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The En­sem­ble

Los Tem­pera­men­tos, found­ed in 2009, em­braces the mu­sic of the 17th and 18th cen­turies. Un­der the di­rec­tion of Colom­bian cel­list and arranger Nés­tor Fabián Cortés Garzón, the en­sem­ble spe­cial­izes in re­dis­cov­er­ing and res­onat­ing the re­la­tion­ships be­tween the seem­ing­ly op­pos­ing worlds of baroque mu­sic in Latin Amer­i­ca and Eu­rope. In their the­mat­i­cal­ly di­verse pro­grams, the artists blend dif­fer­ent styles, com­posers and cul­tures, thus re­peat­ed­ly demon­strat­ing the live­li­ness and im­mense rich­ness of col­ors of what is now sim­ply called “ear­ly mu­sic”.

Pre­vi­ous en­gage­ments in­clude the con­cert hall Glocke (Bre­men), the Ho­hen­lo­her Kul­tur­som­mer (Schwäbisch Hall), Alte Musik in Fürsten­feld (Mu­nich), the Barock­fes­ti­val St.Pölten (Aus­tria), Juil­let Mu­si­cal de Saint Hu­bert, Mubafa, Au­tomne Mu­si­cal de Spa (Bel­gium), the Col­lège des Ber­nar­dins Paris, the Fes­ti­val Em­baro­que­ment Im­mé­di­at (France), the Mon­tever­di Fes­ti­val and the Mer­an­er Musik­wochen (Italy). The en­sem­ble has al­so per­formed at the Kas­teel­con­certen (Nether­lands), the Fes­ti­val Cis­ter­mu­si­ca, Fes­ti­val des Artes (Por­tu­gal), Fes­ti­val In­ter­na­cional de Mu­si­ca An­tigua (Pe­ru), Fes­ti­val In­ter­na­cional de Mu­si­ca An­tigua (Chile) and Fes­ti­val de Mu­si­ca Sacra Quito (Ecua­dor), as well as the fes­ti­val IM­PUL­SO and Fes­ti­val de Músi­ca An­tigua y Bar­ro­ca Los Fun­dadores (Mex­i­co).

In April 2018 the en­sem­ble per­formed sev­er­al con­certs with the in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned baroque vi­o­lin­ist Ryo Ter­aka­do (e.g. Bach Col­legium Japan) as a part of the Fes­ti­val In­ter­na­cional de Músi­ca Re­na­cen­tista y Bar­ro­ca Mi­siones de Chiq­ui­tos in Bo­livia.

Af­ter their de­but al­bum, De la Con­quista y otros De­mo­ni­os, which re­ceived ex­cep­tion­al re­views from the NDR among oth­ers, El Galeón 1600 was re­leased in 2015. The al­bum Amor y Locu­ra (2017) al­so re­ceived out­stand­ing re­views by WDR 3, HR 2, Ra­dio Stephans­dom Wien and NDR Kul­tur. Amor y Locu­ra and El Galeón 1600 were both nom­i­nat­ed for the In­ter­na­tion­al Clas­si­cal Mu­sic Award. In 2020 Los Tem­pera­men­tos’ new al­bum En­tre dos Tiem­pos was re­leased.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION

 
Néstor Cortés Garzón

Nés­tor Fabián Cortés Garzón

Artistic direction

Nés­tor Fabián Cortés Garzón learned to play var­i­ous per­cus­sion and gui­tar in­stru­ments at a young age with per­cus­sion­ist Car­los Ar­turo Rendón and at the Con­ser­va­to­rio de la Uni­ver­si­dad Tec­nológ­i­ca de Pereira in Colom­bia. He stud­ied mod­ern cel­lo at the Con­ser­va­to­rio de la Uni­ver­si­dad Na­cional de Colom­bia in Bo­gotá, where he grad­u­at­ed with hon­ors in 2008. Ini­tial­ly, baroque cel­lo was his sec­ondary in­stru­ment, but his love for ear­ly mu­sic grew steadi­ly, es­pe­cial­ly through nu­mer­ous projects at the Schola Can­to­rum Basilien­sis in Bo­gotá and mas­ter class­es; for ex­am­ple, with the Acad­e­my for Ear­ly Mu­sic Berlin.

Cortés Garzón then com­plet­ed a post­grad­u­ate and master’s de­gree in the class of the in­ter­na­tion­al­ly known baroque cel­list Vi­o­la de Hoog at the Hochschule für Kün­ste Bre­men. In ad­di­tion to his elab­o­rate con­cert sched­ule, the Colom­bian mu­si­cian has been in­ten­sive­ly re­search­ing baroque mu­sic from South and Cen­tral Amer­i­c­as and thus suc­cess­ful­ly re­con­struct­ing and ar­rang­ing works from var­i­ous codices, as well as mu­si­cal tra­di­tions. The cel­list, who now lives in Bre­men, al­so spe­cial­izes in the or­na­men­ta­tion prac­tice of the 17th and 18th cen­turies. Con­cert tours with var­i­ous or­ches­tras and en­sem­bles have tak­en the young cel­list all over Eu­rope and Latin Amer­i­ca. Nés­tor Cortes is al­so the founder and artis­tic di­rec­tor of the Bre­men Baroque Or­ches­tra, which was es­tab­lished in 2014. The or­ches­tra is par­tic­u­lar­ly known for its orig­i­nal and di­verse pro­gram se­lec­tions, and reg­u­lar­ly col­lab­o­rates with well-known mu­si­cians, such as Dorothee Ober­linger, Ryo Ter­aka­do, Dmit­ry Sinkovsky or Mi­dori Seil­er.