The Festival
We are convinced that the deeply feeling human essence is what must be exposed and presented to the world as something new. This is how this initiative comes about. A platform free of prejudices where there are no restrictions on the works that can compete, thus generating music recitals with a wide aesthetic and unique diversity.
In our sixth edition, we will have two dates: one dedicated to jazz and the other to academic music .
Jazz
Music, the language of emotions par excellence, has evolved throughout our history until reaching a quasi-hermetic specialization on the part of those of us who dedicate ourselves to it. It is a language that does not identify its semantics with fixed or absolute concepts, but rather depends greatly on the musical styles to which we have been exposed in our lives. However, we lose sight of this nature and over-theorize it, generating abstractions that can cloud our intention to communicate something essential and personal.
We firmly believe that in order to move towards the future of art we must put aside insoluble aesthetic discussions and begin to embrace all artistic expressions, genres and styles within them.
It is our long-term goal to destroy the barrier between popular music and academic music, which in our opinion only harms both. Change the focus of our attention, which is usually on the construction material of the music, and turn it to the ethereal message it seeks to convey.
Academic music
What is the meaning of art in our time? What does contemporary academic music have to say to our society? How does it sound, who listens to it and why? These questions are inevitable when one travels for a certain time along the path of composition. The Young Composers International Festival (FIJC) seeks answers by exhibiting the works of young composers from the Americas.
At the FIJC there are no stylistic restrictions in the selection of works, we seek to promote the artist's way of feeling regardless of the aesthetics they use. We consider that the material with which a work is constructed is not art in itself, neither is the technique, nor even the concept that inspired the artist, but rather the ideas and the way in which they are translated into a musical piece.
We are convinced that the essence of the human being who feels deeply is what must be exposed and presented to the world as something new. This is how this initiative came about. A platform free of prejudices where there are no restrictions on the works that can compete, thus generating music recitals with a wide and unique aesthetic diversity.