PROGRAM

Preshow 

  • Catrina Sollemnis 

  • World Youth Orchestra 

  • Semilla Folclorica

  • Joseph Adam, Organ 

  • Teo Benson, violin

  • Preludium and Allegro, Fritz Kreisler

Performers

Mariachi Estrellas del Norte 

Ballard Civic Orchestra 

Kauyumari, Gabriela Ortiz

Mozart Requiem

  • Requiem Introits Adagio

  • Kyrie, Allegro

  • Dies irae -  Sequenz, Allegro assai

  • Rex Tremendae

  • Recordare

  • Confutatis, Andante

  • Lacrimosa

  • Domine Jesu - Offertorium, Andante con moto

  • Benedictus, Andante, Allegro

  • Agnus Dei

  • Lux aeterna - Communio, Adagio Allegro Adagio

Mixe y su Banda la Ruidosa and Folclor Oaxaqueño Centeotl

  • Canción Mixteca

  • Jarabe del Valle

  • Carnaval Putleco

  • Flor de Piña

  • Dios Nunca Muere (caminata)

 

About the Artist

Ballard Civic Orchestra

The Ballard Civic Orchestra is a professional and volunteer orchestra led by music director Paula Madrigal, which features Latinx music, guest artists and composers while highlighting Latino musical arts and culture. The Ballard Civic Orchestra strives to connect with its culturally diverse audience through music and the arts.

Mariachi Estrellas de Norte

Founded in February 2024, North Seattle Mariachi is a vibrant youth ensemble made up of students from across the Seattle area. A project of Orquesta Northwest, created in partnership with Ingraham High School and Seattle Public Schools, the group provides a welcoming space for young people of all musical backgrounds - including many who are learning mariachi music or an instrument for the very first time.

GABRIELA ORTIZ: Kauyumari

Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz was immersed in the twin disciplines of folk and classical music from the earliest age. Her parents were founding members of a Latin American folk music ensemble and Gabriela performed on guitar with them, while also studying piano and composition. This is why, according to her bio, Ortiz’s greatest skill is the “ingenious merging of distinct sonic worlds. Here is what Ortiz writes about her 2021 work Kauyumari: “Among the Huichol people of Mexico, Kauyumari means ‘blue deer.’ The blue deer represents a spiritual guide, one that is transformed through an extended pilgrimage into a hallucinogenic cactus called peyote. It allows the Huichol to communicate with their ancestors, do their bidding, and take on their role as guardians of the planet. Each year, these Native Mexicans embark on a symbolic journey to ‘hunt’ the blue deer, making offerings in gratitude for having been granted access to the invisible world, through which they also are able to heal the wounds of the soul.” She concluded her hopeful note by saying, “While composing this piece, I noted once again how music has the power to grant us access to the intangible, healing our wounds and binding us to what can only be expressed through sound. Although life is filled with interruptions, Kauyumari is a comprehension and celebration of the fact that each of these rifts is also a new beginning.

By Jeff Counts

Maria G. Casey

Founder and principal instructor at The Fat Brush Art Workshop. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from Universidad Femenina de Mexico and a Diplome’ de Maitre de Formation de Pebeo in Art from Provence, France.

I ran my own Interior Design business, worked teaching art for a television show and as a Project Art Coordinator in two magazines.

Currently I serve as Art Instructor at schools in the Seattle Archdiocese, teaching a wide variety of creative expressions. I collaborate with the Lynnwood Library, the Everett Community College and WAGRO foundation where I work with underprivileged Latino and Hispanic children, helping them to understand their culture and identity through the arts.

I also have two certifications in Children with Special Needs: Phsysical Disabilities and The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) by NAMI Eastside (National Alliance on Mental Illness).

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