Juan Carlos Soto Marin (Luthier)

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Juan Carlos Soto Marin
Born	Juan Carlos Soto Marín Costa Rica
💼 Occupation	Luthier
👩 Spouse(s)	Tania Vicente, Musicologist y Laudist (m. 1987)
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Juan Carlos Soto Marín (1965) is a musician, builder and restorer of string musical instruments (Luthier) born in Costa Rica. He started his music studies since he was a child during which he demonstrated an innate talent that opened opportunities for him to study in Costa Rica and Italy

Artists from other fields have been interested in his work, which has been object of artistic photographic setups, as well as of a short film that won the first prize of cinema of the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Costa Rica

Biography

• As a child starts studying violin in the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Costa Rica.
• In 1981 enters the school of musical arts of the University of Costa Rica to study classical guitar.
• In 1984 relocates to the city of Cremona, Italy, to study Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona (construction and restoration of violin, viola and violoncello) in the "Istituto Professionale Internazionale per l’Artigianato Liutario e del Legno Antonio Stradivari (IPIALL)", where he obtains, in 1988, the title of “Liutaio”.
• In 1986 obtains the title of “guitar builder” and in 1994 the title of bow maker in “Lombardy”(Cremona, Italy).

Artistic focus

"Soto prefers ancient music instruments. By using original models in European museums as inspiration, Soto builds instruments that respect historical parameters in order to get a faithful sound reproduction."

"Soto has distinguished himself as a luthier, a complex art that mixes physical and acoustic aspects (proportions and measurements of resistance and duration of musical instruments) and chemical aspects (elaboration of varnishes from resins and natural oils) "

Instruments

Built

• Classical music: (guitar, violin, viola y violoncello)
• Ancient music: (renascence Laud, baroque Laud, baroque guitar, tiorba, archilaúde, gothic harp, clavicémbalo, viola da gamba, baroque violin, vihuela de mano.

Restored

• Harpsichord del National Theatre of Costa Rica

Projects y Afiliations

Ancient Music Group Ganassi (2004-2015)

"Ganassi is a group dedicated to the divulgation of renaissance and baroque music. Its name comes from Silvestro Ganassi, one of the most important theorists of the Renascence, who also has the merit of having been the first to write a treaty dedicated exclusively to the flute: La Fontegara, printed in Venice in 1535. Since it was found in 2004, Ganassi has been characterized for reviving the sonority of the renaissance and baroque music by utilizing instruments reproduced from originals from different epocs, and for respecting the canons of interpretations of those instruments."

Integrantes

• Kattia Calderón, flute
• Samarla Montenegro, flute
• Eduardo Madrigal, viola da gamba
• María Clara Vargas, Harpsichord
• Tania Vicente, vihuela y laúd
• Andrés Chaves, percusión
• Juan Carlos Soto, percussion

Awards

Ganassi got the Costa Rica National Prize of Music 2009, given by the Minister of Culture and Youth (Costa Rica).

Glosas ensamble (2014-present)

"Glosas ensamble started with the aim of recreating the vast vocal and instrumental repertory according to the practice of ancient music. In the Spanish and Portuguese music of the XVI century, the glosas were ways of adding ornaments or extending the melody – almost as way of commentary in the same musical language. The beauty of the ornament and the antic sound recreated with historical instrument replicas are the spirit that amalgamate the group, dedicated to a repertory from Renaissance, Baroque and Latin-American colonial period." (Tania Vicente)

Members

• Isabel Guzmán, mezzo soprano
• Luis Daniel Rojas, viola da gamba
• Tania Vicente, laúd y director

Events

• VII Festival of antic music (Costa Rica)

Grupo Zéfiro (2016-presene)

The Zéfiro group executes its repertory with reproduccions of historical instruments such as violin, viola de gamba and laúd, among others, which with their sounds transport the audience to remote epochs. In greek mythology Zéfiro was the god of the west wind. "A wind soft and tranquile that caressed lovers and swang flowers in the meadow." Renacense and baroque artists adopted its character and incorporated it into their work, such as in the case of Sandro Botticelli in “The Birth of Venus” and the great Italian musician Claudio Monteverdi, who included in his sixth book of madrigales, one title “Zefiro torna” (Céfiro returns) in which it writes "all the good that the west wind brings us, and the sadness when it stops blowing…" The name of the group written in Italian - Zéfiro, makes homage to that mythological god, like Monteverdi; being the god of the west wing and being a group from Costa Rica – to the west of the Old World – provides from that perspective, covering the music of the old world and the colonial music of the American continent, validating both the European heritage and the colonial heritage. (Tania Vicente)

Members

• Tania Vicente, laúd y director
• Andrés Rodríguez, tenor
• Elena Zelaya, soprano
• Luis Daniel Rojas, viola da gamba
• Roger León, Baroque violin
• Mariana Salas, Baroque violin
• Juan Carlos Soto, percussion

Articles

• RENOVANDO LA FIGURA DEL LUTHIER

External Links

• Tania Vicente: musicóloga y laudista

References

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