Music of Today: Gabriela Ortiz curates

Programme

Discover new music from Mexico in this free early evening concert.  

Gabriela Ortiz, our Featured Composer for the 2025/26 season, presents her own work alongside pieces by other Mexican composers. Ortiz’s Corpórea contrasts our rational, material selves with the spiritual, intuitive side of our being (listen out for the Afro-Peruvian quijada, an instrument made from a donkey’s jawbone, in the percussion section).  

Ortiz has made it her mission to introduce the fresh, diverse music of Latin America to a wider audience. She’s chosen Herbert Vázquez’s Son Crepuscular, for clarinet and string quartet, and Francisco Cortés-Álvarez’s Transcending Walls, inspired by the work of muralists on the Mexican side of the Mexico-US border, to broaden our listening horizons.