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Recital
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Carlos Aguirre, baritone
Mutsumi Moteki, Piano
Teatro Degollado
20:30 P.M.

CARLOS AGUIRRE
Baritone

Born in Mexico City, he grew up in Guadalajara, Jalisco, where he graduated in Psychology by ITESO University. He started receiving singing lessons from Professor Pedro Magaña and was later invited to participate in the Scola Cantorum choral organization, directed by Dr. Harlan Snow. Carlos Aguirre kept on studying with him and became a member of the State of Jalisco Choir ( Coro del Estado de Jalisco), with which he interpreted Mozart’s Crowning Mass and the Réquiem as a soloist.

The University of Colorado granted him a full scholarship in 1999, and he studied with Dr. Robert Harrison. He received his Master in Music and Vocal Interpretation there, and was named assistant teacher at the Voice Faculty for two successive years, participating in public classes with renowned figures of the operatic world, such as Marilyn Horne and Martin Iseep. His vast repertoire includes the roles of Imperial Commissar in Madame Butterfly; Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, directed by Martin Iseep; Ford in Falstaff, and the main role in Don Giovanni.

He was accepted in 2002 to a Post-Certificate program at the ‘Hanns Eisler’ Hochschule für Musik, in Berlin, Germany, where he studied under the prestigious tenor Scot Weir. In October 2003, Carlos Aguirre interpreted a ten-presentation season as Escamillo, in Carmen, at the Berlin Saalblau Neukölln. In June 2005, he interpreted the whole Gustav Mahler song cycle ‘Kindertotenlieder’, with the Brandenburger Symphoniker, in Brandenburg, Germany, receiving the ‘Konzertexamen’ degree by the‘Hanns Eisler’ Hochschule für Musik.

Aguirrre participated in the 2005-2006 program Young Rhine Voices presented at the Opèra Nationale du Rhin in Strasbourg, France, where he interpreted Escamillo in Carmen, presented in the main Alsatian cities and later taken to Paris and Lyon, among other French cities. During the 2006-2007 season, his contract with Opèra Nationale du Rhin was renewed for the same program Les Jeunes Voix du Rhin, interpreting the role of Dmitri in the French première of the American Opera The Music Shop, composed by Richard Wargo. He was also part of the big season productions for the Strasbourg Opera, interpreting Jacques Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène; Le Rossignol, by Stravinsky, and Mussorgsky’s Boris Goudonov.

Carlos Aguirre has been part of the American Colorado Opera Young Artists Program since January 2008, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Dandini in Cenerèntola, and Escamillo in Carmen. For the Opera Theatre of the Rockies he interpreted Escamillo, in Carmen.

MUTSUMI MOTEKI
pianista

Mutsumi Moteki is a Doctor in Music, Associate Professor at Boulder University in Colorado. She studied to be accompanist and co-repeater for the Westminster Choir College and the University of Michigan, participating in prestigious Summer programs such as The Music Academy of the West, the Steans Institute for Young Artists, the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden-bei-Wein and the Music Conservatory in Geneva, Switzerland.

She teaches Vocalization, Repertoire, French Song Literature and Accompaniment at the University of Colorado, where she heads the musical staff. She has performed as accompanist, chamber music pianist; has given Master classes in Japan, Europe and along the United States. As guest professor, Mutsumi Moteki has given courses at the ‘Hans Eisler’ Hochschule für Musik en Berlin, Germany and the Kobe Collage in Japan. She holds a permanent position as Member of the Vocal Accompaniment Faculty for the Summer Program for the University of Miami in Salzburg, Austria.
  

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