Mozart Havana Festival Will Celebrate Alfredo Diez Nieto’s Centenary

Still active, Diez Nieto is considered the dean of concert music authors on the island with several written symphonies and scores for other orchestral formats, work for which he was awarded the National Music Prize in 2004, recalled at a conference of press the pianist Ulises Hernandez, general director of the event.

The piece of the centenarian Cuban musician will be heard on the morning of Sunday 28 at the Ignacio Cervantes Hall in this capital, and will be performed by the Havana String Quartet, a group composed of young Cuban instrumentalists.

Four days of music in several styles, formats and composers are announced by the festival, which for this occasion will be more focused on chamber music than in concerts of large orchestral formations.

For the opening, the festival proposes an eclectic show that in two parts shows an important part of human creative genius: works by Terry Riley, Louis Andriessen, Amadeo Roldan, and Igor Stravinsky.

The main venues of the festival will be the Oratorio San Felipe Neri, Marti Theater, Minor Basilica of San Francisco de Asis, and the Cervantes Hall, all located in Old Havana. (Taken from Prensa Latina)