Description
Julio Reyes will give a lecture on legendary Paraguayan Agustín Barrios Mangoré. This lecture will touch on the following topics.
Brief Bio of Agustin Barrios
Education
Influential people
Musical Styles
Mental State
Religious Beliefs
Music
La Catedral
Julia Florida
El Ultimo Tremolo
Julio performs Waltz No. 4 Op.8 by Barrios
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ulio was gifted at an early age with a fine-tuned musical ear. At age 5, Julio sat in on one of the guitar lessons his father was giving at their home. After seeing that his son was able to distinguish between his student’s mistakes and accomplishments, he taught him a Paraguayan piece on a small harp, which he played for his mother that afternoon when she got home from her job as a seamstress. His father, Carlos, was a former Musical Diplomat for his native Paraguay, South America. He studied with Dionicio Basualdo, who was a protégé of Agustin Barrios. Julio’s mother, Carmen, was from Colombia, South America where she sang on the radio and acted in an improv. troupe. After her son played the harp for her, she told her husband to teach him guitar since that was his forté. He first learned to play by watching his father play a few measures on a guitar and then repeat what he played on the smaller guitar his father gave him. This process continued while his father taught him how to read music.
He gave his first recital at the age of 12 and the following year, was an award winner at the International Agustin Barrios Guitar Competition in Mexico City where the average age of his competitors was at least 20 years his senior! Also, by then he had commenced studies in piano, cello, voice, music theory and conducting at the Summer Music Program at the University of California at Berkeley, and had won the Martin Luther King, Jr. Music Competition on cello and guitar.
At age 14 at the invitation of the Paraguayan government, he traveled to South America to perform guitar recitals on radio and TV and was a guest artist at the Annual Independence Day festivities at the Municipal Soccer Stadium performing for over 80,000 attendees.
Event Details
When: June 25 starting promptly a 5:00 PM
Where: Deer Lake Gallery, 6584 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby, BC V5G 3T7
Tickets: Admission by donation
Stick around for a performance afterwards featuring the Vancouver Guitar Orchestra! starting right after at 6:00 PM and finishing with Francis Baptiste.
