• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 08 / 07 / 2011

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Fuente: PL | 06 de Agosto 2011. San José, (PL). – The Cuban string orchestra, Camerata Romeu, will offer a concert at the 21st Festival of Credomatic Music, which will be held in this capital from the 6 and until the 21 of August.

Under the leadership of its director, Zenaida Romeu, the group – made exclusively by women – is characterized by its high quality and an international prestige, earned in several spaces of the world.

The program to be carried out at the National Theatre includes pieces made by the Cuban composers José White, Carlos Fariñas, Abelardo Valdés and Silvio Rodríguez among many others.

As part of the repertoire it is worth mentioning Camerata en guaguancó, a piece made by Guido López Gavilan in 1983, which adds to the sound of the violins a typical Cuban rhythm, “one of the most popular methods of rumba”.

The festival, founded in 1991, in the two hundred years of the death of the famous Austrian musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, have been growing and consolidating its importance.

According to official data, during these years over a thousand musicians from 47 countries have offered 700 concerts in Costa Rican natural stages, its usual spaces. Only the opening and closing ceremonies of Credomatic are held in conventional theatre halls.

The festival has also been used as a platform for about 200 Costa Rican musicians, most of them young people, who have the opportunity to share experiences with international guests.

Translation: Rodney Lopez (Cubarte)