Guest Musician on Sunday, March 5th
St. Paul's is pleased to welcome Armando Ortiz to help make beautiful music during our 10 a.m. Sunday morning worship on March 5th - the 2nd Sunday of Lent.
Mexican violinist, pedagogue and engineer Armando Ortiz Montenegro is a graduate student of Markus Placci at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He has been as soloist in Mexico with the Durango´s Symphony Orchestra, the Academia Cesaretti Chamber Orchestra, where he became the concertmaster for 5 years, and the Philharmonic Orchestra “Ricardo Castro”. As an avid chamber musician, Armando has been playing with several ensembles in the city of Boston, New York and across Mexico. Most recently pointed as the concertmaster for the Horizon ensemble. He also is an advocate for new music, where he has done several premiers for the Timbre Collective and various composers in the Boston area. In 2019 Armando created an online recital series called “Música por un Cambio” (Music for a Change) where with interviews and performances he aims to support black American and Mexican living composers and performers. As a teacher and a researcher, Armando has gathered an extensive wealth of information on the relationship between European, African and Mexican music, doing emphasis on the role of women and other underrepresented groups. With that he developed a series of online lessons teaching music history to both musicians and non-musicians.
