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Costa Rica Credomatic Music Festival
By Explore Costa Rica Staff
Jul 7, 2008, 11:23

Costa Rica Credomatic Music Festival

Tica soprano Iride Martínez and 40 artists from Europe and North America are coming to Costa Rica to share the sound of classical music at the 18th Credomatic Music Festival. This yearly Costa Rica event is taking place Aug. 2-17.

Festival director Jordi Antich gave reporters a sneak peak at the line up this weekend at Reserva Conchal. The Costa Rica hotel, located in the northwestern Guanacaste province, is one of the sponsors of this year's Costa Rica festival. Complete dates and names should be available by the end of this week, he said.

Highlights will include Italian pianist Francesco Libetta, whom the New York Times once called “a poet-aristocrat of the keyboard with the profile and carriage of a Renaissance prince”; Colombian a cappella group Vocal Sin Tiempo; soprano Martínez, who is “the Costa Rican artist who has achieved the most success in classical music worldwide,” according to Antich.

Antich said he is also particularly excited about the arrival of Berlin Brass, a group packed with German city's greatest brass musicians that he  has been courting for at least three years. 

The Costa Rica festival will offer concerts in San Jose's National Theater and at venues across the country, including a Caribbean venue at Earth University. Most concerts outside Costa rica's capital are scheduled for the first week, leading up to an official inaugural show at the National Theater on Aug. 9.

Free concerts will also be scheduled inside serveral churches, such as San Ramon, Las Mercedes, Don Bosco and the Metropolitan Cathedral.

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