Corwin Chair Concert Series presents Ivan Manzanilla (percussion)

About this event

Join us for an evening filled with music on Friday, November 13th, for the Corwin Chair Concert Series featuring Ivan Manzanilla (percussionist). The program presents a selection of contemporary percussion works, bringing together composers from Mexico, Austria, and Portugal. Through a diverse range of timbres, extended techniques, and musical approaches, the concert explores the expressive possibilities of contemporary percussion, featuring works by Victor Ibarra, Roberto Morales, Alejandra Hernández, Carlos Iturralde, Karlheinz Essl, and João Pedro Oliveira.

Bio:

Ivan Manzanilla, percussionist

Mexican percussionist, Ivan Manzanilla is a specialist in contemporary percussion music. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Mexico’s Autonomous National University and a Master and Doctoral degree from the University of California, San Diego.

Ivan Manzanilla’s work centers on the exploration and dissemination of newly created music and art. His teaching practice and commissions for new works that explore sound, language and gesture reflect his commitment to new generations of percussionists, musicians and contemporary forms of art.

His work has been recognized by different institutions like the Rockefeller Foundation, the National University of Mexico, Mexico’s National Fine Arts Institute, the National Fund for Culture and Arts and the Darmstadt Summer Course.

Ivan Manzanilla is founder of Duplum together with Mexican clarinetist Fernando Dominguez and part of the SRM trio with woodwind player Peter Schmidt and guitarist Jerry Rojas. He is also a regular guest at Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, Ensemble Onix, and Liminar Ensemble.

He is the head of the Percussion Department at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico and he is a recipient of the National Fund for the Arts’ Established Artists Grant.

Concert/masterclass carried out with support from the System of Support for Creation and Cultural Projects.

Free and open to the public