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UTSA Department of Music
Summer Mariachi Institute
July 18 - 23, 2005

Master Classes for High School Students
and
Seminar Workshops for Teachers

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Principal Instructors & Guest Artists-In-Residence



Juan Manuel Cortez

  • Former member of Los Camperos de Natí Cano. Currently Director of the mariachi program in Wenatchee, WA


Juan Morales
  • Former member of Los Camperos de Natí Cano and Mariachi Sol de Mexico. Currently director of the mariachi program in Wasco, CA



Mark Foguelquist

  • Former Director of UCLA’s Mariachi Uclatlán. Currently director of the mariachi program in Chula Vista, CA.

Students' Master Classes:
Teacher Workshops:
• Limited enrollment by audition for students grades 9-12
• All mariachi teachers and directors may register
• Violin, Guitar, Vihuela, Guitarròn, Trumpet, Voice, and Harp
• Pedagogy for mariachi instrumentation
• Stylistic Interpretive Techniques
• Arranging for the mariachi ensemble (Finale tutorials)
• Student Leadership Training
• History of the mariachi tradition
• Performance Techniques
• Instrumental and vocal interpretive techniques
• Music Theory
• Literature and repertoire of the mariachi

• Private Instruction
• Classroom teaching methods
• History of the mariachi
• Curriculum needs
• Transposition and improvisation for mariachi
• CPE Credit offered

 

Student Audition Requirements:

• All students are required to be dual vocalists and instrumentalists

• Must submit Institute Application
• Candidates must submit a VHS tape of the following:

• Two selections on principal instrument from mariachi repertoire

• One selection must be a "Son Jalisciense"

• Second selection should be of contrasting style

• Additionally, student should submit a vocal selection





 

 

 

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Deadline for Audition & Application Submission: June 17, 2005

 

 

UTSA Summer Mariachi Institute
c/o College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Department of Music
6900 N. Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, TX 78249-0645

for a paper application or for more information, contact:
Jose R. Torres, Institute Director
(210) 458-5332 ofc
(210) 458-4381 fax
jose.torres@utsa.edu

 

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