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Patricia Castillo is a harpsichordist and pianist
with a solid performing career in
both instruments and a strong commitment to
teaching young Mexican Musicians. |
Patricia Castillo graduated with honors from the
National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City as a concert pianist in
1979. She concluded her master studies in piano with Edith
Picht-Axenfeld (1981) and harpsichord with Robert Hill (1994), both at
the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany.
She won the first prizes at the Latin American
Piano Competition Manuel M. Ponce (1975) and at the Competition for
Soloists of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra (1979).
Patricia
has taken master classes and courses with Guadalupe
Sotres, Néstor Castañeda, Stanislav Heller, Georg Demus, Susan Star,
Miguel Angel Estrella, Regina Smedzianka, Klaus Schield, Marcel
Heuclin, Jorge Bolet, Gyorgy Sandor, Marion Verbruggen, Reinhard
Goebel and Gustav Leonhardt, among others. |
She has frequently been invited as a soloist with the major
symphony and chamber orchestras in the country.
She has played under the baton of Luis Herrera
de la Fuente, Enrique Diemecke, Kurt Redel, Jose Guadalupe Flores, Enrique Bátiz,
Joel Levi, Enrique García Asensio, Francisco Savín, Félix Carrasco, Benjamin
Juárez Echenique, Armando Zayas, Benoît Haller, Olivier Cuendet, David Epstein,
Julio de Windt, Alfred Savia, Eduardo Rahn, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Luis Samuel
Saloma and Paul James.
Patricia Castillo has performed at
major national and international festivals and has appeared on radio and
television. She has played numerous recitals both at home and abroad as a
soloist and with renowned musicians.
She has recorded several compact discs:
Encounter of two Baroque Worlds
(Celanese 1995), Pre-Classic Italian songs (FONCA-UNAM, 1996),
Harpsichord Recital for Digital-Classic Urtext (UMA, 2003), Sax
in Concert,
French music for saxophone and piano from the Twentieth Century, and a CD with a
selection of 40 pieces from the Anna Magdalena Bach collection (Universidad
Veracruzana, 2007).
Since 1982 she teaches piano at the School of Music of
Universidad Veracruzana. She was Director of this school from 1999 to 2003.
Her students have won several prizes in national and state competitions. From
1995 to 1996 she was sponsored by FONCA (National Fund for Arts and Culture) for
a research project, as well as for the promotion of pre-classical and colonial
music.
Patricia Castillo wrote the book
Traditions of Baroque Music Interpretation from the Keyboard Booklets
dedicated to Anna Magdalena Bach (1722-1225), which was published as part of
the series Tessitura, by Universidad Veracruzana. She presented it
on several book fairs: International University Bookfair 2007, FILPAM
2008 (UNAM International Book Fair) and in October 2008 in San Jose, Costa Rica
as part of the activities of the VI International Piano
Competition Maria Clara Cullell.
Recently, she
premiered a version for piano of Poulenc’s
Concert Champêtre
with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra and the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra.
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