Ketama - Agustito

ORKESTA PASADENNA ENSAYANDO EL TEMA DE KETAMA NO ESTAMOS LOKOS

El arte de vivir el flamenco con Ana Blanco Soto

Cartel de la cita flamenca

Junio llega cargado de citas flamencas

El Festival de la Mistela comienza hoy, y la Reunión del Cante de Cádiz y Los Puertos se celebra el viernes

El flamenco hace tiempo que no es cosa sólo del verano.

Como escoltando a los festivales del estío de este año, junio y septiembre vienen cargados de espectáculos.

Para ese último mes, quedará la Bienal Sevillana.

Antes, el mes que comienza ofrece un amplio panorama donde elegir. De Los Palacios a Arcos de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María, Utrera, Trebujena o -ya internacionalmente- la ciudad de Alburquerque (Nuevo México-EE.UU.). A todo no se puede ir, evidentemente, pero causa satisfacción tener noticia de tanta actividad y, por tanto, de trabajo para nuestros artistas. El Festival de la Mistela, que organiza el Ayuntamiento de la ciudad Sevillana de Los Palacios y Villafranca -con el apoyo de la Diputación y de la Agencia Andaluza para el desarrollo del Flamenco-, se ha convertido en los últimos años en una de las citas de referencia gracias a un cartel que cubre toda una semana y, sobre todo, a la calidad de sus propuestas y a la seriedad de la programación.

Norman Ruiz

Guitarist Norman Ruiz is a frequent performer in the Mid-Western United States.
In 1997 he performed Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Guitar with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in an all-Berio program at Northwestern University's Pick Staiger Concert Hall. He also performed Schoenberg's Serenade with the Guidagnini Ensemble, made up of members of the CSO, at Orchestra Hall in 1992, and in 1993 he performed the Canario movement of Rodrigo's Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as part of their Promenade Concert Series.
He has also performed with community orchestras, including the Illinois Philharmonic, directed by Carmen DeLeone and the Elmhurst Symphony conducted by Dale Cleavenger.
As a soloist he has performed nationally and internationally.
In 1985 he performed in London's famed Wigmore Hall. In 1984 he presented a program for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert series at Preston Bradley Hall in Chicago in a program broadcast nationwide over WFMT radio. In 1988 he was included on the "Masters of the Guitar" series presented by the Chicago Guitar Society. In 1992 he was selected to perform in the Gran Teatro in Cordoba, Spain during the international guitar festival. More recently, he was artist-in-residence at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, performing a solo recital and serving as resident instructor, then he went on to perform on guitar series in Paracho and Morelia, Mexico.
Norman Ruiz has had instruction with some of the world's finest guitarists. In 1992 he studied the guitar concertos of Joaquin Rodrigo with Christopher Parkening.

He has studied with Pepe Romero at the Festival de La Guitarra in Cordoba, Spain in 1992 and 1996.

He has also had master classes with Oscar Ghiglia and Manuel Lopez Ramos. In 1986 he was selected from an international search to participate in a master class given by Andres Segovia at the University of Southern California.
Norman Ruiz's desire is to introduce the classical guitar to new audiences. This desire has led him to perform at many of the schools and libraries in and around Chicago. He has also given lectures on the guitar, and given master classes at many universities in the Mid-west.
In 1997 his CD, Andaluza, was released by Centaur records and is available at Tower Records and Border Books. He teaches at Columbia College in Chicago and at Trinity International University in Deerfield.

El Mayo cordobés o la explosión de los sentidos

Joana Jimenez - La niña de fuego

FLAMENCO 2008 - LISBOA