Los Llanos (The Plains). In their home the family often held musical soires, criollo
style, where musicians spend the evening playing folk music by ear. Laury soaked up the amazing
improvisations by both singers and instrumentalists. She took up the cuatro (Venezuelas small guitar) and also
began guitar lessons. Soon she became part of the towns Folkloric Orchestra on guitar and mandolin. Moving
back to Caracas after high school, she heard the viola da gamba for the first time and fell in love with it. Laury
then received the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Venezuelas most prestigious scholarship for study abroad,
along with other top awards and recognitions, and graduated with honors in music from the College of St.
Scholastica in Minnesota. She did graduate work in music at the Longy School of Music, Indiana University,
and Boston University. She was a 2009 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
University, and was included in a 2009 exhibit honoring 100 Boston-area women for their leadership and
achievements. She is a resident scholar at the Womens Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. Praised
as a first-rate instrumentalist (Boston Globe), Laury specializes in music by women composers and in early
music from Ibero-America. She has performed under the direction of Thomas Binkley, Monica Huggett, and
Wendy Gillespie, among others, and has been a featured guest artistlecturer at Harvard University, Brandeis
University, and Simmons College. She is the founding director of La Donna Musicale and RUMBARROCO.
La Donna Musicales four groundbreaking CDs, Antonia Bembos The Seven Psalms of David Vols. I and II, The
Pleasures of Love and Libation: Airs by Julie Pinel and other Parisian Women, and Anna Bon, La virtuosa di Venezia, have
received critical acclaim at home and abroad, as well as awards.
Wismer Jimnez. Born in Amazon state, Venezuela, Wismer began his music studies by teaching himself to
play both the cuatro and the guitar. Later he received cuatro lessons from such famous players as Rafael Pollo
Brito, Pablo Camacaro, Jorge Glem, Jorge Polanco, and Edward Ramrez, as well as guitar lessons from Rafael
Hernndez. He performs experimental music using Venezuelan music as the basis. Wismer also has his own
band, the Wismer Jazz Quartet, for which he is composer and arranger. He has performed with the Simon
Bolivar Symphonic Orchestra directed by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simn Bolvar Big Band Jazz directed by
Andrs Briceo. In addition, he is a member of Madera4 and Roraima. He is also a music teacher in Venezuela
and has traveled to Argentina to teach Venezuelan popular music. Wismer also loves to play the Baroque
guitar, expanding his versatility.

Kirsten Lamb is a double-bassist and vocalist originally from northern New Jersey. Praised by The Huffington
Post as a "brilliant young musician" and the Boston Globe for her "versatility and assurance," she has performed
extensively throughout the United States and abroad, playing folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary music.
Kirsten graduated from Oberlin Conservatory in 2009 with a BM in music in both double bass and
ethnomusicology. She has studied with bassists Thomas Sperl and Peter Dominguez, sitarist Hasu Patel, and
viola da gambist Catharina Meints, which has led her to develop a unique style of solo performance. Kirsten
recently completed an MM in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory, where she
studied with Cecil McBee, Dominique Eade, Hankus Netsky, and Anthony Coleman. While at NEC, she
debuted several original solo works in Jordan Hall, played for Elvis Costello, performed in John Zorns 35-year
retrospective, and participated in NECs community outreach program. Upon her graduation earlier this year,
Kirsten was awarded the Gunther Schuller Medal for extraordinary contributions to the life of New England
Conservatory. An avid teacher, Kirsten maintains a private studio, is a frequent guest teaching artist at schools
throughout the Boston area, and recently began a weekly residency with Young Audiences of Massachusetts.
Kirsten is currently working on a full-length CD featuring original solo and ensemble compositions.
Roberto Prez Ora, bandola, was born in Portuguesa state, Venezuela. Roberto is a self-taught musician as
well as a composer. He is the director of Percujazz, an ensemble that fuses Venezuelan folk music and jazz,
and has performed in Aruba, Colombia, France, Italy, Panama, and Spain. He has researched, arranged and reinterpreted both Venezuelan and Spanish music. He incorporates improvisation as a basic element of his
performance and to allow instrumental virtuosity to flourish in his ensemble.
Zayra Pola Ocasio at age 12 was introduced for an assessment of her musical aptitude to the teacher Luis
Perico Ortiz, who told her parents "This girl is a phenomenon." Then she began to study her first
instrument, drums. After several years of playing without formal study, she attended the Escuela Libre de
Musica de Caguas, where she met Alexis Trinta, who instructed her in theory and solfege. At the same time,
she was taught by the great percussion master Jose Pepe Torres, who was impressed by her talent and gave
her the name Pola when he found out she was the granddaughter of the distinguished Puerto Rican guitarist
Polo Ocasio. Following Torres advice, she auditioned for the prestigious Conservatory of Music of Puerto
Rico and was accepted. There Zayra took classes with Andrew Lazarus, who became her mentor, adviser, and
friend. She also had the privilege of performing with great teachers such as Alex Acuna, the actor and singer
Anahi, Raymond Arrieta, Jean Carlos Canela, Luis Enrique, Larry Harlow, Grupo Mania, Luisito Marin, Paoli
Mejias, Andy Montanez, Rosel in Sanchez, Adalberto Santiago, and Charlie Sierra. Afterwards, she received a
full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, which enabled her to solidify her musical knowledge and
share her Puerto Rican heritage among a multicultural community of musicians. In addition to timbale and
drum set, Zayra plays congas and bongos.
Praised by The Boston Musical Intelligencer for her "strength and beautiful clarity, with a tone that was at once
robust and gentle" and "crystalline clarity perfect in its agility and emotion," Colombian native Camila
Parias charms her audience with her sparkling voice and genuine musicality. She won the opportunity to sing
Belleza in Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verit under the direction of Gerd Trk from the Schola Cantorum
Basiliensis, and to participate in a workshop with Andreas Scholl and Mara Cristina Kiehr. In 2009 she won
the Competition Opera al Parque, singing Amour in Glucks Orphe et Eurydice. She also studied and performed
with Benjamin Bgby and members of Sequentia at the Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival in 2011. Since
her relocation to Boston, Camila has co-founded the vocal trio The Broken Consort, and sings with The
Boston Camerata, El Fuego, La Donna Musicale, and the Choir of the Church of the Advent. Camila holds a
BM in Vocal Performance from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia and an MM in Early Music
Performance from the Longy School of Music, under a Presidential Scholarship.
Mezzo-soprano Daniela Toi, a native of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, specializes in Early, contemporary, and
World music. She has appeared in concerts throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. Daniela
is a founding member of the internationally renowned ensemble Tapestry, winners of tthe ECHO Klassik
award and Chamber Music Americas Recording of the Year. Tapestry has premiered numerous new works
and performed Steve Reich's Tehillim with the Colorado Symphony and Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, conducted
by Marin Alsop. Daniela has recently appeared as Story Woman in Steven Jobe's opera Melusine and Yangchen
in Sheila Silver's The White Rooster. In the Boston area she performs with Blue Heron and La Donna Musicale.
Daniela has recorded for Telarc, MDG, and several independent labels.