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Monday 14 october 2019

Aruba Art Circle presents:

Luis Quintero at Cas di Cultura Sunday at 11am

By Clyde Harms ezuela Positiva” and many
ORANJESTAD —Tim Pant- more.
ing once wrote this in Clas-
sical Guitar Magazine of I met him for the first time in
London: “The first thing that January 2006 when he per-
impressed me was the ob- formed in the Ballroom of
vious force in the fingers of the Marriott Hotel Aruba. At
Quintero. His performance that time he was already
was always firm and full of well known in Aruba as he
musical contrasts. The pas- had given concerts and
sages of velocity were al- had conducted workshops
ways performed with pro- here. I had the pleasure of
found confidence and one attending many of his con-
could perceive that Quin- certs the following years
tero felt profoundly what in Maracaibo, Venezuela
he was interpreting. A per- where he used to perform
former overflowed with vir- for the Festival Nuevo Mun-
tuosity”. That is also the im- do.
pression that Luis Quintero
has left on me to this date. Playing his beloved guitar
And now you can experi- in July as part of the 2019
ence this too as Quintero Aruba Symphony Festival
will perform here in Aruba. he charmed us at Casibari
Café, at Paseo Herencia
A child prodigy, Quintero and on board the Free-
started his musical educa- winds. I now look forward the Brazilian João Pernam- own. tober 20 starting at 11am.
tion at the “Escuela Supe- to attend his matinée con- buco; the Venezuelans Ig- The concert will be at Cas Tickets are only obtainable
rior de Música Jose Angel cert in Cas di Cultura on nacio Figueredo and Anto- di Cultura in a matinée before the concert at Cas
Lamas” in Caracas, Ven- Sunday, October 20. nio Lauro; and works of his concert on Sunday Oc- di Cultura. See you there!q
ezuela. He is the only Latin
American who did his post- The guitar was devel-
graduate studies at the oped in the 16th century
Julliard School of Music in as accompaniment to the
New York with a full schol- Gypsy/Flamenco music in
arship from that institute. Spain, but in Sunday’s con-
cert at Cas di Cultura Quin-
Quintero was the winner of tero will majestically dem-
the Antonio Lauro Biennial onstrate how the guitar has
Prize for Professional Inter- developed into a musical
preters, and of the Rodrigo instrument for which many
Riviero Concourse. He has famous composers from all
received many awards over the world score.
and recognitions: Order of His program contains works
“José Felix Ribas in the 1st by the French Armenian
Class”; medal and diplo- Laurent Boutros; the Hun-
ma of the Fundación Ven- garian János Gáspár Mertz;