January, 2006
The Ninth Competition in Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America (2006)

The semifinal and final rounds took place Saturday and Sunday, January 28 and 29, in Auer Hall at Indiana University, Bloomington. The jury was composed of professors Juan Orrego-Salas, Arnaldo Cohen, Otis Murphy, Luiz Fernando Lopes and Carmen Helena Téllez; with guest judge professor Paul Borg from Illinois State University.
In the Early Music Category the Grand Prize and Performance Practice Prize were won ex aequo by Ensemble Lipzodes and Ensemble L'Aura. Both ensembles were sponsored by professor Michael McCraw.
The winners will receive cash awards, and will record a collective CD with their competition repertoire in the upcoming year.

October 5, 2004
Early Music Enchantment by Peter Jacobi, Herald Times music critic
The musicians seemed to be ready for their test, managing like conjurers to take a listener back to that other time in another place and making him feel both the reverence and the joy that this music most likely expressed for worshippers who first heard it, native worshippers who were being wooed to Christianity. The lively instrumental introductions and bridges balanced the more serious chanting quality of sung praises and must have made vespers and the mass more comfortable and acceptable experiences for the newcomers in attendance. ..... There was enchantment to their music making, and one sensed also that what one heard was as honest a representation of this music as could be hoped for, considering the sparseness of notation and guidance that such old manuscripts offer. What resulted turned into a most moving experience."
--Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana)

Early musicians play church, Indiana Daily Student (article by Benjames Derrick, October 5, 2004)

Next Concert: May 26, 2008 1pm (Memorial Day)


2008 BLEMF (Bloomington Early Music Festival)
Call, Court and Casbah: Music of Muslim and Jewish Spain
May 26, 1pm, Temple Beth Shalom, Bloomington, IN

(Originally scheduled for 22 Feb, the following concert has been postponed until May 30):
Music from 16th century Guatemala
Grigg Gallery, St. Louis Art Museum
Free
St. Louis Art Museum (click for directions)
One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
Telephone 314.721.0072

Ensemble Lipzodes South America Tour (concert dates TBA): July 15-August 1, 2008
Programs: Call, Court and Casbah: Music of Muslim and Jewish Spain; Music from 16th century Guatemala
Will include stops in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Londrina and Juiz de Fora.

Music from 16th century Guatemala
2007 Latino Music Festival
- November 26th, 6:30 pm, 2007
G.A.R Rotunda, Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington Street – Chicago

Music from Muslim & Jewish Spain
- November 14, 2007
Fowler Hall, Purdue University
Lafayette, Indiana

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- July 8th, at 6:30 pm, 2007
National Gallery Chamber Players
Renaissance and baroque chamber music Presented in honor of Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper 1450-1700, and in connection with the Washington Early Music Festival

Music from 16th century Guatemala
- Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006, 4:30 p.m. At St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 601 Montano Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM

Music from 16th century Guatemala
- Sunday, 18 September 2005 at 4 pm St. Francis Episcopal Church
(1525 Mulberry Street, Zionsville, IN)

Music from 16th century Guatemala
- 2005 Boston Early Music Festival BEMF fringe events:
Saturday, June 18 , 2005 11am Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St.
Juan Carlos Arango, Keith Collins, Anna Marsh & Wolodymyr J. Smishkewych with guest artists from Indiana University’s Early Music Institute.
"Guatemalan Church Music circa 1582. Music for voices and Renaissance winds & percussion including formal and informal church music with texts in Latin, Spanish, and native languages."