Guanajuato, Gto., April 22, 2019.- Professor at the Department of Music at the University of Guanajuato, Vladimir Ibarra was selected by the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) to be a creditor of the stimulus of the program to promote cultural projects and co-investments.

This stimulus was obtained by the project "The Bighorn in Mexico", which consists in the Assembly and subsequent national tour of an iconic work of the chamber music of the 20th century: "The Bighorn" of the German composer Hans Werner Henze. This Assembly will be done with the contemporary music ensemble "Inner Pulse".

In an interview the guitarist and professor of the Department of Music mentioned that the project benefitted by the FONCA consists in the staging of the work "The Bighorn", biography of the fugitive slave Esteban Montejo.

The piece is based on texts by the writer Miguel Barnet, "It is a recital for a baritone, flute, guitar and percussion. The musical language of this work ranges from passages with conventional musical notation to random sections, modules of improvisation and use of extended techniques, in addition to the four musicians executing percussion instruments ".

The professor at the University of Guanajuato reported that in 1963 the poet and ethnologist Miguel Barnet read in the Cuban press several interviews with elders over 100 years of age, one of them caught his attention, Esteban Montejo of 104 years, who was born in times of slavery, he became a fugitive slave ("Cimarrón") in the hills of the province villas. Montejo's stories were inclined to popular superstitions and beliefs and had interesting aspects of slavery. In the staging the musicians accompany him and illustrate what he narrated, and it is hoped that in the assembly, students of the degree in performing arts of the university participate.

Vladimir Ibarra said that due to the narrative sequence supported in a variety of techniques and resources of execution, "this work is registered in the genre of programmatic music with theatrical nuances, propitiating in the spectator a different listening of the music Contemporary thanks to an interdisciplinary auditory experience. "

It is noteworthy that the "Inner Pulse" assembly is a variable-configuration chamber group composed of musicians with postgraduate studies in music, professors and professional musicians dedicated to contemporary music. The group has focused on music with literary content.

Vladimir Ibarra is originally from León, Guanajuato; he undertook his undergraduate and master's studies at the National School of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2009 he did a guitar perfection course at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, with Oscar Ghiglia.

He has won several awards at the state and national level. In 2011 he appeared in the Sala Nezahualcóyotl accompanied by the OSENM in the interpretation of the concert "Tres graphs" by the composer Maurice Ohana, in addition to having presented in other forums and festivals of the country. He has been a fellow of the FONCA in the program of scenic creators, as well as the state fund for Culture and the arts of Guanajuato.