Horacio Franco

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Horacio Franco is a Mexican flautist and recorder player. He studied in the National Conservatory in Mexico and later in the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Ámsterdam, Holland, today Conservatory of Ámsterdam, with Marijke Miessen and Walter Van Hauwe, where he received the rank of “cum laude soloist”. Franco is a very active musician, who has widely changed the repertoire of the recorder from the traditional forms of medieval, Renaissance music and baroque - including Latin American colonial music - to contemporary, folkloric and popular.[citation needed] He has an ample repertoire of contemporary music written specially for him by Mexican and foreign composers: Graciela Agudelo, Kart Bellinghausen, Sergio Berlioz, Sergio Cardinal red, Daniel Catán, Jorge Cordova, Luis Courteous Jaime, Felipe De Jesus, Juan Fernando Durán, Itziar Fadrique, Maria Granillo, Rosa Gurayeb, Rafael Hubberman, Martha Lambertini, Ana Lara, Mario Lavista, Arming Moon, Antonio Navarro, Gabriela Ortiz, Hilda Paredes, Rodolfo Ramirez, Ricardo Risco, Marcela Rodriguez, Eduardo Soto Millán, Salvador Torre, Eugene Toussaint, and Michael Wolpe. During his tours through Europe, United States, South America and Israel he has given numerous master classes; in England and the United States he has participated in projects of education, as well as in projects to support marginalized and unprotected sectors of society. In the beginnings of his career he was founder member of the “Hotteterre Trio”, conformed from 198

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Música Barroca Mexicana

Mestizajes Novohispanos

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Del Medioevo al Danzón

Lienzos de viento (feat. Ubaldino Villatoro, Cirilo Meza & Luis Hernández)

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Solo Bach

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de Bach, Los Beatles y otros Más

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Música Barroca Mexicana Vol. II: Esplendor de la Catedral de México

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Música De Cámara

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Il Gardellino

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Capella Puebla

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Le siècle d'or à la cathédrale de Mexico

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Primero Bach: 6 TrioSonatas, BWV 525-530

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