
Octeto Sicarú Guitar Ensemble with Nicholas Ciraldo
The decorated Octeto Sicarú makes its Marigny Opera House debut with a program of 20th century through contemporary Mexican guitar music on a set of eight hand-carved guitars that travel with their luthier. The Octet is joined by celebrated American Classical Guitarist Nicholas Ciraldo for Julio César Oliva’s México de mis sueños. Ciraldo is an Associate Professor of Music at The University of Southern Mississippi, has played in Boston’s Jordan Hall, Berlin’s Berliner Dom, and Curitiba’s Teatro José Maria Santos, and won numerous international guitar competitions.
This Mexican guitar ensemble was established in 2010. The Octeto Sicarú has performed in Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, and the United States. In 2013, American guitarist William Kanengiser joined Octeto Sicarú to perform Shingo Fujii’s Concierto de Los Angeles. The term after which the ensemble takes its name reveals its intention; Sicarú is a Zapotec word meaning ‘beautiful’, and the ensemble adopts it in an spiritual sense.
MEMBERS
Iván Maceda Vela
Harim Campos Reséndiz
Samuel Hernández Cortés
Humberto Gutiérrez Quintanar
Abraham Velásquez Cruz
Ricardo Hernández Reyes
Vicente Martínez Santillán
Rodrigo Lara Alonso