Cello Concert 
Bach and Carrillo 
Jimena Giménez Cacho
Wed, May 27, 7:30pm
Teatro Santa Ana
Biblioteca Pública
Reloj 50A
150 pesos

Solo cellist and Sonido 13 Mexican cellist Jimena Giménez Cacho, in a concert series, will perform works from two great composers— J.S. Bach, the beloved and well-known Baroque composer, and the Mexican composer and innovator Julian Carrillo from San Luis Potosí, inventor of the microtonal system called the 13th sound.

Their work for solo cello was very complex and hard to play at the beginning and, therefore, not often performed.

The first manuscript we find of Bach’s suites is a copy from his wife, Anna Magdalena, who regularly helped him transcribe his music. It appeared between 1727 and 1731. They were not performed as concertos until Pablo Casals brought them to the twentieth century.

Of the six Quasi-sonatas from Julian Carrillo, only one was performed by the French cellist Raine Flachot in the fifties. In 2006, Giménez premiered all six, almost 40 years after they were composed.

Giménez says, “With this series, I aspire to bring Julian Carrillo to the level of the great musical composers. His work has brought extremely important innovations to music worldwide.

“With this concert series, I continue to promote the work of this great Mexican composer who, between the twenties and sixties, worked with microtones. He divided the regular tone into sixteenths of a tone which he called Sonido 13.”