Manuel Pascual

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Manuel Pascual

Cornett

He began his studies in early music at the Regional Conservatory of Music in Toulouse (France) with Philippe Matharel, a member of Les Sacqueboutiers. He then traveled to Switzerland to study cornetto and historical performance at the Geneva Conservatory of Music and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Bruce Dickey, where he obtained his Advanced Diploma in Early Music in 2006. As a cornetto player, he has performed at various early music festivals with La Reverencia, Concerto Italiano, Los Afectos Varios, Barockorchester Frankfurt, El Canto de Orfeo, Tiento Nuovo, Capilla Compostelana, Collegium Vocale Lenzburg, La Capilla Real, Ministriles Hispalensis, Oniria, Capilla Joanina, Ludovice Ensemble, Ottava Rima, among others. His recorded repertoire ranges from the Cantigas de Alfonso X, the Wise, to Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin. Since its foundation in 2003, he has led the early music group Hexacordo, with which he has performed in Spain, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Portugal, and Switzerland. He is a professor in the Early Music Department at the Extremadura School of Music (Musikex). He has participated as a professor of cornet, minstrels, chamber music, historical tuning, and glosses in the Marcos Durán courses at the University of Extremadura and in the Early Music Courses of Extremadura and Galaroza (Huelva). As a researcher, he has participated in the Hernán Cortés International Congress in Medellín (Badajoz), the VII Congress of the Spanish Society of Musicology, and the I Congress of the working committee “Music and Contexts in the Medieval and Renaissance Iberian World,” organized by the Spanish Society of Musicology. He is currently preparing a publication on the evolution of Renaissance and Baroque cornetto playing in the Iberian Peninsula.