Pipino Performing Arts Series to welcome Cuarteto Latinoamericano
February 15, 2022
The Donald P. Pipino Performing Arts Series will welcome Cuarteto Latinoamericano, one of the world’s most renowned Latin American classical music ensembles, to campus for a performance Saturday, February 19 at the Ford Family Recital Hall in the DeYor Performing Arts Center in downtown Youngstown, Ohio. The event is co-sponsored by 88.5 WYSU-FM.
The group, a string quartet founded in 1982, consists of violinists Saul and Aron Bitran, cellist Alvaro Bitran, and violist Javier Montiel. From 1987 to 2008, the group was quartet-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University. The quartet also created the Latin American Academy for String Quartets, which from 2008 to 2014 provided training to five select string quartets each year.
Cuarteto has performed internationally at venues in Milan, New York, Amsterdam, Japan, and New Zealand. They have recorded over 100 CDs, with “Brasileiro, works of Mignone” (2012) and “El Hilo Invisible” (2016) winning Latin GRAMMY Awards for best classical album. The group has also been awarded the Diapason d’Or.
Between 2004 and 2021, Cuarteto was the recipient of numerous Mexico en Escena grants, which are given out by the Mexican government through the National Fund for Culture and the Arts.