Estirpe Pacho Flores, Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería & Carlos Miguel

• Arturo Márquez (b. 1950): Concierto de Otoño:
• 1Márquez: Concierto de Otoño: I. Son de luz07:15
• 2Márquez: Concierto de Otoño: II. Balada de floripondios06:20
• 3Márquez: Concierto de Otoño: III. Conga de flores05:18
• Daniel Freiberg (b. 1957): Crónicas Latinoamericanas:
• 4Freiberg: Crónicas Latinoamericanas: I. Panorámicas08:05
• 5Freiberg: Crónicas Latinoamericanas: II. Diálogos05:28
• 6Freiberg: Crónicas Latinoamericanas: III. Influencias06:36
• Paquito D'Rivera (b. 1948): Concerto Venezolano:
• 7D'Rivera: Concerto Venezolano19:22
• Efrain Oscher (b. 1974): Mestizo:
• 8Oscher: Mestizo16:29
• Pacho Flores (b. 1981): Morocota:
• 9Flores: Morocota04:46
• Total Runtime01:19:39

Info for Estirpe

Pacho Flores releases his new and fifth album ESTIRPE for Deutsche Grammophon. Taking advantage of his presence in the summer season of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and Carlos Miguel Prieto for the American premiere of Daniel Freiberg's Historias de Flores y Tangos, this recording was made with the same protagonists in September 2019 at the Churubusco Studios in the Mexican capital. This album features two guest artists, the Cuban clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, and the Argentine pianist, arranger and composer Daniel Freiberg, and already includes some of the concertos resulting from the project of shared commissions of new trumpet concertos from outstanding composers that Pacho and his agency ACM Concerts have been managing over the last few years, and which has already incorporated six new concertos into the repertoire, with a seventh in the process of composition to be premiered during the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons.

The album opens with Arturo Márquez's Concierto de Otoño, the first of the project's concertos, which was premiered in September 2018 by the Sinfónica Nacional de México under the baton of Carlos Miguel Prieto. Along with the OSNM, the other orchestras participating in the commission were the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, which premiered it with its conductor José Luis Gómez; the Orchestra of the Hyogo Performing Arts Centre, Japan, with maestro Michiyoshi Inoue, and the Oviedo Filarmonía, with Lucas Macías. This is followed by Daniel Freiberg's Crónicas Latinoamericanas, a commission from the WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne originally conceived for clarinet, which Freiberg adapted for trumpet especially for Pacho Flores.

The third concerto on the album is Paquito D'Rivera's Concerto Venezolano, also resulting from the shared commissions project. In this case it was the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería itself, again under the direction of Prieto, who played the leading role in the Mexican premiere and participated in the commission together with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, which premiered it with its current conductor Domingo Hindoyan, the Orquesta de Valencia, with Hernández-Silva, and the Sinfónica de San Diego, with its conductor Rafael Payare. The last of the four concertos on the disc is Efraín Oscher's Mestizo, which has a special significance: Mestizo was commissioned by the Sistema de Orquesta Infantiles y Juveniles de Venezuela and premiered in Caracas in 2010 with the Orquesta Simón Bolívar and Domingo Hindoyan conducting, and in a way it is the real starting point for everything that came later with this project of shared commissions, being the first concerto composed for various instruments of the trumpet family, which then became a constant and distinctive feature of Pacho Flores' performances. The disc ends with Morocota, a Venezuelan waltz by Pacho Flores originally composed for trumpet and guitar and included on ENTROPÍA, his second album for Deutsche Grammophon, with guitarist and cuatro player Jesús 'Pingüino' González, and later also orchestrated by Pacho himself.

Pacho Flores, trumpet
Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

Pacho Flores
won first prize at the Maurice Andre Competition, the Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition and the Citta di Porcia International Competition . Trained in the great El Sistema Youth Orchestra in Venezuela, he has received critical acclaim for his concerts, solo performances and recordings.

Flores fills his exciting interpretations with extraordinary energy and wonderful timbres. As a soloist he has performed with the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, the Camerata St. Petersburg, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the NHK Orchestra (Japan), the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra (Venezuela) and the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. He has performed recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, Sale Pleyel in Paris and Tokyo Opera City. In his career as an orchestra musician, Flores played as principal trumpeter with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra (Venezuela), the Saito Kinen Orchestra (Japan) and the Miami Symphony Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Seiji Ozawa, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, among others and Gustavo Dudamel. Flores has a keen interest in contemporary music, and his repertoire includes commissions and premieres of pieces by composers Roger Boutry, Efraín Oscher, Giancarlo Castro, Santiago Báez, Sergio Bernal, Arturo Márquez and Roberto Sierra. Most recently, he played on an important tour with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Lindberg, where he made his debut at the Festspielhaus Salzburg and the Musikverein in Vienna. His first album “The Venezuelan Trumpet” was released by Guataca Producciones. Most recently, he played on an important tour with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Lindberg, where he made his debut at the Festspielhaus Salzburg and the Musikverein in Vienna. His first album “The Venezuelan Trumpet” was released by Guataca Producciones. Most recently, he played on an important tour with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christian Lindberg, where he made his debut at the Festspielhaus Salzburg and the Musikverein in Vienna. His first album “The Venezuelan Trumpet” was released by Guataca Producciones.

As an artist with the Stomvi company, he plays instruments that were specially made for him and that he himself was actively involved in developing and innovating. Pacho Flores is an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon and has already released three recordings there: Cantar (with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Christian Vásquez); Entropia (Global Music Awards Gold Medal); and Fractales (with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra and Christian Lindberg).

This album contains no booklet.