Some curiosities
The Alfredo De Saint Malo International Music Festival, created in 2007, is an initiative of the Panamanian cellist Isaac Casal with the support of other Panamanian musicians, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas (YOA), the Association National Concert and the National Institute of Culture.
Being the oldest classical music festival in the region, the Alfredo De Saint Malo was created with the purpose of bringing together national and international musicians in a great cultural and artistic exchange, through various activities that enrich their knowledge and musical passion to the time to increase the quantity and quality of cultural and artistic offer of the country.
The idea was born after numerous trips by Maestro Isaac Casal to different countries in Europe and Latin America as a member of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, where he met and recognized the importance and potential of classical music festivals.
The activities of the Festival are abundant and reach the entire community. These include lectures, workshops and lectures given by the academic body and invited artists of the festival, as well as concerts of the highest artistic level.
Throughout these 11 years of the Alfredo De Saint Malo, we have brought to Panama more than 300 international artists, including musicians like Paquito D ‘Rivera, Rachel Bartin Pine, Frank Almond, Denis Parker, Andrés Díaz, among other outstanding musicians. This has been possible thanks to the individual support to the collective of people and national and international institutions. The ASMF has served as a bridge for seven Panamanian students have been invited and scholarships to study at foreign universities.
Every year the Alfredo De Saint Malo seeks to honor some personality of the classical music of Panama either for his contribution as a musician, pedagogue or promoter of classical music in our country, it is so that in the different editions of the Festival we have honored Masters such as Roque Cordero, Fermín Castañedas, Gonzalo Brenes, among others.
ales como Roque Cordero, Fermín Castañedas, Gonzalo Brenes, entre otros.