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Cinco en Cinco
MECA's Cinco en Cinco 2011 will feature a concert of piano music by five Mexican composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Felipe Villanueva, Ricardo Castro, Blas Galindo, Luis G. Jordá, and Manuel M. Ponce.
The central piece of the concert will be Ponce's Concierto Romántico, the only concerto for piano ever written by the composer.
We are pleased to present Omar Herrera-Arizmendi on piano this year. Born in Mexico City, Mr. Herrera-Arizmendi is a proud descendant of Manuel M. Ponce and in recent years, has played with several orchestras as well as with chamber groups in the United States and Mexico. Currently, he is pursuing his doctorate in Music at the University of Houston alongside his accompanist Yan Shen, a guest pianist, who is originally from China and is also currently pursuing her Doctoral degree under Timothy Hester at the University of Houston. Ms. Shen received her Bachelor of Music at the Guang Zhou Conservatory of Music and her Master of Music at the Wu Han Conservatory of Music and will perform the orchestral reduction at the second piano. Both pianists performed to standing ovations last year at MECA.
