The Centro Regional de Estudios Musicales (CREM) children’s orchestra will perform Vivaldi’s “Gloria” Saturday, December 17, 7 p.m. at the Auditorio de la Ribera.
Several young musicians among the 12-piece orchestra will give solo performances, accompanied by the Victor Manuel Medeles Orchestra, which is composed of CREM staff and a few other professional musicians.
Soloists presenting are Mayra Camarena Serrano, 13; Paz Nuñez Arechar, 11; Andrea Michelle Ochoa Herrera, 12); and Mauro Ramos van der Hoek, 12. Van der Hoek and Ochoa, will also perform a duet.
Diego Rojas Miramontes (one of the first violins at the Jalisco Philharmonic and a staff member at CREM) will present Winter from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, while invited soprano Natalia de la Torre will sing an aria.
The 25-member youth choir will perform “In Excelsis Deo” and “Laudamus Te” from “Gloria,” as well as sing some Christmas carols.
Tickets, 150 pesos, are available at Diane Pearl, the Auditorio, Viva la Musica, and Dental del Lago. The proceeds will help CREM continue its mission to offer high quality music education to children and teenagers at Lakeside.
CREM has been able to find a balance between discipline and really making progress and, at the same time having a happy, healthy, safe and fun environment where self-esteem in the students is one of the main objectives.
Almost half of the CREM students need financial support to attend music classes. For the past five years CREM has offered a scholarship program so that any child can have access to music education. At the end of the last school year CREM held a series of didactical concerts at public schools to attract more children.
If you would like to donate funds or an instrument, or sponsor a child for their music education (400 pesos a month), contact Margrita van der Hoek at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., cell (333) 496-8976.