Cristina García Banegas

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Cristina García Banegas

Cristina García Banegas (born March 1954 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan organist , conductor and music professor.

Career

Cristina García Banegas was born in Montevideo, where she still lives today. She studied with Renee Bonnet and Renee Pietrafesa in Montevideo and attended master classes with Lionel Rogg , Marie-Claire Alain , Montserrat Torrent , Guy Bovet , Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini , Ton Koopman , Stefano Innocenti , Odille Bailleux , Adelma Gómez , Héctor Zeoli , Jesús Gabriel Segade and Gertrud Mersiovsky. She is a professor of organ at the Escuela Universitaria de Música de Montevideo, founder and director of the vocal ensemble De profundis , Montevideo (founded in 1987), founder and artistic director of the Uruguay International Organ Festival (also founded in 1987), and director of the choir department of the Montevideo English school . In addition to her concert activities, which regularly take her to Europe, Japan, Russia, Israel and the USA, she also researches ancient keyboard instruments and vocal and instrumental scores (16th to 18th centuries) from the Latin American continent. She also gives master classes in Europe, Latin America and the USA.

Prizes and competitions

  • "Premier Prix de Virtuosite" at the Geneva Conservatory in the class of Lionel Rogg
  • "Premier Prix d'Excellence avec Félicitations du Jury" at the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory (Paris) in the class of Marie-Claire Alain (1982)
  • Echeverría Organ Prize (Toledo International Competition, Spain, 1981)
  • Second prize at the International Avila Competition 1982
  • "Fraternity Prize 1993" awarded by the institution B´NAI B´RITH Uruguay, including a trip to Israel and Europe
  • Medal of Honor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture of Poland for “Merit and Dissemination of Polish Culture” (Polish Embassy, ​​2004)
  • BankBoston Foundation Prize for National Culture (2003)
  • OBELISK Prize for musical life's work, awarded by Rotary International on the occasion of its centenary (2004–2005)
  • MOROSOLI Prize for the "MÚSICA CULTA 2005"
  • "PREMIO A LA EXCELENCIA PROFESIONAL" 2006, Rotary "Pozos del Rey"
  • "Woman of the year 2006", awarded by Juan Herrera Producciones (2007)
  • "Alas" ("Wing") - Prize for Artists 2007, awarded by the "InterArte" Foundation

CD recordings (selection)

Recordings of the complete organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach

Recorded on the following organs:

  • Conservatoire Supérieur de Lyon / France (organ: Gerhard Grenzing , 1992)
  • City Church of the Church of God, Waltershausen (organ: Heinrich Gottfried Trost, 1727)
  • Abadía de Leffe / Belgium (organ: Manufacture Thomas, 1996)
  • Jesuit Church Porrentruy / Switzerland (organ: Jürgen Ahrend, 1985)
  • Freiberg Cathedral (organ: Gottfried Silbermann, 1723)
  • Church of Kongsberg / Norway (organ: Gottfried Heinrich Gloger, 1765)
  • Hofkirche zu Dresden (organ: Gottfried Silbermann, 1752)
  • Iglesia de Notre Dame de Gedinne / Belgium (Organ: Manufacture Thomas, 2002)
  • Oude Kerk en Amsterdam / Netherlands (organ: Vater / Mueller, 1724)
  • Petrikirche Freiberg (organ: Gottfried Silbermann, 1732)

Recordings of Latin American organ music

  • JOAN BAPTISTE CABANILLES: 1991, from the collection “El órgano histórico español” produced by the state company Quinto Centenario (organ by Santanyì, Jordi Bosch, 1768), label AUVIDIS / VALLOIS 4647

(Record awards won: Diapason 5, Grand Prix du Disque “Palmares de Palmares” of the Nouvelle Académie Française du Disque; German Record Prize Frankfurt)

  • AMERICA SECULO XVIII (Latin American organ music from the 18th century, organ Arp Schnitger -1701- of the Mariana Cathedral , Minas Gerais, Brazil / 1999), label: Perro Andaluz
  • EN LA ZIUDAD DE LOS REYES (2005), anthology of Latin American organ music from the colonial era (16th / 17th centuries) (Francisco de Sesma organ (Zaragoza, 1735) of the parish church of San Pedro in Torrijo del Campo, Teruel)
  • ZIPOLI L 'AMÉRICAIN: 1993, recorded in Córdoba, Argentina (organ of the Museo Provincial Marqués de SobreMonte)
  • DE LA MUSIQUE DES CONQUISTADORES AU LIVRE D 'ORGUE DES INDIA CHIQUITOS (Organ Fray Pedro Matos -1791- of the Convent of Santa Clara de Sucre, Bolivia)
  • PIAZZOLLA MEETS BACH (recorded 2011 in the Pauluskirche Darmstadt, Schuke organ)

Recordings with the instrumental and vocal ensemble "De Profundis"

  • LA MESSE DE LA BATAILLE EN NOUVELLE ESPAGNE, Latin American and European vocal and instrumental church music (2001), label: K 617
  • POLYPHONIE EN NOUVELLE Espagne
  • NAVIDAD label: Perro Andalúz
  • RETROSPECTIVA label: Perro Andalúz
  • JUAN GUTIÉRREZ DE PADILLA (1590–1664) (Málaga, Spain / México), label: Perro Andalúz

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personal data
SURNAME García Banegas, Cristina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan organist, conductor and music professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo