Carnegie Hill Concerts presents:

Ortiz the Musician

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Featuring compositions by Keir GoGwilt, Wilfrido Terrazas, Kyle Motl, and Vicente Hansen Atria
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Featuring performances and improvisations by:

Miranda Cuckson
Alec Goldfarb
Keir GoGwilt
Conrad Harris
Coleman Itzkoff
Kyle Motl
Wilfrido Terrazas

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Ortiz the Musician is a performance project sounding the complex intertwinement of music and colonization in 16th-century Mexico. The original music for this project is inspired by the life of the eponymous Ortiz — a shadowy figure mentioned in Alejo Carpentier’s monograph on music in Cuba. According to Carpentier, Ortiz played the vihuela and taught dance. He joined Hernán Cortés’s army in Trinidad, Cuba, and was later granted a lot of land in Tenochtitlan/Mexico City, where he installed a school of dance and music.

This performance features seven performers bridging baroque, improvisatory, and experimental traditions to reconstruct the musical world of Ortiz.