Cartagena is finishing up preparations for its third annual International Music Festival, a full week of classical music starting Saturday.
The festival, starting Saturday, invited classical performers from all over the globe. A total of 21 concerts will be held on some of the city’s most beautiful locations.
The days before the festival the performers will take their instruments to the barrios of the colonial city and show their art to the locals. Music teachers and students from all over Colombia will give classes.
Cartagena International Music Festival
January 10 – January 17
Invited performers
- Charles Wadsworth (USA)
- Stephen Prutsman (USA)
- Scott Yoo (USA)
- London Symphony Orchestra (UK)
- José Franch-Ballester (Spain)
- Emmanuel Ceysson (France)
- Anne Akiko Meyer (USA)
- Robert McDuffie (USA)
- Angélica Gámez (Colombia)
- Hsin-Yun Huang (Taiwan)
- Andrés Díaz (Chile)
- Kristina Reiko Cooper (USA)
- Erika Nickrenz (USA)
- Ana María Fonseca (Colombia)
- Antonio Arnedo (Colombia)
- Ensamble Sinsonte (Colombia)
- St. Lawrence String Quartet (Canada)