I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! I’ve asked Michael to start off this year’s blog posts by sharing with you our activities over the festive season. For as long as Elena and I were together and our parents were alive, Christmastide had a special meaning since we attempted to […]
It’s too long since my last blog but at last I have a few minutes to catch up on life in the last few weeks… In the last week of September I was sent to Germany by the state of Puebla as their official musical representative and to give a concert in the AUDI Factory […]
I have just returned home from a week-long trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I spent the first twenty two years of my life. It was a very exciting, stimulating and at times a very emotional visit and I would like to share it with you. It started in January when the then […]
June has been an especially interesting month with a several highlights provided by distinguished friends. On 5 June we enjoyed the penultimate recital in our Sala Ponce Flute Series, given by Joaquín Melo and Irina Decheva. It was a truly outstanding concert of French music given by this very well established Duo. Works by Poulenc, […]
The month of April was made especially memorable for me by two very important concerts: The first took place on 11 April in the amazing theatre at CECUT (Centro Cultural Tijuana) and celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of a marvellous environmental organisation: PFEA – Proyecto Fronterizo de Education Ambient. The second took place at CNA […]
Last month, Rebecca Thompson and Mónica Saramiento of the US Embassy in Mexico City brought a group of fifteen girls to my concert in Sala Nezahualcóyotl. I enjoyed talking to them after the concert and promised to visit them in their home. A couple of weeks later, I had the opportunity of keeping my promise […]
The general concept of life as a concert artist is that it must be great to swan around the world checking into beautiful hotels and dining out in restaurants – but life is seldom like that! Of course it is great to visit new places – or favourite places (like Puebla) – but checking into […]
Every six months or so, I have had the pleasure and the honour of playing in Sala Manuel M. Ponce in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City’s Citadel of Culture. Last year, after my concert Brubeck/Bolling in INBA’s Jazz Festival, Jaime Ruiz Lobera, National Coordinator of Music, invited me to give a concert with […]
I was introduced to the Esperanza Azteca Orchestra of Puebla last October when I had the pleasure of playing with this amazing group of young people and their conductor Julio Saldana in La Constanza and in front of an audience consisting of members of YPO/WPO. I had heard about the incredible Esperanza Azteca movement but […]
For more than a decade now I have worked outside the concert-hall circuit under the banner of FLAUTA SIN FRONTERAS, taking music to those who most need it and who very often are not able to attend formal concerts. I have played to the young, the old, the disabled, the disadvantaged and to many who […]
