Member
Contact Information
lc001k@yahoo.com.mxLocation
Morelia
Michoacin
Early Music Skills & Interests
Harpsichord, OrganEarly Music Affiliations
Performer
Biography
Laura Angélica Carrasco Curíntzita was born in Mexico, where she began her musical studies and currently resides. She continued them in the USA (Shenandoah University, North Carolina School of the Arts, Eastman School of Music, University of North Texas), earning a DMA degree in organ performance (with a minor concentration in early music) having studied with Jack Mitchener, Hans Davidsson and Jesse Eschbach in part under the auspices of grants from COMEXUS (Fulbright-García Robles program) and Mexico´s National Department of Culture.
She has appeared as soloist with various instrumental ensembles and in several organ festivals mainly in her country and the USA. She recorded the concertant works Mediaeval retable (Concertino) by Miguel Bernal Jiménez (Warner) and Music for a revered image by Carlos Vidaurri (Itinerant Records). Outside of Mexico, she has performed in Austria, Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Liechtenstein, Panama, Spain, Switzerland and the USA.
Laura Carrasco has edited and given the first modern performances of several works by José Antonio Gómez and José Cornelio Camacho, besides premiering in the USA the organ notebook attributed to Joseph de Torres. She also coordinated in Mexico the first continental performance of Handel´s Gloria rediscovered some years ago.
In Morelia, her hometown, Laura Carrasco has been on the faculty at the Universidad Michoacana (state university), the Conservatorio de Las Rosas (music conservatory) and the Instituto Superior de Música Sacra (sacred music school). She currently works freelance based in Michoacan, Mexico.
