Castle Music in Saaremaa

Text  Stewart Johnson
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The opening concert of the 2025–26 season will feature two prominent artists from Mexico, performing right in the heart of world-renowned Kuressaare Castle on the island of Saaremaa. The “Sounds of Mexico” programme will include a range of classical music from Europe and the Americas.

Horacio Franco is a flautist and recorder player from Mexico. He is known for playing medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, as well as Latin American colonial music. He also plays contemporary, folkloric, and more pop-style music, often combining them to create his own blend of fusion. Also known as a conductor, his musical career has spanned 44 years.

Daniel Ortega García, also from Mexico, is a prominent harpsichordist, as well as a professor at the National University of Mexico.

The “Sounds of Mexico” concert will feature both musicians as they play music by Antonio Vivaldi, Louis-Antoine Dornel, Daniel Catán, Johann Sebastian Bach, Tommaso Antonio Vitali, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and more. Many songs in the repertoire will also be Mexican and Latin American national folk songs.

Kuressaare Castle is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe, and its massive stone walls will offer the perfect venue for the type of music to be performed at the Castle Music concert.

More information is available here.

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